Ibrahima Wane

I grew up in Nouakchott, Mauritania, where a fascination with mathematics took hold early. The numbers were the easy part; what stuck was how they could be used to describe and decide. That curiosity drifted toward statistics, then toward data — anywhere a problem could be framed clearly and answered with evidence.

On August 22, 2019, at 18, I packed my bags and left for France. The first stop was Lyon, at Université Lyon 1 Claude Bernard, where I began a Bachelor's in Mathematics & Economics. The mix of formal proof and real-world models was a good start, but it pushed me toward a more applied path.

So I reoriented. I moved to Paris and joined the MIAGE program at Université Paris Dauphine — a curriculum built around the meeting point of computer science, decision-making, and data. It turned out to be the right fit. I earned my Master 2 there, and the projects on this site are the work that came out of that period: explainable models, MLOps services, real datasets, real trade-offs.

Alongside my studies, I led the conference pole of Paris Dauphine Afrique, the university's African student association. We put together three conferences — on journalism in Africa, on African sovereignty, and on the war in the DRC — and a round table on African weddings between tradition and modernity. Bringing those conversations to a French university audience was its own kind of work, different from data but just as worth doing.

Outside of school, travel has become a habit — Lucerne, Milan, Barcelona, Amsterdam, and most recently Dakar. Each trip is a chance to break the routine and look at the world from a different angle. Dakar stayed with me the longest: a way of staying close to West Africa, where my story started.