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PhD student (from October 2026) · École Polytechnique

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Research

PhD student

Oct 2026 –

École Polytechnique

Thesis on RNA–RNA interactions, in particular in the influenza A virus, using machine-learning and computational methods.

Research intern

2025

BioMaps, CEA & Université Paris-Saclay

  • Built a reproducible 3D CT↔UTE-MRI pipeline and trained 3D CycleGAN variants on 311 CT and 292 MRI training cases.
  • Introduced a histogram-aware loss: CT→MRI FID 225.96→217.89, KID 0.1158→0.0969, with ≈23.4 dB PSNR and ≈0.68 SSIM cycle fidelity.

Project page

Research intern

Jun – Jul 2024

LISN, Université Paris-Saclay

Comparative study of knowledge-graph embedding models (TransE, TransH, DistMult, ComplEx, ConvE) for entity alignment across YAGO, Wikidata, and DBpedia. Project page

Research project

2024

LIX, École Polytechnique

Abstraction-based verification of ReLU networks with zones (DBMs) and tropical geometry, evaluated on ACAS Xu. Project page

Research intern

Jun – Aug 2023

CIRB, Collège de France

Added triangle-inequality constraints to Phyloformer; cut constraint violations from 15% to under 1% while preserving RF distance. Project page

Education

Master 2 — MVA (Mathematics, Vision, Learning)

2024 – 2025

ENS Paris-Saclay

Deep learning for medical imaging, 3D vision, generative models. Grade average 17/20.

Master 1 — Artificial Intelligence

2023 – 2024

Université Paris-Saclay

Neural-network verification, NLP, convex optimisation. Grade average 16/20.

BSc — Mathematics & Computer Science (research track)

2021 – 2023

Université Paris-Saclay

Statistical learning, algorithms, database systems.

Skills

Programming
Python, C++, Julia, OCaml, SQL, Rust, Coq, JavaScript
ML / DL
PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, MONAI, scikit-learn, Hugging Face
Infrastructure
CUDA, Docker, Git, Linux, SLURM, AWS, MLflow, Hydra
Languages
French (native), English (C1)