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General Information
| Full Name | Frédéric Berdoz |
| Languages | French (native), English (Proficient), German (Intermediate) |
Education
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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.).
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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08/2021 - 01/2022 Data Scientist Intern
Beyond Gravity - Developed a machine learning model to predict the failure of satellite components.
Grants
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2018 - EPFL Mobility Scholarship for my academic exchange at McGill (2k CHF)
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2022 - Hasler Stiftung Scholarship for my visit at MIT (7k CHF)
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2024 - Participation in the selective CIFAR DLRL Summer School, funded by SNF and CIFAR (5k CHF)