Pierre-Louis Blossier

Experience

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  Gendarmerie Nationale

  Nov 2016 - Apr 2017

  App Development Manager | French National Gendarmerie staff Intern

  Internship during the first year at Polytechnique to discover the military world and to see French society from a new point of view :- Coded and implemented an Android and iOS mobile app to alert professionals by Push notifications and its web administrator interface- Restructured the way results from different services are presented to the commanding officer for the annual action plan follow-up: creation of new KPIs and of the dashboard (activity, results, finance…)- Modernized the real estate management by implementing a database and teaching new work habits- Participated in the action of the Gendarmerie (roadside checks, scientific police, terrorism prevention…) Show less

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  STMicroelectronics

  Jun 2018 - Aug 2018

  Error Model Learning for Calibration | Research intern

  Internship for the second year of Polytechnique:- Created a Matlab model of real unary and binary Digital-to-Analog Convertors- Developed algorithms (adaptative filtering) for the online estimation of errors and calibration by predistortion of Digital-to-Analog Converters and RF amplifiers

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  Safran

  Apr 2019 - Jul 2019

  Sensor Fusion & Filtering | Navigation Intern

  Internship for the third year of Polytechnique:- Evaluated and critiqued several state-of-the-art algorithms for outlier detection in sensor data- Formulated an analytical criterion to prevent bias during measurements selection- Proposed new GPS breakdown detection algorithms for autonomous systems- Upgraded code with robust sensor fusion (odometry, GPS, IMU) for inertial navigation in autonomous car

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  Zendar

  Aug 2019 - now

  - Responsible for the creation of a new R&D office for Zendar in Paris (recruitment of 8 employees, administrative, team leadership, logistical aspects, management of remote communication with other offices)- Hiring Manager, in-house and with an external recruiter, of researchers, software engineers (multi-platform HPC real-time CUDA/C++, python, etc.) and HR coordinator for the Paris office- Project manager (8 people in 3 different offices - Germany, France, US ) and technical lead for R&D in signal processing and the development of DAR (Distributed Aperture Radar) technology.- Technical relations with customers and partners, exhibitor at CES 2024 Show less - Project lead for the development (concept/research/prototyping/deployment/test) of radar SLAM algorithms: multi-radar odometry, range-doppler integration with ego-motion compensation for improving the resolution and probability of detection of a radar system.- Technical lead for the development and deployment of range-doppler processing algorithms and pipelines (from raw radar signal to poind cloud extraction)- Development of algorithms for the early fusion of loosely synchronized radars in order to increase the resolution of the final multi-radar system (Distributed Aperture Radar)- Lead technical interviews to recruit talents and grow the team- Mentoring a Capstone Project (one year, 4 master students) with UC Berkeley on camera-radar fusion Show less - Develop new cutting-edge radar functionalities: theoretical research, prototyping new algorithms for validation, efficient and real-time implementation in CUDA C++, in-car testing and data analysis to quantify quality performance and propose next direction of research- Develop point cloud processing for high-precision radar (multi-target Direction of Arrival estimation, range-doppler processing, MIMO processing, sparse array) and automotive SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) images- Q2 2021 goal owner to make MIMO the production operating mode of the radar, leading a team of 4 people- Recruited and mentored an intern to develop occupancy grid algorithms Show less

  • Research Engineering Manager - Paris R&D Site Lead

    Mar 2024 - now

  • Lead Research Engineer - Paris R&D Site Founder

    Sept 2022 - Feb 2024

  • Senior Research Engineer

    Nov 2021 - Sept 2022

  • Research Engineer

    Aug 2020 - Nov 2021

  • Research Intern

    Jun 2020 - Aug 2020

  • Team Leader & Software Engineer | Capstone Project

    Aug 2019 - May 2020