Biography

I am a research scientist at ConsenSys and Imperial College London.

My current research at ConsenSys focuses on privacy preserving machine learning and decentralisation. I’m exploring the potential of bringing together techniques such as Federated Learning and Blockchains to build a new generation of healthcare systems. Our group at ConsenSys is growing a strong expertise on Secure Computing (Trusted Execution Environments - TEEs, MPC, …) and Verifiable Computing (TEEs, Zero-Knowledge Proofs, …) with the goal to enhance machine learning deployments with these privacy preserving technologies.

At Imperial, I work in the BioMedIA group, under Prof. Daniel Rueckert, where I’m leveraging distributed computing for AutoML. We’re working on model selection, neural architecture search and hyperparameter tuning using a various range of methods. This is done in collaboration with colleagues at the Complex Systems Institute, Paris in the context of the OpenMOLE project.

• A blockchain-orchestrated Federated Learning architecture for healthcare consortia

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• A generic framework for privacy preserving deep learning

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• Reproducible large-scale neuroimaging studies with the OpenMOLE workflow management system

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• Group-wise parcellation of the cortex through multi-scale spectral clustering

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• Convergence of Blockchain and Secure Computing for Healthcare solutions

  Wed, Sep 4, 2019, EU Blockchain forum

• Building an ecosystem of functional libraries for the OpenMOLE scientific platform: from batch jobs to automatic model parameter tuning

  Mon, Jul 10, 2017, ScalaX bytes meetup

• GridScale: a Journey from Object-Oriented to (More) Functional Programming

  Fri, Dec 9, 2016, Scala eXchange 2016

Imperial College London (UK)

Labs and tutorials

• Computer Graphics: OpenGL
• Functional programming in Haskell: Introduction to functional programming
• Java: Introduction to the language

Student projects supervised

• Various undergraduate and MSc projects supervised
• Corporate Partnership Programme Awards in 2019 the Department prize for excellence in project work to Cristian Matache (MEng Computing 4), Efficient Design of Machine Learning Hyperparameter Optimizers
• Corporate Partnership Programme Awards in 2019 the Department prize for excellence in project work to Maurizio Zen (MEng JMC 4), Improving Neural Architecture Search with Reinforcement Learning
• New Voice Media Prize in 2018 awarded for an outstanding individual project in the area of data science to Corentin Herbinet (MEng JMC 4), Using Machine Learning techniques to predict the outcome of professional football
• New Voice Media Prize in 2016 awarded for an outstanding individual project in the area of data science to Adrian Draghici (MEng Computing 4), Cloud computing for big data experiments

ISIMA (Engineering School, France)

Courses led

• Software Engineering 101: Git, Debugging with gdb
• C++: Unit Testing (gtest), Template Meta-Programming, Standard Library
• UML: Design Pattern, Class, State, Sequence Diagrams
• Java: Java 7, Swing
• Distributed computing: Cluster (PBS), Grid (EGI)
• GPU Computing: CUDA, SIMD architecture

Student projects supervised

• Various MEng projects supervised covering GPU parallelisation
• Some associated publications (1, 2)

MSc in Computer Science (Blaise Pascal University, France)

Courses led

• Introduction to parallel programming with CUDA

• Academic CV
• Resume

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