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Ahmed Halioui

Ahmed Halioui

Data Scientist (Back- End Developer)
Montréal,Canada

Summary

Innovative Data Scientist with more than 5 years of experience in predictive modeling, data mining and hypothetical testing within the bioinformatics, pharmaceutical and biomedical domains. Proficient in analysis, modeling, and reporting in the cloud using Azure tools. Meticulous Data Scientist accomplished in compiling, transforming and analyzing complex information through software. Expert in machine learning and large dataset management. To seek and maintain full- time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
11
11
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Languages

Work History

Data Scientist

My Intelligent Machines
Montréal, Québec
05.2017 - Current
  • Development of a graph-based knowledge and
    models and recommender systems for
    Bioinformatics analyses such as in: drug/gene
    discovery, patient clustering, etc.
  • Improved data collection methods by designing an
    automatic up-to-date API for the Knowledge
    Acquisition (KA) component for the whole solution
  • Set up SQL and NosQL databases on Azure cloud
    servers to store client data for query analysis.
  • Built A/B testing frameworks to test model
    quality.
  • Identified, measured and recommended
    improvement strategies for KPIs across business
    areas.

Tutor and Assistant Professor

Université du Québec à Montréal
Montréal, Québec
01.2011 - 05.2017

Tutor courses:

  • INF7710: Théorie et applications de la fouille d'association (Data mining: Theory and application) with P. Valtchev
  • INF1 120: Programmation 1&ll (Programming 1&2) with A.B. Diallo
  • INF1256: Informatique pour les sciences de la gestion (Computing for management sciences ) with C Contardo.

Assistant professor courses:

  • INF1026: Outils de bureautique et Internet (Internet and Office Tools)
  • BIF7001: Bioinformatique avancée (Advanced Bioinformatics)

Database Developer Intern

Centre de Recherche Informatique à Montréal
Montréal, Québec
01.2016 - 07.2016
  • Development of a semantic web search engine using the Fedora Triplestore
  • Create a web application to search for linked digital objects (assembly transcripts metadata)
  • Created technical documentation for database technologies, providing updates using JIRA Agile tools
  • Implemented security measures to protect vital business data.

Researcher

Université du Québec à Montréal
Montréal, Québec
11.2011 - 07.2016
  • Within the projects of La Chaire de recherche du Canada en
    Mondialisation, Citoyenneté et Démocratie at UQÀM
  • Development of a semantic web search engine using a triplestore: create a web application to search for linked digital objects (assembly transcripts metadata)
  • Development of classic Information Extraction NLP
    techniques to extract the Otherness concepts from
    Islamic Fatwas

Assistant professor

Institut Supérieur d'Informatique et de Gestion de Kairouan
Kairouan, Tunisia
01.2010 - 12.2010
  • C programming language
  • ERP: Enterprise Resource Planning
  • C2i : Certificat informatique & internet

Database Developer Intern

Société régionale de, transport de Kairouan
Kairouan, Tunisia
05.2007 - 06.2007
  • Developed and updated databases using Oracle Forms 10g to handle customer data
  • Set up and controlled user access levels across databases to protect important data
  • Identified issues within databases, performed troubleshooting and implemented effective solutions
  • Cultivated and maintained effective working relationships with other developers and members of the Computer department.

Education

Ph.D. - Cognitive Computing

Université Du Québec À Montréal (UQAM)
Montréal, QC
1 2011 - 6 2018

Master of Science - Intelligent Information Systems

Institut Supérieur D'Informatique Et De Gestion
Kairouan, Tunisia
09.2008 - 06.2010

Bachelor of Science - Applied Computer Science

Institut Supérieur D'Informatique Et De Gestion
Kairouan, Tunisia
09.2003 - 06.2008

High School Diploma - Mathematics

Lycée Des Junes Filles
Kairouan, Tunisia
09.2003 - 06.2008

Skills

MySQL, ArangoDB, MongoDB

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Timeline

Data Scientist

My Intelligent Machines
05.2017 - Current

Database Developer Intern

Centre de Recherche Informatique à Montréal
01.2016 - 07.2016

Researcher

Université du Québec à Montréal
11.2011 - 07.2016

Tutor and Assistant Professor

Université du Québec à Montréal
01.2011 - 05.2017

Assistant professor

Institut Supérieur d'Informatique et de Gestion de Kairouan
01.2010 - 12.2010

Master of Science - Intelligent Information Systems

Institut Supérieur D'Informatique Et De Gestion
09.2008 - 06.2010

Database Developer Intern

Société régionale de, transport de Kairouan
05.2007 - 06.2007

Bachelor of Science - Applied Computer Science

Institut Supérieur D'Informatique Et De Gestion
09.2003 - 06.2008

High School Diploma - Mathematics

Lycée Des Junes Filles
09.2003 - 06.2008

Ph.D. - Cognitive Computing

Université Du Québec À Montréal (UQAM)
1 2011 - 6 2018

Publications (most recent)

  • Halioui, Ahmed, Petko Valtchev, and Abdoulaye Baniré Diallo. "Bioinformatic workflow extraction from scientific texts based on word sense disambiguation." IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics 15, no. 6 (2018): 1979 - 1990.
  • Halioui, Ahmed, Petko Valtchev, and Abdoulaye Baniré Diallo. "T-GOWler: Discovering Generalized Process Models Within Texts." Journal of Computational Biology 24, no. 8 (2017): 799-808.
  • Halioui, Ahmed, Tomas Martin, Petko Valtchev, and Abdoulaye Baniré Diallo. "Ontology-based workflow pattern mining: application to bioinformatics expertise acquisition." In Proceedings of the Symposium on Applied Computing, pp. 824-827. ACM, (2017).
  • Remita, M. A., Ahmed Halioui, Abou Abdallah Malick Diouara, Bruno Daigle, Golrokh Kiani, and Abdoulaye Baniré Diallo. "A machine learning approach for viral genome classification." BMC bioinformatics 18, no. 1 (2017): 208.

References

Mikael Camus

CTO at My Intelligent Machines

mickael@mims.ai


Sarah Jenna

CEO at My Intelligent Machines

sarah@mims.ai


Abdoulaye Baniré Diallo

Professor at Université du Québec à Montréal

diallo.abdoulaye@uqam.ca


Petko Valtchev

Professor at Université du Québec à Montréal

petko.valtchev@uqam.ca

Ahmed HaliouiData Scientist (Back- End Developer)