I lead and manage the innovation, development, implementation, and integration of AI within various industries while building their global digital strategies and businesses. I am convinced that AI holds transformative power in reshaping our work dynamics, and am enthusiastic about contributing to the ongoing digital revolution across multiple sectors.
When I'm not at my day job, I'm usually tinkering with my Raspberry Pi builds, experimenting with open-source AI projects for fun, and occasionally poking around networks and devices through casual penetration testing. I've recently started dabbling in quantum programming, mostly because I like understanding how things work at the edges of what's possible. When I step away from my laptop screen, you'll find me swimming, or F1 sim-racing or deep in a video game.
Some History
- Age 7I was already glued to the computer my parents brought home — discovering Encarta, teaching myself C and a little machine language, always happiest somewhere inside a virtual world.
- Age 11I was an active member of a Harry Potter forum community, deep in the nerdy, intellectual side of that universe, while working through my mother's shelf of Agatha Christie novels on the side.
- Age 12I built my first website from scratch: a vBulletin forum. I still remember the excitement of that first working build — it opened a door into tech life that never really closed.
- The years after that were Raspberry Pis, home-lab networking, and generally taking apart anything with a circuit board, before a general engineering degree at Arts et Métiers in Meknes, Morocco formalized the path into engineering.
- Engineering degree in AI & Data Science at École Centrale de Lyon, followed by an AI Scientist internship at LIRIS Laboratory, contributing to the RESPI-NATATION project: AI models for video-based analysis of swimmers' breathing strategies, in partnership with the French Swimming Federation.
- A short stint as a Data Scientist at CEA Tech, building optimization tools for residual-gas data analysis with machine learning and statistical methods.
- Age 25Three years into a CIFRE industrial PhD at FORVIA Clean Mobility — a doctorate conducted inside the company rather than purely on campus, awarded by Université Marie et Louis Pasteur — I built PRODynamics, an AI-powered tool for preliminary assembly-line design that the company still runs at scale today. Along the way, I mentored a Digital Solutions apprentice for a year.
- Moved into FORVIA Group as Digital & AI Strategy Manager, now leading the Data, AI & GenAI roadmap and digital transformation projects for procurement at Group level — still finding new corners of the same virtual world I fell into at 7.
I Like
- Swimming.
- Gaming.
- Books.
- Space, and Astrophography.
Travel / Geography
- French-Moroccan, and I thrive on diversity — traveling and exploring new cultures and places are among my favorite things.
- Some of the countries I've been fortunate enough to visit: France, Morocco, Singapore, Spain, Germany, Malaysia, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Italy, Turkey, Belgium, Greece, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Austria, and Indonesia.