Stéphane Aroca-ouellette
Member Of Technical Staff at University of Colorado Boulder
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolStéphane Aroca-ouellette is a PhD candidate and Member of Technical Staff who blends 11 years of software and research experience at the intersection of NLP, robotics, and embodied AI. He develops and applies deep learning and language-grounding methods—publishing at ACL, EMNLP, and AAMAS—while contributing hands-on systems work in Python, PyTorch, and TensorFlow. His background spans academic research roles at CU Boulder and Simon Fraser as well as industry engineering at Rapyuta Robotics and Skyfall AI, giving him a practical bent for moving models from lab to robot. Stéphane is particularly focused on grounding LLMs in embodiment to improve human-agent interaction, a niche that leverages both his robotics internships and point-cloud protein-analysis research. Currently based in Toronto and seeking internships in foundation models or AI research, he brings both rigorous theory and production-oriented engineering to real-world ML challenges.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Point Grey SecondaryMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of TorontoDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
French, Spanish, English
Github Skills (40)
transformers10
pytorch10
machine-learning-models10
python10
machine-learning10
inference10
multimodal10
llm10
audio10
deep-learning10
natural-language-processing10
gemma10
transformer10
speech-recognition10
nlp10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
StephAO/gym-minigrid
Sep 2021 - Feb 2023
Minimalistic gridworld package for OpenAI Gym
Contributions:2 reviews, 24 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 4 months
grid-worldopenai-gym
StephAO/simple_transformers
Apr 2023 - Oct 2024
Contributions:2 reviews, 1 PR, 46 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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