Youssef Mellah
Senior Data Scientist Machine Learning Engineer
Oriental, Morocco
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Top SchoolYoussef Mellah is an Associate Professor and Senior Machine Learning Engineer with a Ph.D. in Computer Science and nine years of experience building and deploying ML and NLP solutions across healthcare, finance, and legal domains. He specializes in fine-tuning LLMs and transformer models (BERT, GPT, LLAMA) for tasks like de-identification, summarization, and text-to-SQL, and has processed datasets exceeding 100 million clinical notes to deliver HIPAA/GDPR-compliant systems. Comfortable from research to production, he designs end-to-end pipelines using PyTorch, TensorFlow and Spark NLP and integrates models into real-world applications. He combines academic teaching (AI, DevOps, algorithms) with industry R&D, bridging rigorous research methods and pragmatic engineering. Based in Morocco, he currently splits his time between John Snow Labs and academia at ENIADB, bringing both product-focused delivery and scholarly mentorship to teams. A not-so-obvious strength is his background in core banking and enterprise software, which informs his disciplined approach to scalable, auditable ML systems.
9 years of coding experience
Baccalauréat, Science mathématique B, Mention Bien, Baccalauréat, Science mathématique B, Mention Bien at Lycée hassan ibn Thabit ZaioÉcole nationale des sciences appliquées d'Oujda
English, French, Arabic
Github Skills (128)
snow10
pyspark10
spark-ml10
runnable10
nlp10
binder10
transfer-learning9
apache-spark9
relation9
scraper9
apache9
spark9
voice8
resume8
python8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mellahysf/WeightBot-Privacy
Nov 2021 - Sep 2024
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
mellahysf/SmartFilter-Privacy
Feb 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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