Invited Talks
I am always happy to give talks and lectures to share insights or help AI & NLP reach wider audiences. Please reach out if you want to invite me!
World Learning Algeria
LLMs: From Transformer Attention to Low-Resources Darija Summarization
AI Forge Guest Speaker Session, held virtually for AI students from various Algerian universities
May 3rd, 2025
7pm 🇩🇿 Algeria time
AI & Data Conf (Ramadan Edition)
Invited Speaker on Fast Prompt Alignment for Text-to-Image Generation
Organized by Moroccan Data Scientists (MDS)
March 21st, 2025
The 2nd International e-Health Forum
Panel Speaker on Reducing Health Disparities by Providing Digital Health Services to Underserved Populations
Co-organized by the Mohammed VI Foundation for Sciences and Health, in partnership with the Moroccan Government Ministries of Health, Foreign Affairs, Higher Education, and Digital Transition, and under the High Patronage of His Majesty the King of 🇲🇦 Morocco
October 31st, 2024
UM6P Faculty of Medical Sciences
Hosted Talk on Consumer Health Applications in the Era of LLMs
September 13th, 2024
Ben Guerir, 🇲🇦 Morocco
Deep Learning Indaba
Tutorial on LLMs
September 2nd, 2024
2pm 🇸🇳 Senegal time
Held at the Amadou Mahtar Mbow University in Dakar, 🇸🇳 Senegal
Workshop on Generative AI in the Era of LLMs, organized by the University of British Columbia's DL & NLP Group
Invited Talk on Consumer Health Applications in the Era of LLMs
Held at the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications in the Age of Digital Transformation (I2COMSAPP), organized by the Faculty of Sciences and Techniques at Nouakchott University in 🇲🇷 Mauritania
April 24th, 2024
4pm 🇲🇷 Mauritania time
AI Summer School held at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane
Inaugural Lecture, on Transformers
July 2023
Apple
Invited Internal Research Talk
June 2023
Spotify
Invited Internal Research Talk
June 2023
TikTok
Invited Internal Research Talk
June 2023
Tencent AI Lab
Invited Internal Research Talk
May 2023
Toyota Research Institute
Invited Internal Research Talk
May 2023
UM6P and 1337 Metaverse Day in 🇲🇦 Benguerir, Morocco
Invited Pre-recorded Talk
December 14th, 2022
Second Edition of the 🇲🇦 Morocco IoT & AI Challenge
Invited Jury Member for the Finals
September 25th, 2021
15th Journées Nationales des Jeunes Développeurs (JNJD), at INPT in 🇲🇦 Rabat, Morocco
Lecture: "Getting Started in NLP: Building an AI model for text classification"
June 14th, 2021
6pm Morocco time
Morocco AI Webinar
Talk: "Rethinking Self-Attention: Towards Interpretability in Neural Parsing"
February 10th, 2021
8pm 🇲🇦 Morocco time