Sebastien Dery
Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Apple
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolSebastien Dery is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer with 11 years of experience building production ML systems across industry and research, currently working on world models and curiosity-driven learning at Apple in the Bay Area. His background spans large-scale ML at Apple and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative—covering knowledge graphs, declarative ML, LLMs, benchmarking, grounding, and safety—alongside early work in weak supervision and human-in-the-loop data intelligence. He pairs deep neuroimaging and biomedical engineering roots from McGill with practical data-science engineering (Spark/GraphX, distributed graph processing) to tackle complex signal and graph problems. An interdisciplinary thinker, he also practices stone sculpture, reflecting a hands-on creative approach to problem solving and design. Sebastien holds advanced training in AI and neuroimaging and is known for bridging rigorous research methods with production-focused ML engineering.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.Eng., System and Software Engineering - Medical Imaging, B.Eng., System and Software Engineering - Medical Imaging at École de technologie supérieureMaster of Engineering (M.Eng.), Neuroscience / Biomedical Engineering, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Neuroscience / Biomedical Engineering at McGill UniversityMaster of Science (MS), AI & Philosophy, Master of Science (MS), AI & Philosophy at University of CambridgeProfessional Degree, Computer Science, Professional Degree, Computer Science at College Gérald-GodinMulti-Modal Neuroimaging Short Course, Neuroimaging, Multi-Modal Neuroimaging Short Course, Neuroimaging at Harvard University
French, English, Spanish, German
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Github Skills (34)
python9
nlp8
turkish8
deep-learning8
fairness-ml8
natural-language-processing8
gpu8
machine-learning8
language-processing8
cython8
text-classification8
named-entity-recognition8
artificial-intelligence8
arabic-nlp7
neural-network7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
sderygithub/ScalableCommunityDetection
Sep 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:19 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 21 days
sderygithub/Online-Similarity
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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