Joel Lamy-poirier
Applied Research Scientist at ServiceNow Research
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolJoel Lamy-poirier is an applied research scientist with a decade of experience translating advanced physics and quantitative methods into practical research at ServiceNow Research. He holds an MSc and a PhD in Physics from the University of Waterloo and began his academic trajectory with a BSc from Université Laval and stages at Perimeter Institute, giving him deep expertise in modeling, simulation, and analytical problem solving. At ServiceNow he has progressed through research roles since 2017, applying rigorous scientific thinking to real-world products and scaling experimental ideas toward production relevance. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, Joel blends theoretical training with hands-on research engineering and a propensity for bridging academic rigor with industry timelines—often surfacing elegant, physics-inspired solutions to messy engineering problems.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Physics at Université LavalMaster of Science (MSc), Physics, Master of Science (MSc), Physics at University of Waterloo
French, English
Github Skills (57)
text-generation10
transformers10
pytorch10
language-model10
memory-efficient10
python10
acceleration10
machine-learning10
inference10
seq2seq10
bloom10
flax10
numpy10
huggingface-transformers10
falcon10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ElementAI/Megatron-LM
Jul 2021 - Dec 2022
Ongoing research training transformer language models at scale, including: BERT & GPT-2
Contributions:6 reviews, 3 PRs, 28 pushes in 1 year 5 months
nlptransformersbertongoingscale
ServiceNow/Fast-LLM
Oct 2024 - Apr 2025
Accelerating your LLM training to full speed! Made with ❤️ by ServiceNow Research
Contributions:163 reviews, 106 PRs, 339 pushes in 5 months
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