Summary
Basma Boussaha is a Principal Researcher and NLP specialist with nine years of experience developing and deploying deep learning systems for legal-domain machine reading and question answering. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from Nantes and has a strong track record bringing research advances—especially around LLMs and transformer-based QA—into production using Hugging Face, Triton, Kubernetes and cloud platforms. Her background spans academic dialogue systems research to hands-on ML life-cycle engineering at Wolters Kluwer and Della, combining model development, inference optimization and MLOps. Based in Paris, she pairs curiosity for the latest NLP papers with pragmatic engineering, often implementing state-of-the-art approaches in one of the fastest-moving ML ecosystems. An experienced educator and researcher, she also brings a history of teaching deep learning and building efficient conversational models during her PhD.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Nantes Université
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Ecole nationale Superieure d'Informatique (ESI)
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Université Paris-Saclay
French, English, Arabic