Pierre Pollet : let’s get started

A brief introduction

Hello there! My name is Pierre POLLET, a French engineering student from Nancy, a small town near Strasbourg. I discovered computer science at the beginning of high school, and I fell in love with the subject.

After two years of intense learning in preparatory classes I joined Telecom SudParis an engineering school near Paris. Always fascinated by how deep the field is, I have studied programming paradigm, how compilation works, what’s inside an operating system, parallelization problems…
On the side, I have always liked discovering new programming languages (like Rust) / paradigm through creating videogames / small program prototype. Apart from computers, I do like multiplayer videogames and anime series and movies.

How I started programming

In high school I joined a group of student to participate in MathEnJeans where I tried to solve problems given by a researcher using maths and computer science.

After high school I joined a preparatory classes to enter an engineering school. During these years I heard of metaheuristic and tried to create an ant colony algorithm.

At some point I tried machine learning stuff using tensorflow, learning about how it works… but I ended up not being attracted to this field as I like programming more than data collection and processing. I like programs and the challenge to program stuffs.

My Summer of HPC

In my actual school, I joined the coding club, and this is where I met someone who told me about the Summer of HPC. After one year on working on a parallelization problem I thought it could be fun to fill this summer.

I enrolled in a project without physics nor machine learning (because I am either bad or I don’t like it). I’ll work on data visualization for system administrators to help them manage supercomputers like the Marconi 100.