Michaël Fonder
Computer Vision & Deep Learning PhD Data Scientist
Liège, Liège, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolMichaël Fonder is a PhD-trained computer vision and deep learning data scientist based in Liège with around 10 years of experience applying perception research to real-world robotic and UAV problems. He specializes in monocular depth estimation and embedded vision for drone flight automation, having developed datasets and lightweight models for on-board deployment. Comfortable moving between academic research, R&D projects and freelance PoC work, he combines project management skills with hands-on implementation of ML pipelines and MILP-based operational solutions. He also pursues fine art and commercial photography, bringing a strong visual intuition to imaging problems and a practical eye for product-ready systems.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence at Université de Liège
French, English, German
Github Skills (25)
depth-estimation10
depth10
simulator9
platform-independent9
unreal9
control-systems9
deep-reinforcement-learning9
computer-vision8
robotics8
intrinsics8
simulation8
airsim8
artificial-intelligence7
self-driving-car7
cross-platform7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
michael-fonder/fonder_thesis-2016
Jun 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:15 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
michael-fonder/M4Depth-Baselines
Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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