Hanna Abi Akl

Vice-Dean & Chief Academic Officer at Data ScienceTech Institute
Researcher with the INRIA Wimmics team

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Data ScienceTech Institute
4 Rue de la Collégiale
75005 Paris, France

Teaching

Classes are taught in English unless stated otherwise

Professor at SciencesPo Paris School of International Affairs

Programming, Databases, and Machine Learning Foundations for Decision-Makers

2025-

A practical introduction to computational tools and thinking that covers the basics of programming, data management, and machine learning, equipping students with skills to work with data in modern research and policy contexts

M.Sc. Year 2 (Bac+5) Lectures Tutorials Practicals

Professor at Data ScienceTech Institute

Computer Architecture

2025-

Fundamentals of computer architecture & operating systems, from the Turing machine to (not so) modern architectures, fundamentals of hardware architectures from the BIOS/UEFI via the kernel to the shell

M.Sc. Year 2 (Bac+5) Lectures Tutorials Practicals

Data Management

2024-2025

Fundamentals of information systems analysis & design, Functional dependency, Relation model & relational algebra

M.Sc. Year 2 (Bac+5) Lectures Tutorials Practicals

Operating Systems and Networking

2024-2025

Fundamentals of algorithmics and data structure design, Fundamentals of network layers, Routing networks layers & protocols, Address spaces and associated service with the TCP/IP suite

M.Sc. Year 2 (Bac+5) Lectures Tutorials Practicals

Relational Model and SQL

2023-2025

Introduction to the relational model, relational algebra operations, normal forms, database system design & SQL queries

B.S. Year 1 (Bac+1) Lectures Tutorials Practicals French

AI Awareness

2023-2025

Learning Processes in Living Organisms, Learning Processes in Computers, Introduction to AI Ethics, Challenges in AI

M.Sc. Year 2 (Bac+5) Lectures

Data Wrangling with SQL

2023-2025

Review of Relational Models & Database Management Systems, Advanced SQL Queries, Dynamic SQL, Stored Procedures & Triggers

M.Sc. Year 2 (Bac+5) Lectures Practicals

Amazon AWS

2023-2025

Introduction to Cloud Computing, Cloud Architecture, Preparation for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Certification

M.Sc. Year 2 (Bac+5) Lectures Tutorials Practicals

Artificial Neural Networks

2023-2025

Shallow & Deep Artificial Neural Networks, Data Representation & Distributed Representations, Backpropagation & Gradient Descent, Training & Optimization, Python Applications (Tensorflow & Keras)

M.Sc. Year 2 (Bac+5) Lectures Tutorials Practicals

Deep Learning

2023-2025

PyTorch Introduction, GPU Training, Neural Network Applications (Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Reinforcement Learning)

M.Sc. Year 2 (Bac+5) Lectures Tutorials Practicals Project

Clean IT

2021-2025

Introduction to Google Colab, Python Local Setup, Virtual Environments, IDE Configuration, Jupyter Notebooks, R & RStudio Local Setup, Git & GitHub

M.Sc. Year 2 (Bac+5) Lectures Tutorials Practicals

Introduction to Data Structures & Software Engineering

2021-2022

Introduction to Data Structures, Benchmarks in Python & R, Introduction to Data Simulation

M.Sc. Year 2 (Bac+5) Lectures Tutorials Practicals

Software Engineering - Part 2

2021-2025

Python Object-oriented Programming, Overview of C++

M.Sc. Year 2 (Bac+5) Lectures Tutorials Practicals

Python Machine Learning Labs

2021-2025

Data Structures, Cleaning & Preparation, Python Libraries (Numpy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Scikit-learn), Feature Engineering, Machine Learning Algorithms (Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, Decision Trees, Random Forest, KNN, Multi-Layer Perceptron), Classification & Regression

M.Sc. Year 2 (Bac+5) Lectures Practicals Project