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General Information

Full Name Victor Khamesi
Languages French, English, Spanish
Contact victor.khamesi21 at imperial dot ac dot uk

Education

  • 2023 - now
    PhD in Statistics and Machine Learning
    Imperial College London, UK
    • Under the supervision of Dean Bodenham, Ed Cohen, and Niall Adams within the Department of Mathematics.
    • Statistical and machine learning methods for changepoint, distribution shift, and anomaly detection in high-dimensional sequential data, with broader interests in online learning, time series, self-supervised learning, and distribution-free methods.
  • 2021 - 2022
    MSc in Statistics
    Imperial College London, UK
    • Obtained with Distinction, 82%.
    • Computational Statistics, Statistical Inference, Probability, Linear Models, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Stochastic Processes, Bayesian Statistics, Stochastic Calculus.
  • 2019 - 2022
    MSc in General Engineering ("Ingénieur Généraliste")
    École Centrale de Lyon, France
    • GPA 3.8/4.0.
    • Linear Algebra, Applied & Numerical Analysis, Optimisation, Probability, Statistics, Data Structures & Algorithms, Machine Learning, Quantum Physics, Chemistry, Fluid Dynamics.

Experience

  • 2026
    Applied Science PhD Intern
    Microsoft, London, UK
    • Under the supervision of Jorge Tavares (Principal Researcher) within the MSAI research group.
    • Researched generative retrieval to unify indexing and retrieval in one model, designing and training decoder-only large language models through multi-stage training and knowledge distillation.
  • 2022 - 2023
    Data Scientist
    Amazon, Edinburgh, UK
    • Developed statistical and machine learning models for large-scale advertising, combining representation learning, language models, geolocation embeddings, and A/B experimentation to improve targeting and behavioural modelling.
  • 2021
    Machine Learning Intern
    Mon Petit Placement, Lyon, France
    • Developed statistical and machine learning models for customer segmentation and conversion probability estimation, with applications to personalised content delivery.

Honours and Awards

  • 2023
    • Awarded the selective PhD Roth Scholarship by the Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London.
  • 2021
  • 2020
    • Awarded second prize for best first-year research project at École Centrale de Lyon (Prix Francis Leboeuf).

Other Interests

  • CrossFit, Rugby, Football, Skiing/Snowboarding, Hiking, Aviation.