Resume
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Personal Data
| Website: | https://hugocisneros.com | GitHub: | https://github.com/hugcis/ |
| LinkedIn: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/hugo-cisneros-04347212b/ | Google Scholar: | Scholar Profile |
Work & Research Experience
| Mar 2023 - Current |
Inicio (Startup) Lead Machine Learning Engineer, Paris
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| Completed PhD (2019-2023, see Education below) | |
| Apr - Nov 2019 |
CIIRC (Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics) Research Intern, Prague Under the supervision of Tomas Mikolov (Facebook AI Research).
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| Mar - Sep 2018 |
INRIA and CNRS (LIMSI) Research Intern, Paris Under the supervision of Xavier Tannier and Ioana Manolescu.
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| Jun 2017 - Mar 2018 |
Aiden.ai Software Engineering and Machine Learning Intern, London
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| Sep 2016 - Feb 2017 |
ENS Ulm, Kastler-Brossel Laboratory Research Assistant, Paris Light control and propagation in amplified multimode fibers
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Education
| Nov 2019 - May 2023 |
PhD, INRIA, CIIRC CTU (Czech Technical University in Prague), Paris & Prague Unsupervised learning with Complex Systems and Evolution Under the supervision of Tomas Mikolov and Josef Sivic. Topics: complex dynamical systems, self-organization, artificial evolution, artificial intelligence.
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| Sep 2018 - Sep 2019 |
MVA Master in Machine Learning and Applied Mathematics, ENS Paris Saclay, Paris Relevant Coursework: Convex Optimization, Probabilistic Graphical Models, Computer Vision, Reinforcement Learning, Deep Learning, Speech and Natural language processing, Kernel Methods, Biostatistics, Theoretical Foundations of Deep Learning — (GPA: 16.2 / 20) |
| Sep 2015 - Sep 2018 |
Master of Science in Engineering, Mines ParisTech, Paris Specialization: Computer Science — (3.7 GPA) Relevant Coursework: Machine Learning, Probabilities, Statistics, Programming |
| Sep 2013 - Aug 2015 |
Preparatory class for Grandes Ecoles Lycée Stanislas (Paris) MPSI and MP* Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics and Physics, national competitive exam for entering engineering school. |
| Aug 2013 |
Scientific Baccalauréat (High school diploma in Maths, Physics and Life Sciences) - High distinction |
Publications
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Cisneros, H. Unsupervised Learning in Complex Systems. Thesis. |
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Herel, D., Cisneros, H., & Mikolov, T. Preserving Semantics in Textual Adversarial Attacks. Pre-print. GitHub repo: https://github.com/DavidHerel/semantics-preserving-encoder |
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Cisneros, H., Sivic, J. & Mikolov, T. Benchmarking Learning Efficiency in Deep Reservoir Computing. First Conference on Lifelong Learning Agents (CoLLAs 2022). GitHub repo: https://github.com/hugcis/benchmark_learning_efficiency |
| Cisneros, H., Sivic, J. & Mikolov, T. Visualizing computation in large-scale cellular automata. Artificial Life Conference Proceedings 32, 239–247 (2020). |
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Cisneros, H., Sivic, J. & Mikolov, T. Evolving Structures in Complex Systems. in 2019 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) 230–237 (IEEE, 2019). GitHub repo: https://github.com/hugcis/evolving-structures-in-complex-systems. |
Projects
| Mar - Aug 2021 | Participated in the Open-endedness evolution challenge at the GECCO 2021 conference competition track. Developed an open-ended algorithm based on Neural Cellular Automata in Pytorch within the game Minecraft. Finished second place. [GitHub][Blog post] |
| Jun - Aug 2018 | Participated in the n2c2 shared task of Harvard Medical School Cohort Selection for Clinical Trials in a joint team from AP-HP and LIMSI. Implemented weakly-supervised and transfer learning methods for Medical NLP (Keras). Finished 2nd among 30 teams. [Preprint] |
| Jan 2018 | Built a NLP based tool for discovering and matching similar arXiv papers based on similarity measures including word embeddings-based similarities of their abstract and co-authorship graph distance. [GitHub] |
| Feb 2017 | Implemented a multi-currency blockchain in Python with a team of 9 people (Cryptography, network programming, team software development) |
Programming Skills
| ML/AI: | PyTorch, Langchain, TensorFlow, Keras |
| Languages: | Python, C, Rust, Java, TypeScript, Matlab, Scala, Ruby, C++ |
| Data: | SQL (PostgreSQL), Airflow / Dagster |
| Tools & Platforms: | Git, Docker, AWS (ECS, S3, Aurora), Terraform, LaTeX |
Languages
| English: | Fluent | Spanish: | Intermediate |
| French: | Native | Japanese: | School level |
Interests and Activities
- Creative coding, Live Coding, Generative Art, genocto.xyz
- Technology, Open-Source, Programming
- Mathematics, Statistics and Probabilities
- Running, Hiking, Fencing, Piano, Guitar