Nicolas Gontier
Senior Research Scientist at ServiceNow
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolNicolas Gontier is a Senior Research Scientist at ServiceNow Research with a decade of experience at the intersection of NLP and multi-step reasoning, focusing on Large Language Models that leverage external tools and conversational agents. He completed a PhD at Polytechnique Montréal/Mila with a jury-recommended best thesis award for work on proof generation and transformer-based reasoning, building on an earlier MSc on dialogue systems at McGill. Nicolas blends deep research rigor with practical deployments—from chatbots and recommendation engines to production integrations at Element AI and TheOne AI—bridging academic insight and applied ML. Based in Montreal, he also teaches and mentors, has industrial R&D internships at Nuance and SmartHalo in his background, and maintains broad curiosities spanning AI ethics, neuroscience, computational biology and multimedia that inform interdisciplinary approaches to language understanding.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Science, 15/20 : mention Bien, High School, Science, 15/20 : mention Bien at Collège StanislasDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Engineering at École Polytechnique de MontréalBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, GPA: 3.54 / 4.00, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, GPA: 3.54 / 4.00 at McGill University
French, English
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Github Skills (38)
transformers10
pytorch10
language-model10
python10
prompt-tuning10
machine-learning10
seq2seq10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
bert10
natural-language-processing10
transformer10
speech-recognition10
nlp10
jax10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
NicolasAG/Discriminator
Oct 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:48 commits, 53 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
NicolasAG/MyMLToolbox
Oct 2018 - Dec 2022
trying to make a custom ML library that I can reuse for all projects
Contributions:25 commits, 19 PRs, 75 pushes in 4 years 2 months
ml-librarypythondata-sciencedeep-learningmachine-learning
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