Research_Log_2026

AI Research & Engineering.

Master's student in Data, Knowledge & Hybrid AI at Université Paris-Saclay, headed for NLP & computer vision research. I build things from scratch to understand how they work: neural nets in pure C, semantic search starting from the linear algebra.

M1 DKAI · Université Paris-Saclay 1st place · AMU Hackathon 2026 Marseille → Paris
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[01]Research_Notes

sutton2026.bib · Publication · Aix-Marseille Université · 2026
@article{sutton2026retropropagation,
  author      = {Sutton, Sasha},
  title       = {De la propagation avant à la rétropropagation :
                 une analyse des mécanismes d'apprentissage
                 dans les réseaux de neurones multicouches},
  institution = {Aix-Marseille Université},
  year        = {2026},
  url         = {hal.science/hal-05628568}
}
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Current_Focus

NLP research intern at LIS (Laboratoire d'Informatique et Systèmes), working on RAG pipelines and topic modelling over the BnF & INA web archives, extracting themes from large-scale WARC corpora. Next step is the MVA at ENS Paris-Saclay, then AI research.

NLPComputer VisionRAGTopic ModellingNeural Networks

[02]Field_Experience

NLP Research Intern

LIS (Laboratoire d'Informatique et Systèmes)Apr – Jul 2026

RAG pipelines and topic modelling on the BnF & INA web archives, building theme-extraction tooling for terabyte-scale WARC corpora.

Statistical Data Analyst Intern

Micron Applied DentistrySep – Dec 2025

Python analysis pipeline for 126 high-resolution 3D dental scans: reproducibility validation with t-tests, Monte Carlo simulation and power analysis, plus a landmark-detection algorithm.

Full-Stack Developer Intern

Vista BallJun – Aug 2025

Inventory management system built with Supabase and Node.js, integrated with Shopify.

Sound Engineer

Fabric London2021 – 2023

From cloakroom attendant to the sound engineering team of one of the world's most storied clubs. The other half of this site.

See the creative side →

[03]Compiled_Projects

Neural Vision 3D

Interactive 3D neural-network visualizer with real-time MNIST digit recognition. The inference engine is hand-written in NumPy; hidden-layer activations are rendered live in Three.js.

ReactThree.jsPythonFastAPINumPy

ML Library in C

A neural-network library in pure C: matrix operations, dense layers, ReLU/Sigmoid activations, MSE loss and forward propagation. No dependencies, just C and CMake.

CCMake

Vector Search Engine

Semantic search engine built from scratch: BERT sentence embeddings, cosine similarity, a FastAPI backend and a React frontend.

PythonFastAPISentence-TransformersReact

Air Harp

A computer-vision instrument: MediaPipe hand tracking lets you pluck virtual harp strings suspended in mid-air. Where the two halves of this portfolio meet.

PythonMediaPipeOpenCVPygame

Koda Marketplace

Multi-language marketplace for no-code automations: Stripe Connect split payments, real-time interactions via Pusher, secure delivery with S3 pre-signed URLs, i18n in four languages.

Next.js 16TypeScriptMongoDBStripe ConnectAWS S3Redis

[04]Tech_Stack

AI & Research

PyTorchNumPyHugging FaceScikit-learnOpenCVMediaPipeRAGTopic Modelling

Engineering

FastAPINext.jsReactDockerGitPostgreSQLMongoDBSupabaseAWS S3

Languages

PythonCTypeScriptJavaSQLLaTeX

[05]Education

2026 – 2027

M1 — Data, Knowledge & Hybrid Artificial Intelligence (DKAI)

Université Paris-Saclay

Taught in English

expected 2027

Double Bachelor's — Mathematics & Computer Science

Aix-Marseille University

In progress alongside the M1. Completing the remaining mathematics modules to turn the BSc into a double bachelor's, expected June 2027

2023 – 2026

BSc Mathematics & Computer Science

Aix-Marseille University

1st place, AMU Hackathon 2026 · Chess Club · Mathematics Club

2021 – 2023

BA Music Production & Sound Engineering

Point Blank Music School · Middlesex University

While working as a sound engineer at Fabric London