Margaux Masson-forsythe
Director Of AI & Data Science
Aix-en-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
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Top SchoolMargaux Masson-Forsythe is a director-level AI and data science leader based in Aix-en-Provence with nine years of hands-on experience building production ML systems and applied computer vision. She has progressed from engineering roles to strategic leadership at the Surgical Data Science Collective, co-founded a tech startup as CTO, and repeatedly delivered high-impact conservation and industrial AI projects. Her work spans semantic segmentation, conditional GANs, MLOps and satellite multispectral pipelines—projects that reduced costs, sped detection from weeks to hours, and produced peer-reviewed publications cited by others. She combines academic rigor (MS in Computer Science, computer vision focus) with practical product delivery, mentoring students and integrating AI into conservation finance (REDD+/blue carbon) and commercial tooling. Notably, she engineered tree-diameter and deforestation models with industry-grade accuracy and built reforestation simulations that influenced subsequent research. Pragmatic and mission-driven, she bridges research, deployment, and policy-relevant impact across environmental and manufacturing domains.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS MS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - Computer Vision, Bachelor of Science - BS MS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - Computer Vision at CPE LyonMaster of Science - MS Computer Science - Computer Vision/Graphics/Shaders Cyber Security and Software Development Methods, Master of Science - MS Computer Science - Computer Vision/Graphics/Shaders Cyber Security and Software Development Methods at Oregon State UniversityPrépa PCSI/PSI Lycée Jeanne d'AlbretBAC S Mention Bien, BAC S Mention Bien at Lycée Alain
French, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (52)
image-processing9
datasets9
stream9
real-time-data9
computer-vision8
python8
keras8
pytorch8
langchain7
vector-search7
data-stream7
perceptual7
large-language-models7
keyboard7
machine-learning7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Earthshot-Labs/earthshot_model_utils
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Utility functions for model development and deployment
Contributions:1 review, 59 commits, 1 PR in 4 months
deploymentutility-functionsmodel-development
MargauxMasson/website-margauxmasson
Nov 2018 - Aug 2021
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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