
Mohamed Khalil Jabri
Machine Learning Researcher | Reinforcement Learning
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
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About me
Intro
Machine Learning PhD with expertise in Reinforcement Learning, Imitation Learning, and Causality. Developed innovative ML solutions for energy optimization at TotalEnergies and pioneering logistics algorithms at InstaDeep, achieving significant performance improvements over conventional methods. Offering specialized expertise in designing and deploying practical ML systems that solve complex real-world problems across energy markets, operations optimization, and computer vision.
Work experience
Machine Learning Researcher
TotalEnergies
Jan 2025 - Present
1 year 10 months
Greater Paris Metropolitan Region · Hybrid
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to define requirements, identify key challenges in areas such as EV charging and Microgrid optimization, and translate them into Reinforcement Learning (RL) use cases with practical, real-world impact. - Develop RL-based intraday trading strategies on European energy markets, optimizing EV-charging by exploiting price fluctuations under imperfect forecasts and complementing day-ahead positions. - Improve existing RL controllers for microgrid operations by extending algorithms to coordinate EV charging dispatch and battery storage management, aiming to reduce operating costs and CO2 emissions.
Doctoral Researcher
Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML)
Feb 2020 - Dec 2024
4 years 11 months
Adelaide SA, Australia
- Conducted research at the intersection of Reinforcement Learning, Imitation Learning, and Causality. - Developed causality-inspired methods to improve sample efficiency and generalization in imitation learning. - Collaborated with industry and academic partners on applied machine learning projects, and actively promoted research through presentations, public talks, and interdisciplinary events.
Machine Learning Researcher
NAVAL GROUP
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
5 months
Adelaide SA, Australia
- Developed an explainable vessel recognition system to enhance interpretability in maritime security systems. - Implemented a Vision Transformer model with pairwise heatmap visualization using Attention Flow Approximation. This approach provided intuitive interpretation of results, matching the performance of standard CNN models while offering superior explanations compared to classic techniques like GradCam.
Research Engineer
InterDigital, Inc.
Mar 2019 - Oct 2019
8 months
Rennes Area, France · On-site
Developed a Reinforcement Learning protocol for network congestion control, achieving performance comparable to conventional heuristics in a simple simulated network.
Research Engineer
InstaDeep
Oct 2017 - Oct 2018
1 year 1 month
Carthage, Tunisia
- Joined the startup in its early stages, contributing to the development of its first POC for a Reinforcement Learning-based decision-making system for logistics. - Contributed as part of a team of three to the development of a Reinforcement Learning-based solution to the Bin Packing problem inspired from DeepMind's AlphaGo, significantly outperforming existing heuristics and solvers. Was mainly responsible for the parallelization and integration of Monte Carlo Tree Search within the AlphaGo framework.
Intern
EURA NOVA
Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
2 months
Carthage, Tunisia
Developed a brand logo recognition system using transfer Learning.
Education
Université Paris-Saclay
Master of Science - MS
1900 - Present
126 years 10 months
University of Adelaide
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
1900 - Present
126 years 10 months
Licenses & certifications
Deep Learning Specialization
Issued: Jan 2018
Deep Learning
Issued: Aug 2017