CV & Background

Experience

From Casablanca to Toulouse — a journey through AI engineering, computer vision research, and manuscript digitisation.

Education

Nov. 2025 – Nov. 2028

PhD in Artificial Intelligence

University of Toulouse (IRIT, IMT, CLLE)
Toulouse, France

Topic: Handwritten Text Recognition of medieval Arabic scientific manuscripts and development of dedicated LLM.

Sep. 2022 – Sep. 2025

State Engineer's Degree — AI & Computer Science Engineering

École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers
Casablanca, Morocco

Selective access based on average. Graduated with Highest Distinction.

Sep. 2019 – Jul. 2020

Baccalaureate in Mathematical Sciences (French option)

Euclid High School
Mohammedia, Morocco

Highest Distinction.

Work experience

Mar. 2025 – Sep. 2025

Research Intern — AI & Medical Imaging

Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT)
Toulouse, France

Medical image segmentation using few-shot learning techniques.

  • Conducted a state-of-the-art review of segmentation algorithms with limited data and few-shot learning.
  • Processed MRI and CT images, understanding their specificity and formats.
  • Developed a segmentation model based on the U-Net architecture in a few-shot learning configuration.
Aug. 2024 – Dec. 2024

Volunteer Computer Vision Developer

Youth For Challenge Association
Casablanca, Morocco

Intelligent platform for real-time sign-language to text translation.

  • Conducted a state-of-the-art review of hand detection and segmentation methods.
  • Developed a CNN-based algorithm for hand gesture recognition.
  • Created an interface and deployed developed algorithms using Flask and OpenCV.
Apr. 2024 – Jun. 2024

Computer Vision Intern

SYGMA.AI (InsurTech Company)
Casablanca, Morocco

Intelligent solution for segmentation of damaged vehicle areas.

  • Collected and processed car images using Python, Selenium, and Scrapy.
  • Implemented a CNN for classification of damaged vehicles using PyTorch.
  • Developed a licence plate verification algorithm combining CNNs and OCR.
Jul. 2023

AI & Image Processing Intern

Lesieur Cristal
Casablanca, Morocco

PPE detection from video to minimise operational risks in industrial environments.

  • Built a structured dataset containing various PPE classes from diverse sources.
  • Designed a PPE detection and recognition algorithm based on CNNs.

Skills

Data Science

Python Pandas NumPy Matplotlib Seaborn Plotly Selenium Scrapy

AI / ML Tools

Scikit-learn Keras TensorFlow PyTorch MONAI SimpleITK OpenCV HF Transformers spaCy NLTK pyarabic

Architectures

CNN U-Net RNN LSTM Transformers ViT VLM

Languages

Python JavaScript SQL Bash

Certifications

Data Scientist Associate (90h) DataCamp · Nov. 2024
Advanced Learning Algorithms (34h) DeepLearning.AI · Apr. 2023
Supervised Machine Learning: Regression & Classification (33h) DeepLearning.AI · Mar. 2023
Machine Learning for Time Series Data in Python (4h) DataCamp · Nov. 2024