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
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
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 €.
CLIP Embedding Tools
Opposite Embedding Finder and Embedding Arithmetic
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
🎯 PPO
Games (for training AI)
Snake Game
Classic snake game for AI training
Driving Game
Driving simulation for AI training
Human Sandbox
Natural Selection Simulation Engine
Star Wars - ECE World
Star Wars minigames in an open world (C++)
Maze - Asterix & Obélix
Maze game with BFS pathfinding (C + Allegro 5)
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
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❤️ 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)