Edouard Fouché

Preparing my doctorate thesis in the field of Machine Learning under the supervision of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Klemens Böhm. Teaching graduate/undergraduate seminars. Supervision of students’ master thesis. Participation in teaching activities at the chair: Data Mining lab course and oral/written examinations in Big Data Analytics, Database Systems and Workflow Management Systems.

Creation and development of ibmdbpy, a Python interface for data manipulation and in-database algorithms in IBM dashDB and IBM DB2. Publication and talk at LWA15 in Trier. Writing my master thesis on the top of the project, in collaboration with KIT and HPI. The thesis focuses on mapping Feature Selection algorithms to high dimensional data sets. Talk at PyData Berlin 2016. Maintenance, improvement and integration of the work of fellow interns into the project.

Tutor in Customer Relationship Management (Winter term 15/16) at KIT for undergraduate students. Giving 1.5 hour presentation every two weeks. Preparation of slides and assignments. Teaching assistant in the Data Mining Lab (Summer term 16) at KIT for a group of 24 students in the participation to a data mining contest. Weekly Meetings with the students. Organized a field trip to IBM Lab.

Assisting Big Data Research Team in the field of climatology. Developing tools for extracting metadata from NetCDF files, using Python and MongoDB. Deploying Web Processing Services on Ubuntu. Administration of scientific websites with OpenText.

Development of internal software for Business Intelligence to help business decision-making process, based on indicators and dashboards. Design and development of UI, using Oracle Forms and PL/SQL language.

Informationssysteme, Data Mining, Kognitive Systeme

Informatik, Elektrotechnik