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Souhila Meziane

@souhilameziane

AI research engineer and consultant delivering uncertainty-aware surrogates and reliability cascades that accelerate expensive solvers.

Algeria

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What I'm looking for

I’m open to PhD, research-engineer, or scientific-software positions.

As an independent AI Research Engineer & Consultant, I design learned surrogates and reliability cascades that accelerate expensive physics solvers, optimisers, and simulations. I’ve delivered 40+ contracted research systems across robotics, wireless, energy, and structural health monitoring.

For multi-UAV task allocation, I designed and implemented a three-tier cascade combining an imitation-learning policy, a correction head, and MILP fallback. It achieved a 440× speedup while matching MILP decision quality on the hardest scenario.

At the IoT & AI Doctoral Research Laboratory, USTO-MB, I designed, built, and experimentally validated a visible-light indoor positioning system using an artificial neural network; the work was published at IEEE ISPA 2022. I’m currently open to PhD, research-engineer, or scientific-software positions.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Independent AI Research Engineer & Consultant

Current

Self Employed

Jan 2021 - Present (5 years 8 months)

Designed and delivered 40+ applied research systems spanning neural surrogates, imitation learning, reinforcement learning, MILP formulation, multi-fidelity modelling and uncertainty quantification for academic groups, R&D labs and industry clients.

Neural Surrogates Imitation Learning Reinforcement Learning MILP Multi Fidelity Modelling Uncertainty Quantification Matlab Python TensorFlow PyTorch

AI Contractor

Mercor.io

Mar 2026 - Aug 2026 (5 months)

Engaged as an independent AI contractor through Mercor.io, contributing to AI-related project work for a Mercor enterprise client, including model evaluation and technical task execution on the macOS platform.

Model Evaluation Technical task execution MacOS

AI Researcher

USTO-MB

Feb 2021 - May 2022 (1 year 3 months)

Designed, built and experimentally validated the VLC + ANN indoor positioning system published at IEEE ISPA 2022, achieving 0.7 cm average positioning error with fault-tolerance study.

VLC ANN Matlab Experimental Design Fault Tolerance Analysis

Project Engineer / Automation Technician

EURL Emergence

Dec 2018 - Dec 2021 (3 years)

Led technical studies and financial planning for industrial automation and infrastructure protection projects, including authoring the full technical and financial feasibility study for a €300,000 project at Sonatrach.

Technical Studies Financial Planning feasibility studies Epoxy Laminate Coating Procurement Import Operations

Automation Engineer (Intern)

Sonatrach

May 2021 - Jul 2021 (2 months)

Internship in oil & gas industry focusing on PLC/SCADA systems with Allen Bradley, Siemens, Honeywell, Schneider, and Bentley Nevada.

PLC SCADA Allen Bradley Siemens Honeywell Schneider Bentley Nevada

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

CFBI

Certificate, Industrial Automation

2022 - 2022

State-accredited Industrial Automation certificates including TIA Portal Levels 1–2, HMI/SCADA, and PROFIBUS.

University of Sciences and Technology of Oran – Mohamed-Boudiaf (USTO-MB)

M.Eng., Automatics & Industrial Programming

2018 - 2021

M.Eng. in Automatics & Industrial Programming. Thesis on indoor positioning using visible light communication and artificial neural networks, leading to an IEEE publication.