Tony W
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolTony W is a research-focused machine learning engineer based in Paris with six years building and productionizing large-scale multimodal LLMs and retrieval systems. At H Company he led distributed training and systems work for MoE vision-language models up to 235B parameters, improving training efficiency and moving prototypes into production with Kubernetes at scale. He co-authored ColPali (ICLR 2025) and shipped its ecosystem—models, benchmarks, and tooling—with millions of downloads and wide adoption in document retrieval. Comfortable across research and engineering stacks, he bridges large-scale training (FSDP, DeepSpeed, Megatron), inference and serving (vLLM, BentoML, TGI), and data pipelines for synthetic augmentation and automated evaluation. Trained at CentraleSupélec and Cambridge, he pairs rigorous academic grounding with hands-on DevOps and MLOps experience. Outside core ML, he has a track record of leading teams and projects—from rowing crew captaincy to organizing conference workshops—demonstrating practical leadership beyond code.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, General Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, General Engineering at CentraleSupélecMPhil in Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, MPhil in Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence at University of CambridgePreparatory class, Preparatory class at Lycée Jean Baptiste Say - Higher School Preparatory Classes
French, English, chinois (traditionnel), chinois (simplifié), German
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Github Skills (30)
transformers10
pytorch10
language-model10
python10
retrieval10
machine-learning10
information-retrieval10
seq2seq10
flax10
automation10
retrieval-augmented-generation10
certificate10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
google10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
tonywu71/AirFrance-Seating-Optimization
Feb 2021 - Apr 2021
Contributions:3 releases, 102 commits, 71 pushes in 1 month
illuin-tech/vidore-benchmark
Jun 2024 - Mar 2025
Vision Document Retrieval (ViDoRe): Benchmark. Evaluation code for the ColPali paper.
Contributions:20 releases, 23 reviews, 129 PRs in 8 months
colpaliragretrievalsearchvision-language-model
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