Timothee Cour
Research Engineer at Google DeepMind
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTimothée Cour is a research engineer with 13 years of experience building and scaling computer vision and multimodal ML systems across DeepMind, Character.AI, Amazon Robotics, Google and NEC Labs. He holds a PhD in machine learning and a BS in CS & Math from École Polytechnique, has 20+ top-tier publications with 3k+ citations, and was on the winning ImageNet team early in his career. Technically versatile, he has shipped production pipelines at petabyte scale (Street View privacy pipeline) and led product-facing ML at startups as a former CTO. An active open-source systems contributor, he is a top-2 contributor to the Nim language and has improved compilers and package tooling across D, Nim and Homebrew. Comfortable moving between research and engineering, he specializes in multimodal LLMs, detection/segmentation, and infrastructure for large-scale vision workloads.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science & Applied Math, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science & Applied Math at École PolytechniqueDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
English, French, Japanese
Github Skills (38)
unit-testing10
nim-lang10
algorithms10
programming-language10
package-management10
llvm10
testing10
compiler-development10
command-line-interface10
html-template10
ui-design10
dword10
python-templates10
regex10
standard-library10
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
nim-lang/Nim
Mar 2018 - Apr 2022
Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3404 reviews, 957 commits, 1730 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Timothee primarily contributed to the Nim programming language project by implementing and refining compiler functionalities. The commits focused on adding features like error limits (--errorMax:10) and enhancements to dump --dump.format:json functionalities within the compiler source code. Additionally, the user also modified various compiler code modules and tests, demonstrating an understanding of the language's core components and testing strategies.
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dlang/phobos
Feb 2013 - Feb 2018
The standard library of the D programming language
Role in this project:Back-end Developer / QA Engineer
Back-end Developer / QA EngineerContributions:10 commits, 6 PRs, 102 comments in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Timothee primarily contributed to the D programming language's standard library, focusing on bug fixes, enhancements, and testing. They addressed issues related to regular expressions, random number generation, and file handling. Additionally, the user added unit tests and corrected documentation inaccuracies, improving code quality and reliability within the repository.
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