Manuel Faysse
Research Scientist at Meta
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolManuel Faysse is an NLP-focused research scientist and PhD candidate based in Paris with seven years of experience bridging academic research and industry R&D. He has progressed from teaching and data science roles at EPFL and Illuin Technology to visiting researcher at Imperial College and now a Research Scientist role at Meta FAIR, bringing both production-minded experimentation and rigorous scholarly methods. His work spans applied NLP, machine learning education, and research engineering, blending hands-on data science with contributions to research teams. Notably, he balances deep academic training across top European institutions with practical product-oriented research at startups and large tech, making him comfortable translating novel models into deployable solutions.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's thesis, Master's thesis at Imperial College LondonMaster's degree, Master's degree at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de LausanneDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Université Paris-Saclay1 Year exchange in ETSII, 1 Year exchange in ETSII at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
French, English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (117)
similarity-search10
transformers10
multilabel-classification10
benchmark10
language-model10
neural-search10
python10
semantic-search10
datasets10
retrieval-augmented-generation10
huggingface10
deep-learning10
speech10
bug-reporting10
foundation-models10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ManuelFay/transformers
Jul 2021 - Jul 2025
🤗 Transformers: State-of-the-art Natural Language Processing for Pytorch, TensorFlow, and JAX.
Contributions:46 pushes, 12 branches, 1 comment in 4 years
pytorchnlptransformersartbert
illuin-tech/colpali
Jun 2024 - May 2026
The code used to train and run inference with the ColVision models, e.g. ColPali, ColQwen2, and ColSmol.
Contributions:9 releases, 92 reviews, 112 PRs in 1 year 11 months
inferencecolpaliinformation-retrievalretrieval-augmented-generationvision-language-model
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