About Sakina
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English
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Arabic
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Experience
- The Carlyle Group,ML/AI engineer (Contractor)December 2023 - January 2026 (2 years and 1 month)Paris, France• ● Integrating AI across the private equity investment life cycle : Designed and deployed LLM-powered internal tools and RAG/agentic workflows, improving data extraction, enrichment and investment report generation for deal teams.• ● Built evaluative frameworks for LLM quality assurance, including hallucination detection, structured extraction reliability, and performance monitoring in production.• ● Built scalable pipelines integrating financial/alternative datasets with automated feature engineering.• ● Engineered an automated comparables engine leveraging embeddings and vector search for real-timecompetitors benchmarking. Key Technologies: Python, OpenAI/Anthropic APIs, Langgraph/fuse, Llama-parse, vector search, embeddings, RAG, Databricks, DBT.
- SESAMm,Senior Data ScientistNovember 2021 - November 2023 (2 years)Paris, France• ● Led development of SESAMm's ESG controversy detection engine. From PoC prototype to covering 200K+ public/private companies while processing 19B+ articles data lake across 6 languages. Fine-tuned a FinBERT model for controversy classification. Was also actively involved in Salesprocesses (presentations to prospects and clients), recruitments and AI roadmap design.• ● Pioneered the use of LLMs to improve data quality and introduced human-in-the-loop labelling UI, optimizing precision/recall trade-offs while heavily reducing manual QA.• ● Collaborated with Euronext to build NLP-driven indicators and scoring algorithms directly supporting the launch of 3 thematic indexes. Key Technologies: Python, AWS, Hugging Face, Pytorch, Scikit-learn, OpenAI api, CI/CD.
- SESAMmMachine Learning EngineerDIGITAL AND ITApril 2019 - October 2021 (2 years and 6 months)• ● Led 3 client PoCs with top-tier financial institutions (Milliman, CPPIB, Japanese AM). Implemented time series forecasting systems using machine learning and NLP features using SESAMm's alternative data feeds for various use-cases: ○ Quarterly sales growth forecasting on~1k North American companies. ○ S&P500 realised volatility forecasting using high-frequency volatility proxies.• ● Contributed to SESAMm's proprietary Python library for quantitative Machine Learning. Developed features in modules (feature extraction, temporal cross-validation, model interpretation) Key Technologies: Python, NumPy, Sickit learn, XGBoost, SHAP, time-series analysis.
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Education
- Dual Master of Science degreesTelecom NANCY and Université de LorraineDual Master of Science degrees
- Master of Science2019Master of Science