Axel Peytavin
Research Engineer, Stanford University
peytavin [AT] stanford.edu
Bio
I am primarily interested in the use of AI in Computational Social Sciences to study complex social phenomena and sentiment, and in building tools to alleviate challenging social problems. The advent of LLMs opens up a lot of possibilities in many exciting directions to study complex sentiments at scale.
I'm currently a Research Engineer at Stanford University, working with Johan Ugander and in collaboration with Martin Saveski on questions related to X / Twitter Community Notes.
🌎 I was previously a researcher in Ocean Plastic Pollution modeling, for The Ocean Cleanup. As of Jan 2024, the foundation removed 8,000+ tons of plastic from oceans and rivers. I worked at the intersection of physics modeling, machine learning, environmental sciences and high performance computing. I also popularized our science in articles and widely used interactive maps.
I was also the founder of GetAlong, an attempt at bringing better conversations to news websites. We were running on The Stanford Daily and The Salt Lake Tribune, totaling 6.5M+ readers impacted per month.
I am also an avid fan of Isaac Asimov's litterature, in particular the concept of Psychohistory and his anticipation of robots. In my spare time, I leverage my knowledge of AI to 🤖 build robots.
Publications & talks
Papers as appearing on Google Scholar.
Talks are provided with links to their recordings.
Building & Analyzing the World's Largest Beach Cleanup Database
Axel Peytavin
Everyday AI San Francisco. 2023.
Industrialised fishing nations largely contribute to floating plastic pollution in the North Pacific subtropical gyre
Laurent Lebreton, Sarah-Jeanne Royer, Axel Peytavin, Wouter Jan Strietman, Ingeborg Smeding-Zuurendonk, Matthias Egger
Scientific Reports, 12(1), 1-11. 2022.
Size Dependent Transport of Floating Plastics Modeled in the Global Ocean. Front
D Klink, A Peytavin, L Lebreton
Frontiers in Marine Science, 9. 2022.
Ocean Plastic Assimilator v0. 2: assimilation of plastic concentration data into Lagrangian dispersion models
Axel Peytavin, Bruno Sainte-Rose, Gael Forget, Jean-Michel Campin
Geoscientific Model Development, 14(7), 4769-4780. 2021.
Why we can’t fact-check people
Axel Peytavin
TEDxCentraleSupelec. 2023.
Building & Analyzing the World's Largest Beach Cleanup Database
Axel Peytavin
Everyday AI San Francisco. 2023.
Industrialised fishing nations largely contribute to floating plastic pollution in the North Pacific subtropical gyre
Laurent Lebreton, Sarah-Jeanne Royer, Axel Peytavin, Wouter Jan Strietman, Ingeborg Smeding-Zuurendonk, Matthias Egger
Scientific Reports, 12(1), 1-11. 2022.
Size Dependent Transport of Floating Plastics Modeled in the Global Ocean. Front
D Klink, A Peytavin, L Lebreton
Frontiers in Marine Science, 9. 2022.
Ocean Plastic Assimilator v0. 2: assimilation of plastic concentration data into Lagrangian dispersion models
Axel Peytavin, Bruno Sainte-Rose, Gael Forget, Jean-Michel Campin
Geoscientific Model Development, 14(7), 4769-4780. 2021.
Why we can’t fact-check people
Axel Peytavin
TEDxCentraleSupelec. 2023.
Vitæ
Full Resume in PDF.
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Stanford MS&E 2023 - 2024Research Assistant -> Research Engineer
Social Media & ML. Under Prof. Johan Ugander. -
Stanford ICME 2021 - 2023MS Student
Computational and Mathematical Engineering.
Focus: AI, Computational Social Sciences, Applied Maths. -
Getalong.io 2021 - 2023Founder
Better conversations on news. Deployed on 2 major websites.
6.5M+ impacted readers monthly. -
The Ocean Cleanup 2019-2021Computational Modeler
Global Plastic Forecast Models. Creator of The Plastic Tracker. -
BAM.Tech 2019Mobile Developer
Learned everything React Native. -
CentraleSupelec 2017-2019B.S. Engineering
Theoretical Maths and Physics, Comp. Sci. Top 10% cohort.
Lead on CubeSat project. -
Lycee Louis Pasteur 2015-2017Prep School
Intense Theoretical Maths and Physics prep.
Website Design
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