Academia

• Oct. 2024 - Now
  Post doctoral fellow
  in
  CRIL, Université d'Artois, Lens, France.
  Details

  study of analogical reasoning and their applications in large language models, Jury: Zied Bouraoui (reviewer), Dafna Shahaf (reviewer), Maxime Amblard (president), Mario Figueiredo, Miguel Couceiro (supervisor), Alain Gély (co-supervisor)
• Oct. 2020 - June 2024
  Ph.D.
  in
  LORIA, Orpailleur team, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France.
  Details

  study of analogical proportions and their applications in machine learning and in particular deep learning
• Feb. 2020 - Jul. 2020
  End of master research internship
  in
  LORIA, Orpailleur team, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France.
  Details

  concept lattice generation from formal context using deep learning

  • design an autoencoder architecture for concept lattices
  • extend the architecture to take into account the formal context
• June 2019 - Aug. 2019
  Master 1 optional research internship
  in
  LORIA, Semagramme team, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France.
  Details

  preliminary work for the transcription of the DinG (Dialogues in Games) corpus

  • design and application of an evaluation process for transcription tools
  • design of a transcription guide
  • recording of audio data
  • initiation to Formal Semantics
• Apr. 2018 - Jul. 2018
  End of bachelor research internship
  in
  LORIA, Synalp team, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France.
  Details

  development of a deep neural network architecture to model language

  • discovery of deep learning and of PyTorch
  • design of an innovating architecture based on the Long-Short Term Memory network (LSTM) then the Deep Averaging Network (DAN) architectures
  • management of large amounts of data
  • optimization of deep learning architectures
  • participation in the ITEA3-PAPUD European project

Teaching

• 2023 - 2024
  (24h of practicals)
  Algorithms for Graphs and Number Representation
  for 1st year of preparatory cycle at
  Polytech Nancy, PEIP, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France.
  (Teaching assistant)
  Details

  integer and floating point representation and computations, graph representation and traversal
  

  Missions:

  • giving practical sessions
• 2023 - 2024
  (~80h of theoretical and practicals)
  Data Base Design
  for 1st year of engineering cycle at
  Polytech Nancy, IA2R and EMME specialty, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France.
  (Main teacher)
  Details

  Entity-Relationship model, relational model, SQLite, introduction to knowledge bases
  

  Missions:

  • creation of class material from scratch
  • English and French public, with corresponding class material
• 2022 - 2023
  (26.5h of practicals)
  Semantic Web
  for 1st year at
  IDMC, NLP & SC Master, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France.
  (Teaching assistant)
  Details

  RDF, turtle, SPARQL, ontology building
  

  Missions:

  • giving practical sessions (alone)
• 2022 - 2023
  (12h of practicals)
  Software Project
  for 2nd year at
  IDMC, NLP Master, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France.
  (Teaching assistant)
  Details

  Project driven class, the student have to develop an innovative tool based on recent academic literature
  

  Missions:

  • supervision of up to 6 groups
  • writing project topics
  • evaluation (group presentation along the project, code production, end product, project defense)
• 2021 - 2022
  (8h of practicals)
  Global Optimization
  for 2nd or 3rd year at
  Ecole des Mines, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France.
  (Teaching assistant)
  Details

  Pyomo library, definition of optimization problems, algorithms from Pure Random Search to Monotonic Basin Hopping
  

  Missions:

  • giving practical sessions in a mixed theoretical/practical setup (together with the lead teacher)
• 2021 - 2022
  (9h of practicals)
  Data Mining
  for 2nd year at
  IDMC, NLP Master, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France.
  (Teaching assistant)
  Details

  Formal Concept Analysis (FCA), rule mining, itemset mining
  

  Missions:

  • design and grading of two projects
  • giving practical sessions (alone)
• 2021 - 2022
  (15h of practicals)
  Semantic Web
  for 1st year at
  IDMC, NLP & SC Master, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France.
  (Teaching assistant)
  Details

  RDF, turtle, SPARQL, ontology building
  

  Missions:

  • giving practical sessions (alone)
• 2021 - 2022
  (10h of practicals)
  Software Project
  for 2nd year at
  IDMC, NLP Master, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France.
  (Teaching assistant)
  Details

  Project driven class, the student have to develop an innovative tool based on recent academic literature
  

  Missions:

  • supervision of up to 4 groups
  • writing project topics
  • evaluation (group presentation along the project, code production, end product, project defense)
• 2020 - 2021
  (6h of practicals)
  Semantic Web
  for 1st year at
  IDMC, NLP & SC Master, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France.
  (Teaching assistant)
  Details

  Formal Concept Analysis (FCA), Description Logics, RDF
  

  Missions:

  • writing and overseeing of the final exam
  • giving practical sessions (alone)
• 2020 - 2021
  (8h of practicals)
  Ontologies
  for 2nd year at
  IDMC, NLP Master, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France.
  (Teaching assistant)
  Details

  RDF, RDFS, OWL, manipulation of ontologies with SPARQL and Protégé
  

  Missions:

  • writing and giving practical sessions (alone)
  • writing and overseeing of the final exam
  • writing and overseeing end-of-session tests
• Aug. 2019
  (1 week)
  Python4NLP summer school
  for Ph.D students and young researchers at
  LORIA, Synalp team, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France.
  (Teaching assistant)
  Details

  tutoring during the practicals of the Python4NLP summer school
  

  Mission:

  teaching the bases of Python programming for the preprocessing and analysis of text data and the application of standard NLP tools, machine learning and deep learning; certificate available

Training

• Sep. 2018 - Jul. 2020
  Master in Natural Language Processing (NLP)
  in
  Institut des sciences du Digital, Management et Cognition (IDMC), Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France.
  Details

  Courses in English.
• Sep. 2015 - Jul. 2018
  Bachelor in Mathematics and Computer Science applied to Humanities (MIASHS)
  in
  UFR Mathématiques et Informatique, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France.
• 2015
  Baccalauréat Général et Technologique
  in
  Lycée Louis-Vincent, Metz, France.
  Details

  Scientific Baccalauréat, with honors.

Other experience

• Oct. 2020 - Feb. 2020
  Transcriber
  in
  LORIA, Semagramme team, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France.
  Details

  transcription of multiple hours of audio recordings with up to 4 overlaping speakers, orthographic transcription using the ELAN tool following the transcription guide designed during the preceding internship (June - Aug. 2019)
• Oct. 2018 - May. 2018
  Supervised MSc1 project
  in
  LORIA, Synalp team, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France.
  Details

  anomaly detection in system logs using deep learning

  • project in pair
  • design and application of a deep learning architecture (Deep Averaging Natwork, DAN)
  • anomaly detection by comparison of the predicted evolution with the observed evolution of system logs
  • management and analysis of large amounts of data
  • use of PyTorch

Some skills of mine

• English:
  professional (C2)
• French:
  native (C2)