Matthieu Scharffe

Matthieu Scharffe

Engineer & Indie Hacker | Building in Public

Marseille, France • matthieu.scharffe@gmail.com

Who am I?

Fresh graduate from CentraleSupélec and EPFL with a Master's in Mechanical Engineering. Did cutting-edge AI research at 👑 Rolex and at VITA Lab at EPFL, but now I'm trying to become a pirate 🏴‍☠️ - building products, shipping fast, and learning what works. Currently hacking on FuelTheGains and TheVerifiedHost.

Building in Public

Shipping products, learning fast

Work Experience

Master's Thesis Researcher

Sep 2025 - Jan 2026
VITA Lab, EPFLLausanne, Switzerland
  • Created SynthDriveEval benchmark with 1,500+ videos and 7,000+ questions for autonomous driving
  • Evaluated Vision-Language Models for autonomous driving perception and reasoning
  • Developed tool-augmented agent that improved accuracy from 21% to 40.7%
  • Published dataset on HuggingFace and codebase on GitHub

ML Research Intern

Feb 2025 - Aug 2025
👑 RolexGeneva, Switzerland
  • Developed an algorithm to build a shape search similarity engine for CAD models
  • The algorithm takes a 3D model as input and outputs the most similar models in a database using AI methods

Quantum Mechanics Teaching Assistant

Mar 2023 - May 2023
CentraleSupélecParis, France
  • Wrote exercises to help students succeed in a challenging course, leveraging my passion for physics
  • Managed classroom behavior, creating a positive learning environment for 20+ students
  • Assisted with grading assignments and provided constructive feedback

Academic Projects

Education

EPFL

Master of Mechanical Engineering - Lausanne, Switzerland

  • Graduated 2025 | Average: 5.3/6
  • Relevant Coursework: Control Theory, Fluid Mechanics, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence

CentraleSupélec

Master of Engineering - Paris, France

  • December 2025 | GPA: 4.17/4.33 (Top 20/1000)
  • Coursework: Statistics, PDEs, Optimization, Numerical Simulations, Quantum Mechanics, Aircraft Design, HPC, Additive Manufacturing

Technical Skills

AI & Machine Learning

PythonPyTorchScikit-LearnGymnasiumSB3

Development & Tools

Next.jsFastAPIReactTypeScriptLinuxGitMATLABSolidWorks

Languages

French (Native)English (Fluent)