Faten Ghriss
About Faten Ghriss
Faten Ghriss is an AI Engineer and Team Lead at InstaDeep, where she manages projects in deep learning and natural language processing. She has a background in software engineering and has co-founded the Young Tunisian Coders Academy, focusing on teaching coding and robotics to children.
Work at InstaDeep
Faten Ghriss serves as an AI Engineer and Team Lead at InstaDeep, a position she has held since 2018. In this role, she leads a team of engineers, managing projects that focus on deep learning and natural language processing. Ghriss is responsible for overseeing client relationships, particularly with Deutsche Bahn, where she plays a crucial role in implementing scaled AI solutions. Her work includes engaging in pre-sales activities and providing technical insights to potential clients.
Education and Expertise
Faten Ghriss has a solid educational background in software engineering and artificial intelligence. She studied at INSAT - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées et de Technologie, where she earned an Engineer’s Degree in Computer Network and Telecommunication from 2010 to 2016. She furthered her studies at Minnesota State University, Mankato, achieving an Exchange Year in Software Engineering from 2014 to 2015. Additionally, Ghriss completed a Deep Reinforcement Learning Nanodegree at Udacity from 2019 to 2020, enhancing her expertise in AI.
Background
Prior to her current role, Faten Ghriss gained diverse experience in the tech industry. She co-founded the Young Tunisian Coders Academy in 2015, focusing on teaching coding, robotics, and soft skills to children. She also worked as a Software Engineer at Infor from 2016 to 2018 and held various internships, including a position as an Information Security Intern at Minnesota State University in 2015 and a Mobile App Development Intern at Orange Tunisie in 2013.
Achievements
Faten Ghriss has made significant contributions to the field of artificial intelligence. She played a key role in securing a long-term partnership with Deutsche Bahn by developing a Deep Reinforcement Learning proof of concept for train scheduling and dispatching. Additionally, she contributed to the research paper 'TunBERT: Pretrained Contextualized Text Representation for Tunisian Dialect' and participated in creating a training dataset for language model training, focusing on under-represented languages and dialects.
Community Involvement
Faten Ghriss has actively engaged in community development as the lead of Facebook Developer Circle: Tunis from 2017 to 2019. During her tenure, she successfully grew a community of 4,000 developers with support from Facebook. Her efforts in fostering a collaborative environment for developers demonstrate her commitment to enhancing the tech community in Tunisia.