Summary
Clément Romac is a research engineer and PhD candidate with 11 years of experience at the intersection of reinforcement learning, curriculum design, and language models, currently working at Inria after a research scientist role at Hugging Face. His work explores curiosity-driven RL and automatic curriculum learning to ground large language models through online interactions, with applied projects ranging from procedurally generated environments to educational technologies. He has a strong engineering background shipping ML systems in industry and academia, including automated ML services and benchmark platforms accepted at ICML. A committed educator and community builder, he teaches transformers and RL at ENSC Bordeaux and co-runs Bordeaux’s ML meetup. Outside research he’s a bass player and sports enthusiast, bringing creativity and persistence to open-ended learning problems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School Degree, High School Degree at High School Les IRIS Lormont
Degree in Computer Science engineering, Computer Science, Degree in Computer Science engineering, Computer Science at Ingésup
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Université de Bordeaux
French, English