Curriculum Vitae

Doctoral Researcher (PhD in Computer Science)

EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Switzerland

2024 – Present (Expected Graduation: 2027)

Databases, distributed systems, and approximate vector search for scalable, efficient ML inference.
Supervised by Anne-Marie Kermarrec and Rafael Pires.
So far, published two papers (Middleware '25 and EuroMlSys '25) on vector databases for ML. See Publications.

Master's Degree in Data Science (5.58/6)

EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Switzerland

2021 – 2024

Master's thesis on partially-centralized distributed learning.
Published an ICWSM article on online community detection in social networks. See Publications.

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science (5.10/6)

EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Switzerland

2018 – 2021

Vice-President & IT Manager

IEEE EPFL Student Branch

2023 – 2025

Member of the local branch of IEEE. Hired as IT Manager.
Promoted to Vice-President in September 2023.
Maintained IT infrastructure (public/internal websites, organizational tooling, email) and organized IEEE events, e.g., WESYP 2023.

Software Engineering Intern

D-Tree Zambia (International NGO)

2023

EPFL internship in Lusaka, Zambia.
Developed a digital platform to coordinate healthcare information and HIV-related services. Collaboration between EPFL, USAID, and the Zambian Ministry of Health.

IT Manager

@Festival Balélec (~15,000 attendees)

2022 – 2023

Responsible for the maintenance and readiness of the IT infrastructure throughout the school year.

Programming & Systems

Languages: C, Rust, C++, Python, Bash
Vector Databases, Approximate Nearest Neighbor algorithms, Distributed Databases
Concepts: Systems Programming, Functional Programming, SIMD & Parallelism

Other interests