Summary
Martial Michel is a seasoned technology leader and researcher with over 25 years in distributed computing and 18 years of formal industry experience, currently serving as Chief Technologist and VP of AI & Data Sciences at Infotrend. He blends deep academic credentials (PhD in High Performance Computing and Networks) with practical impact—authoring IEEE 2302-2021, contributing to NIST cloud federation guidance, and leading evaluation frameworks and containerized tooling used in DARPA and NIST programs. Martial has a rare cross-domain portfolio spanning MPI serialization, multimedia synchronization, job schedulers, benchmarking platforms, and AI/ML infrastructure, and he continues to shepherd the OpenStack Scientific Working Group. An enthusiastic mentor and Docker mentor since the 1990s, he also maintains an active GitHub with a CUDA/TensorFlow/OpenCV container and numerous gists that reveal a hands-on tinkerer who moves research into reproducible practice.
18 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
PhD High Performance Computing and Networks, PhD High Performance Computing and Networks at University Henri Poincaré
Master's degree, Master's degree at ESIAL
Baccalauréat Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Baccalauréat Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Lycée de la Communication
English, French