Education
- MVA (M2): ENS (Paris Saclay + ULM) – Paris, 2025–2026 🇫🇷
- Major: Math, Learning, Vision
- M.S. (French eng. diploma): ENPC – Paris, 2022–2025 🇫🇷
- Major: Applied Math and Machine Learning
- Distinction: Government excellence scholarship
- Prépa (Undergraduate): Esprit Prépa – Tunis, 2020–2022 🇹🇳
- Major: Math & Physics – Valedictorian
- High School: Pioneer School – Gafsa, 2016–2020 🇹🇳
Experience
- Research Intern: Feb 25 – Now 🇨ðŸ‡
- Lab: Machine Learning and Optimization (MLO) at EPFL
- Supervisor: Prof. Martin Jaggi
- Focus: FP8 training, pre-training, knowledge distillation, reasoning
- Output (so far): NeurIPS paper (Towards Fully FP8 GEMM LLM Training at Scale)
- Swiss AI Initiative Member: Feb 25 – Now 🇨ðŸ‡
- Definition: Initiative between EPFL and ETHZ, powered by CSCS ALPS
- Role: Core member of the LLM effort
- Focus: mainly pre-training
- Output (so far): Apertus: Democratizing Open and Compliant LLMs for Global Language Environments
- Research Intern: July 24 – Jan 25 🇦🇪
- Lab: AI theory team of Technology Innovation Institute
- Focus: Knowledge Distillation, scalable optimization and parametrization, LLMs pretraining
- Output: Falcon3 family of LMs sets new SOTA perfs on many tasks and proves transfer learning efficiency
Technical report is still undisclosed... - Supervisor: Dr. MEA Seddik
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