Education
- M2 research - MVA: Ecole Normale SupΓ©rieure P-S β Paris, 2025β2026 π«π·
- Major: Math, Learning, Vision
- MEng (French eng. diploma): ENPC β Paris, 2022β2025 π«π·
- Major: Applied Math and Machine Learning
- Distinction: Government excellence scholarship
- PrΓ©pa (Undergraduate): Esprit PrΓ©pa β Tunis, 2020β2022 πΉπ³
- Major: Math & Physics
- Distinction: Valedictorian
Experience
- AI Scientist intern: Apr'26 β β’ π«π·
- Research intern: Feb'25 β Jan'26 π¨π
- 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 β March'26 π¨π
- 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 β Jan'25 π¦πͺ
- 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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