career

My education, industry experience, certifications and achievements.

Academic Background

Ph.D. in Machine Learning applied to healthcare (2020 - present) L’École Nationale Supérieure d’Informatique et d’Analyse des Systèmes (ENSIAS), Morocco.

State Engineer in Computer Science & Emerging Technologies (2014 - 2019) L’Ecole Nationale des Sciences Appliquées d’El Jadida (ENSAJ), Morocco.

Industry Experience

Machine Learning Pathway Technical Mentor (2020 - 2021) STEM-Away, Remote

Lead Machine Learning Engineer Volunteer (2019 - 2020) Omdena, Remote

Data Scientist/Computer Vision R&D Engineer, Intern Berexia, Casablanca, Morocco

Deep Learning Researcher, Intern (1 month, 2018) LTI ENSAJ Laboratory, El Jadida, Morocco

Network Security R&D Engineer, Intern (1 month, 2017) Lydec, Casablanca, Morocco

Certifications

  • NVIDIA DLI Certificate – Fundamentals of Deep Learning (Instructor Materials), Feb 2022.
  • NVIDIA DLI Certificate – Instructor Materials - Applications of AI for Anomaly Detection, Feb 2022.
  • Fundamentals of Deep Learning, NVIDIA DLI, Dec 2021.
  • Building Intelligent Recommender Systems, NVIDIA DLI, Dec 2021.
  • Building Conversational AI Applications, NVIDIA DLI, Oct 2021.
  • Deep Learning for Industrial Inspection, NVIDIA DLI, Sep 2021.
  • AI Project Manager Nanodegree, Udacity, April 2021.
  • 3 courses of TensorFlow in Practice Specialization (TF 2.0), Coursera, March 2020.
  • Deep Learning Nanodegree (PyTorch), Udacity, January 2020.
  • Data Foundations Nanodegree, Udacity, December 2018.

Check them all out on my Linkedin profile.

Achievements

  • NVIDIA Univeristy Ambassador & Instructor
  • Google Ph.D. Fellow in Machine Perception, Speech Technology and Computer Vision
  • Women Techmakers Ambassador
  • Won as part of the AI Wonder Girls team:
    • the SAAI Factory Award for Participation of the SAAI Factory - Hackathon on Art and AI: ATHENA Art Assistant.
    • the first prize (iPhone 12) in the MLOps for Good Hackathon: ICU-OPS.
    • the AI Applied To Medical Imaging - Track Winner and NVIDIA prize in the AI for Healthcare Hackathon.
  • #IamRemarkable facilitator
  • Selected out of 6k+ applicants from Africa to participate in the #BuildforSDGChallenge2 innovation phase.
  • Invited to attend the Devoxx Morocco 2019 Conference.
  • Sole Moroccan awarded the Deep Learning Nanodegree by Facebook Developer Circle.
  • Awarded the Udacity-Bertelsmann scholarship and Udacity-Facebook scholarship several times.