Sylvain Marchienne

Sylvain Marchienne

Senior Software Engineer, AI/ML

San Francisco, California

Building personalized, production-ready AI experiences.

Who am I?

My name is Sylvain Marchienne. I am a Senior Software Engineer in Machine Learning, focused on building useful AI features from model design to production systems. I work at the intersection of machine learning, product engineering, and user experience, with a particular interest in personalization, recommendation, content understanding, and safe generative AI.

Experience

I currently work at Apple on Machine Learning and Generative AI for Photos, developing on-device curation, recommendation, filtering, and personalized content generation systems. My work spans ranking and scaling content in large photo collections, LLM-powered user-query understanding, content summarization, and safety systems for generated experiences.

Previously, I was a Machine Learning Engineer at Dashlane, where I owned real-time NLP and web form classification models for Autofill, serving more than 15 million users. Before that, I worked on video highlight detection and automatic editing at GoPro, and on explainable time-series prediction for urban waste collection at craft ai.

I hold an M.S. in Computer Science with a Machine Learning concentration from Georgia Institute of Technology, and B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science with a Data Science concentration from the University of Technology of Compiègne. I also created Summarizer, an open-source deep learning framework for video summarization research.

Contact me

You can reach me at

You can also find me on LinkedIn, explore my projects on GitHub, or read older Machine Learning notes on Medium.

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