Engineering student and research apprentice at LINEACT (Strasbourg, France)
Currently seeking a 3 to 4-month International Internship for Summer 2027
I am an apprentice research engineer driven by figuring out how complex systems work under the hood, especially where solid engineering and algorithmic creativity meet real-world constraints.
Lately, most of my time has been spent on :
- Distributed Edge AI (LINEACT Apprenticeship) : As part of my engineering apprenticeship, I'm setting up decentralized training platforms on small physical clusters (Raspberry Pi and Jetson boards). I focus on communication overhead, decentralized aggregation, and analyzing model convergence under realistic, constrained local network conditions.
- Axiom Chess : An ongoing passion project at the crossroads of computer vision and spatial tracking. It detects boards in real time, overlays moves with AR projection, and runs a custom Alpha-Beta neural engine.
- Custom Web Browser : Building a dedicated desktop browser from scratch using C# and embedded Chromium to explore engine internals and process management.
- Quantum Machine Learning : Experimenting with hybrid quantum-classical neural networks (VQC) using PennyLane and Qiskit, mainly looking into barren plateaus and circuit behavior on noisy backends.
- Autonomous Robotics (TurtleBot3) : Developing an autonomous indoor navigation and visual pipeline to map my apartment and reliably locate everyday targets, like my keys, using onboard SLAM and object detection.
- Full-Stack & Web Interfaces : Crafting responsive web apps and tools across various modern stacks (mostly TypeScript/JavaScript, with a strong soft spot for Vue.js).
- Email: contact@pthomas.fr
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/paul-thomas-cs
- Portfolio: pthomas.fr