Julien Perez
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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SeniorJulien Perez is an associate professor and seasoned research leader specializing in machine learning, deep learning, and reinforcement learning, with over a decade of experience translating academic advances into industrial research and patents. He leads work on scalable and automated ML methods applied to automated decision-making, relational learning, dialog systems and machine reading, and has headed the Machine Learning and Optimization group at Naver Labs Europe. His background combines a PhD on non‑Markovian decision processes and deep recurrent networks with hands-on projects in robotics (active SLAM), dialog state tracking and customer modeling, reflecting both theoretical depth and practical impact. Julien’s career spans academia and industry (Xerox/NAVER), including supervising PhD students and filing ~20 patents, signaling a knack for moving ideas from theory to deployable systems. Based in Paris, he recently completed an Habilitation in AI, underscoring continued commitment to research leadership and mentoring.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (29)
python10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
neural-network10
robotics9
ml9
deep-neural-networks9
ai9
audio9
nlp8
natural-language-processing8
mujoco8
pytorch8
data-science7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
perezjln/dstc6-goal-oriented-end-to-end
Jun 2017 - Jan 2018
Dialog State Tracking Challenge 6 (DSTC6)
Contributions:16 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
dialog-learningdstcdialog-state-tracking
perezjln/perezjln.github.io
Jan 2018 - Aug 2025
Contributions:26 pushes in 7 years 8 months
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