Florian Felten
Co-Founder at Université catholique de Louvain
Brussels, Belgium
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Top SchoolFlorian Felten is a software engineer and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience combining academic rigor in AI with practical product delivery. He holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence focused on Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning—work that earned top thesis awards—and has translated that expertise into ML-for-design research at ETH Zürich and agentic-era work as Co-Founder of Hervé. Florian co-founded two startups, leading product, architecture and stakeholder delivery for optimization and feedback-AI products, and has hands-on full-stack and technical lead experience from N-SIDE. He contributes research and open-source Multi-Objective RL work at Farama-Foundation and IDEAL Lab, bridging cutting-edge RL research with usable tooling. Based in Brussels, he teaches and mentors across university and industry settings, with a knack for turning complex optimization problems into practical, deployable systems. An unusual strength is his blend of deep RL theory and product-focused PR review practices that prioritize conversational context over raw diffs.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence at University of LuxembourgMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Université catholique de LouvainMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
French, English, German, Spanish
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Github Skills (58)
pytorch10
algorithms10
multi-agent-reinforcement-learning10
python10
gymnasium10
machine-learning10
reinforcement-learning-environments10
reinforcement-learning10
keras10
data-versioning10
api10
wandb10
hyperparameter-tuning10
deep-reinforcement-learning10
actor-critic10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
IDEALLab/EngiOpt
May 2025 - Jan 2026
Learning and optimization algorithms compatible with EngiBench
Contributions:1 release, 9 reviews, 11 PRs in 8 months
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ffelten/ffelten.github.io
Sep 2022 - Apr 2026
Contributions:2 PRs, 114 pushes in 3 years 8 months
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