The team

TEKLIA was founded in 2014 to foster the transfer of Machine Learning and Deep Learning technology for document understanding from the research labs to the industry.

Christopher Kermorvant, Founder, AI Expert

Christopher has 20 years of experience in Machine Learning research conducted both at university and in the industry.  He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Université de Lyon-Saint-Etienne.

Bastien Abadie, Architect and Senior Developer

Bastien is specialised in backend development using open-source stacks and DevOps tools (Python, Django, Ansible, Docker). He holds a M.Eng. in Computer Science from Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Brest.

Emanuela Boros, Machine Learning Scientist

Emanuela holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University Paris-Saclay. She is specialised in Machine and Deep Learning applied to Natural Language Processing. 

Erwan Rouchet, Junior Developer

Erwan graduated in software development from Université de Lille. He is specialized in Python/Django backend development.

Mélodie Boillet, Machine Learning Engineer

Mélodie is graduating from INSA de Rouen-Normandie, specialised in Data Science and Deep Learning models for document image processing.

Marie-Laurence Bonhomme, Junior Project Manager

Marie-Laurence holds a Master in Law from Université de Paris Panthéon-Assas and a Master in Digital Humanities from Ecole Nationale des Chartes.

Martin Maarand, Machine Learning Engineer

Martin is graduating from Université Pierre et Marie Curie in DataScience and holds a Bachelor in Informatics from Tallinn University of Technology.

Valentin Rigal, Machine Learning Software Engineer

Valentin is graduating a M.Eng. in computer science and software development from INP-ENSEEIHT.

Louise Guillon, Machine Learning Engineer

Louise is graduating from AgroParisTech and Université Paris-Dauphine with a specialization in DataScience, Natural Language Processing and Information Extraction in documents.

Manon Blanco, Junior Developer

Manon is studying software development at Université Grenoble-Alpes and is specialized in backend development.

Cemil Demir, Associate Handwriting Recognition Scientist

Cemil is specialized in Speech and Handwriting recognition with statistical and Deep Learning models. He holds a Ph.D. in Speech recognition from Boğaziçi University.