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).

Research Focus

• Tunisian Dialect NLP (Derja)
• Arabic Large Language Models
• Pedagogical AI & Educational Technology
• HPC Orchestration & GPU Computing

Infrastructure

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

Affiliation Honoris United Universities · UNESCO Chair in Science Education

Contact ai@esprit.tn · esprit.tn