Vincent Quenneville-Bélair, PhD

Applied Mathematician


Experience

Machine Learning Scientist

Supply Chain Forecasting — Amazon
  • Design deep learning attention-based models to forecast product demand for supply chain optimization.

    Develop foundation forecasting model, unifying across products worldwide at multiple scales, deploying zero-shot for external partners.

2021 - Now

Machine Learning Engineer

PyTorch — Facebook AI
  • Create torchaudio library, engaging over 200 open source contributors.

  • Develop speech-to-text and text-to-speech deep learning models.

  • Integrate novel PyTorch optimizers collaborating with academic and industrial researchers.

2019 - 2021

Machine Learning Scientist

Supply Chain Forecasting and Marketing Measurement — Amazon
  • Generate long-term strategic inventory capacity forecast. Model counterfactual scenarios. Optimize supply chain expansion recommendations.

  • Build causal impact models to estimate advertising campaign lift. Infer future returns and optimize advertising portfolio.

  • Teach internal machine learning specialization course series on matrix factorization, dimensionality reduction, and recommender systems.

2017 - 2019

Chu Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics

Columbia University
  • Model gravitational wave propagation to understand black hole collisions. Create and analyze novel specialized mixed finite element methods to simulate these models numerically.

2015 - 2017

Chief Data Scientist

Vizanda
  • Develop web-based software to automatically extract information from structured and unstructured data on the fly. Process the information to programatically generate relevant visualizations and intelligent insights.

2016 - 2017

Education

PhD Applied Mathematics

University of Minnesota
  • NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship
  • FQRNT Research Scholarship
  • University of Minnesota Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship

MCS Computer Science

University of Minnesota

MSc Applied Mathematics

University of Minnesota

BSc Mathematics and Physics

McGill University

Hiking


  • Arches

  • Grand Teton

  • Mount Mansfield

  • Boundary Waters