Data Science graduate of EPFL Switzerland with hands-on industry experience delivering real-world impact across AI/ML, with a recent focus on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems and AI agents. Highly motivated to learn and contribute to building reliable, production-grade generative AI solutions. In my recent work, I engineer GenAI/RAG platform components and evaluation frameworks, design multimodal assistants, and deliver end-to-end AI agents with strong attention to faithfulness, hallucination control, and citation validation.

Ahmed Ben Haj Yahia

Data Science graduate of EPFL Switzerland with hands-on industry experience delivering real-world impact across AI/ML, with a recent focus on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems and AI agents. Highly motivated to learn and contribute to building reliable, production-grade generative AI solutions. In my recent work, I engineer GenAI/RAG platform components and evaluation frameworks, design multimodal assistants, and deliver end-to-end AI agents with strong attention to faithfulness, hallucination control, and citation validation.

Available to hire

Data Science graduate of EPFL Switzerland with hands-on industry experience delivering real-world impact across AI/ML, with a recent focus on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems and AI agents. Highly motivated to learn and contribute to building reliable, production-grade generative AI solutions.

In my recent work, I engineer GenAI/RAG platform components and evaluation frameworks, design multimodal assistants, and deliver end-to-end AI agents with strong attention to faithfulness, hallucination control, and citation validation.

See more

Experience Level

Expert
Expert
Expert
Intermediate
Intermediate
Intermediate
Intermediate
Intermediate
Intermediate
Intermediate
Intermediate
See more

Language

French
Fluent
English
Advanced
Arabic
Fluent

Work Experience

Senior Data & AI Consultant at Philico SA, Lausanne
November 1, 2024 - Present
Engineered and delivered GenAI/RAG platform components for a regulated AI fintech, including internal SDKs, ingestion pipelines, retrieval optimization, agent evaluation, and production quality improvements. Built a RAG evaluation and benchmarking framework using human-verified reference data to compare retrieval methods, ingestion strategies, merging algorithms, and Qdrant configurations using recall, precision, and latency—guiding changes to production RAG quality. Delivered production AI agents such as a structure-preserving document translation agent and a multimodal RAG assistant for assembly-line operators, focusing on faithfulness, hallucination detection, and citation validation. Also contributed to applied ML for Geneva Airport, including per-flight passenger forecasting at about 80% accuracy and a demand-capacity decision-support tool to reduce operational congestion.
Data Science consultant (Independent)
October 1, 2023 - November 1, 2024
Provided remote data science consulting services across AI/ML projects (details not specified in the resume).
Data Science intern at Geneva-Airport, Geneva
September 1, 2022 - March 1, 2023
Data science internship (details not specified in the resume).
ML/AI Analyst intern at Omnisens, Morges
February 1, 2022 - August 1, 2022
ML/AI analyst internship (details not specified in the resume).

Education

Master, Data Science at EPFL, Lausanne
January 1, 2023 - March 1, 2023
Bachelor, Communication Systems at EPFL, Lausanne
January 1, 2020 - August 1, 2022

Qualifications

Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900)
October 1, 2025 - July 27, 2026

Industry Experience

Financial Services, Manufacturing, Transportation & Logistics, Professional Services, Software & Internet