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Interests

  • Applied AI for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
  • Data mining and Machine Learning
  • Constraint Programming and Discrete Optimization
  • Algorithms and data-structures
  • Software engineering

Experience

  • 2023- Post-doctorate researcher, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
  • 2020-2023 Yearly teaching contract, University of Abomey-Calavi, Abomey-Calavi, Benin
  • 2020-2022 Senior content writer/Data analyst, Dataquest, San Francisco, USA
  • 2019-2020 Post-doctorate researcher, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
  • 2015-2019 Scientific staff, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Fellowships and Academic Honors

  • 2019-2020 Post-Doctoral Fellowship of the European Project GBOBMIG
  • 2016-2019 Belgian Excellent Research Scholarship (FRIA/FRS-FNRS)
  • 2015-2016 Fellow of the Benin-Belgium Development Cooperation - International Action (CAI)/Uclouvain - Belgium
  • 2011 Winner of the ACM/ICPC national programming contest
  • 2010 Knight of the CERADEI-GIT Order of Merit

Affiliations and Foundations

  • 2023- Member (and co-founder) of the "Natural Language Processing Crew" (NLP Crew)
  • 2018 Regular member of the "AAAI Benin Chapter"
  • 2017- Co-founder of the "Machine Intelligent For You" (MIFY SARL)
  • 2016- Member of the "Association for Constraint Programming" (ACP)

Education

  • 2015-2019 Ph.D. in Science of engineering and technology, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
  • 2013-2014 Master of Science in computer science, University of Abomey-Calavi, Abomey-Calavi, Benin
  • 2007-2012 Civil Engineer in computer science, University of Abomey-Calavi, Abomey-Calavi, Benin

Langages

  • Nagot - Mother tongue
  • French - Work language
  • English Proficiency
  • Fongbé - Proficiency
  • Yoruba - Proficiency

Side thread

Social

  • 2023- Chairman of "DJAKA DJAKA Handball Club/Social" -- Addressing youth's social vulnerabilities and issue through sport and appropriate education, Abomey-Calavi, Benin(DJAKA HC)
  • 2021- Co-organizer and promotor of "Noel des Enfants" -- A yearly event to help children, especially the most disadvantaged, at Christmas, Abomey-Calavi, Benin(NDE Bj)
  • 2014- Member of "Bresillac Youth Group" -- A forum for the fulfillment of young people in the Christian faith, Abomey-Calavi, Benin (BYG)

Sport

  • 2023- Chairman of "DJAKA Handball Club", Abomey-Calavi, Benin(DJAKA HC)
  • 2018-2020 Futsal Player for Bayern de Monique, Nivelle, Belgium
  • 2008-2010 Handball Player for Academia, Cotonou, Benin
  • Former Kungfu Wushu practitioner