Louis Van Beurden
Software Engineer at Google
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolLouis Van Beurden is a software engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in machine learning and natural language processing, currently building at Google in Montreal. He co-founded INTLEKT Metadata to apply the IEML semantic metadata system to real-world knowledge organization, and previously collaborated directly with philosopher Pierre Lévy to make the IEML grammar computable. His background spans R&D, start-up product delivery, and applied research—having implemented translation systems, deep learning models (including Transformers and GANs), and a Python library and git-backed database for distributed semantic vocabularies. A self-directed learner with interdisciplinary curiosity, he blends rigorous academic training in AI (Université de Montréal) and computer science/math with hands-on engineering across backend services, tooling, and team leadership.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Artificial Intelligence, Master's degree, Artificial Intelligence at Université de MontréalMaster of computer science and mathematics, Mathematics and Computer Science, Master, Master of computer science and mathematics, Mathematics and Computer Science, Master at Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique et de Mathématiques Appliquées de GrenobleBaccalauréat, Science, Baccalauréat, Science at Lycée Notre Dame du GrandchampMathematics and Physics, Mathematics and Physics at Lycée Pothier
French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
git10
vocabulary10
knowledge-representation10
dictionary10
semantic10
database10
semantics8
html7
expressions4
api3
threejs3
uniform2
reasoner2
translation2
solaris2
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
IEMLdev/ieml
Apr 2016 - Mar 2021
IEML semantic language - a meaning-representation system based on semantic primitives and a regular grammar. Basic semantic relationships between concepts are automatically computed from syntactic similarities.
Contributions:950 commits, 523 pushes, 63 branches in 4 years 11 months
dictionarysemanticusliemlmeaning-representation
IEMLdev/ieml-dictionary
Nov 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:37 commits, 22 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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