About Me

I got my bachelor degree in software engineering in 2019 from the National institute of applied Sciences and Technology, Tunis (INSAT) which is listed as one of the top engineering schools in Tunisia. To obtain this degree, I had an internship at Télécom ParisTech, department of Economic and Social Sciences, under the supervision of Prof. David Bounie, where I studied the impact of artificial intelligence on the french job market using natural language processing techniques.

Then, I started off my career as a researcher at the Risk foundation - Institut Louis Bachelier, Paris, France which is my current job where I’m working on bias mitigation and fairness in artificial intelligence’s algorithms.

I am also completing my graduate studies in the MICAS master program at Polytechnic Institute of Paris, France and graduating in October 2021.

In addition to that, I’m interested in the application of modern artificial intelligence techniques in the quantum world. Always seeking new opportunities to learn more about this subject, I enrolled in MITx Statistics and Data Science (SDS) micro-master and the DelftX's Quantum 101..

Contact Details

Ismail Akrout
71 Avenue of independence
Menzel Bourguiba, 7050, Tunisia
akrout.ismail@gmail.com

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Education

INSTITUT POLYTECHNIQUE DE PARIS

Master Year 2 Machine Learning, Communications and Security • September 2020 -- Pesent

The second year of the Machine Learning, Communications, and Security Master’s program (MICAS) is devoted to information sciences and explores solutions to efficiently process, transmit, store, and protect information. The program starts with foundational courses in information processing, building around three main areas: machine learning, communications theory and technologies and security. This research-oriented program provides training in data processing and an in-depth knowledge of communication technologies, machine learning algorithms and information security methods.

MITx

MIT Statistics and Data Science MicroMasters • September 2018 -- September 2019

This MicroMasters® program in Statistics and Data Science was developed by MITx and the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS). It is a multidisciplinary approach comprised of four online courses and a virtually proctored exam that will provide you with the foundational knowledge essential to understanding the methods and tools used in data science, and hands-on training in data analysis and machine learning.

National Institute of Applied Science and Technology (INSAT)

Bachlor of engineering • Specialized in Data science• September 2014 -- October 2019

• Major : Software engineering
• Minor : Data science
• Minor : Finance and stock market studies

National Institute of Applied Science and Technology of Tunisia (INSAT) is listed as one of the best institutes of the country. The 5-year software engineering curriculum covered mathematical units that form the foundation of Artificial Intelligence and multiple cybersecurity core courses. It also included courses in “Data Mining” and “Image processing”

Tinja High school

High-School Diploma• Graduated with high honors• September 2010 -- June 2014

Work

Risk foundation - Institut Louis Bachelier, France

Research Assistant• September 2020 -- Present

  • • Analysing the biases in artificial intelligence models.
  • • Developing techniques to limit the impact of human bias on these algorithms.

National Institute of Applied Science and Technology (INSAT), Tunisia

Teaching Assistant• September 2019 -- December 2019

  • • Teaching deep learning and reinforcement learning course.
  • • Support the design of the programming assignments.

Télécom Paris-Tech, France

Graduation Internship• February 2019 -- August 2019

  • • Classification of job offers using unsupervised learning based on recurrent neural network (RNN) autoencoders data representation.
  • • Creating an infrastructure to clean the data and store it asynchronously.
  • • Approximate the data distributions using multivariate Gaussian mixture.

Workshop

publications

Hacking Google reCAPTCHA v3 using Reinforcement Learning
RLDM Workshop, 2019
  • I. Akrout*
  • A. Feriani*
  • M.Akrout