CV of Florian Lesaint
PERSONAL DETAILS . .Mail . [email protected] .Mobile .Address . . .+33 (0) 6 77 13 50 19 . .35 rue Pelleport, 75020 Paris, France .Availability . .Immediate & International .Profile .linkedin.com/in/florianlesaint . . Florian L PhD in computer science Computational neuroscience . EXPERIENCE Researcher Oct 11 - Sep 14 www.isir.upmc.fr ISIR (Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics), UPMC/CNRS - Paris, France. PhD thesis supervised by Olivier Sigaud and Mehdi Khamassi. - Study of interactions between Pavlovian and Instrumental conditioning, and their reproduction by models combining multiple reinforcement learning systems. - Computational model accounting for the variability of behaviours observed in rats undergoing an autoshaping task (publications). - Computational model accounting for the detrimental behaviour of pigeons under a negative automaintenance task (publication). Computational neuroscience, Reinforcement and machine learning, Multiobjective optimisation, C++, Python, Sferes2. Teaching assistant Oct 11 - Sep 14 www.upmc.fr UPMC (University Pierre and Marie Curie) - Paris, France. - Lecture: Reinforcement learning: Links between biology and robotics. - TA: Reinforcement learning (English), Language C, Introduction to robotic. - Tutor: Intro to computer science, Language C/Assembly, Automatisation (scripts). Trainee Avr 11 - Sep 11 www.isir.upmc.fr ISIR, UPMC/CNRS - Paris, France. Control of humanoid robots by structured reinforcement learning. Fuzzy logic, C++, Python, Structured reinforcement learning. Co-founder Feb 09 - Aug 09 angel.co/altribe SARL Altribe - Paris, France. Company dedicated to games based on advanced economic models. C++, Geos. Contributor Jan 07 - Aug 09 www.lrde.epita.fr LRDE (EPITA Research and Development Laboratory), EPITA - Paris, France. - Improvement of the Finite State Machine library Vaucanson with new types of automata: extension to support transducers and synchronised relations. - Development of a generic I/O format for automata (publication). Collaborative development - open source project, Advanced C++. . PUBLICATIONS F Lesaint, O Sigaud, M Khamassi (2014) Accounting for Negative Automaintenance in Pigeons: A Dual Learning Systems Approach and Factored Representations. PLoS ONE 9(10): e111050. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0111050 F Lesaint, O Sigaud, JJ Clark, SB Flagel, M Khamassi (2014) Experimental predictions drawn from a computational model of sign-trackers and goal-trackers. Journal of Physiology-Paris. doi:10.1016/j.jphysparis.2014.06.001 F Lesaint, O Sigaud, SB Flagel, TE Robinson, M Khamassi (2014) Modelling Individual Differences in the Form of Pavlovian Conditioned Approach Responses: A Dual Learning Systems Approach with Factored Representations. PLoS Comput Biol 10(2): e1003466. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003466 A Demaille, A Duret-Lutz, F Lesaint, S Lombardy, J Sakarovitch, F Terrones (2008) An XML Format Proposal for the Description of Weighted Automata, Transducers and Regular Expressions. FSMNLP, 19:199–206. doi:10.3233/978-1-58603-975-2-199 SKILLS (non exhaustive). EDUCATION . .C++, Python, C, Script shell .2011 - 2014 .PhD, Computer science - UPMC, FR . .Boost, Sferes2 . .LATEX, beamer .2010 - 2011 .Master 2, Artificial intelligence - UPMC, FR .2009 - 2010 .Law degree - Univ.. Panthéon-Sorbonne, FR Git, SVN, Trac . matplotlib, octave . .French (native), English (fluent), Japanese (academic, JLPT N5). German & Spanish (to refresh) . .2007 - 2008 .Computer science - Univ. Utrecht, NL .2004 - 2009 .Engineer diploma, Computer science - EPITA, FR . ACTIVITIES / HOBBIES . .Organizer of Club AMAC (2012-2014) - Weekly seminar on computational neuroscience and robotics at ISIR . . .Vice president of ENAC (2007-09) - Board games student association . .Globetroer & Amateur photographer.
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