Maxime Petit
Lead Data Scientist AI
France
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Top SchoolMaxime Petit is a Lead Data Scientist and AI technical leader with 11+ years of experience bridging academic research and industrial deployment in robotics, human-robot interaction, and applied machine learning. He leads Data/AI initiatives at Sanofi’s 14Bis Innovation Lab, managing junior teams and guiding projects from framing and prototyping to production with an agile, business-oriented approach. His background includes postdoctoral leadership at École Centrale de Lyon (co-PI on €2.3M in grants) and research roles at Imperial College and INSERM focused on developmental Bayesian vision, long-term memory, and learning-by-demonstration on humanoid platforms like iCub. Comfortable in both C++ and modern data stacks (Python/R/SQL), he combines deep academic publication experience with hands-on lab setup, robotics deployment and stakeholder-driven productization. Notably, he has repeatedly translated EU-funded fundamental research into industrial collaborations (automotive bin-picking, realistic sim-to-real manipulation), reflecting a rare fluency across grant writing, experiment engineering and pragmatic AI delivery.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. in Biosciences Engineering (Major in Bioinformatics), M.Sc. in Biosciences Engineering (Major in Bioinformatics) at INSA Lyon - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de LyonM.Sc. degree in Computer Sciences (major in Cognitive Sciences), M.Sc. degree in Computer Sciences (major in Cognitive Sciences) at Paris-Sud University (Paris XI)A.A.S. (Associate of Applied Science) Degree in Biology (Major in Bioinformatics) Bioinformatics, A.A.S. (Associate of Applied Science) Degree in Biology (Major in Bioinformatics) Bioinformatics at UNIVERSITE D'AUVERGNESciences, Sciences at Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC)Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Robotics (Machine Learning & Neurosciences), Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Robotics (Machine Learning & Neurosciences) at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
English, French
Github Skills (43)
robot9
yarp8
robotics8
ros-control7
interprocess-communication6
driver6
ros5
ipc5
middleware5
artificial-intelligence4
r-package4
network3
speech3
hierarchical3
synthesis3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
robotology-legacy/wysiwyd
Dec 2014 - Dec 2016
Contributions:1 release, 45 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 11 months
saydid
learn-real/learn-real.github.io
Jul 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:2 pushes in 7 months
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