Vision, distributed training and retrieval systems that ship.
Final-year engineering student at INSAT, Tunis. A first-author IEEE paper, two EFREI Paris research engagements, and seven competition prizes — each with the evidence one click away.
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newest 07/2026, international
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Seven roles across four years, two of them research engagements. Where a role produced a project, it links to the write-up.
June 2026 — August 2026
Research Intern — Computer Vision
Paris, France
April 2026 — July 2026
Software Engineer
November 2025 — June 2026
Research Collaborator — Frugal AI & Sustainable Deep Learning
July 2025 — September 2025
Software Engineering Intern — SAP Joule Integration
Tunis, Tunisia
June 2025 — July 2025
Software Engineering Intern
Tunis, Tunisia
July 2024 — September 2024
AI & Software Engineer Intern
Tunis, Tunisia
June 2024 — July 2024
Software Engineer Intern
Sousse, Tunisia
Tags declare what each project can prove. They are a contract: a tag here is something the write-up has to deliver.
1st Prize at IEEE TSYP 12 against 20 universities, and a first-author IEEE SMC 2025 paper presented in Vienna.
In plain termsA robot arm that sees a real chessboard through a camera, decides a move, and physically picks up and moves the piece — adjusting its difficulty to the person playing.
Read the full write-up 09/2024 — 01/2025
2nd of 193 teams at the international IEEE AESS Sustainability Hackathon, with an anomaly detector validated on ESA telemetry at 0.99 accuracy.
In plain termsA way for a group of small satellites to notice when one of them is going blind and cover for it — correcting its readings, relaying its data, or lending it their own sensors — instead of letting it become space junk.
Read the full write-up 07/2026
Graph-augmented retrieval across PDF, Word, image and audio, explored through a D3 constellation graph.
In plain termsA tool that reads everything you throw at it — documents, images, recordings — and lets you ask questions in plain language, showing how the answers connect as a map of stars.
Read the full write-up 01/2026
2nd Prize at IEEE TSYP 12 (CS Chapter). Real-time threat detection and classification over large volumes of network logs.
In plain termsSoftware that watches a network, spots attacks as they happen, sorts them by type, and writes the incident report for the security team automatically.
Read the full write-up 09/2024 — 12/2024
Cut CO₂ emissions by 42.6% with zero accuracy loss, and accelerated training by 33.7%.
In plain termsTraining large AI models burns a lot of electricity. This work splits the training across machines and tunes how it runs, so the same model comes out just as accurate for far less energy.
Read the full write-up Built at EFREI Paris11/2025 — 06/2026
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1st Prize and Best Art Award at National Re·Tech Fusion, on a real industrial challenge from Kilani Group.
In plain termsSensors on factory equipment feed a system that shows where electricity is actually going, so a plant can cut the waste it could not previously see.
Read the full write-up 05/2026
Deep reinforcement learning that packs 3D boxes into containers for measurable volume and cost savings.
In plain termsGiven a pile of boxes and a shipping container, it works out the arrangement that wastes the least space — the way an expert packer would, but automatically.
Built from scratch during the PROXYM internship: real-time delivery, group communication and authentication on the MERN stack.
In plain termsA chat application where messages arrive instantly, groups work properly, and accounts stay secure as more people join.
2025
Peer-reviewed, indexed
Iyed Mdimegh, Mohamed Hamzaoui, Malak Bouzidi, Rayen Kasmi, Ahmed Zghibi, Fayez Zouari
IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), Vienna, Austria
RoboKnight is an affordable 4-DOF robotic arm with a dual-power electronic structure, built to teach chess against a physical board. A multi-stage computer-vision pipeline uses YOLO models and FEN generation to identify the board and pieces and to track and validate moves in real time. A central logic unit integrates vision, robot control and the chess engine, and a web dashboard monitors and remotely operates multiple arms at once.
2nd Place
07/2026
International · IEEE AESS Tunisia, Jordan & Egypt sections · 193 teams
Placed 2nd of 193 teams at this international IEEE hackathon, run jointly by the IEEE AESS Tunisia, Jordan and Egypt sections. With team Les Talelas, designed NUWA and its underlying protocol SISP: a fault-tolerant, self-healing communication layer that lets CubeSat constellations correct degraded sensors, relay data through healthy neighbours and borrow readings from each other — keeping satellites useful for longer instead of replacing them.
1st Prize · Best Art Award
05/2026
National · IEEE PES × PELS INSAT Joint Chapter
Won 1st prize at the National Re·Tech Fusion competition, organized by the IEEE PES × PELS INSAT Joint Chapter and centered on a real industrial challenge from Kilani Group. Built an industrial energy intelligence platform combining IoT, edge computing and data analytics to monitor and optimize factory energy consumption. Also won the Best Art Award at the same event.
1st Prize
12/2024
National · 20 universities
Secured 1st place in the national TSYP Chess Coach Challenge, competing against teams from 20 universities across Tunisia. Led the development of the INSAT Chess Coach Robot, a robotic system designed to teach and interact with chess players.
2nd Prize
12/2024
National · 20+ universities
Achieved 2nd place in the IEEE TSYP 12 Challenge (Computer Society Chapter), a national competition with over 20 participating Tunisian universities. Co-created SMARTSHIELD, an AI-driven cybersecurity incident response platform.
08/2024 — 07/2025
Vice Chair, Technical Activities & Instructor
Led and managed technical projects, developed the annual plan, and organized workshops to expand the skills and learning opportunities of the chapter's 250+ members. Facilitated tutoring on AI, specifically deep reinforcement learning.
09/2023 — 02/2025
Hackathon Organizing Committee President & Senior Member
Organized "Hack for Good", a nationwide competition with three workshops and 140 participants, focused on CSR projects.
04/2021 — 08/2023
Senior Member
An association working to preserve marine life in the Mediterranean.
Derived from the technologies these projects actually use, rather than maintained as a separate list that drifts.
My team built an IoT and edge-computing platform for Kilani Group to optimize industrial energy consumption. Organized by the IEEE PES × PELS INSAT Joint Chapter.
Represented Tunisia at IEEE SMC 2025 in Vienna, presenting our research with my co-authors, meeting academics and industry experts, and exploring brain–computer interfaces. I also took part in the BR41N.IO BCI Hackathon, developing a neurotechnology system that adapts music volume to mental state using EEG and fNIRS signals.
Led a technical workshop introducing students to advanced deep-learning architectures for graph-structured data: message passing, graph convolutions, and practical applications in recommendation systems and molecular modeling.
My team took 1st place in the national TSYP Chess Coach Challenge, competing against teams from 20 universities across Tunisia. A detailed description of the winning project is provided in Selected Work.
As Vice Chair, responsible for Technical Activities, I led and managed innovative technical projects, developed the annual plan, and organized workshops to expand the skills and learning opportunities of our 250+ members.
Our team competed against 20 others with an AI-agents project, taking 3rd prize.
With my team I organized a hackathon that brought together 140 participants and drew students from across the country to contribute outstanding projects.
09/2022 — 09/2027 (expected)
Software Engineering Cycle — National Engineering Diploma (Diplôme National d'Ingénieur), a five-year programme equivalent to an M.Eng.
Tunis, Tunisia
I am looking for a final-year engineering internship, and I am open to research collaborations and freelance work. The fastest way to reach me is email.