I'm David GΓ©rard, a Ph.D. student at UCL in the Connected Electronics and Photonics Center for Doctoral Training. My expertise bridges machine learning software and hardware, with a strong focus on neuromorphic computing and AI acceleration for energy-efficient AI.
I have experience in both academic research and industry projects, with a background in biomedical engineering, AI, and hardware-software co-design.
Science thrives in collaboration. I actively support cross-disciplinary, international, and open collaborations to accelerate innovation. I contribute to and maintain open-source projects that facilitate knowledge exchange and help researchers share their work efficiently.
Reproducibility is a cornerstone of reliable research. I promote best practices in software development for academic projects, including:
- Version control with Git & GitHub.
- Clear documentation & code modularity.
- Use of containerized environments to enable seamless replication of experiments.
Too often, research is tied to proprietary tools that restrict innovation. I push for increased adoption of open-source frameworks, tools, and methodologies to:
- Reduce barriers for researchers worldwide.
- Increase transparency in peer-reviewed research.
By integrating open-source tools in research workflows, we can make academic research more accessible, collaborative, and efficient.
- Project Manager of PettingZoo β A popular RL library designed for multi-agent reinforcement learning environments.
- Ph.D. Researcher β Working on Photonic Integrated Circuits for AI-accelretaion at UCL.
- Teaching Assistant at UCL β Leading Python labs on Applied Machine Learning Systems and Data Acquisition & Processing Systems for the Integrated Machine Learning Systems MSc.
- Former Researcher at Cambridge & Columbia β Experience in analog computing, bioinformatics, and AI-powered neuroscience.
- Machine Learning & AI β Projects on Reinforcement Learning, AI Acceleration, and Reservoir Computing.
- Hardware-Software Integration β Research on Neuromorphic Engineering and AI-powered Circuits.
- Open-Source Contributions β Active participation in AI and multi-agent reinforcement learning libraries.
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