Raphael Meudec is a research scientist and machine learning engineer with 11 years of experience bridging academic research and production-grade ML systems. He completed a PhD at Inria focused on automated meta-analysis of fMRI studies, and has contributed to major open-source projects such as Keras and Nilearn—improving core neural network behaviors, visualization tools, and test suites. At Blue Morpho he builds enterprise knowledge graphs that let LLMs navigate proprietary data beyond simple RAG, combining representation learning with practical engineering. His background spans optimization and data science from ENSTA ParisTech and Université Paris-Saclay, and he has a track record of implementing advanced models (GANs, recurrent layers) and robust training pipelines. Notably, he has acted as a Google Developer Expert in ML, reflecting both community impact and deep technical expertise.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master 2, Optimization, Operational Research and Commands, Applied Mathematics, Master 2, Optimization, Operational Research and Commands, Applied Mathematics at ENSTA ParisTech - École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées
Master 2, Data Science, Master 2, Data Science at Université Paris-Saclay
Keras implementation of "DeblurGAN: Blind Motion Deblurring Using Conditional Adversarial Networks"
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
Contributions:35 commits, 6 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Raphael contributed significantly to the Keras-based deblurring model. They implemented core features such as residual blocks and reflection padding layers, and refactored the training loop, including the integration of Wasserstein loss and gradient penalty loss, demonstrating a strong understanding of GAN architectures and optimization techniques. The user also added functionalities for logging and saving model weights, along with the addition of a script to process the GOPRO_Large dataset.
Contributions:2 releases, 42 commits, 34 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Raphael made several updates and modifications related to the Keras-RL library. The commits updated links to the source code, adjusted code to be compatible with different versions of Keras and Gym, and reorganized directories. Further contributions included adding documentation for the rl.core methods, and memory and policy modules, as well as fixing an issue with the tensorboard callback.
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Raphael Meudec - Research Scientist at Blue Morpho