Summary
Mathieu Pont is a post-doctoral researcher with eight years of experience bridging Topological Data Analysis, machine learning and visualization, now based at RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau after completing a PhD at CNRS Sorbonne Université (LIP6). His doctoral work produced practical tools for comparing and summarizing ensembles of scalar fields—defining a new metric for merge trees and adapting PCA and autoencoder frameworks to Wasserstein spaces of merge trees and persistence diagrams. He combines strong theoretical foundations with applied research, delivering algorithms for geodesics, barycenters, and clustering tailored to topological summaries. Comfortable across Python research stacks and visualization pipelines, he also has early experience applying NLP and reinforcement learning in biomedical and agent-based benchmarks. Colleagues value him for turning abstract topological concepts into computable methods with clear machine-learning and visualization impact.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Licence, Informatique, Licence, Informatique at Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III
Master, Artifical Intelligence - Machine Learning for Data Science, Master, Artifical Intelligence - Machine Learning for Data Science at Université Paris Cité
English, French