Alaa El-nouby
Research Scientist at Meta
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolAlaa El-nouby is a research scientist with 11 years of experience specializing in vision transformers, self-supervised and multi-modal learning, currently building Code World Models after research roles at Apple MLR and Meta AI. He holds a PhD from ENS/Inria Paris and an MASc from the University of Guelph, and has been advised by prominent researchers including Ivan Laptev, Natalia Neverova and Hervé Jégou. His background blends deep research with engineering: internships and roles at Apple, Microsoft Research, and Microsoft ATLC gave him hands-on experience deploying large-scale pipelines for video, NLP, and retrieval tasks. He has a track record in image retrieval and compression as well as language-vision pretraining, often bridging academic ideas to practical systems. Based in Paris, he brings a cross-continental career arc—from Egypt to Canada to France—that reflects both strong academic mentorship and production ML experience. A less obvious strength is his repeated movement between pure research and applied engineering, enabling rapid prototyping of research ideas into deployable systems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Ecole normale supérieureBachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at Ain Shams UniversityAin Shams University Computer Engineeering, Ain Shams University Computer Engineeering at patriarchal collegeMaster of Applied Science (MASc) Engineering Machine Learning, Master of Applied Science (MASc) Engineering Machine Learning at University of Guelph
Github Skills (101)
stylegan10
generative10
density-estimation10
efficientnet10
text-to-image10
causal-discovery10
imagenet10
simulations10
optimizer10
resnet10
statsmodels10
causal10
causal-inference10
bayesian10
mobilenet10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Grad-CSE2016/Action-Recognition
Dec 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:26 commits, 12 PRs, 23 pushes in 11 months
pythonrecognitionaction-recognitioncsegraduation
aelnouby/aelnouby.github.io
Jun 2016 - Nov 2022
Contributions:106 commits, 112 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 5 months
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