Jean F
Principal Applied Science Manager at Microsoft
Berlin Metropolitan Area Germany
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Top SchoolJean F is a Principal Applied Science Manager with over a decade of experience building and leading ML and AI teams across Microsoft, Amazon, Zalando, and SAP, now focusing on M365 Copilot. He combines deep research roots—a PhD in AI and early work on multi-task learning and document understanding—with hands-on delivery of production systems in NLP, GenAI, recommender systems, information retrieval and AutoML. At Zalando he scaled personalization and ads allocation across feed, catalog and search while managing a 23-person applied science organization and previously guided Alexa QnA and LLM-driven news recommendations at Amazon. Known for bridging people management, product and research, he has repeatedly moved cutting-edge techniques from prototype to customer-facing product. Based in Berlin, Jean brings a pragmatic research mindset to large-scale engineering challenges and is passionate about growing teams that ship real impact. An understated detail: he’s led both ML research groups and large cross-functional applied science teams, giving him rare fluency across academic publication and enterprise productization.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Artificial Intelligence, Master, Artificial Intelligence at Université Grenoble AlpesPhD, Artificial Intelligence, PhD, Artificial Intelligence at University of Lille 1 Sciences and TechnologyBachelor of Engineering - BE, Artificial Intelligence, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Artificial Intelligence at Damascus University
English, French, German, Polish
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Github Skills (12)
neural-network10
computer-vision10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
cntk10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
deep-neural-networks10
python10
microsoft10
java10
amazon-sagemaker6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
microsoft/CNTK
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK), an open source deep-learning toolkit
Contributions:1 commit, 379 pushes, 53 branches in 1 day
pytorchpythondeep-learningc-plus-plusmachine-learning
wilrich-msft/keras
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
pythondeep-learningrecurrent-neural-networkstheanoneural-networks
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