Scientist, Machine Learning
ECMWF — Bonn, Germany · Dec 2022 –
Present
- Lead activities on EC projects: stakeholder engagement, tech transfer, reporting.
- Build self-supervised learning pipelines for EO downstream tasks.
- Design ML for data volume reduction & efficient transfer in EO4EU.
- Develop object detection, promptable segmentation (VHR imagery), and super-resolution
(Sentinel‑2, ERA‑5).
- Integrate models on AI-on-Demand for AI4Copernicus & DeployAI.
- Deliver trainings and workshops (IGARSS, EGU), and build STAC catalogs for interoperable
data access.
Head of AI & Digital
TerraNIS SAS — Ramonville-Saint-Agne, France · Jan 2020 – Nov 2022
- Applied AI to EO for illicit crop detection and swimming pool identification.
- Managed EC projects and partnered with academia for agriculture & viticulture.
- Delivered AI training programs; mentored a team of three engineers.
- Built cloud-native processing workflows for scalable EO analytics.
Expert Engineer, Signal & Image Processing
TerraNIS SAS — Ramonville-Saint-Agne, France · Feb 2018 – Dec 2019
- Land use classification, change detection, field boundaries, LAI/biophysical estimation,
forest detection, semantic mapping.
- Processing chains for Sentinel‑2 and anomaly detection for crop monitoring.
Postdoctoral Researcher
IRIT — Toulouse, France · Oct 2016 – Dec
2017
- ML on satellite-derived data for agriculture (anomaly detection, crop classification).
- Lab instruction for advanced signal processing projects.
PhD Researcher & Lab Instructor
INPT / IRIT / ENSEEIHT — Toulouse, France · Sep 2013 – Sep 2016
- Bayesian and clustering methods for task-based fMRI: activity detection, dynamics,
segmentation.
Monitoring & Evaluation Officer
PCDCR — Gaza · Jan 2012 – Sep 2013
- Oversaw compliance of 16 donor-funded projects (UNICEF, UNDP, Save the Children, NRC).
- Quantitative/qualitative analysis and bilingual reporting (EN/AR).
Executive Manager & Network Engineer
Toot ICT — Gaza · Jan 2010 – Jun 2010
- Budgeting, business development, and operations.
- Deployed wired/wireless networks for reliable connectivity.
