Garance Gourdel (alias fnareoh)

I am overall a nerd, especially when it comes to programming, board games, woodworking, and birds. I also enjoy hiking, cats, and jellyfish. I have a PhD in algorithmics and currently work as a Software Engineer at Mistral AI.

I did my PhD with Pierre Peterlongo and Tatiana Starikovskaya working in the Genscale Team at IRISA (Inria Rennes) and in the Talgo Team at École normale supérieure (Paris), in France. I focused on designing and implementing new algorithms and data structures for massive string data using lossy and lossless compression. I have worked, for example, on pattern matching, streaming algorithms, indexes, approximate distances, regular expressions, compression including the Lempel-Ziv factorization and the Burrows-Wheeler transforms. If you are interested, have a look at my Google Scholar and my PhD Thesis here.

For my PhD research, I was awarded a L’Oréal-Unesco Young Talent Award For Women in Science. It also related to my engagement in bringing more women into computer science, with the Girls Can Code summer camps. More details on my volunteer work here.

As a Software Engineer: