Alice Schoenauer Sebag, PhD

Alice Schoenauer Sebag

AI Safety at Cohere | ex-Twitter, ex-IGF

Experience

Cohere

AI Safety

October 2023 - Present | Paris, France

  • Staff Member of Technical Staff (Dec. 2024 - Present)
  • Senior Member of Technical Staff (Oct. 2023 - Dec. 2024)

Collège numérique France 2030

AI Expert

November 2023 - Present

Twitter

Machine Learning Engineer II

August 2021 - February 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area

  • Shipped deep NLP models for content moderation, achieving team KRs 3 quarters in a row with 7%+ performance gains each time
  • Partnered with ML Ethics and Policy teams to mitigate bias and ensure policy alignment (arXiv)
  • Mentored junior engineers, leading to a NeurIPS workshop paper

French Ministry for the Economy and Finance

Chief Data Scientist, Inspection générale des finances

February 2019 - April 2021 | Paris, France

  • Founded and grew the data science practice from 1 to 6 people, contributing to 35+ public policy projects
  • Delivered 6 ML projects including NLP for citizen contributions (results)

More info (in French): press article | video debate

UCSF, Pharmaceutical Chemistry Department

Post-doctoral Scholar

September 2016 - October 2018 | San Francisco, USA

  • Developed novel methods for deep multi-domain learning (ICLR'19) and adaptive optimization (arXiv)
  • Built visualization tools for biologists and supervised 2 research internships

Shift Technology

Machine Learning Researcher

September 2015 - August 2016 | Paris, France

  • Built ML algorithms for health insurance fraud detection alongside the CSO
  • Implemented data processing libraries (C#) and supervised 2 research internships