AVAILABLE FOR 6-MONTH FINAL YEAR PROJECT (FYP) • JANUARY 2027

AI Engineer &Actuarial Data Scientist

Building intelligent systems at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence, Quantitative Finance and Insurance.

Engineering Degree in Data Science @ ESPRIT • Master in Actuarial Science @ IRA – Le Mans University

Expected Graduation: 31 July 2027

AI Decision Engine
LLM + ML + Agents
Data Intelligence
ETL • Streaming • Features
Quant Risk
Risk • Monte Carlo • Portfolio
Valuation
Pricing • Insurance • Fair Value
Fraud Intelligence
Graph AI • Anomaly • Patterns
Predictive Analytics
Forecasting • Time Series • Actuarial
Prediction
+12.4%Confidence: 94%
AI SYSTEM STATUS
LLM: Active
Agents: 5/5
Latency: 12ms
Uptime: 99.9%
Confidence
Risk
Value
Fraud
P(y|x) = softmax(Wx + b)

Profile Snapshot

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5
Major AI & Actuarial Projects
💼
3
Professional Internships
🎓
4
International Certifications
Top
Academic Ranking
Engineering Class Major + Ranked 2nd
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3
Technical Domains
AI • Finance • Insurance
Mariem Fersi

Mariem Fersi

AI Engineer
Actuarial Data Scientist
ESPRIT × Le Mans University
Available for 6-month internship

About

I am an AI Engineer and Actuarial Data Scientist passionate about building intelligent systems that transform complex data into trustworthy decisions.

My background combines software engineering, machine learning, actuarial mathematics and quantitative modeling.

I focus on creating AI solutions for finance, insurance and risk management.

AI Systems
Agentic AI, LLMs, Deep Learning
Risk Modeling
Finance, Insurance, Actuarial Science
Trustworthy AI
Explainability, Calibration, Uncertainty

Timeline

2023
SOPAL Internship
Quality & Environment
2025
Capgemini Internship
Data Engineering
2026
Talan Internship
Deep Actuarial AI
2026
Graduation
ESPRIT + Le Mans University

AI & Quantitative Engineering Expertise

Designing intelligent systems combining machine learning, actuarial mathematics, and financial data engineering.

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

Building intelligent systems using deep learning, LLMs, autonomous agents, NLP and computer vision.

PythonPyTorchLLMsRAGLangGraphNLPMachine Learning

Quantitative Finance & Market Intelligence

Developing AI-driven financial systems for market analysis, signal generation and risk-aware decisions.

Time SeriesBacktestingAlpha GenerationFinancial ModelingRisk Metrics

Actuarial Science & Risk Modeling

Applying statistical models and deep learning to insurance pricing, reserving, mortality and uncertainty quantification.

GLMCANNSurvival AnalysisInsurance MathematicsSolvency IIIFRS17

Data Engineering & Analytics

Building reliable pipelines transforming raw data into AI-ready datasets.

PythonSQLPandasETLSSISPostgreSQLAPIs

AI Applications & Deployment

Turning research models into scalable production applications.

FastAPIDjangoReactDockerMLflowCloud

Explainable AI & Model Validation

Creating transparent AI systems with interpretable predictions and uncertainty estimation.

SHAPLIMECalibrationFeature ImportanceGNNExplainer

Academic Excellence

Consistent top academic performance throughout engineering studies.

🏆 Major of Engineering Class

Average: 16.31
First Engineering Year

🥈 Ranked 2nd Engineering Student

Average: 16.45
Second Engineering Year

Education Timeline

ESPRIT
Engineering Degree in Data Science
2023 - 2027Tunisia
IRA – Le Mans University
Master in Actuarial Science
2025 - 2027France

Certifications & Professional Training

Industry-recognized certifications in AI, cloud computing, and data platforms.

NVIDIA

Applications of AI for Anomaly Detection

Certificate of Competency
AI/ML
NVIDIA

Fundamentals of Deep Learning

Certificate of Competency
AI/ML
Oracle

Oracle Data Platform 2025 Certified Foundations Associate

Foundations Associate
DataAugust 22, 2025
AWS

AWS SimuLearn: AI Practitioner

Training & Certification
Cloud/AIJuly 22, 2026

Why Me?

I combine engineering, machine learning and actuarial expertise to design intelligent systems for complex decision-making problems.

🤖AI Engineering
📊Actuarial Mathematics
⚙️Data Engineering
💹Quantitative Finance
🔍Explainable AI

Currently Building

Active research and development projects in AI and actuarial science.

Deep Learning Actuarial Models

In Progress
75%

AI Asset Valuation Platform

In Progress
60%

Multi-Agent Financial Intelligence

Research
40%

Explainable AI Systems

Research
30%

Graph Neural Networks

Learning
50%

Uncertainty-Aware Prediction

Research
45%

Research Interests

Exploring the intersection of artificial intelligence and quantitative modeling.

Agentic AILLMsRAGMulti-Agent SystemsDeep LearningGraph Neural NetworksTime Series ForecastingQuantitative FinanceActuarial AIInsurance AnalyticsExplainable AIUncertainty Quantification

Featured Projects

AI Finance

Multi-Agent Multimodal FX Analysis Framework

Problem

Forex markets require analysis of multiple data sources including market prices, macroeconomic indicators, and sentiment data. Traditional single-model approaches fail to capture complex interdependencies.

Solution

Built a multi-agent AI system using LangGraph where specialized agents analyze different data modalities and collaborate through a reasoning framework to generate trading signals.

Architecture

LangGraph multi-agent architecture with specialized agents for market data, macroeconomic analysis, sentiment processing, and signal generation. Uses RAG for context-aware decision making.

Results

Successfully integrated 3 data modalities, achieved explainable trading signals with SHAP-based feature importance, and demonstrated improved signal quality over baseline models.

PythonLangGraphLLMsRAGNLPOCRInfluxDBFastAPIReactSHAP
Multi-agent AI + Quantitative Finance + Explainable AI
AI Insurance
In Progress

AI Platform for Asset Valuation & Insurance Risk

Problem

Asset valuation requires extracting data from diverse documents (PDFs, Excel) and applying complex financial models. Manual processing is error-prone and time-consuming.

Solution

Developed an end-to-end AI platform combining document AI for data extraction, LLM-based understanding, and automated financial modeling for DVF valuation, insurance value, and replacement cost estimation.

Architecture

Document processing pipeline with OCR and LLM extraction, financial modeling engine, and web interface for automated report generation.

Results

Automated 80% of manual valuation work, reduced processing time by 70%, and improved accuracy through standardized extraction and modeling.

PythonPandasOpenPyXLPDFPlumberOllamaLLMsFastAPIReact
Document AI + Financial Modeling
Research AI

Deep Distributional Actuarial Modeling

Problem

Traditional actuarial models (GLM) provide point estimates without uncertainty quantification. Deep learning models lack interpretability and calibration for insurance applications.

Solution

Research platform combining classical actuarial methods (GLM) with deep learning (CANN) and uncertainty quantification (NGBoost) for pricing, reserving, and fraud detection.

Architecture

Modular architecture supporting multiple modeling approaches with conformal prediction for uncertainty bounds and SHAP for explainability.

Results

Demonstrated improved calibration over traditional models, provided uncertainty estimates for risk management, and achieved comparable accuracy with better interpretability.

PyTorchPyTorch GeometricNGBoostGLMSHAPMLflowDocker
Deep Learning + Actuarial Science
Actuarial Modeling

Mortality & Life Insurance Portfolio Analysis

Problem

Life insurance pricing and reserving require accurate mortality forecasting. Traditional static models fail to capture mortality trends and improvements over time.

Solution

Implemented stochastic mortality models (StMoMo) using Human Mortality Database data to forecast mortality rates and value annuity products.

Architecture

Statistical modeling framework with multiple mortality models, demographic data integration, and annuity valuation engine.

Results

Successfully modeled mortality improvements across multiple populations, generated 10-year mortality forecasts, and produced annuity valuations with confidence intervals.

RStMoMoHuman Mortality Database
Demographic Analysis + Mortality Forecasting
AI Insurance
In Progress

ClimateGuard AI

Problem

Property-Casualty reinsurers price catastrophe risk using vendor cat models recalibrated on 3-5 year cycles, treated as black boxes, and increasingly disconnected from the pace of climate change. Actuaries spend enormous manual effort translating model output into underwriting decisions, Solvency II reports, and treaty pricing memos.

Solution

Production-grade platform that continuously ingests physical climate data alongside exposure, claims, and financial-market data to produce a dynamically updating, climate-adjusted view of catastrophe risk. Uses an ensemble of specialized ML models (Gradient Boosting, Temporal Fusion Transformer, Graph Neural Network, Vision Transformer) fused into a portfolio loss distribution engine, wrapped in a multi-agent LLM system for autonomous report generation.

Architecture

Azure-native end-to-end platform with Azure Data Factory for ingestion, Azure Data Lake Storage (Bronze/Silver/Gold), Azure Databricks for feature engineering, Azure ML for model training/registry, Azure OpenAI for multi-agent LLM orchestration with RAG over treaty wordings and Solvency II regulation, AKS for FastAPI serving, and React/Next.js + Power BI frontend.

Results

Designed a full MLOps/LLMOps production system with CI/CD, drift detection, automatic retraining, and explainability layer (SHAP/LIME/Counterfactuals). The multi-agent system autonomously drafts treaty pricing memos, answers regulatory questions, runs natural-language "what-if" stress tests, and produces board-ready reports with full citation trail.

PythonAzureXGBoostLightGBMCatBoostPyTorchTemporal Fusion TransformerGraph Neural NetworksVision TransformerAzure OpenAIRAGLangChainFastAPIReactNext.jsPower BISHAPMLflowDatabricksAKS
Agentic AI + Climate Risk + Actuarial Science + Multi-Agent Systems

Professional Journey

Building expertise across industrial operations, data engineering, and AI-driven risk modeling.

OperationsData EngineeringAI SystemsActuarial Intelligence

Quality & Environmental Intern

SOPAL
June - August 2023

Contributed to quality and environmental management processes through operational monitoring, documentation workflows, and compliance activities.

Quality ManagementProcess MonitoringDocumentationEnvironmental Compliance

Data Engineering & BI Intern

CAPGEMINI
June - August 2025

Designed ETL pipelines for connected vehicle data analytics, preparing datasets, building data models, and creating analytical dashboards.

  • ETL pipeline development with SSIS
  • SQL Server data modeling
  • Power BI dashboard creation
  • Data analysis automation
Technologies
SSISSQL ServerSSMSPower BIDAXData ModelingEDA

Deep Learning Actuarial Modeling Intern

TALAN
July - September 2026

Designed an end-to-end AI architecture combining LLMs, machine learning and data pipelines for uncertainty-aware insurance pricing, reserving, and fraud detection.

Technologies
PyTorchPyTorch GeometricNGBoostSHAPMLflowFastAPIDocker
Research Areas
pricing
CANNGLMDistributional Modeling
reserving
Deep LearningConformal Prediction
fraud
Graph Neural Networks

Leadership

Former Secretary General

IEEE MSE Student Branch
2024 - 2025
Responsibilities
  • Coordinated engineering student initiatives
  • Supported technical workshops
  • Managed communication between members
  • Encouraged innovation and collaboration
Leadership Skills
Team LeadershipEvent ManagementCommunicationStrategic Planning
Impact:Building technical community and fostering student innovation

Former Secretary General

LEO Club Sfax Synergie
2019 - 2021
Responsibilities
  • Coordinated volunteer projects
  • Managed organizational activities
  • Improved teamwork and project execution
  • Supported community initiatives
Leadership Skills
Project ManagementVolunteer CoordinationCommunity BuildingTeam Collaboration
Impact:Driving social impact through community service

Leadership Philosophy

Building teams through clear communication, fostering innovation through collaboration, and creating impact through purposeful action. Leadership is about empowering others to achieve their potential while driving collective success.

Engineering Activity

Open source contributions and public repositories showcasing AI, actuarial, and data engineering projects.

Let's Build Intelligent Solutions Together

I'm currently looking for a 6-month engineering internship starting in January 2027 in Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Quantitative Finance and Actuarial Modeling.

Open to worldwide opportunities.

Available for Internship

Internship Details

Duration
6 Months
Starting
Jan 2027
Fields
AI Engineering
Data Science
Machine Learning
Actuarial Science
Quantitative Finance
Open to Worldwide Opportunities
Global availability