Fethi Bougares
Head Of Research at ELYADATA
Le Mans, Pays de la Loire, France
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Top SchoolFethi Bougares is Head of Research at ELYADATA with 11 years of experience bridging academic NLP research and industry applications in machine translation, ASR, and Arabic morphological analysis. He holds a PhD in Automatic Speech Recognition and previously served as an associate professor at Le Mans Université, bringing deep expertise in neural and statistical approaches to language technologies. His career includes postdoctoral work in machine translation and contributions to European projects like MateCat, reflecting a strong track record in collaborative, funded research. Fethi combines hands-on model development in neural machine translation and deep learning with practical system integration for speech and language pipelines. Fluent in both research and product contexts, he focuses on turning cutting-edge models into deployable solutions for multilingual and morphologically rich languages. An often-overlooked strength is his long-standing engagement across academia and industry, which gives him a rare fluency in both experimental rigor and production constraints.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Université de MonastirMaster Artificial intelligence and the Web (IAW), Master Artificial intelligence and the Web (IAW) at Université Grenoble AlpesDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Automatic Speech Recognition, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Automatic Speech Recognition at Le Mans Université
English, French, Arabic
Github Skills (13)
moses9
localization8
translation8
machine-translation6
machine-learning4
sentiment4
sentiment-analysis4
corpus4
python4
parsing4
nlp3
natural-language-processing2
deep-learning2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
fbougares/iwslt22-dialect
Mar 2022 - Dec 2022
IWSLT 2022 Dialectal Speech Translation Shared Task
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes in 8 months
speech-translationtranslationspeech-recognitionspeechtts
elyadata/NER_shared_task_2023
Dec 2023 - Mar 2024
Contributions:3 pushes in 3 months
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