Hi, my name is Samy, I am a PhD student at Télécom Paris working under the supervision of Prof. Fabian M. Suchanek and Associate Prof. Nils Holzenberger. My research interests lie in the intersection of structured data and language models. Prior to that, I obtained a MSc in Computer Science from the Technical University of Denmark and a MEng from Centrale Nantes in France. I created this site because I wanted to share my academic work, personal projects and anything else I find interesting with the world.

Research Interests

  • Information Extraction (in particular entity disambiguation/linking)
  • Reasoning and Generalization in LLMs
  • LLM Post-training (RL, Distillation)
  • Mechanistic Interpretability
  • Natural Language Processing (NLP)
  • Knowledge Graphs

Education

  • PhD Student Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Plateau de Saclay, France, 2025-2028 (expected)
  • MSc in Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark, 2022-2024
    • Master Thesis: "Implementation and Evaluation of Recent Neuroevolution Algorithms", supervised by Prof. Carsten Witt
  • MEng with a specialization in data and signal processing, Centrale Nantes, Nantes, France, 2020-2024
  • Classes préparatoires aux grandes écoles, Lycée Janson de Sailly, Paris, France, 2018-2020

Work experience

  • Doctoral Researcher, Télécom Paris, Plateau de Saclay, France, 2025-2028 (expected)
  • Student Software Engineer (part time), Microsoft, Lyngby, Denmark, 2023-2024 (1.5 years)
  • Research internship in deep learning for audio processing, Thales R&T, Plateau de Saclay, France, 2022 (5 months)
  • SOC Intern, Atos, Bezons, France, 2021 (1 months)

Hobbies