Thibaut Durand is a Staff Machine Learning Researcher at RBC Borealis (formerly Borealis AI) in Vancouver, BC, Canada. His work lies at the intersection of machine learning and finance, where he focuses on building intelligent and human-centered systems that help shape the future of banking. Prior to joining Borealis, Thibaut was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Computer Vision and Machine Learning at Simon Fraser University, under the supervision of Greg Mori. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from Sorbonne University in Paris, advised by Matthieu Cord and Nicolas Thome. His doctoral research centered on weakly supervised learning for visual recognition and was recognized with PhD awards from AFRIF and DGA for its contributions.