Thibault Debatty
Associate Professor Cyber Defence And Distributed Systems
Brussels, Belgium
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Top SchoolThibault Debatty is an associate professor specializing in cyber defence and distributed systems with 12 years of professional experience and a PhD in Distributed Machine Learning from Telecom ParisTech. Based in Brussels, he combines academic leadership at the Royal Military Academy and cylab.be with hands-on engineering dating back to web consulting and ICT operations for the Belgian Defence. His work spans teaching core courses (cyber defence, distributed systems, OS) and researching big data and security, while maintaining practical coding skills evidenced by an open-source Java library for string similarity algorithms he authored. Comfortable moving between research, instruction, and production engineering, he brings a rare mix of military-grade systems experience and algorithmic depth. Colleagues rely on him for translating complex distributed ML and security concepts into robust, operational solutions.
12 years of coding experience
Master, Engineering, Master, Engineering at Royal Military AcademyDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Distributed Machine Learning, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Distributed Machine Learning at Telecom ParisTechMaster, Toegepaste computer wetenschappen (Applied computer sciences), Master, Toegepaste computer wetenschappen (Applied computer sciences) at Vrije Universiteit Brussel
French, Dutch, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (12)
cosine-similarity10
javas10
seq10
java10
levenshtein-distance10
algorithm9
graph6
selenium6
browser-testing6
string-metrics6
phpunit6
string-comparison6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
tdebatty/java-string-similarity
Apr 2014 - Jan 2022
Implementation of various string similarity and distance algorithms: Levenshtein, Jaro-winkler, n-Gram, Q-Gram, Jaccard index, Longest Common Subsequence edit distance, cosine similarity ...
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 releases, 204 commits, 19 PRs in 7 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Thibault appears to be the primary author of this Java library focused on string similarity algorithms. Their initial contributions involved importing and implementing core algorithms like Levenshtein, Jaro-Winkler, and Longest Common Subsequence, as well as defining the `StringSimilarityInterface`. The user refactored code, renamed packages, and added new algorithms like QGram, NGram, SorensenDice, and Cosine similarity, enhancing the library's breadth. The user is demonstrated to be a contributor of key algorithms with a focus on expanding the available string similarity metrics.
string-matchingjarostringstring-distanceshingles
cylab-be/smart-router
Oct 2017 - Jan 2025
Contributions:76 pushes, 2 branches, 1 comment in 7 years 4 months
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