AI Engineering · Télécom Paris · Institut Polytechnique de Paris

Hussein El Gouch

I work at the intersection of machine-learning research and entrepreneurship. From signal processing and computer-vision papers to founding an education company and leading the AI society of Télécom Paris.

I am an engineering student at Télécom Paris, specialising in machine learning, imaging and audio signal processing. In 2026-27 I am on an academic gap year in Shanghai, building an industrial AI & retrieval-augmented-generation system as an AI engineering intern at Pierre Guérin.

Alongside my studies I served as president of Télécom IA, the school's artificial-intelligence society, bringing speakers like Luc Julia and Gael Varoquaux to campus and co-organising research hackathons with IBM, Margo and Qubit Pharmaceuticals. I also founded Choten, an education company, and co-founded the startup Summ'Up.

Focus
ML · Computer vision · Audio
School
Télécom Paris (IP Paris)
Now
AI intern, Shanghai
Awards
INNOV'NIGHT 2025 laureate

Selected work from the Télécom Paris image, data and signal track, written with the rigour of papers and built with working code.

Audio · TSIA 206

Audio source separation by the DUET method

with Lukas Tabouri

Separating K sources from an under-determined stereo mixture using MDCT sparsity, magnitude-weighted direction histograms and MMSE reconstruction.

Audio · NMF

Non-negative matrix factorization for music decomposition

with Obeye Essaadani

β-divergence multiplicative updates derived and implemented from scratch; pitch-level analysis of a piano scale and Wiener-style source reconstruction.

Computer vision · IMA205

White-blood-cell classification challenge

solo · course-wide challenge · 0.75 macro-F1

EfficientNet-B2 deep features fused with 25 handcrafted morphological descriptors over 13 classes; class-balanced focal loss and test-time augmentation.

NLP · Data science

Dynamics of textual memes with Memetracker

with G. Chicheportiche, M. Mustapha, T. Debernardi

TF-IDF vectorisation + MiniBatchKMeans bucketing over hundreds of thousands of phrases to trace how memes appear, mutate and spread through the press and blogs.

Geometry processing

3D surface reconstruction via Delaunay & alpha shapes

solo

Reconstruction of the Stanford Bunny (36k points) with adaptive alpha selection, from raw point cloud to watertight STL meshes.

Speech · IA715

Reading note: TDNN universal background models for speaker recognition

solo · critical review of Snyder et al., ASRU 2015

A critical review of time-delay DNNs as UBMs in i-vector speaker-recognition systems: methodology, NIST SRE10 results, strengths and limitations.

Speech · TSIA 206

Reading note: PSOLA pitch-synchronous waveform processing

solo · review of Moulines & Charpentier (1990)

A close reading of the TD-PSOLA framework for text-to-speech: pitch-mark analysis, prosodic modification and overlap-add synthesis, worked through on real diphones.

Image processing · 4IM01

Sampling artefacts & colorimetry in digital images

with Obeye Essaadani

Aliasing under naive downsampling versus low-pass-filtered decimation, and an analysis of hue/saturation behaviour in colour space.

Télécom IA is the AI society of Télécom Paris and a co-founder of Unaite, the federation of AI societies across France's top schools. As president, I led the team behind its flagship events.

  1. May 23-25, 2025

    AI × pharma research hackathon with IBM, Margo & Qubit Pharmaceuticals

    70 selected students, three days on molecular-toxicity prediction for drug discovery. Covered by Le Monde Informatique.

  2. June 3, 2025

    Luc Julia × Télécom IA

    An evening with the co-creator of Siri, former Apple VP and Chief Scientific Officer of Renault, co-hosted with the Télécom Paris alumni network.

  3. 2025

    Gael Varoquaux, scikit-learn co-creator

    Conference with the Inria research director behind one of the world's most-used machine-learning libraries.

  4. June 2, 2026

    Workshop · Tabular Foundation Models with Onepoint

    A hands-on session on tabular foundation models (TabPFN, TabICL), co-run with Onepoint: how transformers pre-trained on synthetic tables now beat gradient boosting on small tabular datasets, tried out on real data.

  5. June 4, 2026

    Workshop · Agentic by Design with Converteo

    A session with Converteo on designing agentic AI systems: how to architect tool-using, multi-step LLM agents that are reliable enough to ship.

  6. 2026

    Member workshops & HackEurope

    Student-led sessions on StyleGAN2 and AI fundamentals, plus partnering on HackEurope, Europe's largest student hackathon.

70+hackathon participants
4industry partners
1national federation co-founded

Founder and president of Choten Académie, an education company running intensive mathematics and physics programmes for French high-school and classes préparatoires students, with a mentoring method built by graduates of France's top-5 engineering schools.

The company

Choten runs intensive holiday courses and one-to-one tutoring in maths and physics, from lycée (Seconde to Terminale) through the scientific classes préparatoires (MPSI, PCSI, MP, PC, PSI and more). Sessions are capped at six students, taught in Paris with a deliberately premium, close-mentoring format. Its mentors are current students of Polytechnique, CentraleSupélec, Mines Paris, Ponts et Chaussées and Télécom Paris.

choten-academie.fr ↗

Teaching background

The method comes from the classroom. I served as an oral examiner (colleur) in mathematics at Lycée Hoche, first for an MP class then a PC class (2024 to 2026), preparing students for the Mines-Ponts and Centrale competitive exams. That is Choten's edge: mentors who are both graduates of the Top 5 and active examiners of the prépa system.

Format
6 students max
Mentors
Top-5 schools
Where
Paris
Role
Founder & president

Omnia

Co-founder

An AI voice assistant for salons and clinics that handles bookings over the phone and syncs them to Google Calendar. Sold directly to small businesses, it reached 50% adoption among the ones it went out to.

Summ'Up

Co-founder

An all-in-one platform for work efficiency, co-founded with Sami Bali. Pitched at the Télécom Paris Innovation Day 2025 as one of the student start-up finalists.

Unaite

Treasurer

The federation uniting the AI societies of France's leading universities, building a national student AI community, with partners such as Anthropic, QRT and Perplexity.

Let's build something.

Research collaboration, speaking at your event, or just an idea worth discussing. My inbox is open.