Léonard Blier

Head of AI at @echOpen_
Formerly PhD student at @facebookai research and @Inria in Paris, working on Reinforcement Learning

[Léonard Blier @leonardblier]

Finally, PhD defended! 🍾

[Léonard Blier @leonardblier]

Two years ago, I joined @echOpen_, whose vision was to make ultrasound imaging accessible. 🎉 Today, our ultra-portable probe is finally available! 🎉

This huge milestone will also bring our AI project to another scale, and I'm so excited about the next steps of this journey!

[echOpen @echOpen_]

🎉 C’est officiel… … echOpen dévoile enfin sa sonde d’échographie clinique ultraportable echOpen O1, à l’occasion de son marquage CE !
🧪 echOpen O1 est disponible pour tous les professionnels de santé habilités à la pratique de l’échographie ➡️ https://t.co/AGPCBcW1Fc

[Léonard Blier @leonardblier]

@FushidaHardy Ça serait pour @evabester ça !

[Léonard Blier @leonardblier]

The full thesis is here : https://t.co/dd2lSrQh1q…
The first chapters corresponds to published papers, but the core parts corresponds to a complete rewriting of our preprints on the Successor States Operator and multi-goal RL, to make it easy to read 😀

[Léonard Blier @leonardblier]

Finally, PhD defended! 🍾

[Léonard Blier @leonardblier]

A glance at the content here !

[Léonard Blier @leonardblier]

@hrsather Thanks ! I put more informations here:
https://t.co/rnAifp4XJA

[Léonard Blier @leonardblier]

For those of you who want to know more about the thesis, I wrote "An overview of my thesis", which summarises all the contributions (especially on the Successor States Operator in RL, but other works too) : https://t.co/YzLuaYL8Wa

[Gael Varoquaux 🦋 @GaelVaroquaux]

🥁 job offer: post-doc position on neural-network approaches for relational data:
https://t.co/g4Ehdf7Yrv

A topic that I am super excited about: we have great preliminary results and there is a lot to do.

Join my new team near Paris @soda_INRIA https://t.co/Ki9rRkxjrc 🎉

[Léonard Blier @leonardblier]

We are looking for a current master student, for 4-6 months. We are seeking diverse profiles, and will pay special attention to any personal experiences or projects using deep learning (school/personal project, internships, ...).
https://t.co/ye4o66xmcx

[Léonard Blier @leonardblier]

We are looking for a Machine Learning/Computer Vision intern at @echOpenfactory to work with me on organ detection/segmentation on ultrasound images (echography), to build tools helping medical doctors using the echOpen device.
Please RT and share to students! More details ⬇️

[Léonard Blier @leonardblier]

Ultrasound imaging is an exciting modality in ML. Both powerful and challenging to analyse (work on noisy videos, ...).
But thanks to echOpen's multidisciplinary team, and its partnerships with APHP, we can work every day with medical doctors to help us in these challenges.

[Léonard Blier @leonardblier]

I will work with the team to develop AI tools, helping doctors to use the probe, read and interpret the ultrasound images.
After years of fundamental research, my goal was to switch to product-applied research, apply AI in practice, and try to make it useful in real-world.

[Léonard Blier @leonardblier]

Finally, my PhD is (almost) finished. In 2 weeks, I will be joining @echOpenfactory as Lead AI Research 🎉
@echOpenfactory developed an super-affordable ultrasound imaging system (echograph), soon to be on the market, dedicated to diagnosis orientation.

[Alex Sablayrolles @alexsablay]

We (@PierreStock and I) are hiring a Master student for an internship in Privacy in the summer 2022, with a potential CIFRE PhD following the internship. Details in the proposal attached.

[Rob Miles @robertskmiles]

You have to fit, say, 29 squares into a bigger square. What arrangement is most efficient, i.e maximises the size of the squares?
Turns out the optimal arrangements are amazing and I really hate them a lot

[Baptiste Rozière @b_roziere]

We are recruiting an intern at FAIR Paris on code-related subjects. This internship could lead to a CIFRE PhD. Reach out quickly if you're interested !

[Léonard Blier @leonardblier]

@ccanonne_ I read theit technical paper a while a go and found it super interesting. Were you looking for something with more details?
https://t.co/J7gjdtT0lh

[Jean-Rémi King @JeanRemiKing]

I was told in my last talk that GPT-3 did not face the same issues as GPT-2.
Tried a few queries... not quite there yet