Sylvain Daronnat
Head Of R&D - Data Scientist
Avignon, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
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Top SchoolSylvain Daronnat is Head of R&D and Data Scientist with eight years of experience combining academic rigor from a PhD in Computer Science and HCI with hands-on industrial delivery in AI and MLOps. Based in Avignon, he designs, industrializes and scales predictive models and LLM deployments—building GPU inference clusters, RAG chatbots, document extraction pipelines and computer vision OCR workflows that move research prototypes into production. He blends strategy, KPI-driven product framing and technical implementation (PyTorch, vLLM, Triton, Docker, ArgoCD) while managing API budgets and generative AI adoption across teams. His background in UX research and HCI gives him a practical focus on trust, cognitive load and user performance when integrating agentic workflows. Notably, he has bridged multi-modal ML research and applied systems engineering, delivering solutions that serve both internal and external clients.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
French Baccalauréat, Literay Section, French Baccalauréat, Literay Section at Notre Dame InstitutionIBM AI Engineering, Intelligence artificielle, IBM AI Engineering, Intelligence artificielle at CourseraCompany Mentor, Project Management, Company Mentor, Project Management at VISIPLUS academyBachelor's Degree, English, Spanish, Economics and Marketing, Bachelor's Degree, English, Spanish, Economics and Marketing at University at AlbanyMaster 2 (M2), Natural Language Processing, Master 2 (M2), Natural Language Processing at Université Grenoble AlpesPhD, Computer Sciences and Human-Computer Interactions, PhD, Computer Sciences and Human-Computer Interactions at University of StrathclydeSummer School in Machine Learning, Computer and Data Sciences, Summer School in Machine Learning, Computer and Data Sciences at Instituto Superior Técnico
French, English, SpanishGithub contributions (5)
daronnat/arcade-game-experiment
Jun 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:108 pushes in 5 months
daronnat/place_points_map
Sep 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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