Hicham Badri
Staff ML Engineer at Dropbox
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolHicham Badri is a Staff ML Engineer based in Berlin with seven years of experience bridging cutting-edge research and product-grade machine learning. He co-founded Mobius Labs and served as Principal Research Scientist, translating computer vision and optimization research from his PhD into commercial image understanding products before joining Dropbox. His background spans research roles at Inria, hands-on engineering at EyeEm and Visual Meta, and teaching at Université de Bordeaux, giving him deep expertise in both theory and deployment. Hicham blends quantitative rigor with creative pursuits—he identifies as an AI scientist, quant, and music producer—which informs a pragmatic yet inventive approach to model design and experimentation. Known for taking ideas from publications to production, he excels at building robust vision systems that scale in real-world settings.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Vision/Optimization, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Vision/Optimization at Université de Bordeaux
French, Arabic, English, German
Github Skills (96)
transformers10
language-model10
python10
flax10
deep-learning10
gpu10
quantization10
mx10
optimizer10
numpy10
neural-network10
offloading10
transformer10
nlp10
jax10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mobiusml/gemlite
Aug 2024 - Apr 2025
Fast low-bit matmul kernels in Triton
Contributions:8 releases, 3 reviews, 12 PRs in 7 months
mobiusml/hqq
Nov 2023 - Apr 2025
Official implementation of Half-Quadratic Quantization (HQQ)
Contributions:25 releases, 20 PRs, 282 pushes in 1 year 4 months
llmmachine-learningquantization
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