Othmane Rifki
Staff Research Scientist at Meta
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOthmane Rifki is a physicist-turned-AI leader and Staff Research Scientist at Meta’s Superintelligence Lab with eight years of experience building multimodal generative models, LLMs, and large-scale ML infrastructure. He has led 30+ person teams to deploy production LLMs, diffusion models, and agentic pipelines serving hundreds of millions of users and designed low-latency, cost-efficient retrieval and inference systems at billion-scale. His earlier career delivered mission-critical real-time systems at CERN—most notably a multithreaded C++ trigger module still used by ATLAS since 2015—and advanced detector and robotics programs at DESY and Argonne. Skilled across research and production, he combines statistical modeling, HPC, and production ML to shorten research-to-product cycles and improve model robustness. An uncommon strength is his track record of shipping both foundational physics infrastructure and consumer-facing AI products, backed by a PhD and exceptionally high scholarly impact.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Physics, Bachelor's degree Physics at Drexel UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Physics at University of Oklahoma
English, French, German
Github Skills (56)
python10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
ml9
arabic9
deep-neural-networks9
neural-network9
sequence-to-sequence8
artificial-intelligence8
pytorch8
predict8
jupyter7
netlify7
r7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
othrif/DataInsights
May 2020 - Jan 2024
Contributions:37 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
othrif/myCV
Jul 2020 - Apr 2023
My academic and industry CV
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years 9 months
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