Gaelle Patricia Talotsing is a Network and Telecommunications Engineer with a strong interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI). She obtained her engineering degree in 2017 from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure Polytechnique de Douala (ENSPD, ex-FGI), Cameroon. Passion She later worked for a year as a Tutor and Assistant Professor at the Ex-FGI (ENSPD) where she taught Information Transmission, Network Engineering and Protocols. Her experience and curiosity for artificial intelligence grew at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) Cameroon in Limbe where she obtained a Cooperative Master’s degree in Industrial Mathematics: Big Data and Financial Mathematics in February 2020. At AIMS Cameroon, she was a MasterCard Scholar and was selected for the IVADO Excellence Scholarship, giving her the opportunity to intern at the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Real-Time Decision-Making (CERC) in Montreal, Canada. “I am really grateful about AIMS, I enjoyed my training at AIMS and I am still using the high mathematical skills acquired during my Coop Master training. Because of AIMS, I now have an easy handling of Mathematical and Computer tools : Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence techniques, Mathematical and Statistical Modelling, Operational Research by confirming theoretical studies through practical work, projects and internships,” she says. After AIMS, she was a tutor at ENSPD, teaching assistant in Network Administration and Stochastics Process. Now, she is doing a PhD in Computer Science at Mobile Computing and Networking Research Laboratory (LARIM) at Polytechnique Montréal. Attracted to solve new challenges, her dream is to be able to participate in solving problems with AI solutions and especially to inspire and include women in STEM. Gaelle Patricia Talotsing says she is attracted to Mathematics because she thinks Mathematics is a powerful wide range of tools to solve a huge part of daily problems. “Mathematics opens the mind, it is concrete, logical and practical. Personnally, I am enjoying using mathematics tools especially to improve and develop the technology in Networks and Telecommunications,” On May 12 2021, Gaelle Patricia also joined the rest of the world to celebrate the International Women in Mathematics Day. “That day is a celebration of those women who dared to study and apply Mathematics. It is a day to inspire more and more girls and women to be courageous enough to choose Mathematics, because for me it is a beautiful science. To young women, I will say don’t be afraid of mathematics, you can do it! It is challenging but I am sure you can make it! Be part of us,” explains Gaelle Patricia.
Gaelle Patricia Talotsing is a Network and Telecommunications Engineer with a strong interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI). She obtained her engineering degree in 2017 from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure Polytechnique de Douala (ENSPD, ex-FGI), Cameroon. Passionate about AI and technology development, she worked on several projects combining Machine Learning, Telecommunications and Advanced Networks (SDN, NFV).
She later worked for a year as a Tutor and Assistant Professor at the Ex-FGI (ENSPD) where she taught Information Transmission, Network Engineering and Protocols.
Her experience and curiosity for artificial intelligence grew at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) Cameroon in Limbe where she obtained a Cooperative Master’s degree in Industrial Mathematics: Big Data and Financial Mathematics in February 2020.
At AIMS Cameroon, she was a MasterCard Scholar and was selected for the IVADO Excellence Scholarship, giving her the opportunity to intern at the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Real-Time Decision-Making (CERC) in Montreal, Canada. During her internship, she investigated Deep Learning (DL) models compression and worked on the implementation of 03 compression techniques that significantly reduce the size of a very large model while preserving as much of its performance as possible: the Knowledge Distillation, Pruning and Quantization.
“I am really grateful about AIMS, I enjoyed my training at AIMS and I am still using the high mathematical skills acquired during my Coop Master training. Because of AIMS, I now have an easy handling of Mathematical and Computer tools : Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence techniques, Mathematical and Statistical Modelling, Operational Research by confirming theoretical studies through practical work, projects and internships,” she says.
After AIMS, she was a tutor at ENSPD, teaching assistant in Network Administration and Stochastics Process. Now, she is doing a PhD in Computer Science at Mobile Computing and Networking Research Laboratory (LARIM) at Polytechnique Montréal. Attracted to solve new challenges, her dream is to be able to participate in solving problems with AI solutions and especially to inspire and include women in STEM.
Gaelle Patricia Talotsing says she is attracted to Mathematics because she thinks Mathematics is a powerful wide range of tools to solve a huge part of daily problems. “Mathematics opens the mind, it is concrete, logical and practical. Personnally, I am enjoying using mathematics tools especially to improve and develop the technology in Networks and Telecommunications,”
On May 12 2021, Gaelle Patricia also joined the rest of the world to celebrate the International Women in Mathematics Day. “That day is a celebration of those women who dared to study and apply Mathematics. It is a day to inspire more and more girls and women to be courageous enough to choose Mathematics, because for me it is a beautiful science. To young women, I will say don’t be afraid of mathematics, you can do it! It is challenging but I am sure you can make it! Be part of us,” explains Gaelle Patricia.