Philippe Beaudoin
Affiliated Researcher
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolPhilippe Beaudoin is a Montreal-based venture scientist and entrepreneur with 11 years of industry experience focused on machine learning, AI productization, and physics-based simulation. He co-founded Element AI and Numeno.ai, led research teams and product efforts that bridge cutting-edge ML research with real-world commercial systems, and served as a Senior Software Engineer at Google helping found the Chrome ML team. Philippe holds a PhD and postdoc in ML and physics simulation, has authored over 25 papers and patents, and is a frequent invited speaker and board member across Canadian research and civic organizations. He combines deep academic rigor with hands-on startup leadership—raising pre-seed capital and graduating from programs like Creative Destruction Lab and Betaworks Camp—to build transparent AI systems that personalize customer interactions without heavy data infrastructure. An underappreciated thread in his career is a long history of interdisciplinary engineering, from ASIC design and game animation to large-scale web and Chrome UI work, which gives him a rare systems-to-research perspective.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at Université de MontréalPost-Doc, Computer Science, Post-Doc, Computer Science at The University of British ColumbiaComputer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal
French, English
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Github Skills (28)
editing10
use-http9
svn9
gwt9
vaapi9
chromium8
chrome8
chrome-extension8
gstreamer8
android7
version-control6
frontend6
pipeline6
browser6
vector-graphics6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
PhilBeaudoin/mmomie
Aug 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
catapult-project/catapult
Aug 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:60 commits, 74 comments, 78 issues in 4 months
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