Estelle Zheng

Paris 75019, France


Education

LORIA / CNRS at University of Lorraine Nancy, France
Ph.D - Computer Science

Thesis: Finetuning LLMs for planning and acting with APIs.

Institut Polytechnique de Paris Palaiseau, France
Master - Applied Mathematics for Data Science

GPA: 4.00/4.00 (16/20).

Sorbonne University Paris, France
Bachelor - Major in EE, Minor in Mandarin Chinese

GPA: 3.76/4.00 (14.59/20); ranked 1st in cohort.

Publications

Learning New Facts with QLoRA: An Acquisition-Retention Frontier Findings of EMNLP, 2026

Estelle Zheng, Sébastien Warichet, Emmanuel Helbert, Christophe Cerisara

Oui à l'Échelle, Non à la Mémoire: Affinage Léger des LLMs par Réseaux Latéraux TALN, 2026 · Best Paper

Estelle Zheng, Sébastien Warichet, Emmanuel Helbert, Christophe Cerisara

Experience

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Nancy, France
Industrial Ph.D Candidate

Thesis: Finetuning LLMs for planning and acting with APIs.

Allianz Puteaux, France
Data Scientist Intern

End-to-end development of an NLP model for detecting agri-food companies, from dataset creation to production deployment.

LOCEAN at Sorbonne Université Paris, France
Deep Learning Intern

Satellite chlorophyll prediction using dynamic data, with performance comparison against U-Net and multiple CNNs.

Télécom SudParis Evry, France
Online Diarization Intern

Audio diarization: data cleaning and segmentation with Webrtcvad, and accuracy verification via RTTM file extraction.

Skills

Programming languages: C, Python, PySpark, Bash, SQL, SAS

Development tools: VS Code, PyCharm, MySQL, Git, Linux

Languages

French: Fluent (Native)

English: Working proficiency (B2/C1)

Mandarin Chinese: Fluent (Native)