Pierre-luc St-charles
Senior Research Scientist at LawZero
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolPierre-luc St-charles is a Senior Research Scientist with 13 years of experience specializing in computer vision and machine learning, holding a PhD from Polytechnique Montréal and a postdoc from CRIM. He has led applied research at Mila and now LawZero, translating deep learning advances into real-world solutions across natural resources, transportation, digital media, and earth observation. His work bridges unsupervised learning, anomaly detection, generative and multimodal/multi-task models, with notable applied impact in agriculture (crop disease and pest ID), geology (mineral prospectivity), remote sensing, and hydrology. He routinely collaborates with government and academic partners such as Natural Resources Canada and the Geological Survey of Canada, turning domain problems into validated ML pipelines. Beyond modeling, he combines scientific communication, experiment validation, and domain expert training to accelerate adoption of AI in operational settings. A pragmatic researcher, he increasingly focuses on Safe AGI methodologies, bringing safety-minded rigor to ambitious applied projects.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Vision, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Vision at Université de Montréal - Ecole polytechnique de Montréal
English, French
Github Skills (81)
opencv10
image-processing10
datasets10
cpp10
stream10
computer-vision10
algorithms10
pool10
segmentation10
prediction-model9
python9
bounding9
deep-learning9
real-time-data9
pytorch9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
plstcharles/thelper
Jul 2018 - Dec 2020
Training framework & tools for PyTorch-based machine learning projects.
Contributions:7 releases, 7 reviews, 1335 commits in 2 years 5 months
pytorchpythonmachine-learning-projectsdeep-learningmachine-learning
plstcharles/litiv
May 2013 - Apr 2022
C++ implementation pool for computer vision R&D projects.
Contributions:16 releases, 1917 commits, 8 PRs in 8 years 11 months
cppvisionpoolcomputer-visionc-plus-plus
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