Before reaching the current state, I have been diversifying my experiences between research and business.

Academic Appointment

1. Georgia Institute of Technology (GaTech)
Postdoctoral Fellow (Full-Time), 2025 - Present

• Faculty: H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial \& Systems Engineering
• Lab: The NSF AI Research Institute for Advances in Optimization (AI4OPT)
• Mentor: Prof. Pascal Van Hentenryck
• Roles: Research (designing methodology and supervising students), Industry (visiting companies and designing SOWs), Teaching (from high school to graduate students), Service (popularizing science)

Research Experience

1. AI Research Institute for Advances in Optimization (NSF AI4OPT)
Visiting Scholar (Full-Time), 2024

• Mentor: Prof. Pascal Van Hentenryck
• Research Areas: Operations Research, Machine Learning, Optimization Proxies, Logistics, Large-Scale Optimization, Mathematical Programming
• Applications: Transportation, Production, Manufacturing, Operations and Supply Chain Management
• Collaborations with various US Companies
• Location: Atlanta, USA

2. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven)
Visiting Scholar (Full-Time), 2024

• Advisors: Prof. Roel Leus
• Research Areas: Operations Research, Re-optimization, Benders Decomposition, Improved Primal Simplex, Large-Scale Optimization
• Applications: Transportation, Facility Location, Mining, Operations and Supply Chain Management
• Collaborations with OCP Group and UM6P
• Location: Leuven, Belgium

3. Griffith University (Griff)
Visiting Scholar (Full-Time), 2023

• Advisors: Prof. Yong Wu
• Research Areas: Operations Research, Re-optimization, Resilience, Supply Chain Management, Machine Learning for Operations Research
• Applications: Mining, Operations and Supply Chain Management
• Collaborations with OCP Group and UM6P
• Location: Gold Coast, Australia

4. Groupe d’études et de recherche en analyse des décisions (Gerad)
Research Assistant (Full-Time), 2020 - 2025

• Advisors: Profs. El Hallaoui Issmaïl & Soumis François
• Research Areas: Operations Research, Large-Scale Optimization, Decompositions, Metaheuristics, Solvers, Data Science, Machine Learning for Operations Research
• Applications: Airline, Mining, Transportation, Operations and Supply Chain Management
• Collaborations with OCP Group, UM6P, Laminaar, and IVADO
• Location: Montreal, Canada

5. International University of Japan
Research Project (Full-Time), 2018 - 2019

• Advisor: Prof. Li Wenkai
• Research Areas: Operations Research, Transportation, Electric Vehicles
• Collaboration with Fostergy Technologies Inc.
• Location: Niigata, Japan

Business Experience

1. Hydro Québec
Operations Research Consultant (Part-Time), 2023 - 2024

• Tackling Hydro-Québec’s specific Unit Commitment Problem (UCP) using efficient large-scale optimization algorithms
• Collaborating closely with researchers from the Hydro-Québec Research Institute (IREQ)
• Industry: Electric Utilities
• Location: Varennes, Canada

2. Fostergy Technologies Inc.
Operations Researcher & Data Scientist (Part-Time), 2017 - 2019

• Designing efficient and effective selection of the appropriate electric vehicle components and prediction of its behavior over different kinds of routes/duty cycles and over a huge number of parameters’ choices
• Enhancing user’s simulation capability and reducing development time many folds
• Industry: Electric Vehicles
• Location: Niigata, Japan

3. ProQuest Japan
Systems Engineering Intern (Part-Time), Fall 2018

• Promoting of the on-line ProQuest’s product training
• Planning, designing, and implementing the use of databases and the conduct of research within IUJ Library
• Industry: Information & Data Provision
• Location: Yokohama, Japan

4. Japan Space Systems
Remote Sensing and GIS Intern (Full-Time), September 2018

• Tackling global issues as well as sustainable development using remote sensing and GIS data utilization skills in developing countries
• Practical application to water shortage, natural disasters, etc.
• Industry: Space
• Location: Tokyo, Japan

5. Induproj
Quality & Safety Manager (Full-Time), 2016 - 2017

• Leading quality management through the international standard ISO 9001, quality control of the work done on the construction sites, and quality assurance into which I was dealing with customers’ requirements and seeking their satisfaction
• Leading safety management through the standard OHSAS 18001 and safety control of all the work done on the construction sites. Achieved the main safety KPI of 0 accident
• Industry: Industrial Assembly & Construction
• Location: El Jadida, Morocco

6. Bombardier
Operations Management Intern (Full-Time), Spring 2016

• Designing and implementing an Automated Production System (APS) for assembly lines monitoring
• Introducing Data mining for knowledge extraction
• Industry: Aerospace
• Location: Casablanca, Morocco

7. Managem Group
Industrial Challenge (Full-Time), Summer 2015

• Modeling and Simulating the Silver Treatment Plant at SMI
• Mapping of Ag rocks flows at SMI
• Industry: Mining
• Location: Tinghir, Morocco

8. Société Nouvelles de Volailles

Industrial Challenge (Full-Time), Summer 2015

• Motion and time study within the factory
• Programming an application for company’s KPI monitoring
• Industry: Agri-food
• Location: Temara, Morocco

9. Caisse de Dépôt et de Gestion

Project Management Internship (Part-Time), Winter 2015

• Study and Comprehension of international projects management references such as PMBOK and Prince2
• Analysis of a strategic PMO within CDG based on international projects management standards
• Industry: Finance
• Location: Rabat, Morocco

10. Sogea-Satom
Operator Internship (Full-Time), Summer 2014

• Working as an Operator in a Sheet-metal Workshop.
• Implementation of a 5S tools in the plant SBK.
• Industry: Construction
• Location: Kenitra, Morocco