About

Maximilien Dufau

Maximilien Dufau

Artificial Intelligence Engineer and Consultant

Lausanne, Switzerland

An AI consultant at Novatix in Lausanne since September 2024, I design and deploy artificial intelligence solutions for businesses. My background combines deep learning research, product development and team support, from project scoping to production.

Professional experience

AI Consultant

Sept. 2024 – present

Novatix · Lausanne

  • Designed three sovereign AI products: Nova Chat, Nova Note and Nova Muse; implemented RAG, structured OCR and MCP for real-world use cases.
  • Deployed open-source LLMs on-premises with vLLM and applications on Azure, Infomaniak and virtual machines; developed with React, FastAPI and PostgreSQL.
  • Led Agile projects, AI scoping and audits, feasibility studies, client support, DevOps (GitHub Actions, Terraform, monitoring) and IT team training.

Junior R&D / Research Assistant

Feb. 2024 – June 2024

Idiap Research Institute · Martigny

  • Designed and prototyped a robotic dental lamp end to end as part of an Innovation Booster project with Nviso.ai.

Deep Learning Scientist Intern

Apr. 2023 – Sept. 2023

Preligens · Paris

  • Conducted deep learning R&D and experimented with machine learning algorithms in an AWS environment.

Research Intern

Nov. 2021 – May 2022

Ericsson & École de technologie supérieure · Montréal

  • Developed unsupervised domain adaptation methods for person re-identification in video using PyTorch, contrastive learning and Nvidia DGX.

Education

Master’s in Data Science & Artificial Intelligence, valedictorian

2021 – 2023

Efrei Paris

Winner of the Data Hackathon with Microsoft and La Mutuelle Générale.

Third-year undergraduate studies, valedictorian

2020 – 2021

Efrei Paris

Research and entrepreneurship programme; first prize at Printemps des Entrepreneurs 2021.

Bachelor’s coursework in Mathematics

2018 – 2020

EPFL, Lausanne

Skills

AI & research

Open-source LLMs, RAG, MCP, structured OCR, deep learning, computer vision, PyTorch, OpenCV

Development

Python, FastAPI, React.js, PostgreSQL, SQL, scikit-learn, Pandas, Git

Cloud & DevOps

vLLM, Azure, Infomaniak, AWS, GitHub Actions, Terraform, monitoring, on-premises deployments

Languages

English C1 (TOEIC 990/990), Chinese A1