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Palyart Marc

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Director of Machine Learning at Malt
📍 Argelès-Gazost, Occitanie, France

Palyart is the Director of Machine Learning at Malt, where he focuses on building products to effectively match freelancers with companies. He holds a PhD and leverages his background in recommender systems and software engineering to solve large-scale, multilingual matching problems.

He is deeply involved in the data science community, frequently speaking at conferences like PyConDE and PyData. He also actively participates in academic conferences such as RecSys, where he presents his teams applied research, bridging the gap between industry and academia.

He has a strong pragmatic view on AI, publicly questioning the hype around GenAI and arguing that simpler models are often better for real-world business problems.

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Experience
16 Years
Current Role
Director of Machine Learning
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Argelès-Gazost, Occitanie, France
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Recommender Systems
His work focuses on creating sophisticated matching and recommender systems. He recently co-authored and presented a paper on a neural retriever for freelancer-project alignment at RecSys.
Pragmatic AI
He is a proponent of using the right tool for the job, giving talks that question if Generative AI is always the best solution, especially for text classification tasks.
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Career

Work history

7-2024
Director of Machine Learning
Malt
1-2024 - 6-2024
Head of Machine Learning
Malt
11-2021 - 12-2023
Staff Data Scientist
Malt
10-2017 - 11-2021
Data Scientist
Lectra
2-2014 - 7-2016
Researcher in Software Engineering
The University of British Columbia
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Education
2009 - 2012
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III
2004 - 2009
Master’s Degree
Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III
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