Jean-francois Puget
Distinguished Engineer at NVIDIA
Beaulieu-sur-Mer, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
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Top SchoolJean-francois Puget is a Distinguished Engineer at NVIDIA with 25+ years of experience delivering market-leading optimization and AI software, and a machine learning PhD from Paris-Sud. A founding force behind industrial constraint programming and optimization products (ILOG Solver, CPLEX, CP Optimizer, OPL, ODM), he has repeatedly scaled teams of highly skilled developers and scientists and led analytics strategy at IBM. A three-time Kaggle Grandmaster and manager of NVIDIA’s KGMON team, he combines world-class academic output—70+ peer-reviewed papers—with hands-on C++, C and Python engineering. Known for bridging deep mathematical optimization with practical ML deployment across cultures, he’s equally comfortable publishing top AI research and shipping production-grade solvers used by enterprise customers. An unusual blend of competitive Kaggle excellence and long-term product leadership underpins his ability to turn cutting-edge research into robust, widely deployed software.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at Ecole normale supérieurePhD, Machine Learning, PhD, Machine Learning at Paris-Sud University (Paris XI)
English, French
Github Skills (104)
gbm10
notebook10
xgboost10
dataflow10
python10
deep-learning10
portable10
gradient-boosting10
gradient10
scalable10
distributed-systems10
java10
nvidia10
tensorflow10
dask10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jfpuget/NVIDIA-PCQM4Mv2
Nov 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:38 commits, 2 pushes in 21 days
jfpuget/Kaggle_PLAsTiCC
Dec 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:25 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
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