Experience & Projects

research · Starkville, MS

• Research under Prof. Zhiqian Chen on knowledge editing for large language models and large-scale co-simulation environments. First author on one paper, currently under review, and co-author on another, accepted at SIAM SDM26.
• Assisted in his intro ML course: built a demo project (Lego robot controlled via real-time hand gesture recognition using computer vision), delivered a guest lecture, and supported students through office hours.

PyTorch · ROME · MEMIT · WISE

industry · Casablanca, Morocco

• Sole AI engineer at a 6-person startup. Built and deployed a full-stack internal AI assistant (Next.js, FastAPI, WebSockets) with persistent memory and integrations across Gmail, Calendar, Jira, and GitHub, in daily use by the whole team. Designed a "skills" system: slash-command shortcuts that inject curated prompts and context at runtime, cutting repetitive re-prompting.
• Architected a real-time fraud detection pipeline for Ghirpay, a fintech product in development. Chose unsupervised learning to handle the cold start problem (no labeled fraud data), Redpanda for low-latency streaming, and Isolation Forest for anomaly detection, with a feature store on MongoDB.

Next.js · FastAPI · WebSockets · Redpanda · MongoDB · Docker · OAuth2

industry · Casablanca, Morocco

• Fine-tuned Whisper on French news audio enriched with Moroccan named entities, cutting name-spelling errors from near-total failure to 12% on held-out data.
• Built a job market data pipeline: crawled and scraped listings from multiple sites, parsed and classified unstructured content into structured JSON via LLM, and stored in a database with semantic search over job offers.

Whisper · PyTorch · Hugging Face · Python · ffmpeg · RAG