I'm an AI Research Scientist based in Paris, working on process-level evaluation of AI systems: LLM reasoning, multimodal perception, and retrieval quality. I hold a PhD from the Université d'Orléans (2024) and have published 20+ papers at venues including CVPR, ETRA, ICIP, and IEEE Access.
Experience
AI Research Scientist & AI Ops Architect
Jan 2025 to PresentF-Initiatives / NeoPhi · Paris, France
- Shipped the production citation-verification pipeline for a scientific-literature platform indexing 100M+ papers
- Raised RAG retrieval F1 from 0.13 to 0.50, a 4–6× relevance gain on private benchmarks
- Distilled Qwen3.5-0.8B via merge-corrected iterative SFT (+3.7 pts GSM8K over base, MMLU retained); released on the Hugging Face Hub
- Built year-aware venue ranking (SCImago × CORE), attributing Q-ranks to 100M+ papers
Technical Lead, HeReFaNMi Project
May 2023 to Nov 2024F-Initiatives / IULM University Milan · Orléans, France
- Secured EUR 130,000 in EU research funding (NGI Search, European Commission)
- Architected and shipped a production health-misinformation detection platform
- Led a cross-functional team of 4
Doctoral Researcher
Jan 2020 to Feb 2024Laboratoire PRISME, Université d'Orléans · Orléans, France
- 15+ peer-reviewed papers (CVPR, ETRA, ICIP, IEEE Access) on visual attention and scanpath modelling
- Ran eye-tracking studies with 150+ participants across 10 museums
- Secured EUR 100,000 across two projects (Louvre; INSERM)
- Supervised 7 research interns
Teaching Associate (ATER)
Sep 2023 to Sep 2024Polytech Orléans · Orléans, France
Taught and supervised lab sessions in computer science and machine learning.
Education
Ph.D., Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence
2020 to 2024Université d'Orléans, France
Thesis: Visual Attention Prediction and Scanpath Modelling for Paintings.
Postgraduate Diploma, Data Science & Data Engineering
2022Université d'Orléans, France
Oxford Machine Learning Summer School (OxML)
2024Representation Learning & Generative AI
Selected Open-Source Projects
Qwen3.5-0.8B-Mythos-Distill
Hugging FaceIterative SFT distillation with automated model-merge selection across seven strategies.
APEX
GitHubAgentic image-editing system with MLLM orchestration and identity-preservation gating.
HeReFaNMi Platform
GitHubProduction health-misinformation detection: microservices, hybrid RAG, and vLLM.
FDISS
ETRA 2026 LBWPerceptually grounded scanpath-similarity metric (Foveal Disc IoU).
SSLArtScanpath
CVPR-W 2022Barlow Twins self-supervised scanpath prediction on paintings.
Selected Publications
ThinkProbe: Structural Profiling of LLM Reasoning Traces via Non-Generative Thought Graphs
EMNLP 2026Lead author · under review (AAAI 2027 in prep.)
What They Saw, Not Just Where They Looked: Semantic Scanpath Similarity via VLMs and NLP Metrics
ETRA 2026 WLead author
Modeling Beyond MOS: Quality Assessment Must Integrate Context, Reasoning, and Multimodality
arXiv 2025Lead author
Closing the Foveal Gap: Perceptually Grounded Scanpath Comparison with Disc IoU
ETRA 2026 LBWLead author
Self-Supervised Scanpath Prediction Framework for Painting Images
CVPR-W 2022Lead author
Impact
Skills
ML & Training
PyTorch · Hugging Face (Transformers, TRL, PEFT, Accelerate) · vLLM · Model Merging · MLflow · Weights & Biases
NLP & Retrieval
Hybrid retrieval (BM25s, RRF) · Rerankers · NLI · LangChain · LlamaIndex · ChromaDB
Infrastructure
Python · FastAPI · Docker · SQL · React · TypeScript
Research Methods
Experimental design · statistical analysis (mixed-effects, signal detection theory, bootstrap CIs)
Languages
Arabic (native) · French (fluent) · English (fluent)