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Adam Rida
[Link]/in/adam- building @tracer | PhD candidacy XAI | Repeat founder
rida-581296142 (LinkedIn) San Francisco Bay Area
Top Skills Summary
Apprentissage automatique
I’m Adam, a Paris-based data scientist with a background in AI
Python
research and applied machine learning. I’ve founded companies
Mathématiques appliquées
in AI and web3 (Entrepreneur First–backed) and worked across
Certifications Hermès, Société Générale, AXA, Qantev, and Rebellion Research.
TOEIC : 965/990
Previously, I was a PhD candidate at Sorbonne University’s
Publications Trustworthy and Responsible AI Lab (TRAIL), a joint lab with AXA,
where I researched explainable AI (XAI) in the context of model
Dynamic Interpretability for Model
Comparison via Decision Rules dynamics and concept drift, publishing at the DynXAI workshop of
Why Does Nobody Want Crypto? ECML 2023.
1636 Tulip Mania, GameStop,
Crypto & Social Media I hold an engineering degree (Master’s) from CY Tech and studied
software engineering at École 42, while also building side projects to
explore new technologies.
Experience
Tracer
CEO and founder
March 2026 - Present (4 months)
San Francisco Bay Area
Pivot from DeepRecall
Founders, Inc.
Founder in residence
April 2026 - June 2026 (3 months)
Part of the canopy program
DeepRecall
CEO & founder
January 2026 - May 2026 (5 months)
(Pivoted to Tracer - [Link])
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- $100k ARR in 3 months (solo founder, bootstrapped); accepted into Station F
F/AI
(recommendation-only; 20 startups selected globally; backed by OpenAI,
Anthropic, Google, Meta,
Microsoft, Sequoia) + Canopy @ [Link]; enterprise pilot with a $15B
global e-commerce marketplace
- Developed FUSE, a cross-modal representation fusion algorithm combining
text and multi-image
embeddings for robust multimodal similarity search
- Built the largest structured product-safety dataset globally (200k+ regulatory
alerts) by
reverse-engineering and scraping national safety alert systems across multiple
jurisdictions
- Designed a multimodal retrieval architecture leveraging embedding models
and vector search, exposed
as an MCP-compatible tool server enabling agents to perform automated
product safety investigations
- Designed a learned deferral framework routing predictions between classical
ML surrogates and LLMs
based on sample difficulty, with no measurable degradation in prediction
quality at 80%+ lower inference
cost : [Link] 200+ github stars
Autoplay
Head of Artificial Intelligence
January 2025 - December 2025 (1 year)
- Architected a real-time inference pipeline ingesting millions of interaction
events from thousands of session replays, generating behavioral scores in
milliseconds
- Shipped a hybrid LLM + ML model suite that detects hesitation, knowledge
gaps and intent, taking the project from concept to production in < 3 months
- Surfaced “struggling-user” cohorts through unsupervised clustering, driving
targeted UX fixes with human-readable insight reports.
- Indexed multi-million embeddings in a Pinecone vector store for sub-second
semantic search across all user profiles
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- Conceived and prototyped TERRA - a Task-Event Representation &
Reasoning Architecture for automated large-scale session-replay analysis;
conference paper in preparation.
Autoplay is a pre-seed startup that raised $2.1m led by Drive Capital
SynthAI
CTO and co-founder
May 2024 - January 2025 (9 months)
Backed by Entrepreneur First
Developed an AI co-pilot for investment thesis generation in private equity,
releasing three live prototypes to over 100 private equity funds.
Engineered a proprietary PDF parser and innovative multi-document
summarization techniques using knowledge graphs (GraphRAG and Multi-
headed RAG).
Led product design, development, and AI research, addressing RAG
limitations in summarization.
Entrepreneur First
Founder in Residence (W24 & S24)
March 2024 - January 2025 (11 months)
Entrepreneur First is the world’s leading talent investor, backed by top
founders including Patrick and John Collison, Reid Hoffman, Tom Blomfield,
Sara Clemens, Nat Friedman, and Matt Mullenweg. EF brings together people
with extraordinary futures to develop their most ambitious ideas and raise
money from top global investors.
MFG Labs
Data Scientist II
November 2023 - March 2024 (5 months)
Paris et périphérie
Worked on AI-driven supply chain optimization for Hermès
AXA
AI Research Scientist
October 2022 - October 2023 (1 year 1 month)
Ph.D. candidacy in machine learning in the field of explainable AI (XAI).
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The Ph.D. is organized by the newly formed AXA-Sorbonne University
Trustworthy and Responsible AI Lab (TRAIL). I am under the supervision of
Christophe Marsala, Marie-Jeanne Lesot, and Xavier Renard.
My research aims to explore and define a way to explain the differences
between ML models. In practice, models often experience updates (for various
reasons: concept or data drift, business need...) and stakeholders might
benefit from interpretable explanations describing what has changed between
the two versions in terms of predictions.
Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking - SGCIB
Data Scientist - Global Transaction Banking Datalab
September 2021 - September 2022 (1 year 1 month)
Paris et périphérie
- Early member of the Global Transaction Banking division’s DataLab (GTPS)
helping it to scale and handle more than 4 use cases
- Worked on creating predictive, optimization tools and dashboards for the
sales teams based on the corporate clients’ transactions and financial data.
(Forecasting models, Python:
tensorflow, Scikit-Learn, Dash) increasing the sales teams performance
significatively
- Contributed and designed both the data and the software architecture (large
dataset processing using pySpark and Kedro >20M rows mmonthly)
- Co-lead the implementation of code guidelines and tech team management
processes over 7 persons (tasks, GitHub PR, newcomers handling,...)
Stealth Startup
CEO and co-founder (web3)
September 2021 - June 2022 (10 months)
(Anonymous project, details available on demand)
Founded a web3 project on the Binance smart chain that scaled to a market
cap of 2 million dollars.
Scaled the protocol to 1500 active paying users and to top growth of the week
on Coin Market Cap.
Developed the project from scratch with less than 300 dollars in budget
Led all growth hacks initiatives and secured partnerships with major web3
players
Rebellion Research
Machine Learning Quantitative Researcher
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February 2021 - September 2021 (8 months)
New York, États-Unis
- Constructed deep reinforcement learning-driven investment strategies based
on factors extracted from SEC 13-F filings in Python,
which outperformed the S&P 500 and achieved a 21.0% annualized return, 1.8
Sharpe Ratio (Published Research Paper)
- Performed feature engineering on the 13-F data which generates features
such as fund positions on stocks, idiosyncratic risk,
corresponding quarterly position changes, the number of funds that held a
specific stock in the past quarter
- Published essays on AI and cryptocurrency on the company’s website,
receiving a 100,000+ readership.
Qantev
Data Scientist
April 2021 - August 2021 (5 months)
Paris et périphérie
- Created and implemented Machine learning and NLP models on medical
insurance data - reached an accuracy of 97% instead of
previous 70%
- Worked closely with the head of data science and the CTO, Hadrien De
March (PhD in Optimal Transport theory)
- Worked on deep data processing and architecture refactoring operations
increasing processing speed by around 70%
- Worked in an agile and test driven environment with high clean code
standards
QantEv
Software Engineer
June 2020 - October 2020 (5 months)
Paris, Île-de-France, France
QantEv leverages Artifical intelligence to support insurers in optimizing the
healthcare provider network.
Based out of Station F and part of their #Future40 list of the most promising
startups.
Worked closely with the CTO : Dr Hadrien De March
Technologies worked on :
Back-end/data : python (pandas, numpy, sickit-learn, django...), elasticsearch
Front-end: React (hooks, antdesign library,...)
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CY Junior Engineering
Project manager
September 2019 - September 2020 (1 year 1 month)
Cergy
Project management on different web, mobile development and data anlysis
missions.
Worked on the mobile development of a social network in the field of interior
decoration and design
Main role : Ensure the link between the client and the team of developers
and the smooth running of the project. Manage the team of developers and
organize the working flow : Agile method
Education
Sorbonne Université
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Machine Learning · (October 2022 - November
2023)
EISTI
Master's degree / Engineer degree, Applied Mathematics and Data
Science · (2017 - 2022)
buildspace
· (August 2023 - September 2023)
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Programmation informatique · (2018 - 2020)
Lycée Charlemagne
Baccalauréat, Scientifique · (2013 - 2016)
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