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General Information
| Full Name | Victor Khamesi |
| Languages | French, English, Spanish |
| Contact | victor.khamesi21 at imperial dot ac dot uk |
Education
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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2023 - Awarded the selective PhD Roth Scholarship by the Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London.
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2021 - Awarded first prize at the Finance & Innovation for Good competition (Google Cloud, HSBC, Sia Partners).
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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.