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Open to industry roles · 2026 Le Mans, France · 48°00′N / 0°12′E Portfolio — MMXXVI

Naif Asswiel,

A Master's student of Artificial Intelligence at Le Mans University, with a software engineering foundation and a researcher's appetite for models that hold up under scrutiny. I build deep learning systems end-to-end — from the data to the benchmark.

Currently Working on LLM benchmarks
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§ 01 — About

A practitioner first.

Le Mans · 2026
Portrait of Naif Asswiel

I like models that work — that generalize, ship, and survive a proper evaluation.

Before the Master's in AI at Le Mans, I finished a CS degree at Montpellier and spent a summer at LIUM reproducing the state of the art in audio-visual deepfake detection. The common thread is a preference for building from scratch: datasets, training loops, judges, interfaces — the parts that turn a paper into something usable.

I’m currently seeking a long-term role where I can bring value, collaborate effectively, and contribute to meaningful projects.

01LocationLe Mans, FR
02ProgramM2 AI
03Publications2 (EN + FR)
04LanguagesAR · FR · EN
05CoffeeLong black
06StatusAvailable
§ 02 : Experience

Where the work happens.

Mar 2026 → Now Internship · Paris

AI Engineer at CGI

Benchmarks & fine-tuning for COBOL understanding
  • Designed and evaluated an automated LLM benchmarking pipeline for COBOL code generation and documentation.
  • Fine-tuned an SLM using parameter-efficient techniques to generate business-oriented functional retrodocumentation from COBOL code.
  • Built a code-documentation dataset, debugged the training pipeline on a cloud GPU, and designed an evaluation benchmark with an automated LLM judge.
LLMsFine-tuningNLPCOBOLLLM-as-Judge
May — Jul 2025 Research · Le Mans

Deep Learning Researcher at LIUM

Audio-visual deepfake detection
  • Applied and fine-tuned state-of-the-art models for audio-visual deepfake detection.
  • Reproduced state-of-the-art results through large-scale model training.
  • Leveraged temporal deepfake detection models to run experiments and assess their performance on benchmark datasets.
Deep LearningResearchMultimodalReproducibility
§ 03 — Writing

Selected publications.

2025 Peer-reviewed · EN + FR

Making Hallucinations Useful — a reassessment of the Troublemaker Agent strategy in the age of generative AI.

A learning platform for medical students built on a RAG system that generates yes/no questions using verified knowledge and controlled inaccuracies to encourage critical thinking. I contributed the SLM behind the question-generation pipeline; presented at two conferences including an international venue.

My contribution
  • Designed and implemented the RAG pipeline; compared performance across several LLMs and SLMs.
  • Assessed the quality of question generation and information retrieval using targeted evaluation metrics.
§ 04 — Projects

Things I built.

05Computer Vision

Real-Time Car Detection

  • YOLOv3 with OpenCV DNN module for real-time vehicle detection over a video pipeline.
  • Preprocessing, detection, and Non-Maximum Suppression to filter overlapping boxes and raise accuracy.
OpenCVYOLOv3Python
06NLP / RAG

Intelligent PDF Q&A — RAG

  • Ingests PDFs and produces semantic embeddings via HuggingFace transformers.
  • Integrates Google Gemini for question-answering; vector index + similarity search for grounded responses.
LlamaIndexGeminiRAG
07Backend

E-commerce API — Node.js

  • Full CRUD for main entities, file uploads with image processing, and JWT auth with password reset + role-based access.
  • Modular architecture (models · services · routes · middleware) and payment integration.
Node.jsExpressMongoDB
08Mobile

ShopEase

  • An e-commerce mobile app in Flutter/Dart with a FastAPI + Firebase backend for data, auth, and server logic.
FlutterFastAPIFirebase
09Learning

Deep Dive AI — ongoing

  • Hands-on notebooks covering core ML concepts: linear/logistic regression, residual CNNs, and more.
PyTorchPandasNumPy
§ 05 — Education

How I got here.

2024 → NowMaster

M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence

Le Mans University
  • ML algorithms, deep learning, NLP, signal processing, data modeling, neural networks, and experimental evaluation of AI systems.
2021 — 2024Bachelor

B.Sc. in Computer Science

University of Montpellier
  • Software development, algorithms & logical reasoning, data structures, databases, and computer networks.
2021Language

DELF B2 — French

CAVILAM — Alliance Française
  • Learned French from scratch through intensive classes, interactive projects, and cultural activities.
§ 06 — Toolkit

What I reach for.

01 / Machine Learning

Models & data

PyTorchTensorFlow TransformersScikit-Learn NumPyPandas
02 / Languages

Programming

PythonSQL JavaScriptC
03 / Infra

Tools

GitSLURM DockerMLflow Ollama
04 / Web

Frameworks

FastAPIDjango Node / ExpressMongoDB
05 / Human

Languages spoken

ArabicNative
FrenchFluent
EnglishFluent
§ 07 — Certifications

Coursework & credentials.

§ 07.b — Volunteering
§ 08 — Contact

Say hello.

I'm open to internships, research collaborations, or a good conversation about AI, evaluation, or anything adjacent. Fastest way to reach me is email.

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