Experience

Machine Learning Engineer — full-time

May 2025 – Present

Institut für Neuro- und Bioinformatik, University of Lübeck

  • Built an end-to-end biomedical NLP system for NER, UMLS entity linking, coreference resolution, and LLM-driven causal relation extraction, structuring outputs as a provenance-aware Neo4j knowledge graph.
  • Fine-tuned open-source LLMs including Gemma, LLaMA, and Qwen with LoRA/QLoRA, improving NER and relation extraction F1 by 21% and adding post-processing pipelines for data quality and coreference resolution.
  • Developed generative diffusion models for realistic iSCAT nanoparticle microscopy image synthesis, improving data augmentation for downstream segmentation.

ML Research Engineer — Master's Thesis

Oct. 2024 – Apr. 2025

Institut für Neuro- und Bioinformatik, University of Lübeck

  • Developed end-to-end deep learning pipelines for nanoparticle segmentation and size estimation from iSCAT microscopy images in collaboration with Harvard University.
  • Trained and evaluated SAM, Mask R-CNN, CellViT, and UNet, achieving 76% F1 and 81% Dice on the held-out test set.

Machine Learning Engineer — intern

Apr. 2024 – Sep. 2024

Institut für Neuro- und Bioinformatik, University of Lübeck

  • Built and deployed an RL-based image enhancement system that achieved state-of-the-art results among RL methods on MIT-Adobe FiveK, reaching 26.75 dB PSNR and 0.85 SSIM, with a live demo app on Hugging Face Spaces.

ML Research Engineer — part-time

Aug. 2023 – Mar. 2025

Institut für Technische Informatik, University of Lübeck

  • Designed deep reinforcement learning algorithms for adaptive beamforming optimization in mmWave/THz MIMO systems and evaluated deep learning methods for modulation classification.
  • Published Fast and Efficient Reinforcement Learning of Beam Codebooks in mmWave and THz MIMO Systems in IEEE Transactions on Communications.

Education

M.Sc. Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Apr. 2023 – Apr. 2025

University of Lübeck, Germany

M.Eng. Electrical & Energy Systems Engineering

Sep. 2015 – Jul. 2021

École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers, Casablanca