About SilliconIsland.ai
🏹🚀🏹Mission: Empower organization by helping them leverage AI from Strategy to Deployment
In a nutshell, SiliconIsland.ai founder is a tech entrepreneur and by training an applied research engineer from Montréal’s prestigious Yoshua Bengio MILA, was involved in the early research in Deep Learning and has a proven track record with multiple Montréal based tech companies across various roles including; Machine learning Specialist at Coradiant which was acquired by BMC, Founder and CEO of QMining which was acqui-hired by Nuance, COO at Squarepoint Technology (Hedge Fund) where he played a key role in building its Montréal R&D lab and now Founder and Chief AI Officer at SiliconIsland.ai (MTL;). A fearless entrepreneur and geek whose mission is to help humanity moving from managing scarcity to managing abundance through the use of technology and, of course, making sure MTL stay the capital of AI.
- Here are his highlights:
- Software engineer, Master Apply Research (MILA)
- Early research Deep Learning with Yoshua Bengio
- Community builder: big data usergroup co-organizer, AI community builder
- Lead dev mlboost, pytrade, flayers opensource projects
- 20 years+ experience in AI/Machine Learning
- Founder of QMining, self-founder boootstrapped startup (Simplify Big Data Mining Application)
- Machine Learning expert at Coradiant, lead architect of AIM and bot detector projects (Acquired by BMC)
- Lecturer of Machine Learning at ETS University
- NLU Senior Researcher@Nuance
- Invited speaker at confoo, data-science summit, Salon BI, McGill MBA, ...
- entoring and strategic advisor (Les Bouchons, bitcredits.io, allai.ca, etc.)
- COO at Squarepoint capital: built a 28 member R&D team in MTL in 6 months
- Member of Montreal Startup Cabal community connector
- Mentoring and strategic advisor of several startups
- Instructor @concordia university - Big Data Certificate (Infrastructure & Storage class)
- AI Strategist@Merck
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History
Internship Microcell Labs
In summer 1997, I did an intership at Microcell labs and integrate decisions tree algo into ad (ancester of plearn). I meet and work under Samy Bengio..which turn into part-time work and another internship....
Summer 1997student@polytechnique
Intership at Locus Dialog (speech to text)
In summer 1999, I did an intership at Locus Dialog and learn about speech recognition and the importance of training dataset quality under Regis Cardin leadership and met Simona Grandrabur and met JLT (Jean-Luc Trepanier)
Summer 1999student@polytechnique
Master in Apply Science at LISA now MILA
Most interesting research experience. I did lot of experiment to understand why deep architecture can't be trained properly. Push plean to its limit, develop flayers crazy tool and challenged plearn performance by competing with torch. Meet amazing researcher: Yoshua, Pascal Vincent, Ronan Collobert, Christian Jauvin, Gilles Caporossi etc.
Summer 1999student@lisa
Junior Research Engineer@idilia
Learn linux low level powerfull tools such as sed/cut/awk/grep to do complexe preprocessing and learn to improve the tagger and meet Jeremy Barnes
Summer 1999junior@researcher
Machine Learning Specialist@Coradiant
First indian in the advanced dev team of Coradiant in Eric Packman team (CTO)
winter 2006Machine Learning Specialist@coradiant
launch mlboot
Launch V0.1 of mlboost -> python script to boost my machine learning projects
winter 2006Machine Learning Specialist@coradiant
Start to speak in usergroup conference
Everything started after meeting Yannick Gingras -> Machine Learning empower by Python @PythonMontreal
winter 2008dev@pivotalpayments
Lecturer Machine Learning ETS
ETS university ask me to teach Machine Learning to last year undergrade software engineer (where looking for practitionner not only theoritical people -> Thanks Francois and Luc)
spring 2010founder@qmining.com
Learn entrepreneurship and bootstrapping
launch QMining after doing part-time consulting for thomson reuter
winter 2010founder@qmining.com
Improve mlboost
Improve mlboost in various projects at Nuance
2010-2013researcher@nuance.com
Nurture startup ecosystem
Join the startup cabal (connector/enabler)
2010-2013researcher@nuance.com
Big-Data MTL co-organizator
Help improve, organize & recruit speaker & push the flash presentation framework
2010-2013researcher@nuance.com
SiliconIsland vision
On November 15, I wrote the SiliconIsland vision/master plan.
Nov 2015Researcher@Nuance.com
TMining.io
During fall, I team-up with Andre Girard to launch TMining.io (Google Analytics in the real world to optimize sales conversion from door sensor (IOT) and payment transactions)
fall 2015experiment@TMining.io
Intrapreneur@Squarepoint Technology
Build and expand the technology core and research team of Squarepoint edge fund in Montreal.
April 2016COO@Squarepoint Technology
SiliconIsland.ai is born
I rebranded QMining.com SiliconIsland.ai in Feb 2017. It was time to walk the talk and implement the master plan.
Jan 2018Founder and CEO
Chief AI Officier@allai.ca
SiliconIsland.ai is now empowering allai.ca (Strategic Advisor/Mentor, Investor, Connector & help pitch to raise millions)
2018Chief AI Officier@allai.ca
Strategic partnership will AGILE O.P.S.
Now we can focus on AI only not devops. Now our offer covers Strategic AI and DevOps.
Mars 2018Chief AI Officier
Instructor at Concordia - Big Data Certificate
Empowering students in Big Data Infrastructure and Storage (partnership with AGILE O.P.S)
April 2018Instructor
Partnership Fondation CSDM
Empowering kids from 12-17 years in embrassing and leveraging AI for Really Social Good.
May 2018Founder
Strategic Partnership with Calliere Group
We are offering AI Headhunting and consultant placement services specialized in AI resources
June 2018Chief AI Officier
Instructor Big-Data@Concordia
Big-data certificate instructor: Infra (IT) & Storage (Business)
2018Chief AI Officier
Intrapreneur - AI Strategist Merck
Intrapreneurship at Merck "Defining Merck Canada AI Strategy"
April 2019Chief AI Officier
My Skills
My Projects
My first blog. Some thoughts of a Machine Learning Practitioner on Software Development, Management, Team Building, Startups, Python, Agile Development, Data visualization... that will distract you from your end goals by making you less efficient but are critical to manage in order to succeed. Don't forget that long time adaptation to inefficient approaches can become your enemy. Let's try to empower others by sharing knowledge & personal experiences.
help lead Canada’s transformation into an AI superpower not only scientifically but also economically and morally by connecting more dots.
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Francis
Chef AI Officer
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