Bilal FAYE

Institution: LIPN, Université Paris 13

Co-supervisors: Prof. Hanane Azzag, Prof. Mustapha Lebbah

Topic: Multimodal and Knowledge-Driven Learning for Low-Resource Languages

This research tackles the complexity of processing languages like Kabyle. It integrates speech, text, and visual data with reinforcement learning and graph knowledge to create adaptable and robust NLP systems in under-annotated environments.

Supervisors: Prof. Mustapha Lebbah, Dr. Sylvain Gautier

Topic: Design of a Smart Communication System for Preventive Healthcare Actors

This final-year internship explores AI-based tools to enhance communication between public health professionals. The system includes intelligent search and information retrieval from research articles to support collaborative prevention strategies.

Institution: Université Paris-Saclay

Co-supervisor: Prof. Mustapha Lebbah

Topic: Molecular Property Prediction with Deep Learning

Supervised 4 M1 and 2 M2 students on tasks involving molecular solubility and toxicity using DL models. Work involved data engineering, cheminformatics, model selection and evaluation in real-world drug discovery use cases.

Institution: AIMS Senegal

Co-supervisors: Prof. Hanane Azzag, Prof. Mustapha Lebbah

Project: Extending LLMs to Vision Tasks

This project investigated cross-modal learning for tasks like object detection and phrase grounding by adapting LLMs to visual inputs, paving the way for multimodal agents.

Institution: IUT Villetaneuse

Co-supervisors: Prof. Mustapha Lebbah, HephIA

Topic: LLMs for Legal Document Processing

The project involved designing a RAG pipeline using open-source LLMs to parse legal texts. Challenges included domain adaptation and model efficiency in constrained environments.

Institution: Université Paris-Saclay

Co-supervisor: Prof. Mustapha Lebbah

Project: LLMs for Sepsis Prediction

Supervised three project groups exploring LLM-based methods to predict sepsis. Work led to the release of Sepsistral-7B, a specialized model trained on medical corpora for decision support systems.

Institution: ESP, Senegal

Co-supervisor: Dr. Khoulé

Topic: Client Profiling and Chatbot Integration

The internship focused on user segmentation for transportation services and chatbot integration for service personalization. Funded by Bakhbade Academy, it applied clustering, NLP, and deployment strategies in production environments.