Pierre-alexandre Fonta
Research Engineer at ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE
Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolPierre-alexandre Fonta is a Research Engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable AI systems that turn complex text and graph data—especially biomedical literature—into actionable knowledge. He combines a strong theoretical foundation from France’s CPGE and a MSc in Engineering with hands-on expertise in NLP, knowledge extraction, knowledge graphs, LLMs, and distributed software engineering to deliver production-ready solutions. Comfortable bridging academia and industry, he has led interdisciplinary projects, published research (ORCID linked), and routinely applies self-supervised learning to make large document collections fast to search and analyze. Based in Geneva, he excels at translating strategic vision into robust pipelines and cloud deployments, and he’s known for mentoring peers and promoting FAIR data principles while staying deeply curious about new methods.
12 years of coding experience
Master of Science in Engineering, Master of Science in Engineering at Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC)Classes Préparatoires aux Grandes Écoles (CPGE)
Github Skills (124)
scientific-publications10
sentence10
shacl10
wordnet10
keyword-extraction10
electrophysiology10
atlas10
semantics10
mining10
knowledge-graph10
nexus10
text-mining10
roberta10
rdf10
simulation10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pafonta/pyzotero
Jan 2018 - Oct 2024
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 6 years 10 months
apipythonapi-wrapperpython-wrapperzotero
pafonta/nexus
Sep 2018 - Oct 2024
Blue Brain Nexus - A knowledge graph for data-driven science
Contributions:1 push, 5 branches in 6 years 1 month
braindata-drivenbluescienceknowledge
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