Hi, I'm Wiem Ben Rim

Hi there. My name is Wiem (wiː æm / ウイエム).

I'm a PhD student at the Foundational AI Center for Doctoral Training at University College London. I am a part of both the UCLNLP and Web Intelligence groups under the supervision of Emine Yilmaz and Pontus Stenetorp. I am also an ELLIS scholar.

I was previously a research scientist at NEC Laboratories Europe, based in Heidelberg, Germany. I completed my Master’s of Engineering in Artificial Intelligence at Tokyo Institute of Technology (東京工業大学） where I was member of Okazaki lab（岡崎研究室), a Natural Language Processing lab. Before that, I was also a member of Tsuruoka lab in the University of Tokyo（東京大学) , as a research student.

I am currently conducting research in Explainable and Human-centered AI in the context of NLP. I have a background of work and internships at startups as an mobile developer, so I am naturally interested in applied Machine Learning as well (and a fan of clean, well-thought-out code).

I obtained my bachelor’s of Science in Computer Science from the American University of Beirut, in Lebanon where I minored in applied mathematics and philosophy. I am originally from a beautiful coastal city in Tunisia, North Africa.

I was lucky to be the recipient of various scholarships and grants that covered my higher education journey, and therefore I am always happy to share my experience and help qualified and motivated people find better opportunities, if I can.