Remi Petitpierre
Postdoctoral Researcher at EPFL
Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
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Top SchoolRemi Petitpierre is a postdoctoral researcher at EPFL with eight years of experience at the intersection of digital humanities, cartography, and machine learning, focused on map image realignment, toponym recognition, and historical map vectorization. He completed a PhD in Digital Humanities after an MS and BS at EPFL, developing robust georeferencing and CNN-based vectorization methods for historical city maps and contributing to the INFINITY Horizon Europe project. His work blends hands-on algorithm development, data ingestion and annotation tooling, and teaching, with practical deployments for the history of cartography and urban studies. Beyond academia he has experience building public-facing digital projects (e.g., BNF’s jadis) and has served in municipal finance governance, revealing a capacity to connect technical research with civic and cultural institutions.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Digital Humanities, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Digital Humanities at EPFLBilingual French-German federal maturity OS Biology & chemistry | OC History | Advanced mathematics, Bilingual French-German federal maturity OS Biology & chemistry | OC History | Advanced mathematics at Gymnase de Morges
French, English, German, Italian
Github Skills (47)
semantic-segmentation10
image-segmentation10
medical-image-segmentation10
toolbox9
benchmark9
pytorch9
openmmlab9
segmentation9
transformer8
swin-transformer8
semantic8
spherical-k-means8
sampling8
clustering-algorithm7
quarto7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
BnF-jadis/projet
Mar 2020 - Aug 2022
Programme du projet jadis
Contributions:1 release, 34 commits, 4 PRs in 2 years 6 months
projetphpprogramme
RPetitpierre/tm_academies
May 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:9 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
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