Rodrique Kafando
Research Scientist at Copernilabs
Montpellier, Occitania, France
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Top SchoolRodrique Kafando is a Research Scientist and AI practitioner based in Montpellier with eight years of experience bridging academic research and applied AI product work. He specializes in computer vision for security, multi-agent systems, and temporal textual data analysis, and teaches AI while leading projects as CTO at Copernilabs and researcher at CITADEL. His background spans a PhD in Data Science, postdoctoral research at INRAE, and hands-on roles from data science internships to remote development, giving him both theoretical depth and production experience. Known for embedding storytelling into ML workflows, he focuses on making complex models interpretable and operational for real-world security and time-series tasks. An active capacity builder, he mixes technical leadership with teaching to scale AI adoption across teams.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Multimedia and Intelligents Systems, Master's degree, Multimedia and Intelligents Systems at Institut Francophone Internationationnal (IFI)Data Science - PhD, Data Science - PhD at I2S MontpellierMaster's degree, Multimedia and Inteligents Systems, Master's degree, Multimedia and Inteligents Systems at La Rochelle Université (ULR)DTS, Ingénierie des télécommunications, DTS, Ingénierie des télécommunications at ESMT DAKAR (Antenne Burkina Faso)Ingenieur de Travaux en Reseaux et Systemes de Telecoms, Mise en réseau de systèmes informatiques et télécommunications, Ingenieur de Travaux en Reseaux et Systemes de Telecoms, Mise en réseau de systèmes informatiques et télécommunications at ISGE-BF
Github Skills (12)
absolute9
disambiguation8
extraction7
spatial6
nlp4
text-summarization4
natural-language-processing4
pytorch3
bert3
venn-diagram1
coreference1
wordcloud1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
rdius/Snetoolkit
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Absolute Spatial Named Entities extraction and disambiguation tool
Contributions:56 commits, 5 PRs, 46 pushes in 3 months
nlpextractionabsolutespatialdisambiguation
rdius/venn_wordcloud
Apr 2021 - Apr 2021
Contributions:11 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
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