CV

The downloadable format of my CV is available here.

EXPERIENCE

Machine Learning Scientist, Prevision.io Oct. 2021 – Present

• Design and implementation of explainability methods for ML models
• Design of rigorous benchmarks for the evaluation of proposed approaches
• Implementation of data preparation techniques
• Creation of use-case execution pipelines
• Writing of technical reports
• Development and integration of new demonstrators and ready-to-use web applications

Conference reviewer, Peer-review conferences 2020 – Present

• Reviewed 5 peer-review conference papers BDA, DSAA, ITAT, Complex Networks, JRI.

Teaching assistant, Université Clermont Auvergne Sept. 2018 - Sept. 2021

• Taught 7 courses with 60H/year including SQL, Information Systems, Java, Web databases, Bash programming, Statistics and Probability, Algorithmic to undergraduate students.

Research intern, LIMOS Université Clermont Auvergne Apr. 2018 - Aug. 2018

• Analyzed two real-world datasets respectively for physical activities recommendation and interaction between lifestyle activities and cognitive health of older adults.
• Worked on the development of a new clustering method. Published evidential clustering for categorical data at FUZZ-IEEE 2019 a few weeks after.

Software Engineer intern, SETEC INTERNATIONAL May 2017 – Jul. 2017

• Learned C# programming and Visual Studio.
• Developed a new user interface in C#.
• Fixed bugs.
• Added automated files generation in Excel format.

EDUCATION

Université Clermont Auvergne, Ph.D. in Computer Science and Machine Learning 2021

• Worked on the development of new clustering methods for categorical data and applications in Health data analysis.
• Published 2 rank A and 1 rank C peer-reviewed papers on clustering.
• Collaborated with Institute Analgesia in France and the Simon Fraser University in Canada leading to 3 publications.
• Vulgarized thesis results in conferences (2 FUZZ-IEEE and EGC), seminars, laboratory meetings.
• Taught 180 hours of courses to undergraduate students.
• Tutored 1 research internship and 1 school project.
• Provided implementations in Python of the new clustering methods on Github.

Université Clermont Auvergne, Master of Science and Engineer’s degrees 2018

• Master’s degree in computer science at ISIMA, Cumulative grade: 14/
• Engineer’s degree in mathematics and modeling at Polytech Clermont-Ferrand, Cumulative grade: 15.5/.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Python, Java, C++, C# , C SQL, JavaScript, HTML, CSS Tensorflow, Keras, Scikit-Learn, Statsmodels Pandas, Numpy, Flask Software engineering: OOP, UML, Git Systems: Linux, Windows

CERTIFICATES

• Specialization TensorFlow: Data and Deployment by deeplearning.ai, Coursera Apr. 2020
• Specialization Deep Learning by deeplearning.ai , Coursera Nov. 2019
• Specialization Advanced Data Science with IBM by IBM, Coursera Sept. 2019
• Introduction to the general data protection by the CNIL France. Apr. 2019

PROJECTS

• Ma distance de sécurité Mar. 2020 ◦ Developed mobile and web applications for social distancing management during COVID19 by using Haversine distance. ◦ Used Python (Flask), JavaScript, MySQL, Android Studio, Google Cloud App Engine for the development. ◦ Opened the code source on Github.
• PhiField May 2019 ◦ Developed with two teammates an automated irrigation system based on AI. ◦ Directed the AI algorithms modules development. ◦ Received an award of 11 500 EUR among +500 projects. ◦ Founded the start-up PhiField SARL.
• Detecting election corruption in Africa using ML/DL Sept. 2019 ◦ Trained machine learning and deep learning models to detect election corruption in Africa. The best model (LightGBM) achieved a ROC AUC of 0.85.

HONORS AND AWARDS

• Achieved first place over +260 candidates in the follow-up Data Science Olympics Competition.
• Received the audience award from the second edition of Niger’s national entrepreneurship competition eTakara (etakara.ne) based on our innovative project PhiField.
• Received Ph.D. funding of 105 000 EUR in 2018 from the French national agency of research based on academic success.
• Received the first place of the Excellence Prize by Réseau des Étudiants Nigériens en France in 2018 based on academic success.

INTERESTS

Entrepreneurship, Coding, Data Science Competitions.