Sami Khenissi
Research scientist @ Meta
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Predicting Estimated Repair Time for Power Outages for LG&E and KU Energy
I designed a Data Science pipeline to predict the ETR (Estimated Repair Time) for different power outages. The model improved the prediction of the company by 50%
An end-to-end intelligent assistance tool for crowdfunding projects
Estimate the probability of success of crowdfunding projects using machine learning classification algorithms and develop a Ruby library to help users boost their campaigns. This work has been done during my Data Science Internship at DigiSponsor in Paris Collect (scrape) crowdfunding project’s data from Kickstarter using python Perform exploratory statistics and analysis on the data…
Predict credit card Frauds using Anomaly Detection techniques (Kaggle competition – Silver Medal)
Participated in an online Kaggle competition with an aim to detect fraudulent credit card transactions. The main focus was to learn and understand how to properly validate a Machine Learning model. To avoid overfitting and to make sure that our Cross-Validation technique is reliable, we explored many validation strategies. We also implemented different ensembling techniques…
Implementing an Online Recommender system based on MovieLens data and ExplainableMatrix Factorization algorithm
Team Leader of the Project (team of 5 students): Track progress and design next steps based on Agile process Using JEE, we implemented a web application that manages accounts and rating systems Using python, we designed a web service to provide explainable recommendation using REST architecture that we hosted on AWS Write Different design documents…