SOKHAR SAMB
Dakar, Senegal|| - ||-|
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sokhar-samb/ || GitHub: https://github.com/sokharsamb||
EDUCATION
OCTOBER 2019
MASTER IN MACHINE INTELLIGENCE, AFRICAN MASTER FOR MACHINE
INTELLIGENCE
Advance machine learning and Artificial intelligence.
Master Thesis: low resources machine translation Wolof-English.
Supervisor: Agela Fan, Antoine Bordes, Facebook IA research
SEPTEMBER 2018
MASTER IN BIG DATA AND COMPUTER SECURITY, AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR
MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCES
Perform data science tasks such as data ingestion, data analysis and machine learning with focus
on processing of large-scale datasets from theories to algorithm. Understand and deal with big
data frame works.
Master thesis: Compressed sensing for networked data
Supervisor: Pr. Franck K. Mutombo, Bubacar Bah, AIMS
JUNE 2016
MASTER IN APPLY MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE, PROBABILITY AND
STATISTIC, GASTON BERGER UNIVERSITY
Four years in applied mathematics and computer science before I specialize in statistic and
probability.
Master thesis: Weighted sums, asymptotic behavior of maxima: application to finance
Supervisor: Pr. Aliou Diop, Dr Saliou Diouf, UGB
WORK EXPERIENCE
DECEMBER 2020– PRESENT
LEAD DATA SCIENCE/MACHINE LEARNING/AI AT OBERTYS
Project manager, R&D Manager, data science & IA Engineer, Head of data scientist team,
Banking data collection and processing, Statistics, Credit Scoring, Segmentation, Big Data, Machine
Learning, Data mining, Risk analysis, fraud detection, Handwriting Recognition, Deep Learning, Artificial
Intelligence (voice, face recognition), image processing, NLP.
APRIL 2019– OCTOBER 2019
DATA GENERATION, PROGRAMMING &ANALYSIS OFFICER, GLOBAL RESEARCH AND ADVOCACY
GROUP
Provide relevant assistance to research investigators, to design adequate strategies for
implementation of research process including the development of data collection and monitoring
tools.
JUNE 2018 – DECEMBER 2018
BIG DATA ENGINEER, CENTRO-DE PENSAMIENTO-ESTRATEGICO-INTERNACIONAL
(CEPEI), COLOMBIA
◆ NLP
◆ Web scraping and web Crawling: extract data from different websites in Colombia, Costa
Rica and Mexico
◆ Data mining: extract meaning information for measuring SDGs with R
◆ Sentimental analysis: Analyze gender base violence in Colombia, Costa Rica and Mexico using
Tweeter data with python and Tableau.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
OCTOBRE 2015– OCTOBER 2016
TEACHING ASSISTANCE: SAINT LOUIS HIGH SCHOOL
JULLY 2020
COURSE: DATA SCIENCE ONLINE TRAINING
LEADERSHIP, SOCIAL COMMITMENTS
JULLY 2020– PRESENT
CO-ORGANIZER: WOMEN IN MACHINE LEARNING AND DATA SCIENCE(WIMLDS)
FEBRUARY 2019– PRESENT
FOUNDER AND COORDINATOR OF WOMEN PROMOTING SCIENCE ON THE YOUNGER GENERATION
◆ Maintain the interest of the young people in general and girls in particular in the field of
science.
◆ Getting them to develop a career in this field.
SKILLS
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Python, Pytorch, TensorFlow, R, C++, C, Java
Spark, Scala,
Hadoop, Tableau, Esri
BD, SQL, MySQL
Machine learning
Operational research and graph theory
Mathematics, statistic
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LANGUAGES
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French:
English:
Spanish:
Fluent
Fluent
beginner
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Fast Learning, adaptability, Energy,
Dynamism
Hard worker, willing to learn.
ACTIVITIES
I am passionate about everything related to data. Currently with the air of the fourth industrial
revolution, which is the artificial intelligence, my biggest dream is to become one of the pioneers of this
field in 5 years. Helping my community by making its new generation passionate about science.
"Promoting science on the younger generation"
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