Experience
2024 — Now
Senior Member of Technical Staff
Oracle · Zurich, Switzerland
- Leading the deployment of Large Language Models and Generative AI in the MySQL HeatWave cloud service.
2022 — 2024
Member of Technical Staff
Oracle · Zurich, Switzerland
- Main developer of MySQL Generative AI and Retrieval-Augmented Generation features.
- Shipped MySQL HeatWave on AWS, a fully managed database cloud service.
- Designed and built new ML capabilities for HeatWave AutoML, notably in-database recommendation systems.
2021 — 2022
Research Assistant
Oracle · Zurich, Switzerland
- Deployed high-performing distributed machine learning for MySQL cloud database services as part of the HeatWave project.
2021
Machine Learning Intern
NEC Labs America · Princeton, USA
- Built deep learning models to analyze histological images of cancer tumors — computer vision, adversarial learning and generative models for domain adaptation and transfer learning.
2020
Graduate Student Researcher — intelligent Global Health lab
EPFL · with IDDO & University of Oxford
- Led a collaboration analyzing sensitive Ebola pandemic data to detect and visualize patterns guiding targeted interventions and medical training.
2020
Teaching Assistant — Machine Learning (CS-433)
EPFL · Lausanne, Switzerland
- Supported the lead instructor and mentored graduate students on their machine learning course projects.
Education
2019 — 2022
MSc, Data Science — minor in Financial Engineering
EPFL · Lausanne, Switzerland · GPA 5.4 / 6
2016 — 2019
BSc, Communication Systems
EPFL · Lausanne, Switzerland · GPA 4.8 / 6
Innovations & Leadership
2024
Workshop Organizer & Speaker — Applied Machine Learning Days
2023
Patent Holder
“Tuning-free unsupervised anomaly detection based on distance to nearest normal point.”
Skills
LLMs & Generative AI
RAG & Vector Search
Recommendation Systems
Deep Learning
Distributed ML
Cloud & Database Systems
Python
SQL
PyTorch
PySpark
Scala
Java / C