Ahmed Ben Haj Yahia

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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.

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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.

  • 4 years' experience
  • Joined July 2026

Industry experience

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

Work experience· 4 roles

Senior Data & AI Consultant · Philico SA, LausanneNov 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo

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)Oct 2023 – Nov 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos

Provided remote data science consulting services across AI/ML projects (details not specified in the resume).

Data Science intern · Geneva-Airport, GenevaSep 2022 – Mar 2023 · 7 mos

Data science internship (details not specified in the resume).

ML/AI Analyst intern · Omnisens, MorgesFeb 2022 – Aug 2022 · 7 mos

Education

Master, Data Science · EPFL, Lausanne2023
Bachelor, Communication Systems · EPFL, Lausanne2020 – 2022

Certifications and awards

Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900)2025 – 2026

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