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General Information

Full Name Alexis Brissard
Languages French (mother tongue), English (fluent), German (beginner)

Education

  • 2023 - Now
    MSc. NLP & Cybersecurity
    Polytechnique Montréal, Canada
  • 2018 - 2023
    MSc. Computer Science
    Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon, France

Experience

  • 2024 - Now
    Masters Student Researcher
    LAMA-WeST & LabCys, Montréal, Canada.
    • Information extraction from natural language documents using open-source LLMs
    • Development and testing of advanced prompting techniques (e.g., Prompt Chaining, Self-Ask, Tree of Thoughts, Graph of Thoughts)
    • Modeling of business processes for the detection of insider threats within companies
  • 2022 - 2023
    Technical Cybersecurity Consultant
    Lyvoc, Lyon, France.
    • Integration of Okta identity management software for 3 clients (5000 to 10000 employee identities)
    • Development of 2 SCIM web servers (Tomcat + Java) and a custom OIDC web app (Vaadin + NodeJS)
    • Design of a complete architecture for the validation of contractual documents (SharePoint + Vaadin)
    • Technical monitoring and presentation of new technologies to the technical team (20+ employees)
  • 2022
    Web Design and Development Engineer
    Dassault Systems, Paris, France.
    • Design and development of a web app for visualizing temporal data (d3.js, pixi.js, mapbox)
    • Modeling and creation of a React web app for publishing data to Dassault Systems software
    • Development of a custom tool for online image scraping (Python + Selenium)
  • 2019 - 2023
    Volunteer Electricity, Water and Premises Manager
    24 Heures de l'INSA Festival, Lyon, France
    • Management of electricity and water supply during the entire festival (40000 visitors over 3 days)
    • Contact and coordination of 10+ service providers and top-level school administration
    • Management of a team of 10 volunteers for 10 days

Competencies

  • Machine Learning
    • Training and inference of large language models on clusters and via API (embedding, classification, and generation)
    • Design and development of a RAG application to facilitate access to corporate legal documents
    • Inference optimization (e.g., batching, hardware optimization, caching)
  • Cybersecurity
    • Creation of a notification service based on security log analysis
    • Deep technical and functional knowledge of Identity & Access Management software (Okta, Azure AD, Auth0)
    • Implementation of advanced authentication protocols use cases (SCIM, OAuth2, OIDC)
  • Web Development
    • Conception, development and deployment of 6 custom webapps with different tech stacks
    • Conception and specification of advanced cloud architecture
    • Development of a cooking mobile app (Flutter + Django)

Certifications

  • 2023
    • Okta Developer
    • Okta Administrator

Academic Interests

  • Natural Language Processing
    • Information Extraction
    • Knowledge Base construction
  • LLMs
    • Prompt Engineering
    • Domain Adaptation
  • Process Mining
    • From process descriptions
    • From emails
  • Cybersecurity
    • Insider threats
    • Anomaly detection

Other Interests

Climbing 🧗 Bouldering, top rope, lead ; indoor & outdoor
Handball 🤾 Goalkeeper at university level and 4 years in a club
Chess ♟ 2 participations in the finals of the French school championships
Hitchhiking 👍 In Europe and North America