Education


  • M2 research - MVA: Ecole Normale SupΓ©rieure P-S – Paris, 2025–2026 πŸ‡«πŸ‡·
    • Major: Math, Learning, Vision
  • MEng (French eng. diploma): ENPC – Paris, 2022–2025 πŸ‡«πŸ‡·
    • Major: Applied Math and Machine Learning
    • Distinction: Government excellence scholarship
  • PrΓ©pa (Undergraduate): Esprit PrΓ©pa – Tunis, 2020–2022 πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡³
    • Major: Math & Physics
    • Distinction: Valedictorian

Experience


  • AI Scientist intern: Apr'26 – β€’ πŸ‡«πŸ‡·

  • Research intern: Feb'25 – Jan'26 πŸ‡¨πŸ‡­
    • Lab: Machine Learning and Optimization (MLO) at EPFL
    • Supervisor: Prof. Martin Jaggi
    • Focus: efficient pre-training, distillation, reasoning, GRPO
    • Contribution: FP8 training with robust Transformers (NeurIPS'25); Early stopping for LRMs (ICLR'26)
  • Swiss AI Initiative Member: Feb'25 – March'26 πŸ‡¨πŸ‡­
    • Definition: Initiative between EPFL and ETH, powered by ALPS cluster
    • Role: Core LLM team (pre-training)
    • Contribution: Apertus fully open family [8b, 70b]

  • Research intern: July'24 – Jan'25 πŸ‡¦πŸ‡ͺ
    • Lab: AI theory team of TII
    • Supervisor: Dr. MEA Seddik
    • Focus: distillation, scalable optimization and parametrization, pre-training
    • Contribution: Falcon3 family of open-weight LMs [1b, 3b, 7b, 10b] proves transfer learning efficiency

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