Kelian Baert
PhD Student at Université de Rennes
Rennes, Brittany, France
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Top SchoolKelian Baert is a machine-learning-focused PhD student based in Rennes with 11 years of software engineering experience, specializing in TensorFlow and PyTorch for digital visual effects. His doctoral work, carried out jointly with Technicolor Group and INRIA, centers on face editing for film VFX, bridging academic research and production-grade tooling. Prior roles include computer graphics R&D at Technicolor Creative Studios and a research internship at InterDigital’s Immersive Lab, giving him hands-on experience deploying ML in immersive and cinematic contexts. He began his career building web and mobile applications and migrating legacy apps to cloud-ready SaaS, which complements his research with practical software engineering discipline. Trained at IMT Atlantique with an Erasmus semester at NTNU, he combines strong mathematical foundations with applied AI and graphics expertise. Colleagues describe him as someone who translates complex research prototypes into tools that can actually be used on film sets.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitetEngineering degree, Software Engineering, Engineering degree, Software Engineering at IMT AtlantiqueMathematical Statistics and Probability, Mathematical Statistics and Probability at Lycée Malherbe - Classes Préparatoires aux Grandes Ecoles (MP*)
Github Skills (8)
tld9
api8
nodejs4
python4
geometry4
typescript3
geometry-processing3
des3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
KelianB/movie-script-parser
Jun 2020 - Sep 2022
Parses movie scripts from the standard screenplay format into annotated lines.
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
pythonlinesmoviescreenplayannotated
KelianB/ws-framework
Aug 2016 - Feb 2019
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 2 years 6 months
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