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I build robots that
see, learn & decide.

Staff Research Engineer leading the Computer Vision team at InstaDeep — designing AI systems at the intersection of robotics, mechatronics and deep learning. Eight years in, still curious.

BasedLondon, UK
RoleStaff Research Engineer — Computer Vision Team Lead
AtInstaDeep
LanguagesFR · AR · EN
about

A robotics engineer who drifted into AI — and stayed.

I'm a multidisciplinary, self-motivated robotics engineer — trained on kinematics, dynamics and control, and stubborn enough to keep teaching those things while the field shifted underneath me.

Over eight years at InstaDeep, I've gone from building AI pipelines in Tunis, to leading teams in Dubai, to running the Computer Vision team from London. I care about research that ships and systems that actually move in the real world.

Before that: repairing myoelectric prosthetic hands, teaching KUKA programming to master's students, and investigating electrical fires as a consultant. A scenic route.

experience

Eight years, four cities, one obsession.

2025 — now
InstaDeep — Staff Research Engineer, CV Team Lead
London, UK
Leading the computer vision research team — shaping roadmap, hiring, and pushing work from paper to production for clients who actually deploy.
2023 — 2025
InstaDeep — Senior AI Research Engineer, Team Lead
Berlin, DE
Led a research pod on applied deep learning; grew the team, mentored engineers, shipped models that still run today.
2020 — 2023
InstaDeep — Senior AI Engineer, Team Lead
Dubai, UAE
Three years building and delivering AI systems across industries — logistics, energy, public sector. First taste of managing through ambiguity.
2018 — 2020
InstaDeep — AI Engineer
Tunis, TN
Where it started. Classical ML, deep learning pipelines, and figuring out what "research engineer" actually means.
2016 — 2018
Global Medical Services — Prosthetics Maintenance Engineer
Ariana, TN
Repaired STEEPER Bebionic & myoelectric prosthetic hands — cut repair time from days to hours. A humbling, hands-on counterpoint to lab work.
2015 — 2018
Université Libre de Tunis — Robotics Lecturer
Tunis, TN
Taught kinematics, dynamics & control; supervised mechatronics projects; trained students on KUKA manipulators.
2015 — 2017
OPCIE — Data Scientist · Fire & Electrical Investigator
Tunis, TN
Valued 40+ factories for insurance, coordinated cross-department teams. Certified electrical & fire investigator — an oddly useful skill to have in your back pocket.
selected work

Things I've built, shipped or rewired.

01 / CV

Computer Vision Research

Leading a cross-functional CV team at InstaDeep — detection, segmentation and representation learning for clients in industrial and scientific domains.

PyTorch Detection Deployment
02 / RL

Deep Reinforcement Learning

Applied RL work — from simulation training pipelines to fine-tuning agents in constrained, real-world environments.

RL Simulation Control
03 / AV

Self-Driving Vehicles

Self-Driving Car NanoDegree projects extended into research — perception, sensor fusion and path planning for autonomous platforms.

Perception Sensor Fusion C++
04 / MECH

Prosthetics & Mechatronics

Servicing myoelectric prosthetic hands and building mechatronic training platforms — where software meets solder and tolerances.

SolidWorks Control Embedded
stack & skills

The tools I reach for.

Python C++ Matlab SolidWorks PyTorch JAX TensorFlow OpenCV ROS KUKA KRL Docker AWS Kubernetes Computer Vision Reinforcement Learning Kinematics & Control Agile Lean Manufacturing
education & certs

A long paper trail.

2020 — 2021
Agile Software Developer Nanodegree · Udacity
2018 — 2019
Deep Reinforcement Learning Nanodegree · Udacity
2017 — 2018
Self-Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree · Udacity
2014
Graduate studies, Mechanical Engineering · Rice University (1 year, did not complete)
2013 — 2014
MS, Robotics · École Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Sfax (ENIS) — dual-degree program, 1 year completed
2008 — 2013
Diploma, Electrical Engineering · École Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Sfax (ENIS)
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Also: Machine Learning (Stanford) · Quality Engineering & Management (TU München, edX) · Lean Manufacturing · Innovative Ideas for New Companies · Certified Electrical & Fire Investigator
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