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Judicael.

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Ph.D. in Natural Language Processing & Machine Learning. I build intelligent systems, publish research, and help organizations leverage AI to solve complex problems.

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Judicael Poumay
11 Publications
10+ Years Exp.
Ph.D. NLP/ML
// Missions

From enterprise AI infrastructure to academic research — a selection of professional engagements.

GenAI Engineer
Active Since Sep 2024

GenAI Engineer

Specializing in MLOps, designing and deploying infrastructure on Azure, and building frameworks for AI applications. Streamlining workflows through documentation, disaster recovery systems, MCP servers and agentic AI.

AzureMLOpsGenAIMCP
KPMG
Completed 4 Years

KPMG – NLP Research

Research in NLP including LLM, Topic models, Word Embeddings and Evaluation methods. Published 4 papers including one at EMNLP2021, the 2nd best conference in NLP: "A Comprehensive Comparison of Word Embeddings in Event & Entity Coreference Resolution."

PyTorchHuggingFaceAWSNLP
European Commission
Completed 8 Months

European Commission – DG FISMA

Developed a novel algorithm for Complex Terminology Extraction to help with Automatic thesaurus learning from financial regulatory documents. Helping readers understand heavily technical texts published by DG FISMA.

Pythonscikit-learnNLTKNLP
Active
Coaching Chatbots

Neocognition

LLM-based Chatbots for coaching and therapy. Built with advanced Prompt Engineering and hallucination mitigation.

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Active
Engemab

Engemab

Website design and development and IT support.

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1 Years
HEC Liege

HEC Liege Spin-Off

Entrepreneurial spin-off created to bring my PhD NLP research to market.

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4 Months
Orange

Orange

Research in IT job market trends through NLP methods: topic models, anomaly detection and NER. Demonstrated the feasibility of strategic market watch.

NERTopic ModelsPython
2 Years
HEAJ

HEAJ – Teaching

Teaching AI in video games, transmedia, Prompt Engineering and Ethics in AI to students and professionals. C# programming for AI Behavior in Unity.

UnityC#AI Ethics
5 Years
Indah

Indah (Non-profit)

Website design and development on a volunteering basis.

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// Projects

Passion projects, open-source tools, and creative experiments built outside of client work.

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The Thought Process

The Thought Process

My popular Science blog about AI, LLMs, NLP and other topics that interest me.

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July 2025
Duplicate and Translate

Duplicate & Translate

WordPress plugin for duplicating and translating pages using generative AI while preserving layout.

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2016
CrazySquare

CrazySquare

An Android reflex game built in Java using the Android SDK. No longer available on the Play Store.

JavaAndroid SDK

// Talks & Interviews

A selection of my recent talks, podcasts, and interviews discussing AI, NLP, and software engineering.

Podcast

"Personne n'est prêt pour ce qui arrive..."

Bonjour Podcast with Judicael Poumay (PhD)

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Talk

Ingénieur en IA : il vous explique (vraiment) TOUT

A deep dive into the reality and mechanics of being an AI engineer.

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Conference

Comment l'IA impacte la stratégie d'entreprise ?

Conference on the strategic impact of Artificial Intelligence for modern businesses.

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Talk

L'IA, passé et impact futur sur le travail

Discussing the history of AI developments and its transformative impact on the future of work.

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Interview

La révolution des Chatbots et de l'IA

Interview exploring the evolution of conversational agents and AI capabilities.

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// Academic Publications

My research spans NLP, word embeddings, coreference resolution, and terminology extraction. Published at top-tier venues including EMNLP, RANLP, and arXiv.

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Ph.D. Thesis

NLP Methods for Weak Signals Detection from Unstructured Text

Uliege 2023

Papers & Preprints

A Comprehensive Comparison of Word Embeddings in Event and Entity Coreference Resolution

EMNLP 2021 2021

HTMOT: Hierarchical Topic Modelling Over Time

RANLP 2023 2023

Evaluating Unsupervised Hierarchical Topic Models

RANLP 2023 2023

Using Meaning Instead of Words to Track Topics

NLDB 2022 2022

Polysemy of Synthetic Neurons Towards a New Type of Explanatory Categorical Vector Spaces

arXiv 2025

Neuropsychology and Explainability of AI: A Distributional Approach to the Relationship Between Activation Similarity of Neural Categories in Synthetic Cognition

arXiv 2024

Neuropsychology of AI: Relationship Between Activation Proximity and Categorical Proximity Within Neural Categories of Synthetic Cognition

arXiv 2024