
Zeineb GHRIB
Senior Data Scientist | AI & NLP
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Paris, France
Freelance
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About me
Intro
Senior AI Scientist with 5+ years expertise in conversational AI and generative models. Led emotion detection systems achieving 50% performance gains and built RAG-powered topic extraction tools for enterprise clients. Specialized in NLP, deep learning, and MLOps with proven ability to deliver scalable AI solutions from research to production.
Work experience
Senior AI Scientist
Uniphore
Feb 2023 - Present
3 years 9 months
Remote, OR 97458, USA
Context & Tasks: - Contextual Topic Extraction: ◦ Utilized Generative AI alongside traditional ML techniques to extract meaningful topics from conversation transcripts. ◦ Integrated nuanced sentiment analysis (e.g., "Concerned," "Frustrated") for more detailed meeting analytics. ◦ Applied methods like Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to refine extraction results, providing sales teams with deeper insights. - Small Talk Analysis for Enhanced Sales Engagement: ◦ Built an AI-driven tool to automatically identify small talk topics like sports, holidays, and hobbies from customer conversations, enabling personalized interactions that foster rapport. ◦ Employed a mix of generative AI and traditional ML algorithms, all running on in-house infrastructure to ensure data security and scalability. - Tonal Emotion Detection: ◦ Streamlined and maintained the continuous training cycle of a CNN-based tonal spectrogram model for emotion detection. ◦ Led data quality initiatives, including inter-rater agreement monitoring and error analysis, which significantly improved annotation consistency and model accuracy. ◦ Managed annotated data analysis, continuously optimizing data collection processes to sustain high model performance. - Vector Search Project Supervision: ◦ Guided an internship project that improved the performance of a keyphrase-based search service using vector search technology. ◦ Achieved significant performance gains, reducing execution times by 50%, demonstrating leadership in mentoring and technical problem-solving.
Lead Data Scientist
HEXAGONE - behavioral technology
Jan 2022 - Mar 2023
1 year 3 months
Lead on core conversational AI use-cases: - Improved performance on Speech Emotion Detection models (using calibration techniques, balanced generators, auto-encoders). - Disrupting Topic Modeling approach for survey feedbacks (contextual capturing embeddings, customized distance metrics). - Team mentoring on Lies Detection & Diarization Use-cases. - End-to-end automated Machine Learning Pipelines design and implementation (fasten*10 the ability to iterate) - Cloud-based ML Platform setup (AWS & Databricks)
Prevision.io
Oct 2019 - Jan 2022
2 years 4 months
Vétheuil, France
Data Scientist / ML Engineer
Jan 2021 - Jan 2022
1 year 1 month
Vétheuil, France
Results: - Ensured multiple production deployements of an exisiting pipeline and application. Tasks & Context: ***Post-Sales*** - Updating some models to improve extensibility and evaluating new approachs. - Writing documentation about model automation, data catalog, and modeling approach. ***ML Engineering*** - Skilling up on devops and model deployement toolset (docker, airflow, postgre). - Helped fixing bugs and deploy fixes intro production. Technical terms: Docker, Airflow, PostgreSQL, Pandas, Prevision AutoML, Permutation Importance, Model Explainability
Data Scientist
Oct 2019 - Jan 2021
1 year 4 months
Vétheuil, France
Results: - Good Feedback and contract renewal with many Clients. - High interaction on content and tools generated about the platform. Context & Tasks: Worked in the professional services team with many clients (Renault, La Poste, CEGC, Europcar..) on machine learning projects: ***Post-Sales*** - End to end real-time scoring project: data collection with google analytics API, model training, fine-tuning, and model serving. The objective of the project is to generate a real-time score reflecting whether an internet user would convert to a car rental or not. - Prediction within the next two years, French companies potential purchases for specific cars using advanced time-series processing techniques. To avoid black box mode we provide, for each provided score, the top 5 variables that had a positive/negative impact on the score, using SHAP algorithm - Helping clients to realize machine learning projects using Prevision Solution - Benchmarking of Prevision AutoML engine with open source alternatives (fb-prophet, scikit learn..) - sales forecasting using a combination of hand made pre-processing and prevision platform - Technical support of Prevision users through Zendesk ***Pre-sales*** Technical presentation of Prevision.io auto-ml platform - Performing demos of the platform using ML-use-cases ***Product*** - Technical documentation (interactive tutorials with code labs, and detailed case studies in medium..) - Improving python SDK of Prevision and implementing added values features. - Implementing a side project allowing users to generate reports of their machine learning use-cases. - Benchmark of prevision Store vs Heroku from user experience perspective by deploying a web app on both solutions. Technical Terms: Prevision Auto-ML, fbprophet, SHAP, scikit-learn, GCP Storage, Google Analytics, LighGBM, XGBoost, RF, LR, NLP-word embedding, Permutation Importance, lag, data leakage, model deployment, batch prediction, Dask, model explainability, flask, dash
Research Data Scientist Intern
Fondation Devoteam
Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
1 year
Vétheuil, France
Results: - Research article accepted by IJCNN conference and published by IEEE: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9207013 Context & Tasks: Realize a POC for anomaly detection in time series data: - Design an hybrid based approch for anomaly detection in time series using LSTM autoencoder for seq2seq representation + another classifier such as LinearSVM, SGD... - Develop the full process (from collecting to visualisation) with agile software development (respect PeP8 convention and other programming best practices) using python (and related libraries tensorflow, keras, scikit-learn, seaborn..) - Compare the proposed approch with the state of the art techniques (isolationForest, OneClassSVM, LOF..) - Write a research article that was accepted by IJCNN conference published by IEEE Technical Stack : RNN, LSTM, research writing skills, TSNE, outlier detection, isolation forest, LOF, keras, scikit-learn, seaborn
Machine Learning Intern
Systemathics
May 2018 - Oct 2018
6 months
Vétheuil, France
Context & Tasks: Develop a sentiment analysis unit using machine learning algorithms and integrate it to a full algorithmic trading process - Sentiment analysis of "news" data using text mining techniques, NLP, WordEmbedding Glove) and an LSTM neural network. - Comparing the proposed approch with dictionnary based classifiers Technical Stack : NLP, WordEmbedding Glove, Text Mining, Python, Keras.
Machine Learning Intern (applied on Cyber Security)
CPG
Mar 2017 - Oct 2017
8 months
Tunisie
Context & Tasks: Design and implement a network intrusion detection system using machine learning algorithms - Evaluate the network security by conducting simulated attacks ICMP Hijacking, IP Spoofing, ..) - Develop the intrusion detection system POC with Python using KDD Cup 99 well known dataset
OPS / Cybersecurity Intern
CPG
Oct 2016 - Jan 2017
4 months
Tunisie
Context & Tasks: Oracle database administration and supervision - Update existant database, add new users (new employees) - Ensure database access, consistency and integrity - Write database documentation, including data standards, procedures and definitions - Implement different bda tasks such as creating indexes, implementing triggers and Locks with PL/SQL..
OPS / Cybersecurity Intern
GlobalNet Tunisie
May 2016 - Aug 2016
4 months
Tunisie
Implement a VPN network: - Implement and configure a virtual private network between 2 distant networks using OpenSSL et StrongSwan.
Education
Université Paris 8
Master 2 (M2) : big data & data mining
2017 - 2019
2 years 1 month
SUP'COM
Diplôme d'ingénieur
2014 - 2017
3 years 1 month
IPEIT - Institut Préparatoire aux Etudes d'Ingénieurs de Tunis
Concours national
2011 - 2013
2 years 1 month