About
Christophe Poulain (opens in new tab) is a Principal Software Development Engineer. His current home is the Microsoft Translator team. He leads a group of engineers who apply the latest AI techniques in speech recognition and machine translation to break down language barriers. A recent application is Skype Translator (opens in new tab), which Popular Science crowned as the greatest software innovation of 2016 (opens in new tab).
Past projects at Microsoft Research include:
Tools for large-scale data-parallel computation: DryadLINQ with Dryad on Windows HPC clusters;
Tools for e-science: WorldWide Telescope (opens in new tab), Terapixel;
e-research in the cloud: drug discovery in Azure (opens in new tab); Azure for research.
Functional programming with F#: Try F#;