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Dereck Piche

Curriculum Vitae

Academic Background

Research Master's in Computer Science, Mila & University of Montreal.

January 2024 - Today
Supervised by Aaron Courville.

Honors Bachelor's in Computer Science, University of Montreal

2021 - December 2023
Honors Thesis on Tensor Network Compositions under the supervision of Guillaume Rabusseau. Took quite a few applied math classes.

Professional Experience

Teaching Assistant at AIMS - Invited by DeepMind Researchers

Cape Town, South Africa -- April 2025
Invited by DeepMind staff to be a teaching assistant for the Science of Large Language Models summer school at the African Institute of Mathematical Sciences.

Hired Tutor at DIRO

January 2024 - April 2024
Employed by the department of computer science and operations research of the University of Montreal to help bachelor students in all their classes.

Deep Learning Engineer at GPR Geophysics

May 2023 - August 2023
Internship where I worked on a large-scale deep learning geophysics project. I also did computer graphics to contribute to the creation of synthetic data.