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Contact Information

Name Alafate Abulimiti
Professional Title Researcher & Engineer
Email alafate.abulimiti@gmail.com
Location Paris, France
Website https://neuromaancer.github.io

Professional Summary

Researcher and engineer working on socially intelligent AI, human-agent collaboration, and practical software.

Education

  • 2020 - 2023

    Paris, France

    PhD
    École normale supérieure - PSL
    Cognitive Science / Artificial Intelligence
  • 2019 - 2020

    Tours, France

    Master
    University of Tours
    Computer Science / Data Science
  • 2016 - 2019

    Tours, France

    Engineering Diploma
    École polytechnique de l'université de Tours
    Computer Science

Work Experience

  • 2025 - 2026

    Postdoctoral Researcher
    ISIR/Sorbonne University
    Human-agent collaboration and socially intelligent dialogue systems.
  • 2024 - 2024

    AI Engineer/Data Scientist
    L'Oreal
    AI-driven enhancement of research workflows in cosmetics through predictive modeling, information extraction, and image processing at L’Oréal Advanced Research.
  • 2020 - 2023

    PhD Student Researcher
    INRIA Paris
    Using the most advanced language models and machine learning models to complete my doctoral thesis work. (NLP, Language Models, Dialogue System, Deep Learning)
  • 2020 - 2023

    Student Researcher
    Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle
    Dialogue study in combining character and conversational types in strategic choice.
  • 2019 - 2019

    Data Scientist Intern
    Bouygues
    Automatic detection and evaluation of computer skills in CVs.

Volunteering

  • 2026 - 2026

    Conference Reviewer
    The 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2026)
    Reviewing papers
  • 2022 - 2022

    Volunteer
    The 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2022
    Organizing online conference.
  • 2023 - 2023

    Committee Member
    ACE: how Artificial Character Embodiment shapes user behaviour in multi-modal interactions ACE2023
    Reviewing papers
  • 2023 - 2023

    Conference Reviewer
    The 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2023)
    Reviewing papers
  • 2022 - 2023

    Conference Reviewer
    The 22nd annual conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) 2022
    Reviewing papers

Skills

Dialogue Systems and NLP Master
Dialogue Management Natural Language Generation Conversational Strategy Generation Large Language Models Game-theoretic Approach Dialogue Reasoning Dialogue Evaluation
LLMs and Agentic Systems Master
LLM-based Agents Agentic AI Workflows Human-Agent Collaboration Multi-Agent Interaction Tool-Augmented Reasoning Retrieval-Augmented Generation Evaluation of LLM Systems
Machine Learning and Data Science Master
Deep Learning Machine Learning Predictive Modeling Information Extraction Image Processing Exploratory Data Analysis Model Evaluation Python Pandas NumPy Matplotlib Scikit-learn
Programming and Tools Intermediate
Python PyTorch Hugging Face Transformers SQL Rust Java Lua Git Linux

Languages

Uyghur Mother tongue
Chinese Native speaker
English Fluent
French Fluent

Interests

Chess chess passionate, started since 7yo
Meditation Vipassana, stress management, concentration
Reading philosophy, linguistics, social science, psychology
CrossFit just want to keep fit, stress relief