Maël Houbre
Data Scientist
Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France
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Top SchoolMaël Houbre is a data scientist and NLP researcher with eight years of experience bridging applied defense projects and academic research, currently transitioning from a PhD on keyphrase generation at University of Nantes to a data scientist role at the French defense AI agency. He has deep expertise in scientific document understanding, speech-focused NLP, machine learning and signal processing gained through roles at DGA, research internships in Tokyo, and reserve service as an NLP expert for the French Navy. Maël combines rigorous research (absent keyphrase generation) with operational experience deploying NLP solutions in high-stakes environments, and is comfortable across Python-driven prototyping, representation learning and speech pipelines. Unusually, his profile pairs advanced academic work with frontline maritime signal operations, giving him practical systems-thinking and crisis-aware engineering judgment.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at TELECOM NancyPrépa PCSI-PSI, ENGINEERING, Prépa PCSI-PSI, ENGINEERING at Lycée NavalBaccalauréat scientifique, Baccalauréat scientifique at Lycée Jean-François MilletReserve uncomissionned officer in the French Navy, Team management, Reserve uncomissionned officer in the French Navy, Team management at CIN BrestDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Natural Language Processing, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Natural Language Processing at Nantes UniversitéCPES, Science, CPES, Science at Prytanée National Militaire de la Flèche
anglais (toeic score: 920), Spanish, Japanese, FrenchProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
MHoubre/KPbiomed
Jun 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:9 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
MHoubre/Projet-Hasami
Sep 2017 - Mar 2020
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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