Sonia Tabti

AI Consultant

Salary / Daily rate

Bordeaux, France

Freelance

Can come onsite

Skills

Deep LearningData ScienceMachine LearningAIKerasPythonMATLABGitGitLabLLMs / Large language modelsNumPypandasTensorFlowscikit-learnPyTorchLinuxGitHubConfluenceJira

Languages

French (Native)English (Fluent)Arabic

About me

Intro

PhD-certified AI expert with 12+ years leading Computer Vision projects across industrial applications. Successfully led AI research, supervised data science teams, and developed custom data science solutions for many industries (retail, water management, ...). I specialize in framing complex AI challenges, designing end-to-end workflows, and mentoring teams—delivering innovative solutions from data collection to deployment that create tangible business value.

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Work experience

AI Consultant

Cali IntelligencesFreelance

Jun 2024 - Present

2 years 5 months

Bordeaux, France

Cali Intelligences develops and deploys Computer Vision solutions for the retail industry. I ponctually help them designing these solutions and building their Computer Vision models faster.

Freelance spécialisée en intelligence artificielle

FreelanceFreelance

Jan 2024 - Present

2 years 10 months

Bordeaux et périphérie

I can supervise data projects from presales and framing to execution and deployment. I can advise on data collection, hardware selection, labeling and modeling strategies. I enjoy challenging use case formulations, solving problems and mentoring teammates. With my academic background and my pedagogic skills, I can increase data science and AI awareness within your non-technical and more technical teams. I can also define a Research and Development AI strategy to help you tackle future challenges efficiently.

Formatrice en IA

ENSEIRB-MATMECAFreelance

Feb 2025 - Mar 2025

2 months

33400 Talence, France

Dans le cadre du DE Expert IA (formation continue délivrant un diplôme équivalent à un Master 2 pour des professionnels déjà dans la vie active), j'ai pu intervenir et donner des cours sur les thèmes suivants: - Cycle de vie d'un projet d'IA en entreprise - Défis de chaque étape de ce cycle de vie - L'importance d'une bonne stratégie de gouvernance de données - Régulations : RGPD, IA act - Sensibilisation aux risques d'un usage peu raisonné des assistants d'IA - Mises en pratique: extraction de données de documents PDFs et développement d'un système de RAG

Tech lead AI

ACC - Automotive Cells CompanyFreelance

Oct 2024 - Mar 2025

6 months

33520 Bruges, France

- It’s a company aiming to build batteries for electric cars - Use cases vary from predictive maintenance on tabular data to chatbots and Computer Vision - I supervised a team of 3 data-scientists and 1 ML-Ops - I mentored a junior data scientist - I improved the agile methodology of the team - I defined a long term roadmap for a top priority use case dealing with defect detection on images - I contributed to the popularization of data labeling tools to the business team - I did the technical framing of 2 future critical use cases (one about image quality control and one for an advanced RAG system)

Artificial Intelligence Researcher

AI ForensicsFreelance

Jan 2024 - Oct 2024

10 months

Remote, OR 97458, USA

AI Forensics is an NGO holding Big Tech companies and their platforms and algorithms accountable. To do so, algorithmic auditing pipelines are developed by their team. The data collected during those audits requires labeling. My main mission was to design with my teammates the labeling workflow and develop the labeling interfaces. I also contributed to improving their project management rituals and research methodology.

European project reviewer

European CommissionFreelance

Mar 2024 - May 2024

3 months

Remote, OR 97458, USA

I had the opportunity to review the TEADAL project.

Fieldbox

Feb 2019 - Jan 2024

5 years

Head of AI Research

Mar 2023 - Jan 2024

11 months

I was head of artificial intelligence research activities for industrial applications at Fieldbox. I was also a lead data scientist on client projects (see the details below) dealing with time series, tabular data and especially images and videos. I enjoy supervising a project from use case formulation and data collection to deployment, interacting with software and product teams in order to design the best solutions for our clients. I also enjoy client facing to explain complex notions to all types of profiles. That is why I am involved in presales activites as well.

Lead Data Scientist and team leader

Feb 2019 - Jan 2024

5 years

Bordeaux Area, France

-Lead Data Scientist and Head of the Artificial Intelligence Research (AI-R) team at Fieldbox -Definition of the AI-R roadmap. -Work on various research topics apllied to industrial use cases (eg: imabalanced machine learning, predictive maintenance using sensor data, shift detection with variational autoencoders, object detection, image classification, interpretability, OCR, ...) -Technical and scientific watch. -Supervision of team members. -Write papers and participate to conferences. -Definition of internships topics and supervision of interns. -Scientific support and mentoring of data scientists working on clients projects. -Support presales and recruitment teams. -Identify funding opportunities for the team.

Postdoctoral researcher

Université de Caen Normandie

Jan 2017 - Jul 2018

1 year 7 months

Région de Caen, France

-Laboratory: GREYC, Team: Image processing. -Fundings: ANR-FEDER GRAPHSIP and CPER NUMNIE -Topic: graph signal processing (images and colored 3D point clouds) with variationnal approaches (variants of Total Variation on graphs) -Applications: Heritage preservation. -Collaborators: Julien Rabin and Abderrahim Elmoataz. -Organized a mini-symposium at the SIAM'18 conference in Bologna, Italy. -Publications + seminars.

Postdoctoral researcher

University of Naples Federico II

Sep 2016 - Dec 2016

4 months

-At the DIETI. -Area: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image processing (satellite images). -Proposed a new sparse-coding method adapted to SAR images with a classification map based on coefficient of variation. -Application: Despeckling. -Collaborators: Luisa Verdoliva, Giovanni Poggi

Attaché Temporaire à l'Enseignement et la Recherche (Temporary Teaching and Research position)

Université Paris Descartes

Sep 2015 - Aug 2016

1 year

Région de Paris, France

Pendant la rédaction de ma thèse à Télécom ParisTech, j'ai occupé un poste d'ATER à temps plein d'un an à Paris Descartes où j'intervienais en tant que chargée de TD dans différentes matières de la licence de Mathématiques Informatique et Applications. Au premier semestre, j'étais chargée d'un groupe de TD de Maths et Calcul 1 (L1), et d'un groupe d'Algèbre linéaire 3 (L2). Au second semestre, j'ai poursuivi les TD de Maths et Calculs 1 (L1) et encadré deux étudiants en projet (L2).

Télécom ParisTech

Apr 2012 - Jul 2016

4 years 4 months

Paris, France

Doctorante/ PhD candidate

Oct 2012 - Jul 2016

3 years 10 months

Paris, France

-Funding: CNRS and DGA. -I have been working on various research topics dealing with image processing especially SAR image processing. -Areas of expertise: optimization, sparsity, dictionary learning, patch-based methods, Gaussian Mixture Models, invariance properties. -Applications: denoising, supervised classification. -I have co-supservised two MVA Master students on a project for the satellite image processing course. -Collaborators: Florence Tupin, Loïc Denis, Charles-Alban Deledalle. -Publications + seminars.

Research internship

Apr 2012 - Oct 2012

7 months

Région de Paris, France

Despeckling SAR images with a dictionary-based method: two sparse-coding algorithms have been developped.

Surveillances d'examens

Université Paris Descartes

Nov 2010 - May 2012

1 year 7 months

Street marketing

Allure hotesses

Nov 2010 - May 2011

7 months

Distribution de flyers.

Stagiaire assistante polyvalente

Le Comptoir des Langues

Jun 2009 - Jul 2009

2 months

Région de Paris, France

• Gestion des stocks de fournitures et de publicité • Classement de dossiers • Saisie de clients dans la base de données de gestion des formations • Relance de factures impayées • Recherche de nouveaux stagiaires, formation des nouveaux arrivants


Education

Télécom Paris

Préparation d'un doctorat

2012 - 2015

3 years 1 month

ENS Paris-Saclay

Master Mathématiques Vision et Apprentissage (MVA)

2011 - 2012

1 year 1 month

Université Paris Cité

Maitrise

2010 - 2011

1 year 1 month

Université Paris Cité

L3

2009 - 2010

1 year 1 month

Lycée International Alexandre Dumas

Bac

2005 - 2006

1 year 1 month

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