Nicolas Boizard — NLP Researcher & PhD Student in Large Language Models

Hi! I'm Nicolas Boizard, a final-year PhD student at CentraleSupélec (Université Paris-Saclay), advised by Pierre Colombo and Céline Hudelot. I work on applied NLP.

My research focuses on large-scale training of encoder and decoder models, including multilingual and multimodal ones such as BidirLM-Omni, EuroBERT, EuroLLM, and CroissantLLM. To make training at this scale tractable, I also develop efficient techniques like the Universal Logit Distillation Loss, which enables distillation across different model architectures.

My PhD is a CIFRE with Diabolocom, where I also advise their R&D on LLM projects. Currently exploring post-PhD opportunities. Happy to connect, collaborate, or chat about talks!