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General Information

Full Name Frédéric Berdoz
Languages French (native), English (Proficient), German (Intermediate)

Education

  • 2023 - Present
    PhD in Computer Science
    ETH Zürich
    • Member of the Distributed Computing Group supervised by Prof. Dr. Roger Wattenhofer.
    • Teaching assistant for multiple courses (tutoring, exam writing and grading, etc.).
  • 2019 - 2022
    Master in Computational Science and Engineering
    EPFL
    • Graduated with one of the highest GPA in the program (5.73/6).
    • Master's thesis written at MIT on the topic of Decentralized Machine Learning (co-supervised by Prof. Ramesh Raskar and Prof. Martin Jaggi).
    • Member of the Junior Enterprise EPFL, a student-run consulting company.
    • Member of the EPFL Rocket Team, a student association building rockets for competitions.
  • 2016 - 2019
    Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering
    EPFL
    • Graduated with one of the highest GPA in the program (5.66/6).
    • Full year exchange at McGill University, Montreal, Canada (most selective exchange).

Experience

  • 11/2022 - 07/2023
    Technical Project Manager
    Neural Concept
    • Led efforts to drive the adoption of 3D deep learning in real-world engineering (CAD and CAE) applications.
    • Managed end-to-end project implementation, resulting in successful deals exceeding $100k CHF.
  • 08/2022 - 10/2022
    Research Assistant
    Machine Learning and Optimization Lab at EPFL
    • Research on the topic of decentralized and privacy-preserving machine learning.
    • My work received the runner-up Best Paper Award at the NeurIPS 2022 workshop on Decentralization and Trustworthy Machine Learning in Web3.
  • 08/2021 - 01/2022
    Data Scientist Intern
    Beyond Gravity
    • Developed a machine learning model to predict the failure of satellite components.

Grants

  • 2018
    • EPFL Mobility Scholarship for my academic exchange at McGill (2k CHF)
  • 2022
    • Hasler Stiftung Scholarship for my visit at MIT (7k CHF)
  • 2024
    • Participation in the selective CIFAR DLRL Summer School, funded by SNF and CIFAR (5k CHF)