Yanis B. Email & Phone Number

Montreal, Qc, Ca

Montréal, Québec, Canada

● Researching alignment methods for ethical, trauma-informed LLM development in collaboration with Dr. Alexandre Hudon MD, PhD, B.Eng, M.Sc (Éd).● Building a safety assessment and bias detection benchmark in low resource languages to ensure a safe numerical therapeutic alliance between patients and artificial conversational agents, enhancing trust and engagement for future clinical applications.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

● Leading discussions on memory neuroscience, representation and selection biases in training data for LLMs.● Teaching effective science-backed study methods and responsibly integrating LLMs into secondary education curricula.

Greater Montreal Metropolitan Area

● Teaching Mathematics, Physics, Ethics, Biology, and Languages for at-risk of dropout, IB and autistic students.● Worked as a program ambassador offering career counselling and work life balance advising for BIPOC youth studying STEM in the Programme d'éducation intermédiaire (PEI) du Baccalauréat International ® (IB) upon invitation of my professors.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

● Official delegate and team member representing McGill University at a 3-month long national research competition hosted by the University of Toronto : Project X.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

● Utilized convolutional neural networks (CNN) to detect development of neurodegeneration symptoms solely from videos.● Co-supervised by Director of McGill’s School of Computer Science, MILA-associated Professor and Bio-informatician, Mathieu Blanchette.● Built a proof-of-concept ML classifier pipeline (ROC-AUC of 66.5%) with low amounts of extremely sparse longitudinal data.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

● Led an international study with my wife on the socio-economic determinants of women’s mental health.● Collaborated with the National Office of Statistics and Biobank of the United Kingdom to obtain 70 years of health data.● Presented our research results in Norway in collaboration with the University of Oslo's Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition.● Developed statistical and graphical computing pipelines in R (e.g. nation-wide longitudinal psychosocial heatmaps).

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

● Applied a machine-learning-driven analysis pipeline to understand genetic mechanisms driving neuroregeneration. ● Performed differential expression analysis of injured mice peripheral nervous tissue on Nanopore sequencing data. ● Actively used Bash, R, Confluence by Atlassian, Slack, and Google Colab in agile to document and share research.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

● Analysed neural transcriptome data generated by Oxford Nanopore sequencers (i.e. PromethION and GridION).● Generated official figures for my research group’s presentation at the 27th Annual International Meeting of the RNA Society, contributing to the dissemination of experimental results to an audience of over 1,800 researchers worldwide.● Designed command line scripts to automate and notify of storage of results in our lab's dedicated secondary server.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

● After studying the Buddhist tradition for 1 month in Asia by travelling between Japan, Vietnam and Thailand, my wife and I have decided to share our passion for mindfulness meditation in a culturally rich natural outdoor setting of Montreal!● We developed a 2-hour mindfulness, trauma-informed history and mental health workshop grounded in neuroscientific and psychological research, with a focus on emotional well-being and stress management through meditation.

Canada

● Helped more than 20 students succeed academically for more than 1 year and was awarded the “Tuteur Coup de Coeur” distinction for tutoring excellence. ● Weekly at-home and online tutoring sessions offered to students throughout Québec in French or English. ● Awarded “Consumer's Choice” three consecutive years (2020-2022) & Evol Impact Leader for alignment with UN's 4th Sustainable Development Goal : Quality Education.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

● Provided tailored tutoring to elementary and high school students with learning disabilities (e.g., attention deficit, dyslexia, dyscalculia), empowering them to overcome their academic challenges through personalized strategies.● Led 2-hour tutoring sessions in French, English, and Spanish for small groups (2-3 students), fostering an inclusive and supportive learning environment in spacious classrooms.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

● Voluntarily contributed to cutting-edge research on the gut-brain axis and its link to Parkinson's Disease using in-vivo mouse models, working closely under the supervision of Dr. Hicham Bessaiah, now Associate Professor at l'INRS.● Performed advanced molecular biology techniques, including competent cell formation, genetic recombination, PCR, gel electrophoresis, bacterial culture development, and protein detection in mice tissue, while ensuring compliance with strict hazardous waste management protocols.

Canada

● Co-founded and directed EIVIEW Pictures, leading a dynamic team of filmmakers, photographers, and drone pilots specializing in original documentaries, commercials, music videos, and films that inspire and enlighten our community.● Led the production of 13 high-impact videos for SOSprof, a renowned Canadian tutoring agency, contributing to the academic success of over 12,000 children across Québec through engaging visual storytelling. ● Oversaw creative scriptwriting and iterative improvements using an agile workflow, fostering a collaborative team environment through Trello for feedback-driven content refinement and project management.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada