Hi, I’m Tom François—a data scientist and research software engineer at LAPP, CNRS in Annecy, France.

I hold an engineering degree in signal processing (Grenoble INP ENSE3, 2015) and a PhD in computer vision (Université Clermont Auvergne, 2021). Over the years, I have developed software for computer vision and machine learning in both private companies and public research laboratories, primarily using Python. Previously, I worked with C++11 and Matlab.

Keywords

Computer Vision • Research • Deep Learning • Software Quality • FAIR Principles

Current Roles:

• Contributor to the GammaLearn project—a deep learning framework for gamma-ray event reconstruction.
• Software engineer and data scientist at IDEFICS, supporting companies as they begin AI projects.
• Contributor to the EVERSE project, involved in WP2 and WP3.
• Contributor to OSSR.
• Developer for CodeMetaSoft.

Quick CV Summary

• 2024–Present: LAPP (CNRS)
• 2022: Senior Data Scientist at Lixo
• 2022-2023: One year world trip.
• 2017–2021: PhD in computer vision applied to medical imaging at Université Clermont Auvergne, in the EnCoV team. Funded by be-ys-research.
• 2015–2017: Software engineer, industrializing proof-of-concept projects from public research in the EnCoV lab.

Portfolio

• 2025-10-04/05: Scientific Popularization at Fête de la Science 2025 (LAPP, LAPTh, LISTIC)
• 2024-11: Cleaning study on gamma-ray event reconstruction, presented at ADASS 2024
• 2021-12: Phd thesis (in French) on theses.fr : “Contributions au recalage pour la réalité augmentée en coelioscopie de l’utérus : détection de contours sémantiques et mise à jour topologique du modèle virtuel à partir d’images peropératoires”, directed by Pr Adrien BARTOLI, supervised by Dr Lilian CALVET and Damien SABOUL.

Outside of Work

• Ultimate Frisbee: Player and coach for Dahultimate
• Hiking and birdwatching
• Board games

Contact

Work address: Laboratoire d’Annecy de Physique des Particules (LAPP), 9 Chemin de Bellevue, 74940 Annecy