Amine Kerkeni
Head of Engineering, InstaDeep

Amine Kerkeni is the head of engineering at InstaDeep, where he leads two research projects applying the latest advancements in natural language processing (NLP). He leads software engineering teams in various industries, including semiconductor, consumer electronics, and investment. Amine’s areas of expertise include computer vision, predictive analytics, NLP, and combinatorial optimizations. He holds a master’s of engineering in computer science and a master’s of business administration.

Sessions

3:30pm–3:40pm Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Location: 230 A

AI-based container usage optimization tool

Amine Kerkeni (InstaDeep)

Amine Kerkeni walks you through a system that demonstrates an agent that learns to pack boxes efficiently in containers while respecting multiple physical constraints. The agent is trained using reinforcement learning to minimize the wasted space. Without any human knowledge, the agent achieves superhuman performance and outperforms commercial optimization software. Read more.