Thibault GAREL's Portfolio
Hi! My name is Thibault GAREL
I am currently in my 4th year at ECE, an engineering school, where I am pursuing a Major in Data & AI.
Since 2023, I've been building personal projects mostly on AI 🤖.
Intelligence Lab🎓 Academic Background
⭐ École Polytechnique
M2 Data Science · Applied Mathematics & Statistics
🎓 ECE Paris · 4th Year
Paris Campus · taught in English
Joined the Intelligence Lab to pursue my AI research goal
🏴 ECE Lyon · 3rd Year
Sep - Dec 2024 · Edinburgh Napier University
R&D · Game Engineering with AI · 3D Modelling
💡 ECE Lyon · 2nd Year
Discovered AI on my own - chose it over astrophysics
First personal project: a NN library in C, fully from scratch
My dogma since: build everything from scratch with rock-solid theory
(maths, physics...) to grasp every cog, then study & master others' work
🏆 ECE Lyon · 1st Year
Preparatory classes · 🏆 Top 1 student / Valedictorian at ECE Lyon
📜 High School Diploma · European Section
La Xavière, Lyon
💼 Professional Experience
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🔬 AI Research Intern
Greater Paris · On-site · R&D internship
NLP & Named Entity Recognition on low-resource domains
(programming languages, medical corpora, technical docs)
Goal: robust methods aimed at a scientific publication
🧠 AI Maker
Greater Paris
AI hackathons: fast prototyping under time constraints
Authored advanced AI training content
R&D on new AI architectures
🏭 AI Engineer Intern
Lyon, France · On-site
Studied, mapped & experimented with AI tools to optimize
their usage and foster AI knowledge across the company
⚙️ Embedded Software Engineer Intern
Lyon, France · On-site · Autonomous Coding Project
Reorganized & simplified the embedded codebase
→ 20-30% improvement in battery autonomy
👉 See all my professional experience on LinkedIn
✨ Featured Projects
Research paper
OPENER Paper
Open NER from pre-trained bricks. 40.1 AMI e2e, 39.5 zero-shot.
OPENER Models
opener-zs and opener-sup, ready to use from the HF Hub.
OPENER Code
Full pipeline and the 13-dataset benchmark on quality, latency, energy.
Generative AI
Image Generator - GAN
Generative Adversarial Network built from scratch for image generation
Language Models
Bigram & Transformer Models coded from scratch
RAG - PDF ChatBot
Retrieval Augmented Generation - A chatbot that reads PDFs
CLIP Embedding Tools
Opposite Embedding Finder and Embedding Arithmetic
Fine-tuning LoRA Stable Diffusion
Fine-tuning Stable Diffusion 1.5 with LoRA on 15 hand-drawn chibi self-portraits. Trained on RunPod for under 1 €.
Neural Networks
Reinforcement Learning
🌳 Decision Tree
🧬 Genetic Algorithm
Snake AI - Genetic Algorithm
Snake game AI using genetic algorithms
Driving AI - Genetic Algorithm
Self-driving car using genetic algorithms
Walking AI - Genetic Algorithm
AI learning to walk with complete physics engine (Box2D)
📈 Q-Learning
Q-Learning Pathfinding
Q-Learning algorithm to find optimal paths
Driving AI - Deep Q-Learning
Self-driving car using Deep Q-Learning
Snake AI - Deep Q-Learning
Snake game AI using Deep Q-Learning
🎯 PPO
Games (for training AI)
Maze - Asterix & Obélix
Maze game with BFS pathfinding (C + Allegro 5)
Star Wars - ECE World
Star Wars minigames in an open world (C++)
Snake Game
Classic snake game for AI training
Driving Game
Driving simulation for AI training
Human Sandbox
Natural Selection Simulation Engine
Physics Simulation
Gravity Simulation 2D
2D gravity and orbital mechanics simulation
Attraction/Repulsion Simulation
Particle attraction and repulsion physics
2D Muscular Simulation
2D muscular physics simulation with Box2D
Gravity & Relativity
Newton vs General Relativity (Schwarzschild): Mercury precession, light deflection
Applied AI Workflows
👥 Group Projects
Hackathon with the CND🏆 3rd / 15 schools
AI system to detect anomalies and breakdowns in French army logs
📅 November 18-20, 2025 • 4th year
PPE - Smart Contract AI Analysis
LLM benchmarking & LoRA fine-tuning for Solidity smart contract vulnerability analysis
📅 2024 - 2025 • 3rd - 4th year
Resilient AI Challenge
International AI competition on resilient and sustainable AI systems
📅 2025 • 4th year
🛠️ Skills & Tools
Languages
Python
C
C++
SQL
Java
BashWeb
HTML5
CSS3
PHP
JavaScript
Next.js
VercelAI / ML
PyTorch
TensorFlow
scikit-learn
NumPy
Pandas
LangChainVisualization
Matplotlib
Excel
Power BI
Streamlit
PygameDev Tools
VS Code
GitHub
Git
Ollama
n8n
JupyterHardware
CUDA
Raspberry Pi
Arduino
ESP32
Linux
Docker🌍 Languages
• 🇫🇷 French (Native)
• 🇬🇧 English (Advanced) - TOEIC 815 pts
🚗 Driving License
• Category B
📊 My GitHub Statistics
❤️ Hobbies
♟️ Chess - My Chess.com Profile
🤺 Sport
2-3 times per week: Fencing, Swimming, Tennis & Weight training
🎨 Drawing
Watercolor, Inking & Digital painting (one-year evening course at École Émile Cohl)