Martial Michel, PhD
Full-Stack Infrastructure & Solutions Architect ❖ DevSecOps / Cloud / HPC / CV / ML / NLP ❖ Executive / Researcher / Technology Evangelist ❖ US Citizen
Professional Experience
Chief Technologist, Vice-President Artificial Intelligence & Data Sciences
Infotrend Inc. | 2022.10 – Present
❖ Supported Agencies: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
❖ Skills: Executive Team · Technology Leadership · Blockchain · Cloud Computing · Computer Vision · Cryptocurrency · DevOps · Docker · E-Discovery · Machine Learning · OpenStack · PyTorch · TensorFlow
Infotrend Inc. | 2022.10 – Present
❖ Supported Agencies: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
❖ Skills: Executive Team · Technology Leadership · Blockchain · Cloud Computing · Computer Vision · Cryptocurrency · DevOps · Docker · E-Discovery · Machine Learning · OpenStack · PyTorch · TensorFlow
Chief Scientific Officer
Data Machines | 2017.08 – 2022.10
❖ Short list of Supported Agencies: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), US Army, National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST), National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
❖ Short list of Supported Programs: DARPA Media Forensics (MediFor), DARPA Data-Driven Discovery of Models (D3M), DARPA Prototype Resilient Operations Testbed for Expeditionary Urban Scenarios (PROTEUS), US Army Next-Generation Biometric Collection Capability (NXGBCC), NIST Analytics Container Environment (ACE), Principal Investigator: DARPA Competency-Aware Machine Learning (CAML).
❖ Co-chair: Open Research Cloud · IEEE P2302 Standard for Intercloud Interoperability and Federation (SIIF) · NIST Public Working Group on Federated Cloud (PWGFC), Conceptual Model
❖ Director of Scientific Computing from Aug 2017 to Oct 2018
❖ Skills: Architecture · Biometrics · C Suite · Computer Vision · Cloud Computing · DevSecOps · Docker · GIS Applications · Infrastructure · Kubernetes · Machine Learning · OpenStack · PyTorch · TensorFlow
Data Machines | 2017.08 – 2022.10
❖ Short list of Supported Agencies: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), US Army, National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST), National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
❖ Short list of Supported Programs: DARPA Media Forensics (MediFor), DARPA Data-Driven Discovery of Models (D3M), DARPA Prototype Resilient Operations Testbed for Expeditionary Urban Scenarios (PROTEUS), US Army Next-Generation Biometric Collection Capability (NXGBCC), NIST Analytics Container Environment (ACE), Principal Investigator: DARPA Competency-Aware Machine Learning (CAML).
❖ Co-chair: Open Research Cloud · IEEE P2302 Standard for Intercloud Interoperability and Federation (SIIF) · NIST Public Working Group on Federated Cloud (PWGFC), Conceptual Model
❖ Director of Scientific Computing from Aug 2017 to Oct 2018
❖ Skills: Architecture · Biometrics · C Suite · Computer Vision · Cloud Computing · DevSecOps · Docker · GIS Applications · Infrastructure · Kubernetes · Machine Learning · OpenStack · PyTorch · TensorFlow
Federal Employee: Computer Scientist, Supervisor (2013-2017) ❖ Contractor: Systems Plus, Inc (2001-2013) ❖ Guest Researcher (1997-2001)
National Institute of Standards and Technology | 1997.04 – 2017.08
❖ NIST's Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) Information Access Division (IAD) Multimodal Information Group (MIG)
❖ Short list of Supported projects as Federal Employee (Computer Scientist, Supervisor, 2013-2017): MIG's Evaluation Management System's OpenStack deployment (2013-2017) · DARPA's Data-Driven Discovery of Models (D3M) · IARPA's Machine Translation for English Retrieval of Information in Any Language (MATERIAL) (2016-2017) · DARPA's Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents (LORELEI) (2016-2017) · Strategic and Emerging Research Initiatives (SERI) Award (2015-2017) · National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI) effort (2015-2017) · TRECVID Surveillance Event Detection (SED) (2013-2017) · TRECVID Multimedia Event Detection (MED) (2013-2016) · IARPA's BABEL (2013-2016) · Open Keyword Search (2013-2016) · IARPA's ALADDIN (2013-2015) · Integrated Clinical Environment (ICE) team (2013-2015) working in collaboration with the Closed Loop Healthcare SmartAmerica Team · Video Tracking Analytics for Physical Security (VTAPS) (2013-2014)
❖ Short list of Supported projects as Systems Plus, Inc. Contractor (Senior Solutions Architect · Subject Matter Expert · Research Scientist · Project Manager · Manager, 2001-2013): Manager of the Systems Plus team at NIST & Business Development (2007-2013) ❖ IARPA's BABEL's Scoring Server (2011-2013) • TRECVid's Surveillance Event Detection (SED) & Multimedia Event Detection (MED) Evaluations (2010-2013) • AVSS Multiple Camera Person Tracking Challenge Evaluation (2008-2010) · CLassification of Events, Activities and Relationships (CLEAR) Evaluation (2007-2009) • Lead Engineer of the NIST Meeting Recognition Project (2001-2008) • Software Architect of the NIST Smart Space's NIST Smart Data Flow System
(version 1) (2001-2004) • System Administrator (2001-2009) ❖ "Technology Think Tank" (T3) Award [2012]
❖ Guest Researcher (1997-2001): Principal Developer on Message Passing Interface (MPI) marshaling tools (PhD Subject)
❖ Skills: Computer Vision · Data Science · DevOps · Docker · Machine Learning · Natural Language Processing · OpenStack· Program Management · Video Analytics
National Institute of Standards and Technology | 1997.04 – 2017.08
❖ NIST's Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) Information Access Division (IAD) Multimodal Information Group (MIG)
❖ Short list of Supported projects as Federal Employee (Computer Scientist, Supervisor, 2013-2017): MIG's Evaluation Management System's OpenStack deployment (2013-2017) · DARPA's Data-Driven Discovery of Models (D3M) · IARPA's Machine Translation for English Retrieval of Information in Any Language (MATERIAL) (2016-2017) · DARPA's Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents (LORELEI) (2016-2017) · Strategic and Emerging Research Initiatives (SERI) Award (2015-2017) · National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI) effort (2015-2017) · TRECVID Surveillance Event Detection (SED) (2013-2017) · TRECVID Multimedia Event Detection (MED) (2013-2016) · IARPA's BABEL (2013-2016) · Open Keyword Search (2013-2016) · IARPA's ALADDIN (2013-2015) · Integrated Clinical Environment (ICE) team (2013-2015) working in collaboration with the Closed Loop Healthcare SmartAmerica Team · Video Tracking Analytics for Physical Security (VTAPS) (2013-2014)
❖ Short list of Supported projects as Systems Plus, Inc. Contractor (Senior Solutions Architect · Subject Matter Expert · Research Scientist · Project Manager · Manager, 2001-2013): Manager of the Systems Plus team at NIST & Business Development (2007-2013) ❖ IARPA's BABEL's Scoring Server (2011-2013) • TRECVid's Surveillance Event Detection (SED) & Multimedia Event Detection (MED) Evaluations (2010-2013) • AVSS Multiple Camera Person Tracking Challenge Evaluation (2008-2010) · CLassification of Events, Activities and Relationships (CLEAR) Evaluation (2007-2009) • Lead Engineer of the NIST Meeting Recognition Project (2001-2008) • Software Architect of the NIST Smart Space's NIST Smart Data Flow System
(version 1) (2001-2004) • System Administrator (2001-2009) ❖ "Technology Think Tank" (T3) Award [2012]
❖ Guest Researcher (1997-2001): Principal Developer on Message Passing Interface (MPI) marshaling tools (PhD Subject)
❖ Skills: Computer Vision · Data Science · DevOps · Docker · Machine Learning · Natural Language Processing · OpenStack· Program Management · Video Analytics
Education
PhD — High-Performance Computing and Networks
Université Henri Poincaré | 1996.09 – 2021.10
❖ "Thèse en Informatique" (Ph.D. in Computer Science), Université Henri Poincaré, Résédas Research Group, LORIA, Nancy, France. ❖ A "Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies" (DEA), the prerequisite for the "Thèse", was done in the same research group from 1996 to 1997 ❖ Ph.D. Dissertation on transferring dynamic data types using Message Passing Interface (MPI) ❖ Specialization in High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Networks ❖ Research performed with the NIST position.
Université Henri Poincaré | 1996.09 – 2021.10
❖ "Thèse en Informatique" (Ph.D. in Computer Science), Université Henri Poincaré, Résédas Research Group, LORIA, Nancy, France. ❖ A "Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies" (DEA), the prerequisite for the "Thèse", was done in the same research group from 1996 to 1997 ❖ Ph.D. Dissertation on transferring dynamic data types using Message Passing Interface (MPI) ❖ Specialization in High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Networks ❖ Research performed with the NIST position.
Master's Degree — Systems and Networks
ESIAL (now Telecom Nancy) | 1994.09 – 1997.09
❖ “Diplôme d'Ingénieur en Informatique" (Master's Degree in Computer Science), Ecole Supérieure d'Informatique et Applications de Lorraine (ESIAL) (renamed "Telecom Nancy" in 2012), in Nancy, France (1995-1997). Emphasis on systems and networks.
ESIAL (now Telecom Nancy) | 1994.09 – 1997.09
❖ “Diplôme d'Ingénieur en Informatique" (Master's Degree in Computer Science), Ecole Supérieure d'Informatique et Applications de Lorraine (ESIAL) (renamed "Telecom Nancy" in 2012), in Nancy, France (1995-1997). Emphasis on systems and networks.
Baccalauréat — Electronics
Lycée de la Communication (Metz, France) | Graduated 1992
❖ Emphasis on Electronics. Graduated with honors.
Lycée de la Communication (Metz, France) | Graduated 1992
❖ Emphasis on Electronics. Graduated with honors.
Short List of Publications/Presentations
The IEEE 2302-2021 Standard on Intercloud Interoperability and Federation
IEEE Computer Society's Cloud Continuum (VOL. 2 • NO. 1 • 2022)
🔗 https://www.computer.org/publications/cloud-continuum/current-issue
IEEE Computer Society's Cloud Continuum (VOL. 2 • NO. 1 • 2022)
🔗 https://www.computer.org/publications/cloud-continuum/current-issue
Standards for Cloud Federation
IEEE Standards Activities Board Webinar (2021.03)
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy2UIu8QfGw
IEEE Standards Activities Board Webinar (2021.03)
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy2UIu8QfGw
Enabling GPU-Enhanced Computer Vision and Machine Learning Research Using Containers
High-Performance Computing - ISC High-Performance 2019 International Workshops, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 11887 (2019.12)
🔗 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-34356-9_8
High-Performance Computing - ISC High-Performance 2019 International Workshops, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 11887 (2019.12)
🔗 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-34356-9_8
Open Source Private Cloud Platforms for Big Data
Big Data Analytics for Sensor-Network Collected Intelligence (2017.02)
🔗 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128093931000039
Big Data Analytics for Sensor-Network Collected Intelligence (2017.02)
🔗 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128093931000039
Trecvid 2017: Evaluating ad-hoc and instance video search, events detection, video captioning and hyperlinking
Proceedings of TRECVID 2017 (2017.11)
🔗 https://www-nlpir.nist.gov/projects/tvpubs/tv17.papers/tv17overview.pdf
Proceedings of TRECVID 2017 (2017.11)
🔗 https://www-nlpir.nist.gov/projects/tvpubs/tv17.papers/tv17overview.pdf
A new data science research program: evaluation, metrology, standards, and community outreach
International Journal of Data Science and Analytics (2016.08)
🔗 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41060-016-0016-z
International Journal of Data Science and Analytics (2016.08)
🔗 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41060-016-0016-z
Creating HAVIC: Heterogeneous Audio Visual Internet Collection
Proceedings of the International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC) 2012 (2012.05)
🔗 http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/summaries/885.html
Proceedings of the International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC) 2012 (2012.05)
🔗 http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/summaries/885.html
The NIST Meeting Room Pilot Corpus
Proceedings of the International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2004 (2004.09)
· NIST Meeting Pilot Corpus Speech: ISBN: 1-58563-302-x
· NIST Meeting Pilot Corpus Transcripts and Metadata: ISBN: 1-58563-303-8
🔗 http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2004/pdf/137.pdf
Proceedings of the International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2004 (2004.09)
· NIST Meeting Pilot Corpus Speech: ISBN: 1-58563-302-x
· NIST Meeting Pilot Corpus Transcripts and Metadata: ISBN: 1-58563-303-8
🔗 http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2004/pdf/137.pdf
Worked in the distributed computing field for over 25 years, starting with designing data serialization algorithms for MPI (PhD subject), time synchronizing multimedia network streams collected using commercial-off-the-shelf hardware, developing a job scheduler, architecting data-driven research evaluation platforms, and conceiving and leading the team building an agnostic benchmarking model to allow researchers to bring their algorithms to specialized datasets.
❖ Passionate about teaching and mentoring others in the fields I have been fortunate to work in, be it Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Architecture and Infrastructure, Project Management, Growth mindset, ...
❖ Technology Evangelist and enthusiast (self-hosting, coding, etc.), hacker, researcher, team lead, and Open Source developer since 1998.
❖ Passionate about teaching and mentoring others in the fields I have been fortunate to work in, be it Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Architecture and Infrastructure, Project Management, Growth mindset, ...
❖ Technology Evangelist and enthusiast (self-hosting, coding, etc.), hacker, researcher, team lead, and Open Source developer since 1998.
mmartial - open-source code and studies
Auxiliary Professional Highlights
American Council for Technology - Industry Advisory Council (ACT-IAC)
Emerging Technology Community of Interest Program Chair
🔗 actiac.org/ - 2023.08-Present
Emerging Technology Community of Interest Program Chair
🔗 actiac.org/ - 2023.08-Present
OpenStack
Scientific Special Interest Group co-chair for North America
🔗 openstack.org/wiki/Scientific_SIG - 2016.10-Present
Scientific Special Interest Group co-chair for North America
🔗 openstack.org/wiki/Scientific_SIG - 2016.10-Present
CUDA TensorFlow PyTorch OpenCV
Main Developer -
🔗 GitHub: Infotrend-Inc/CTPO - 2023 – Present
🔗 GitHub: datamachines/cuda_tensorflow_opencv - 2019 – 2022
Main Developer -
Dockerfile
s with CPU and CUDA builds for ML/CV research based on nvidia/cuda
and Ubuntu
container images.🔗 GitHub: Infotrend-Inc/CTPO - 2023 – Present
🔗 GitHub: datamachines/cuda_tensorflow_opencv - 2019 – 2022
OpenAI WebUI
Main Developer - WebUI to ChatGPT and Dall-E's API (requires a valid OpenAI API key)
🔗 GitHub: Infotrend-Inc/OpenAI_WebUI
Main Developer - WebUI to ChatGPT and Dall-E's API (requires a valid OpenAI API key)
🔗 GitHub: Infotrend-Inc/OpenAI_WebUI
IEEE 2302-2021
Standard for Intercloud Interoperability and Federation (vice-chair)
🔗 standards.ieee.org/ieee/2302/7056/ - Published 2022.03
Standard for Intercloud Interoperability and Federation (vice-chair)
🔗 standards.ieee.org/ieee/2302/7056/ - Published 2022.03
NIST SP 500-332
The NIST Cloud Federation Reference Architecture
🔗 nist.gov/publications/nist-cloud-federation-reference-architecture-0 - Published: 2020.02
The NIST Cloud Federation Reference Architecture
🔗 nist.gov/publications/nist-cloud-federation-reference-architecture-0 - Published: 2020.02
Bronze Medal Award for Superior Federal Service
"For development of novel evaluation frameworks, metrics and datasets supporting foundational research in video analytics and video search”
🔗 nist.gov/news-events/news/2015/12/national-institute-standards-and-technology-presents-2015-awards - 2015.12
"For development of novel evaluation frameworks, metrics and datasets supporting foundational research in video analytics and video search”
🔗 nist.gov/news-events/news/2015/12/national-institute-standards-and-technology-presents-2015-awards - 2015.12
Skills
❖ Biometrics
❖ Cloud Computing
❖ Computer Vision (CV)
❖ Data Science
❖ DevSecOps
❖ High-Performance Computing (HPC)
❖ Machine Learning (ML)
❖ Natural Language Processing (NLP)
❖ Cloud Computing
❖ Computer Vision (CV)
❖ Data Science
❖ DevSecOps
❖ High-Performance Computing (HPC)
❖ Machine Learning (ML)
❖ Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Knowledge/Stacks
❖ Cloud: OpenStack, Docker, Ansible, Vagrant, Terraform, k8s, AWS, GCP, Azure, …
❖ OS/Infra: Linux, macOS, misc SMP, MPI, GPU, Nvidia Jetson, Intel Xeon Phi, Raspberry Pi, Compiler-Compiler, …
❖ Coding: Python, Go, Perl, C/C++, bash, Git, SQL/NoSQL/Graph, LaTeX, …
❖ Research Stack: OpenCV, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, spaCy, pandas, …
❖ Leadership: NIST's New Leader Program (Class 15, 2017) • Project Management and Leadership Program (Class II, 2014)
❖ OpenSource Dev: JobRunner (creator, 2010-2017) • F4DE (2008-2017) • eBayAgent (2001-2007) • keychain (2002) • NetComics (1999-2006) • Dead Link Check (creator, 1999) • Public Bookmark Generator (creator, 1998-2001)
❖ Publications/Presentations: 🔗 linkedin.com • 🔗 ResearchGate
Languages
English -Professional
French - Professional
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