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# ESPRIT School of Engineering — AI Research Lab

**ESPRIT School of Engineering** (Tunis, Tunisia) is a leading private engineering school 
and member of the Honoris United Universities network. Our AI Research Lab develops 
open-source models, datasets, and tools focused on Arabic NLP, Tunisian dialect (Derja), 
and applied AI for education and industry.

We are building the first open-source LLM ecosystem for Tunisian Arabic, including 
instruction-tuned models, curated datasets, and benchmarking tools — all trained on our 
on-premise HPC infrastructure (NVIDIA DGX A100).

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**Research Focus**
- Tunisian Dialect NLP (Derja)
- Arabic Large Language Models
- Pedagogical AI & Educational Technology
- HPC Orchestration & GPU Computing

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**Infrastructure**
- NVIDIA DGX A100 (8x 80GB)
- ESPRIT HPC Hub — on-premise GPU orchestration platform
- TokenFactory — OpenAI-compatible LLM API

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**Affiliation**
Honoris United Universities · UNESCO Chair in Science Education

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**Contact**
ai@esprit.tn · [esprit.tn](https://esprit.tn)