Thomas Hossler

http://web.stanford.edu/~thossler/
thomas.hossler@gmail.com | 650.660.8189

EDUCATION EXPERIENCE
UDACITY FOCAL SYSTEMS | DEEP LEARNING ENGINEER
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE October 2017 – present | Burlingame, CA
NANODEGREE • Lead project on indoor location on Android devices using Convolutional Neural
Expected in Sep 2018 Networks (Keras) and signal processing. Deployed to production in stores.
• Worked on an automated checkout shopping cart and developed a classification
STANFORD UNIVERSITY algorithm for grocery items recognition using Computer Vision and signal
MSC IN GEOLOGICAL AND processing. Presented at NRF 2018.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES • Developed and maintained the data visualization pipeline to grant easy data
Grad. in June 2017 | Stanford, CA access to the entire company.
ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE FOCAL SYSTEMS | SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INTERN
- UNIVERSITE PARIS VI April 2017 – September 2017 | Millbrae, CA
MSC IN GEOPHYSICS AND • Developed containers Flask apps using Docker
HYDROLOGY • Live data visualization using Python, MySQL and MongoDB
Grad. in June 2015 | Paris, France
• Worked on a general purpose template matching algorithm as a final project for
Graduated with honors (ranked 1st)
CS231n at Stanford.
ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE
Grad. in June 2012| Lyon, France
Ranked 48th nationwide at the ACADEMIC WORK
admission exam CENTER FOR RESERVOIR FORECASTING | RESEARCH ASSISTANT
September 2015 – June 2017 | Stanford, CA
Member of Jef Cars’ group on uncertainty quantification. Worked on decision making
LINKS for groundwater resources using Machine Learning, Game Theory and groundwater
Github: // defqoon flow simulation (Python/Matlab).
LinkedIn:// thomas-hossler
ROCK PHYSICS LAB | RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Feb 2015 – July 2015 | Ecole Normale Superieure, France
COURSEWORK Developed a model to predict cavity instability in karstic systems using numerical
GRADUATE models, fieldwork and laboratory measurements (Matlab/C++)
Convolutional Neural Networks for
Visual Recognition
NATIONAL SEISMOLOGICAL CENTRE | VISITING RESEARCHER
Sep 2013 – Feb 2014 | Kathmandu, Nepal
Convex Optimization
Study of the Surkhet-Gorahi fault using fieldwork data such high resolution Digital
Modern Applied Statistics: Learning
Elevation Model and carbon samples. Hossler et al. 2016, in press
Improving Deep Neural Networks:
Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY LAB | VISITING RESEARCHER
and Optimization March 2013 – Aug 2013 | Caltech, CA
Decision Making Under Uncertainty Developed an algorithm to track circular oceanographic current using more than 20
Algorithms design years of worldwide satellite data (sea surface height) (Matlab).
Data Mining
Game Theory
PUBLICATIONS AND POSTERS
SKILLS 2016
2016
Poster at the American Geophysical Union conference
Publication in Earth and Planetary Science Letters
PROGRAMMING
Python (Keras, Tensorflow, Pytorch,
scikit-learn) • MySQL • Matlab • R • SOCIETIES
MongoDB • Julia • LATEX 2016-2017 Financial officer of the Stanford Alpine Club
2016-2017 Board member of the French Stanford Student Association
LANGUAGES
French (native language)
English (fluent)
German (proficient)