Hi, my name is

Meriem Melki.

ML/NLP Scientist & AI Engineer, looking for an internship.

Final-year Computer Science Engineering student (equivalent to a Master's degree), graduating January 2027, seeking an internship in Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and AI.

01. About Me

I'm a final-year Computer Science Engineering student at INSAT (Bac+5, equivalent to a Master's degree), graduating in January 2027, currently looking for an internship as an AI / ML / NLP Scientist.

I've shipped production ML systems: optimizing a RAG pipeline for a medical exam-prep chatbot (answer faithfulness 0.73 → 0.92) at QCMed, and building order-time prediction models on 50K+ orders at Acrelec.

Outside of internships, I run applied research projects across audio classification, computer vision, agentic AI, and big data. I like taking a paper or an idea and turning it into a working system I can measure.

Languages

Arabic · English · French · Spanish

02. Skills

AI & Machine Learning

Neural NetworksDeep LearningPyTorchTensorFlowKerasTransformersNLPAudio ProcessingSupervised LearningUnsupervised LearningModel EvaluationReinforcement LearningTransfer LearningFine-tuning

Computer Vision

Computer VisionObject RecognitionPerceptionPose EstimationObject DetectionYOLOv8Real-time Vision

Generative AI & Agents

LLMsRAGMCPLangGraphLangChainAI AgentsEvals (RAGAS)Prompt EngineeringEmbeddingsChromaDBAPIs

Information Retrieval

RAG PipelinesSemantic RankingVector DatabasesQdrantQuery OptimizationAzure AI Search

Data Science

Customer SegmentationSales ForecastingTrend AnalysisData Cleaning & PreprocessingFeature EngineeringExploratory Data Analysis (EDA)Applied MathematicsData VisualizationDocument Parsing

Programming & Databases

PythonC/C++JavaJavaScriptTypeScriptNode.jsSQLNoSQLPydantic

Web Frameworks

ReactAngularNestJSFastAPI

Cloud & MLOps

AWSAmazon BedrockSageMakerAzureAzure DevOpsCloud DeploymentCI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)DockerElasticsearchMonitoringLogging

Big Data

Apache SparkSpark SQLHDFS/HadoopDistributed ComputingETL

Tools & Workflow

LinuxUnix / BashGitGitHubClaude CodeGitHub CopilotCursorAgile/Scrum

03. Certifications

04. Experience

AI Intern @ QCMed.tn

06/2026 – 08/2026

Tunisia (Remote)

  • ▹Optimized a production RAG pipeline for a medical exam-prep chatbot, lifting answer faithfulness from 0.73 to 0.92 and answer correctness from 0.38 to 0.82.
  • ▹Cut hallucinations with a cross-encoder re-ranker and query router, hardening the system against prompt-injection attacks.
  • ▹Boosted context recall from 0.68 to 0.96.
  • ▹Set up evaluation pipelines with RAGAS to track answer faithfulness, correctness, and context recall over time.
  • Python
  • RAG
  • OpenAI
  • Qdrant
  • RAGAS
  • FastAPI
  • Prompt Engineering

Data Science Intern @ Acrelec (KFC Data Project)

09/2025 – 10/2025

France (Remote)

  • ▹Built ML models predicting KFC order waiting times across four channels, reaching ~2.3 min MAE (18% below baseline) on 50K+ orders.
  • Python
  • Pandas
  • Scikit-learn

Software Intern @ Euro-Information (International Information Development)

07/2025 – 08/2025

Tunisia

  • ▹Designed a SQL batch pipeline to automatically detect anomalies in employee badge records, replacing a manual review process and improving detection consistency.
  • SQL
  • DevBooster

05. Projects

Respiratory Sound Classification

Academic research comparing PANNs+BiGRU, EfficientNet-B0, and an Audio Spectrogram Transformer for 4-class respiratory sound classification on ICBHI 2017. Best AST config scored 0.6835, surpassing the published paper baseline of 0.6810.

  • Deep Learning
  • Audio Processing
  • Transformers
  • Python

LangGraph Blog Agent

A LangGraph DAG agent that turns a topic, YouTube URL, or uploaded audio/video into a translated Markdown blog post, with Whisper transcription. Built end-to-end with a FastAPI backend and React front-end.

  • LangGraph
  • Groq LLM
  • FastAPI
  • React
  • Whisper

AI-Powered EDR Agent

An agentic system combining Sysmon event collection with an ML layer to classify alerts, reduce false positives, and trigger automated responses, achieving 84.6% detection recall (11/13 MITRE ATT&CK techniques) with ~25s mean time-to-detect.

  • LangGraph
  • ML
  • Python
  • Sysmon
  • SIGMA
  • ELK

Pose Estimation & Behavior Classification

Fine-tuned a COCO-pretrained YOLOv8s-pose model via transfer learning (96.9% mAP@50) and benchmarked Random Forest, Gradient Boosting, and LSTM classifiers for 5-class behavior recognition.

  • Deep Learning
  • Computer Vision
  • PyTorch
  • YOLOv8
  • scikit-learn

CDPH Spark Analytics: Big Data Pipeline

Distributed ETL pipeline in Apache Spark (SQL + Streaming) and Java processing San Francisco complaint data, with multi-line CSV parsing and batch/streaming analysis persisted to HDFS.

  • Apache Spark
  • Spark SQL
  • Java
  • HDFS
  • Maven

IMDB Sentiment Analysis

Rigorously compared 5 architectures (Dense, CNN, LSTM, GRU, CNN+RNN hybrid) and 4 embedding strategies (GloVe, Word2Vec, FastText, TF-IDF) for sentiment classification. Best deep learning result: GRU + Word2Vec at 0.874 accuracy, though a TF-IDF + Logistic Regression baseline reached 0.90.

  • TensorFlow
  • Keras
  • NLP
  • Gensim
  • Scikit-learn
  • Python

AWS Lex IT Help Desk Chatbot

A cloud-based IT Help Desk chatbot built with AWS Lex (generative AI), Lambda for slot validation and business logic, Cognito for authentication, and a Lex Web UI front-end. Optional multi-channel support via Twilio for SMS and WhatsApp.

  • AWS Lex
  • AWS Lambda
  • Amazon Cognito
  • Twilio
  • Python

Car Price Prediction

A production-ready car price prediction app for the Tunisian market, serving a tuned Extra Trees model through a Flask API with a React frontend for single and batch predictions.

  • Python
  • Flask
  • Extra Trees
  • Scikit-learn
  • React

100 Days of DevOps – KodeKloud Challenges

100 days of hands-on DevOps practice: Linux administration, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins CI/CD, and AWS — solutions and notes for each daily KodeKloud challenge, from SSH hardening to Terraform-managed CloudWatch alarms.

  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Ansible
  • Terraform
  • Jenkins
  • AWS
  • Linux

Medical Appointment Platform

A collaborative full-stack medical appointment booking platform built with a 6-person team, featuring doctor ratings and admin/user notifications.

  • Angular
  • NestJS
  • TypeScript
  • SCSS

06. What's Next?

Get In Touch

I'm actively looking for an internship and always happy to talk about software, projects, or opportunities. Reach out and I'll get back to you.