Home page of Gabriel Belouze

About

Hi! I'm Gabriel. In 2022, I graduated from the MVA Master and in 2023 from ENS Paris. Now I work at LSCE on forest remote sensing. My research interest focuses on Computer Vision and Machine Learning. I also enjoy functionnal programming, open source collaboration, neovim, creating pedagogical content, chess, outdoors, photography, climbing, whales, badminton... Mainly badminton.

Experience

Research Engineer • LSCE Oct 23 - Now: Working under the supervision of Philippe Ciais and Fabian Gieseke on leveraging remote sensing for estimating forest biomass.
R&D Internship • Lokad master thesis • paper • April-Sept 2022: Worked on implementing and benchmarking a backpropagation-free autodifferentiation engine for the Envision programming language. This led me to contribute to the autodifferentiation research field.
Software Development Internship • Tarides library • report • Febr-July 2021: Worked on improving the index data structure for Irmin. I implemented cactus, a b-tree based OCaml library for persistent key-value storage.
Research Internship • Köln Universtät thesis • June-Aug 2020: Worked on the prophet inequality with a random freeze (discrete mathematics).
Research Internship • Inria Nancy internship report • June-Aug 2019: Worked on applying Monte-Carlo search techniques for self localization of a robot under uncertainty.

Education

ENS Master of Computer Science 2018-2023: Computer Science Major at ENS Paris. Also followed classes in Maths and Neuroscience.
MVA Master 2021-2022: Master of Mathematics, Machine Learning and Computer Vision of ENS Paris-Saclay. Graduated with highest honors.
2016-2018 Classes préparatoires: French 2-year cycle of intense preparation for national exams. Maths, Physics and Computer Science at Louis-le-Grand.

Miscellaneous Projects

Introduction to Python: In 2023, I was a TA for the introductory course to programming at BCPST Fénelon. You can read the exercises and exams I have written for this class here.
Colles: From 2018 to 2023, I was a maths examiner at Louis-le-Grand and Ipesup. In this time, I progressively compiled a list of exercises from diverse sources - you can read them online or read the pdf (in French).
Some fun with image stitching: Playing around with the guided filtering techniques, used to stitched together pictures taken with different focal length. Read about it here.