CV

Research Associate

Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence

I worked on multilingual NLP, focusing on the cultural adaptation of large language models as well as the application of NLP in education within multilingual settings.

Research Engineer Intern

EvidenceB, AI Research team

I explored the use of LLMs (GPT-4o and Llama-3-8B-instruct) as teachers to generate effective hints for students simulated through LLMs (GPT-3.5-turbo, Llama-3-8B-Instruct, Mistral-7B-instruct-v0.3) tackling math exercises designed for human high-school students, and designed using cognitive science principles. I identified common student errors, developed hint prompts to aid re-correction, and compared teacher model performance using the best prompts in generating pedagogically effective hints.

Research Intern

CIRST - Université du Québec à Montréal

During this internship, I conducted a study to assess the robustness of monolingual and multilingual language models to specific linguistic structures within the context of suicide prevention tools aimed at accommodating the cultural diversity of individuals in distress. I trained XLM-R, distiluse-base, and CamemBERT-base models on a dataset of French sentence pairs using the simple contrastive learning of sentence embeddings (SimCSE) method.

Research Intern

Digital Research Center of Sfax

During this internship at the BRAIN4ICT team, I contributed to the development of a platform designed to analyze product reviews written in Francamglais—a Cameroonian dialect blending French, English, and local languages. The goal was to accurately capture and classify user sentiment expressed in this unique linguistic setting.

PhD in Natural Language Processing

Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence

MSc. in Mathematics, Vision & Learning (MVA)

Paris-Saclay University - École Normale Supérieure de Paris-Saclay

MSc. in Artificial Intelligence

Paris-Saclay University - Faculty of Science

Bachelor in Computer Science

University of Gabes - Faculty of Science of Gabes

Winner of G-Research Paris Quant Challenge 2024

G-Research

First-place winner team (2 participants: my teammate and myself) of the G-Research Paris Quant Challenge 2024.

SaclAI School Excellence Scholarship: MixtAI (€10,000)

École Normale Supérieure de Paris-Saclay

Scholarship awarded to top students admitted to a Master's in AI at Paris-Saclay.

SaclAI School Excellence Scholarship: MixtAI (€10,000)

Paris-Saclay University

Scholarship awarded to top students admitted to a Master's in AI at Paris-Saclay.

Globalink Research Internship Fellowship - Mitacs

Mitacs

The Globalink Research Internship is a highly competitive initiative that attracts talented researchers to Canada. Each year, interns from select Mitacs partner countries and regions come to Canada for 12 weeks to undertake research projects at Canadian universities.

IDEX International Internship Grant

Université Paris-Saclay

Grant supporting international research internships for Paris-Saclay students.

Research Excellence Award of the Écoles Universitaires de Recherche (EUR) (resigned)

Université Sorbonne Paris-Nord

Scholarship of €12,000 in the first year and €10,000 in the second year of the Master's programme, awarded to the best students admitted.

Hatem Ben Taher Award, Faculty of Science of Gabes

University of Gabes

Best student in Bachelor's degree in Computer Science among all 15 schools of the University of Gabes.

Tunisian Government Scholarship, Faculty of Sciences of Gabes

Tunisian Government

Cooperation scholarship between the Cameroonian and Tunisian states.

Teaching Assistant

Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence

Teaching Assistant for the Master’s course 'Mathematical Foundations': conducted TD sessions and graded student assignments.

Campus Director, HULT PRIZE at Faculty of Sciences of Gabes

HULT PRIZE

Coordinated the organization team of the competition at my campus. Managed the team, conducted information meetings about the competition, and recruited participating teams.