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Alban NYANTUDRE
Summary
Machine Learning Engineer. Diplôme d'Ingénieur d'État in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from the École Nationale des Sciences Appliquées (ENSA), Safi, July 2026. Deep learning for vision, language and speech, with speech and language technologies for low-resource African languages as the through-line. Looking for a PhD in deep learning, with an interest in multimodal learning.
Education
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Diplôme d'Ingénieur d'État (BAC+5) - Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence2026-07École Nationale des Sciences Appliquées (ENSA) Safi - Cadi Ayyad UniversityGPA: 17.25/20, Highest Honours (Rank: 1st/19)Courses: Applied Mathematics, Data Structures & Algorithms, Stochastic Modeling, Optimization, NLP, Heuristics, Deep Learning, Data Mining, Big Data, Computer Vision, Game Theory, Cloud Computing, Fuzzy Systems
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Preparatory Class - Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science2023-07École Nationale des Sciences Appliquées (ENSA) Fez - Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah UniversityGPA: 16.25/20, Highest Honours (Rank: 3rd/262)Courses: Calculus, Probability & Statistics, Linear Algebra, Algorithms, Data Structures, C Programming, Electronics & Computer Architecture, Physics
Work Experience
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AI Research Assistant2026-03 - 2026-08Université de MonctonQuantum machine learning for drug discovery, in Moncton, Canada.
- Literature review on quantum machine learning for drug discovery, covering molecular generative models and variational quantum circuits.
- Collected and curated a dataset of 5-lipoxygenase (5-LOX) inhibitors from chemical databases including ChEMBL, PubChem and BindingDB.
- Implemented and evaluated hybrid quantum-classical generative architectures (QGAN, QVAE) and Transformers for the de novo generation of 5-LOX inhibitors.
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Machine Learning Engineer (part-time)2024-03 - 2025-08GO AI CorporationRemote.
- Designed, trained and deployed translation, speech synthesis and speech recognition models (MT, ASR and TTS) for Mooré, a low-resource language with 7M+ speakers across 5+ West African countries.
- Contributed to building one of the largest Mooré-language corpora to date, supporting low-resource NLP applications.
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Machine Learning Engineering Intern2023-08 - 2023-10Technocolabs Softwares Inc.Remote.
- Developed and deployed ML models to predict prepayment risk on mortgage-backed securities, improving risk assessment for financial institutions.
Skills
Programming
- Python
- R
- SQL
- Java
- C/C++
AI & Data
- PyTorch
- TensorFlow
- Hugging Face
- SQL/PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- Redis
- Spark
- Airflow
Cloud & MLOps
- AWS
- Azure
- Docker
- Git
- MLflow
- FastAPI
- Django
Deep Learning
- Language modelling (RNN, Transformers/LLM, supervised fine-tuning, quantisation, LoRA)
- Computer vision (CNNs, VAE, ViT, VLM)
- RL & alignment (DPO, PPO, GRPO)
Speech Processing
- Text-to-speech (mel-spectrograms, vocoders, G2P)
- Automatic speech recognition (CTC, Seq2Seq/Whisper, self-supervised encoders wav2vec2/XLS-R)
- Pseudo-labelling & distillation
- Audio tooling (librosa, torchaudio, soundfile, ffmpeg)
Teaching
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Python Programming Classes2025Community InitiativeRole: InstructorWeekly Python programming classes for 60+ students.
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Data Science & AI Summer Bootcamp2024GO AI CorporationRole: InstructorThree-week intensive bootcamp at GO AI Corporation, one of the Data Science/AI bootcamps that have reached 200+ students.
Languages
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FrenchC2
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EnglishC1
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SpanishA1
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MooréNative