Research & Talks

Bridging academic research and industry practice.

Publications

Nature Scientific Reports

SocialBit: A lightweight deep learning framework for predicting social interaction duration using wearable sensor data

February 2026

Contribution

Developed LSTM and Transformer architectures for social interaction prediction, achieving AUC of 0.94 across 153 stroke patients with ~89K minutes of observation data. NIH-funded research (R01HD099176).

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Talks & Workshops

16

Events

~1,520

Total Participants

PyData Montreal

Winter 2025

Data scientists & ML engineers

Theme

Evaluating AI Agents: From Vibes to Metrics

100 participants

Algeria 2.0

Fall 2024

Tech students & entrepreneurs

Theme

AI: Transforming the Future

80 participants

British Council Panel

Fall 2024

Educators & policy leaders

Theme

AI in Education & Ethics

80 participants

British Council Tech4Tech

Winter 2025

Teachers & EdTech innovators

Theme

AI in Education & Ethics

10 participants

British School (Kids)

Fall 2024

High school students

Theme

AI Literacy & Creativity

60 participants

British School Career Day

Winter 2025

High school students

Theme

AI Careers & Future Skills

60 participants

African Startup Challenge

Fall 2024

Founders & startup teams

Theme

AI for Business & Startups

120 participants

US Embassy Algiers (10 sessions)

2025

Public learners

Theme

Foundations of AI / Data / Agents

300 participants

SILA – U.S. Embassy Stand

Winter 2025

Writers, readers & book lovers

Theme

LLMs, RAG & AI's Impact on Creativity

60 participants

ECSEL EXPO

Fall 2025

E-commerce professionals

Theme

AI Strategy & Real Use Cases

40 participants

Caravan to Digital

Summer 2025

Regional youth

Theme

Foundations of AI / Data / Agents

300 participants

ENSM

Fall 2025

Business/Management students

Theme

AI in Information Systems

60 participants

Algeria 2.0 (12th edition)

Fall 2025

Tech students & entrepreneurs

Theme

Agentic AI (Without the Hype)

80 participants

Taqwa Team – Lyon

Winter 2025

Muslim association

Theme

Foundations of AI / Data / Agents

30 participants

Spiralis Center

Winter 2025

Students & entrepreneurs

Theme

Foundations of AI / Data / Agents

40 participants

GeekConf 5th Edition – Blida

Winter 2025

University students

Theme

Understanding Agentic AI

100 participants