Nicolas Garneau
Lead AI at CAIJ
Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolas Garneau is a Lead AI and NLP researcher with 15 years of experience, specializing in natural language generation for the legal domain and bridging academic research with applied engineering. He holds a PhD from Université Laval and has taught deep learning there, while currently holding research positions at DIKU, University of Copenhagen, and leading AI work at CAIJ in Quebec. His background includes hands-on NLP engineering—integrating POS tagging and NER into Spark-based ML tooling—which reflects a practical knack for productionizing research. Nicolas regularly communicates his work through seminars, podcasts, and talks, making complex legal-NLP topics accessible to broader audiences. Colleagues describe him as someone who combines rigorous academic methods with pragmatic engineering, often uncovering subtle domain-specific language challenges that drive real-world impact.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Université LavalCégep Ste-foy
French, English
Github Skills (7)
apache-spark10
nlp10
natural-language-processing10
scala10
mockito9
testing9
machine-learning8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
amplab/keystone
Apr 2016 - May 2016
Simplifying robust end-to-end machine learning on Apache Spark.
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:7 commits, 4 PRs, 8 comments in 8 days
Contributions summary:Nicolas primarily focused on integrating and testing part-of-speech tagging and named entity recognition capabilities using the Epic library within the Keystone project. Their contributions include implementing `POSTagger` and `NER` classes, which leverage Epic's models. The user also wrote unit tests using Mockito and refactored code to improve the integration of these NLP functionalities, with testing on both local and Spark environments.
apache-sparkmachine-learning
ngarneau/contextual-mimick
Mar 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:236 commits, 34 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 6 months
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