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I am aresearch scientist at ONERA, the French Aerospace Lab, passionate aboutaviation, maps and data.

My research interests include Data Science, Machine Learning and Decision Science applied to aviation, with a particular focus on optimisation, anomaly and pattern detection. Applications range from air traffic management, operations, predictive maintenance, safety analyses and risk assessment.

Although my main job revolves around academic research, writing proposals andresearch papers, I consider decent software engineering, sharing among peers and with the general public, and reproducibility of results key components of my activity.

I am the author of the Python book (in French)Programmation Python avancée– Guide pour une pratique élégante et efficace (ISBN 978-2-10-086329-7),available online (2nd edition)

I am also one of the main contributors of the (hatching) bookA journey through aviation data.

I am the main developper of thetraffic library suite designed for analysing air traffic trajectory data.

and one of the initiators of thetangram platform.

It heavily relies on more libraries I contribute to:

Thefacile library is a Python binding to a research-oriented constraint satisfaction and optimisation solver originally written in OCaml. The library offers a comfortable syntax for teaching purposes. I wrote a basicblog post few years ago to explain the technicaltour de force it has been to implement a binding between two such different languages.

Available on mypersonal website

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1. kiosquekiosquePublic

   Read newspaper articles in textual format

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2. 30DayMapChallenge30DayMapChallengePublic

   Source code associated with my participation in the 2021 #30DayMapChallenge

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3. pdfrenamepdfrenamePublic

   A tool for renaming a batch of pdf files

   Python 3 1

4. font-dlfont-dlPublic

   Web fonts downloader

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5. quadtreequadtreePublic

   Quadtrees – iterate on pairs of neighbours

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