Lancelot Blanchard
Research Assistant at MIT Media Lab
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLancelot Blanchard is a research-focused software engineer blending nine years of experience across music production, AI research, and full-stack engineering. Currently a Research Assistant at the MIT Media Lab, he explores the intersection of music and machine learning within the Responsive Environments group, pairing creative practice with empirical methods. His background includes hands-on data and product work at Amazon and API engineering at Privitar, demonstrating fluency with cloud services, data pipelines, and Java/Spring ecosystems. Trained in AI and ML at Imperial College London and with formal piano honors from Conservatoire de Rennes, he bridges rigorous technical research and deep musical craft. He builds tools that translate artistic questions into reproducible systems—an engineer who composes both code and sound.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy Media Arts and Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy Media Arts and Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaster of Research - MRes Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Master of Research - MRes Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at Imperial College LondonBritish International Option of the French Baccalaureate Science, British International Option of the French Baccalaureate Science at Lycée Victor et Hélène BaschCEM Piano, CEM Piano at Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Rennes
French, English, German, Italian
Github Skills (24)
torchvision8
codegen7
keras7
code-generation7
music6
viewmodel6
music-composition6
typescript6
python6
pytorch6
visualization6
music-visualizer5
neural-network4
assembler4
deep-learning3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lancelotblanchard/checkm8-public
May 2019 - Jun 2019
Our solution the Imperial Colellege Computing dept. first year end of year project, an ARM emulator and assembler, along with its extension, an autonomous chess player powered by computer vision and AlphaZero
Contributions:51 commits in 19 days
armassemblercomputer-vision
lancelotblanchard/lancelotblanchard.github.io
Oct 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:52 commits, 118 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
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