Nelle Varoquaux
Research Faculty at Centre national de la recherche scientifique
Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
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Top SchoolNelle Varoquaux is a research faculty member at CNRS in Grenoble with 17 years of experience at the intersection of scientific research and software engineering. Trained in applied mathematics and computer science, she blends rigorous academic work (PhD and postdoc) with hands-on contributions to major open-source scientific Python projects like scikit-learn, scikit-image, matplotlib and sphinx-gallery. Her work spans algorithm implementation (e.g., MiniBatchKMeans and the Harris corner detector), 3D scientific visualization with Mayavi, and improving developer tooling and CI for bioinformatics pipelines such as HiC-Pro. She has a track record of improving both code quality and documentation, often fixing subtle parsing or backend issues while making projects easier to use and reproduce. Comfortable across research, backend development and DevOps, she brings a pragmatic focus on reliability and reproducibility in scientific software. Colleagues will notice her blend of deep technical rigor and attention to user-facing documentation—an unusual combination that accelerates adoption of research code.
17 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Applied Mathematics, Vision, Learning, Master, Master, Applied Mathematics, Vision, Learning, Master at ENS CachanLycée Blaise Pascal, OrsayComputer Science, Computer Science at Ecole centrale de Nantes
English, French, Russian
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Github Skills (43)
scipy10
visualization10
python10
back-end-development10
image-processing10
sphinx10
clustering-algorithm10
testing10
scikit10
machine-learning10
scikit-image10
numpy10
doctest10
scikit-learn10
3d10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
MarkUsProject/Markus
May 2009 - Jul 2013
Git repository of MarkUs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:416 commits in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Nelle primarily focused on fixing bugs related to schema updates across the database, with emphasis on functionalities of users, groups, submissions, and memberships. Contributions involved modifying JavaScript files related to drag and drop functionality, as well as controllers and models like the GroupsController. The user's work demonstrates a focus on maintaining and improving the core functionality of the application, ensuring that the database schema updates are reflected in the application logic.
git-repositorymarkdownmarkus
scikit-image/scikit-image
Oct 2011 - Oct 2019
Image processing in Python
Role in this project:Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:34 commits, 19 PRs, 4 pushes in 8 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Nelle primarily contributed to the development of the Harris corner detector and its associated testing and documentation. They implemented the algorithm, added tests to validate its functionality, and created an example for the documentation. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the documentation, including adding capital letters to improve clarity. The user also contributed by adding parameter to set the deviation for the gaussian kernel of the harris response computation.
image-processingpythoncomputer-visionimage
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