Jean-Marc Montanier

Jean-Marc Montanier

Research Engineer Robot Perception and Deep Learning

Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence

Biography

I’m a Research Scientist, currently working at the Bosch Research center in Renningen.

Current work

I work on AI methods applied to robotics. My focus is on bringing our current work at production level.

Previous work

I worked as a resercher engineer or data scientist in various companies and sectors (from robotics to marketing). No matter the name of the positionm, I work at the interface between researchers and production. The idea is to bring the findings of researchers to production, and bring new ideas from the production to researchers.

Before working in the industry, I worked in multiple laboratories on the use of learning algorithms for multi-agent systems. I targeted the challenges arising when agents have to adapt to the environment, and produce a satisfying behaviour at the level of the population.

Interests
  • Robotics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • Multi-Agent Systems
Education
  • PhD in Robotics, 2013

    Université Parsi-Sud XI

  • Engineering School in Electronics and Informatics, 2009

    INSA Rennes

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Research Engineer
Bosch
April 2022 – Present Stuttgart, Germany
  • Bringing AI for robotics to production
  • Activities: Tooling for compute and data management
  • Responsibilities: Designing, execution, and support
  • Tools: Docker, Terraform, Cloud services, Poetry, IBM LSF
 
 
 
 
 
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Tinyclues
November 2019 – March 2022 Paris, France
  • Reliable Machine Learning at scale
  • Activities: Development of complex machine learning stack
  • Responsibilities: Epic Lead (set-up project and follow up to completion), Full-stack programming (from data ingestion to serving), Mentoring junior engineer
  • Tools: Kubeflow Pipeline, NumPy, TF, PySpark, Docker, CircleCI
 
 
 
 
 
Data Scientist
Faurecia
September 2018 – November 2019 Paris, France
  • Data science for industrial production
  • Activities: Tech. lead on visual inspection and Multi-Agent modelling
  • Responsibilities: Bringing prototypes to production, Technical advisor to management, Mentoring junior engineer
  • Tools: Python (scikit-learn, scipy, jupyter), CNN
 
 
 
 
 
Researcher Engineer
SBRE (formerly Aldebaran)
April 2016 – August 2018 Paris, France
  • Software Innovation for humanoid robotics
  • Activities: Grasping, Sound Event Recognition, Skeleton Detection
  • Responsibilities: Scientific roadmap of the team, Delivery of PoCs, Mentoring interns
  • Tools: Python (scikit-learn, scipy, jupyter), C++, Pepper, Nao
 
 
 
 
 
Post-doctoral Researcher
BSC
September 2014 – March 2016 Barcelona, Spain
  • Development of Multi-Agent Models for the study of cultural evolution and trading behaviors
  • Research activities and development in C++/Python/R
  • Supervision of Ph.D. Students
 
 
 
 
 
Post-doctoral Researcher
NTNU
March 2013 – July 2014 Trondheim, Norway
  • Research on on-line on-board distributed evolutionary robotics
  • Study of self-aggregating behaviors
  • Leading students through the realization of a robotic platform
 
 
 
 
 
Ph.D. Student
Université Paris-Sud XI
October 2009 – March 2013 Orsay, France
Ph.D. thesis on Automatic Learning of Robot controllers for swarm robotics.

Projects

ChIRP
A Versatile Swarm Robot Platform.
Pandora
A parallelized flexible multi-agent simulator.
Roborobo
A fast 2D robotic simulator

Recent Publications

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(2019). Second Language Tutoring using Social Robots. A Large-Scale Study. IEEE/ACM Int. Conf. on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2019).

(2018). Collaborative Development Within a Social Robotic, Multi-Disciplinary Effort: the CARESSES Case Study. 2018 IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO).

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(2018). Guidelines for designing social robots as second language tutors. International Journal of Social Robotics.

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(2018). The ecology of Roman trade. Reconstructing provincial connectivity with similarity measures. Journal of Archaeological Science.

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