Yacine Mahdid
Chief Executive Officer at datadom.co
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolYacine Mahdid is a CEO and entrepreneur with 8 years of experience bridging computational neuroscience research and applied machine learning to build pragmatic AI businesses. Trained at McGill in computational neuroscience, he authored multiple papers on consciousness detection, EEG connectivity, and brain–computer interfaces before leaving a PhD to scale Axya, a company restructuring outsourcing and supply-chain intelligence for North American manufacturers. He has held progressive technical and operational leadership roles (CTO → COO → Chief AI Officer → CEO) and mentors teams that translate academic methods into production ML systems. Yacine combines deep domain knowledge in neural signal analysis with hands-on engineering and product instincts, often favoring solutions that prioritize reliability and measurable business impact. Outside work he enjoys conversations about consciousness, entrepreneurship, and the uncanny — from Kafka to David Lynch — which reflects his curiosity-driven approach to problem solving. Based in Montreal, he is actively building AI systems for companies of all sizes while remaining engaged with the neuroscience community.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Neuroscience at McGill University
English, French
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Github Skills (57)
java10
regression-algorithms10
neuroscience10
cpp10
knn10
temperature10
data-science9
artificial-intelligence9
matlab9
eda9
machine-learning9
machine-learning-algorithms9
relation9
deep-learning9
data-structures9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
BIAPT/EEGapp
Aug 2017 - Aug 2019
A MATLAB application to automatize analysis of EEG data
Contributions:1 release, 20 commits, 2 pushes in 2 years
matlabeegeeg-data
yacineMahdid/helps
Jul 2020 - Jan 2022
Contributions:8 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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