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Alban NYANTUDRE

nyantudrealban@gmail.com
Safi, Morocco, MA

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

  • Diplôme d'Ingénieur d'État (BAC+5) - Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
    2026-07
    École Nationale des Sciences Appliquées (ENSA) Safi - Cadi Ayyad University
    GPA: 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
  • Preparatory Class - Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science
    2023-07
    École Nationale des Sciences Appliquées (ENSA) Fez - Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University
    GPA: 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

  • AI Research Assistant
    2026-03 - 2026-08
    Université de Moncton
    Quantum 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.
  • Machine Learning Engineer (part-time)
    2024-03 - 2025-08
    GO AI Corporation
    Remote.
    • 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.
  • Machine Learning Engineering Intern
    2023-08 - 2023-10
    Technocolabs 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

  • Python Programming Classes
    2025
    Community Initiative
    Role: Instructor
    Weekly Python programming classes for 60+ students.
  • Data Science & AI Summer Bootcamp
    2024
    GO AI Corporation
    Role: Instructor
    Three-week intensive bootcamp at GO AI Corporation, one of the Data Science/AI bootcamps that have reached 200+ students.

Languages

  • French
    C2
  • English
    C1
  • Spanish
    A1
  • Mooré
    Native