PhD Computer Science2026 / FR

Jérémy Laviole

AI Engineering Lead

I build generative AI systems.We put it to real use.

Now: R&D Engineer, CATIE — leads client projects end to end, from pre-sales to delivery · HCI and generative AI
Before: Founder & Managing Director, RealityTech · PhD Internship, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA
Open to: Staff / Principal AI Engineer — or Engineering Manager · Head of AI, leading leads and experts

FIG. 01 — Structured light scan

Gray-code fringes, rows then columns, reveal the relief; the scan becomes a point cloud.

Selected systems

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Data analysis

Home-automation and physiological sensors: data structuring, algorithmic and LLM-based analysis, habit modeling, and custom interactive visualizations.

Built the database from the sensors; qualified the state of the systems.
Consolidated the data and extracted information with LLMs.
Produced interactive visualizations: analysis tools, plus custom-built designs.

2025—2026 · AI / SENSOR DATA

Client project

FIG. 03Data pipeline

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Spatial augmented reality product

Projector, camera and depth camera, with calibration software and an AR application framework: taken from PhD research to market for university customers.

Product: fab-lab-grade hardware (projector, camera, depth camera), calibration software and a framework for building AR applications; designed, then taken through manufacturing and production.
Market and communication: market research; exhibited at the Petit Palais, Paris (2011), Cap Sciences (2012) and Laval Virtual (2015, 2018) — research invitation and startup booth.
Team and funding: one employee, freelancers and interns; digital innovation funding from Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine.

2011—2020 · AR / HARDWARE + SOFTWARE

RealityTech — Devices sold to universities · still in CATIE demos, 2026

FIG. 08Projector-camera loop

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Generative AI course

Adoption course, backed by a public state-of-the-art site.

Built a site on generative AI: development, content created through deep research, and curation.
Designed a course on generative AI, delivered in two half-day sessions.

2026 · AI / COURSE

CATIE — public site, in French

action ×39
agent ×98
benchmark ×81
code ×92
compétence ×14
gain ×19
génération ×74
genie ×33
humain ×37
model ×33
modèle ×154
monde ×32
risque ×24
source ×69
technologique ×17
vérification ×14
vla ×34
world ×36

FIG. 04Term frequency

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Full-stack web applications in Rails

Three Ruby on Rails applications carried end to end: Peac²h, the team’s platform; a management and time-tracking tool alongside Dolibarr; a SaaS automotive CRM for a startup.

Peac²h: implementation and project management, with an apprentice, then a junior engineer.
Dolibarr: deployed the ERP for CATIE; built a Rails extension for time tracking and project management.
Automotive CRM: from client requirements to a SaaS platform.

2019— · WEB / RAILS / SAAS

Peac²h: in use across CATIE projects · CRM: RealityTech engagement, retired

FIG. 05Application stack

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Mobile app for image generation

Smartphone web application backed by custom ComfyUI workflows, on diffusion models.

Mobile app design: UI from mockup to pre-industrial prototype.
Software architecture: technical choices and validation.
Generative AI: image analysis, image generation and face swaps with ComfyUI.

2024 · AI SYSTEMS / DIFFUSION

Confidential client

Figure 02 — reverse diffusion: twenty sampling steps, from noise to a black-and-white photograph of a Moorish palace arcade. — FIG. 02Reverse diffusion

Experience

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2020—present

R&D Engineer

CATIE · Human-Centered Systems team

Lead client projects end to end: pre-sales, project scoping, coordination, strategic decisions, resource tracking and delivery. Supervise one engineer and one apprentice.
Deliver client projects and internal R&D: HCI, data visualization, virtual reality, server administration.
Work on code compilation, translation and performance: ported a physiological simulation from Python to Rust to run in the browser.
Develop in Ruby on Rails: Peac²h, the team’s platform, and a management and time-tracking web app (UX, design, code) alongside the Dolibarr ERP.
Build generative AI systems: agents for document generation and everyday productivity, LLM-based data analysis, image generation, speech pipelines.
Benchmark local and frontier models, then take them to production.
Created a course on generative AI adoption and its public state-of-the-art site.

2016—2020

Founder & Managing Director

RealityTech · Spatial augmented reality

Founded the company to industrialize the results of my PhD; completed the La Banquiz startup program.
Designed the hardware (fab-lab grade) and software product; took it through manufacturing, production and market release for university customers.
Hired and managed the team: one employee, freelancers and interns. Secured digital innovation funding from Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Ran market research, trade shows and communication.
Delivered a web engagement: a SaaS automotive CRM in Ruby on Rails for a startup.

2013—2016

Research Engineer

Université de Bordeaux / Inria

Stabilized and industrialized the software written during the PhD.

Java · OpenGL · OpenCV · Processing · Git · Jenkins

plan · 2005
Set out for computer science, Image & Sound track.
checkpoint · 2008
Earned a Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Université de Bordeaux, with distinction; won the Isabelle Attali Excellence Award.
checkpoint · 2010
Earned a Master’s in Computer Science, Université de Bordeaux, with distinction.
permission_request · 2010 · granted
Admitted to a PhD program, Université de Bordeaux / Inria.
tool_call · 2010—2013
Researched spatial augmented reality: projected interfaces, physical interaction. Taught at bachelor, master and engineering-school level.
remote_call · 2012
PhD Internship, Microsoft Research, Technology Policy Group, Redmond, WA, USA — three months.
checkpoint · 2013
Completed a PhD in Computer Science.
tool_call · 2013—2016
Stabilized and industrialized the PhD software as a research engineer.
decision · 2016
Chose to industrialize the PhD results in a company.
spawn · 2016—2020
Founded RealityTech and ran it for four years.
tool_call · 2016—2020
Designed the hardware and software product; took it through manufacturing to market.
tool_call · 2016—2020
Hired and managed the team.
permission_request · ∈ 2016—2020 · granted
Secured digital innovation funding, Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
error · 2017—2019
Market mismatch: spatial AR stayed a niche — too expensive for games and education, a startup not solid enough to address industry, and marketing uses already covered by competitors.
exit · 2020
Closed RealityTech after the last client delivery; offered the employee a negotiated departure with a bonus.
context_switch · 2020—
Joined CATIE as R&D Engineer, Human-Centered Systems team.
tool_call · 2020—2023
Built Peac²h, the team’s Ruby on Rails platform, with an apprentice, then a junior engineer.
tool_call · 2023—
Deployed the Dolibarr ERP for CATIE; built a Ruby on Rails extension for time tracking and project management.
model_update · 2022
tools += llm, agents, diffusion, speech
model_update · 2023
tools += figma, docker
tool_call · 2024
Shipped a mobile app for image generation, for a confidential client.
tool_call · 2025
Built a multi-backend speech pipeline; created a generative AI course and its public site.
model_update · 2026
tools += rust, go, agents # ai-assisted
await · 2026 · pending
Next: AI Engineering Lead.

FIG. 07 — Execution trace

The path replayed as an agent run, written out step by step. Move the cursor to go back in time.

Skills

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FIG. 06 — Tooling map

Languages and tools, by pole. Point at a pole, or tap it, to expand it.

AIProjects shipped with AI assistance

[01]Technical leadership

Pre-sales and project scoping
Requirements gathering
Client relations
User experience (UX)
UI prototyping
Hiring and management
Project management
Public funding

[02]Generative AI

Agents
LLMs, local and frontier
Model benchmarking
Speech-to-text / text-to-speech
Diffusion models, ComfyUI
AI course design

[03]Web applications

Ruby on Rails
Full-stack SaaS
HTML / CSS / JavaScript
Mobile web

[04]Architecture & data

Software architecture
Database modeling and performance
Migrations, data volume
Linux / DevOps

[05]Security & integration

OAuth 2.0
Access control
Backup and recovery
ERP integration (Dolibarr)

[06]Vision & interfaces

Spatial augmented reality
Computer vision
OpenCV / OpenGL
Calibration, real-time rendering

Education

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2010—2013

PhD in Computer Science

Université de Bordeaux / Inria

Spatial augmented reality: projected interfaces and physical interaction. Taught at bachelor, master and engineering-school level.

Thesis: Spatial augmented reality for physical drawing

PhD Internship 2012, 3 months — Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA (USA)

2005—2010

Master’s in Computer Science

Université de Bordeaux

Image & Sound track, with distinction.

Isabelle Attali Excellence Award — Bachelor’s, third year

About

Trained as a developer, I moved into research and innovation with a PhD in spatial augmented reality. RealityTech widened the scope: running a company, hiring, sales, communication. At CATIE I grew the human side — the place of people in technology, interface design, writing and leading projects and corporate R&D.

Generative AI has changed my job: from developer to manager of AI agents. That shift excites me, and I want to put it to work in a senior hands-on role or a management one — as the expert, or leading the leads and experts.

Languages: French (native) · English (Full professional proficiency)
Based in: Bordeaux area, France · hybrid · Paris possible · full remote for international companies

plan · 2005
Set out for computer science, Image & Sound track.
checkpoint · 2008
Earned a Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Université de Bordeaux, with distinction; won the Isabelle Attali Excellence Award.
checkpoint · 2010
Earned a Master’s in Computer Science, Université de Bordeaux, with distinction.
permission_request · 2010 · granted
Admitted to a PhD program, Université de Bordeaux / Inria.
tool_call · 2010—2013
Researched spatial augmented reality: projected interfaces, physical interaction. Taught at bachelor, master and engineering-school level.
remote_call · 2012
PhD Internship, Microsoft Research, Technology Policy Group, Redmond, WA, USA — three months.
checkpoint · 2013
Completed a PhD in Computer Science.
tool_call · 2013—2016
Stabilized and industrialized the PhD software as a research engineer.
decision · 2016
Chose to industrialize the PhD results in a company.
spawn · 2016—2020
Founded RealityTech and ran it for four years.
tool_call · 2016—2020
Designed the hardware and software product; took it through manufacturing to market.
tool_call · 2016—2020
Hired and managed the team.
permission_request · ∈ 2016—2020 · granted
Secured digital innovation funding, Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
error · 2017—2019
Market mismatch: spatial AR stayed a niche — too expensive for games and education, a startup not solid enough to address industry, and marketing uses already covered by competitors.
exit · 2020
Closed RealityTech after the last client delivery; offered the employee a negotiated departure with a bonus.
context_switch · 2020—
Joined CATIE as R&D Engineer, Human-Centered Systems team.
tool_call · 2020—2023
Built Peac²h, the team’s Ruby on Rails platform, with an apprentice, then a junior engineer.
tool_call · 2023—
Deployed the Dolibarr ERP for CATIE; built a Ruby on Rails extension for time tracking and project management.
model_update · 2022
tools += llm, agents, diffusion, speech
model_update · 2023
tools += figma, docker
tool_call · 2024
Shipped a mobile app for image generation, for a confidential client.
tool_call · 2025
Built a multi-backend speech pipeline; created a generative AI course and its public site.
model_update · 2026
tools += rust, go, agents # ai-assisted
await · 2026 · pending
Next: AI Engineering Lead.