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Célia Nouri

Tagline:Researcher in Artificial Intelligence, and Social Sciences

Paris, France

About Me

I am a PhD candidate in Artificial Intelligence at the intersection of NLP and social sciences, co-supervised by Chloé Clavel (INRIA, ALMAnaCH) and Jean-Philippe Cointet (médialab, Sciences Po). My research explores how subjectivity, belief systems, and social influence shape opinion dynamics in digital ecosystems. I develop hybrid AI models that combine language and graph-based approaches to better understand online discourse, detect hate speech in context, and map collective ideologies across social networks.

Research Interests

  • Computational Social Science
  • Subjective NLP

Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy - PhD

    from: 2024, until: 2027

    Field of study:Intelligence artificielleSchool:INRIA (ALMAnaCH) & Sciences Po (médialab)

  • Master 2 (M2)

    from: 2023, until: 2024

    Field of study:Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Visual ComputingSchool:École Polytechnique

  • Bachelor

    from: 2017, until: 2019

    Field of study:Double Majors: Applied mathematics and Computer ScienceSchool:University of California, Berkeley

  • Bachelor (Licence)

    from: 2015, until: 2019

    Field of study:Social SciencesSchool:Sciences PoLocation:Paris

    Description

    Dual Degree: Applied Mathematics for Social Studies

    Program Description

  • Bachelor (Licence)

    from: 2015, until: 2018

    Field of study:Applied MathematicsSchool:University of Paris I: Panthéon-SorbonneLocation:Paris

    Description

    Dual Degree: Applied Mathematics for Social Studies

Work Experiences

  • Senior Software Engineering

    from: 2023, until: 2024

    Organization:AppleLocation:Ville de Paris, Île-de-France, France

    Description:

    Promotion to Senior Software engineer (ICT4).
    Responsible for Search and Machine Learning Infrastructure projects. I build distributed infrastructure systems analyzing and storing petabytes of web documents. Our team is responsable for the core search infrastructure components, critical for data distribution, storing and realtime serving across AIML org.

  • Search Engineer

    from: 2019, until: 2023

    Organization:AppleLocation:San Francisco, Californie, États-Unis

    Description:

    Improving freshness and quality of the web indexing pipeline
    Big data analysis, distributed systems, web search, machine learning.

  • Internship

    from: 2018, until: 2018

    Organization:SAPLocation:Région de Karlsruhe, Allemagne

    Description:

    Rural Sourcing Management at SAP develops mobile applications and gives access to Cloud systems to allow smallholder farmers in Africa to organise their production electronically.

    During 3 months at SAP RSM team, I:
    -Created live data connections between databases and the SAP Cloud system.
    -Built live reports involving GIS data in SAP Analytics Cloud.
    -Worked on testing mobile applications.

Publications

  • Graphically Speaking: Unmasking Abuse in Social Media with Conversation Insights

    Conference PaperDate:unpublished
    Authors:
    Célia Nouri Jean-Philippe CointetChloé Clavel
    Arxiv

Courses

  • Sciences and Societies (Sciences et sociétés)

    from: Jan 2025, until: Jun 2025

    Organization: Sciences Po .

    Description:

    2nd-year course of STS (Sociology of Science and Technology) taught by Daniel Benamouzig.
    I taught two discussion classes (conférences de méthode).

  • Decoding AI biases

    from: Jan 2025, until: Jun 2025

    Organization: Sciences Po .

    Description:

    Mandatory class for the Master of Public Affairs, Digital, New Technology, and Public Policy stream. The class was taught by Jean-Phillippe Cointet, and I, as a Teaching Assistant.

    Syllabus

  • SNLP: Speech and Natural Language Processing

    from: Jan 2025, until: Jun 2025

    Organization: Université Paris-Saclay .

    Description:

    This course from the MVA Master (Mathématiques, Vision et Apprentissage) is taught by Chloé Clavel, Emmanuel Dupoux, Benoit Sagot, and Rachel Bawden. I was supervising group projects, and grading.

    Syllabus

  • Linear Algebra for Data Science

    from: Jan 2018, until: May 2018

    Course Number: Stat89A .Organization: UC Berkeley .

    Description:

    Teaching Assistant in Statistics. I taught lab sessions, held office hours, course material development, and grading.

    Syllabus

Certifications

  • Persuasive Communication: Critical Thinking to Enhance your Message OCT22

    Issue date: Jan 2023,

    Issued by: credential.net .