Summary
Hugo Romat is a Senior Research Engineer at Microsoft Research with 11 years of experience bridging academic rigor and industrial AI productization. He progressed through multiple applied-science roles within Microsoft Office AI before joining MSR, bringing deep expertise from a PhD in computer science and postdoctoral work at ETH Zürich. Hugo’s background spans research engineering roles at Inria and industry internships, demonstrating a track record of turning novel ML research into deployable systems. Colleagues describe him as equally comfortable publishing and shipping production features, with experience across both exploratory research and applied AI in large-scale enterprise contexts. An interesting facet of his career is frequent cross-pollination between top research institutions and product teams, giving him a rare fluency in both cutting-edge methods and real-world constraints.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Master of Science - MS at Université Laval
Bachelor of Science - BS, Maths - Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Maths - Physics at Cycle Preparatoire de Bordeaux
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Université Paris-Saclay
Master of Science - MS, Master of Science - MS at Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Cognitique (ENSC)