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 🇹🇳
    • Valedictorian

Experience


  • Research Intern: Feb 25 – Now 🇨🇭
    • 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 🇨🇭
    • 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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