Timothée Poulain
PhD Student at Université de Nantes
Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France
Summary
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Top SchoolTimothée Poulain is a PhD student and NLP/ML researcher at Université de Nantes with nine years of experience applying machine learning to language-focused and data-intensive problems. His doctoral work centers on generating absent keyphrases for scientific document indexing within the ANR DELICES project, blending research rigor with practical indexing applications. He has hands-on experience implementing and testing graph-based keyphrase extraction algorithms (e.g., CollabRank, ExpandRank) in the open-source pke Python library, and a background spanning handwriting recognition, satellite image classification, and graph-database tools. Comfortable moving between research and engineering, he combines strong statistical and ML foundations from multiple French masters with a track record of shipping reproducible code and tests. An unspoken strength is his cross-disciplinary experience—ranging from medieval manuscript HMMs to modern deep learning—that helps him tackle diverse NLP challenges.
9 years of coding experience
Master II DAC (Donnees, Apprentissage, Connaissances), IA, Machine Learning, Data science, mention AB, Master II DAC (Donnees, Apprentissage, Connaissances), IA, Machine Learning, Data science, mention AB at Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)Licence de Mathématiques, Mathématiques, (non obtention), Licence de Mathématiques, Mathématiques, (non obtention) at University of Lille 1 Sciences and TechnologyMaster II ATAL (Apprentissage et traitement automatique de la langue), Natural Language Processing, Mention Bien, Master II ATAL (Apprentissage et traitement automatique de la langue), Natural Language Processing, Mention Bien at Université de NantesMaster I ISMAG (Informatique, Statistique, Mathématiques appliqués à la Gestion de Production), Informatique, Statistique, Mathématiques, Mention AB, Master I ISMAG (Informatique, Statistique, Mathématiques appliqués à la Gestion de Production), Informatique, Statistique, Mathématiques, Mention AB at Université de Toulouse-le-Mirail (Toulouse II)DEUG, Mathématiques et informatique, DEUG, Mathématiques et informatique at Université de Bourgogne
fr
Github Skills (5)
computational-linguistics10
python10
natural-language-processing10
machine-learning9
information-retrieval9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
boudinfl/pke
Mar 2020 - Apr 2020
Python Keyphrase Extraction module
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & ML Engineer
Back-end Developer & ML EngineerContributions:10 commits, 4 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Timothée contributed to the Python Keyphrase Extraction module by implementing and testing keyphrase extraction models. The commits include the addition and modification of graph-based keyphrase extraction algorithms such as CollabRank and ExpandRank. The user also added and updated testing frameworks and utilities to support the keyphrase extraction models.
keyphrasenlpextractionpythonkeyphrase-extraction
Oulaolay/AS_Cours
Oct 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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