Giovanni Belval

Giovanni Belval

MSc Machine Learning (MILA) | AI Engineer

Bridging the gap between theoretical physics/CS and applied AI. Passionate about building intelligent applications, scalable MLOps pipelines, and memory-efficient Language Models.

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Industry Experience

Tecsys

Ongoing
AI Engineer
  • Built an AI agent monitoring warehouse operations, improving fulfillment responsiveness by 17%.
  • Designed an LLM-as-a-judge evaluation pipeline to benchmark agent reliability and reduce hallucinations.
  • Fine-tuned a YOLO model for barcode detection, cutting manual lookup time by 32%.

Desjardins

Sep 2024 - Mar 2025
AI/ML Intern
  • Built a data synthesis pipeline for generating realistic documents using fine-tuned LLMs while preserving privacy.
  • Implemented memory-efficient inference and deployed scalable Vertex AI endpoints on GCP.

Intact Insurance

May 2024 - Aug 2024
Data Scientist Intern
  • Developed a "super learner" stacking ensemble model (93% accuracy) for vehicle total loss prediction.
  • Packaged the algorithm into a reusable internal AutoML library.

MILA Research Projects

Selected coursework and mini-research projects completed during my Master's at the Quebec Institute of Machine Learning (Mila).

Deep Learning for NLP

MSc Coursework

Investigation of Multi agent debate performances.

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Reinforcement Learning

MSc Coursework

Generated key robot motion sequences using an open-source video-generation model, enabling their downstream use as policy inputs for robotic control.

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Probabilistic Graphical Models

MSc Coursework

Worked on a novel hierarchical Hidden Markov Model architecture that is highly parallelizable for high speed and accuracy, significantly outperforming standard Markov chain approaches.

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Technical Skills

Python PyTorch LangChain vLLM Docker GCP / Vertex AI AWS SQL JavaScript FastAPI MLflow