Author: Laychiva
Experience
August 2024 - Present: Social Security Regulator (SSR), Cambodia
Position: ICT Specialist
- Responsible for all ICT-related tasks in Social Security Regulators.
August 2024 - Present: GS-NSPC, Ministry of Economics and Finance, Cambodia
Position: AI Specialist
- Responsible for AI-related tasks in Digital Social Protection.
October 2023 - Febraury 2024: Rexel
Position: School AI Project
Tech stack: Python/Machine Learning/NLP/Deep Learning/PyTorch
- Led the optimization of Top-k Retrieval using AI, involving a comprehensive research phase to benchmark a spectrum of vector search methods, ranging from classical techniques to those incorporating large language models.
March 2023 - September 2023: amadeus
Position: AI Research Engineer Intern
Tech stack: Python/Machine Learning/NLP/Docker/Deep Learning/PyTorch
- Intern in a R&D Department
- Developed an advanced tool employing state-of-the-art vector embeddings to classify issues and recommend solutions for airline and travel industry challenges, seamlessly integrating research concepts into practical application.
- Designed an answering engine using Large Language Models (LLM) and implemented the Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) technique to construct a resource-efficient chatbot.
- Participated in Innovation Week and worked on Data Drift to detect data drift in a production environment.
- The tool is currently utilized within Amadeus, significantly reducing the workload for maintenance teams.
- Awarded the ‘Prix du stage de recherche’ by École Polytechnique for exceptional research outcomes achieved during the internship.
- Participate in Innovation Week, working on Data Drift.
June 2022 - September 2022: Paris Partners Software
Position: Machine Learning intern
Tech stack: Python/Machine Learning/Time Series
- Develop a budget forecasting application using bank data.
- Study the evolution of time series of banking data.
Education
2023-Present: Télécom Paris, Paris, France
Dual Master’s Degree in Engineering, majoring in Artificial Intelligence.
2020-Present: École polytechnique, Paris, France
Cycle Ingénieur polytechnicien de l’École polytechnique, majoring in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.
2017-2020: Institute of Technology of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Foundation years in Mathematics and Physics
Skills
| Good knowledge | Basic knowledge |
|---|---|
| - Python | - Hadoop/Spark |
| - PyTorch/Keras/TensorFlow | - HTML5/CSS |
| - Java | - C/C++ |
| - PostgreSQL/SQL | - JavaScript |
Languages
- 🇰🇭 Khmer - Native speaker
- 🇬🇧 English - Proficient C1/C2
- 🇫🇷 French - Advanced - C1
Prize and Award
- Awarded the “Prix du stage de recherche” by the École polytechnique.
- Obtained the Eiffel Excellence Scholarship for 3 years to pursue studies at École Polytechnique
- 4th place in the mathematics competition and 4th place in the physics competition at ITC
- Gold medal in mathematics at the mathematics competition at ITC
- Obtained the baccalaureate with a grade of A, top tenth among all grade 12 students.
Projects
- École polytechnique: Data Challenge “Classification of Human Written Text and AI Generated Text”: GitHub
- École polytechnique: Data Challenge “Predict the number of retweet of a tweet”: GitHub
- École polytechnique: Advance Algorithm: “Matching one-to-many under constraints”: GitHub
- École polytechnique: Data Challenge “Classification of Forest Type”: GitHub
- École polytechnique: Collective scientific project: GitHub
- École polytechnique: MODAL “Application Web”: GitHub
Divers
- Voluntary Works
- Tutoring first and second year students at ITC in mathematics and physics, and tutoring students who want to take the entrance exam for IP-Paris in mathematics and physics.
- General Secretary: Responsible for communication of Association des Polytechniciens Khmers
- Hobbies
- Photography portfolio