Louis F. Abraham

All-time France record holder at ICPC World Finals

1000+ stars on GitHub – 200+ academic citations

https://louisabraham.github.io/ • https://github.com/louisabraham/

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Areas of Expertise

Computer science: machine learning, NLP, algorithms, cryptography, formal methods, computational game theory.

Software engineering: web development, high performance / scientific computing, information security.

Economics and finance: quantitative finance, derivatives, OTC markets, blockchains, life insurance.

Technology and society: algorithmic transparency, digital identity, online privacy, digital health.

Since 2024: Head of LLM & Gen AI - Tiime
Leading the technological strategy and implementation of generative artificial intelligence.
Since 2023: Co-founder - Secrecy
Since 2022: Member of the Board - Afer
Life-insurance association of 800,000 people handling €60bn of investments.
In charge of strategy, products, sustainable investing and digital transformation.
2020 - 2023: Co-founder & CTO - Secrecy
Encrypted cloud storage for developers made simple. Raised €1m from top-tier investors.; Co-founder & CTO - Gematria Technologies
Developed state of the art NLP pipelines for asset managers.
2020 - 2022: Advisor to the Chairman of the Board - Afer
Guided Afer’s strategy during the acquisition process of Aviva France (€3.2bn).
Administrator of Afer’s endowment funds and Afer Premium (net assets €300m).
2020: Economist - Paris School of Economics / Bank of France
Studied counterparty choice in the over-the-counter credit default swap market using EMIR data.
2018: Deep Learning Researcher - ENS Ulm / EHESS / CNRS
Conducted research in cognitive machine learning and computer vision under Emmanuel Dupoux.
2017: e-FICC Quant Researcher - BNP Paribas CIB, London
2015 - 2016: Administrative analyst - French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
2015: French army officier training - École polytechnique

2023: Certificate in Insurance Company Board Governance - French Institute of Actuaries
Executive education program in partnership with IFA (French Institute of Directors).
2021 - 2024: PhD in Business Economics & Finance - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Applications of computational game theory to economics and finance. Teaching assistant in Finance.
2018 - 2020: Master of Science ETH in Computer Science - ETH Zurich
ETH Zurich ranks as one of the best universities in the world [link].
Master Thesis obtained with a perfect grade (6.0/6.0).
2015 - 2019: Ingénieur Polytechnicien - École polytechnique (Palaiseau)
Master’s degrees in computer science and mathematics from France’s top scientific school.
Youngest candidate accepted (became senior bachelor student when 17 years old).
2013 - 2015: Classe préparatoire aux Grandes Écoles MP-Info - Lycée Louis-Le-Grand (Paris)

Independent researcher (machine learning, computer science, blockchain, economics): publications in JMLR and NeurIPS. More than 200 citations. Co-authors include Rob Tibshirani (Stanford) and Bernhard Schölkopf (MPI).
Open-source contributor: more than 1000 stars on GitHub. Author of lassonet, ffpass, algnuth, har2requests, fastnode2vec and pydivsufsort.
Reserve Officer of the French National Gendarmerie: cybersecurity and ML applied to forensics. Rank of Captain.

ICPC World Finalist 2021, High Honors: Oldest, largest and most prestigious programming contest in the world. Ranked 24th worldwide against 60,000 other students in teams of 3 and achieved France’s all-time record.
Also SWERC Gold Medalist and Southwestern Europe Champion (2019).
Concours Général: Most prestigious academic competition in France. Distinction in Mathematics (2013), youngest laureate of all subjects.

Languages: French (native speaker), German (Goethe-Zertifikat C1), English (TOEFL 110/120).
Music: Piano: winner of international contests, concert soloist with orchestral accompaniment.
Sports: Horse riding, Skiing, Swimming, Scuba diving.
Hobbies: Literature, Philosophy, Competitive programming, Anime, Video games.