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I am Abdelhakim Benechehab, a second-year Ph.D. student at Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab and EURECOM working on model-based reinforcement learning. I am jointly supervised by Giuseppe Paolo and Maurizio Filippone.

In my research, I explore methods to improve dynamics models in the context of model-based reinforcement learning. This includes developing models suitable for long-horizon planning, and that are aware of their errors through uncertainty estimation. Additionally, I am interested in in-context learning and large language models, particularly their applications in reinforcement learning and dynamics modeling.

Previously, I earned my master’s degree at ENS Paris-Saclay in 2021 from the Mathematics, Vision, and Machine Learning (MVA) program. I also hold an engineering degree from École des Mines de Saint-Étienne in mathematics and computer science.

Besides my Ph.D. work, I am an active member of the Moroccan NGO Math&Maroc, which aims to promote science and mathematics in my native country, Morocco 🇲🇦. As part of this endeavor, I organize and mentor at the ThinkAI Hackathon and host a bi-weekly podcast discussing the latest AI news in Moroccan dialect.

In my spare time, I enjoy sports (primarily volleyball and bouldering), traveling (30+ countries and counting), and learning new things (currently fishing 🎣 and Italian 🇮🇹).

I am Abdelhakim Benechehab, a second-year Ph.D. student at Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab and EURECOM working on model-based reinforcement learning. I am jointly supervised by Giuseppe Paolo and Maurizio Filippone.

In my research, I explore methods to improve dynamics models in the context of model-based reinforcement learning. This includes developing models suitable for long-horizon planning, and that are aware of their errors through uncertainty estimation. Additionally, I am interested in in-context learning and large language models, particularly their applications in reinforcement learning and dynamics modeling.

Previously, I earned my master’s degree at ENS Paris-Saclay in 2021 from the Mathematics, Vision, and Machine Learning (MVA) program. I also hold an engineering degree from École des Mines de Saint-Étienne in mathematics and computer science.

Besides my Ph.D. work, I am an active member of the Moroccan NGO Math&Maroc, which aims to promote science and mathematics in my native country, Morocco 🇲🇦. As part of this endeavor, I organize and mentor at the ThinkAI Hackathon and host a bi-weekly podcast discussing the latest AI news in Moroccan dialect.

In my spare time, I enjoy sports (primarily volleyball and bouldering), traveling (30+ countries and counting), and learning new things (currently fishing 🎣 and Italian 🇮🇹).