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Hi, I'm Zakaria El-Aoufi 👋

AI Research Engineer & Data Scientist

Currently a PhD student in Resilient Workload Orchestration for Large Foundation Model Training over Heterogeneous Computing Power Networks. I am also a Medium writer and DeepLearning.AI course reviewer.

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Zakaria El-Aoufi

Education Background .

2026 – Present
PhD Student

LSIA Lab, Faculty of Sciences and Technologies of Fez

Working on Resilient Large Foundational Model Training over Heterogeneous Computing Power Networks

2024 – 2026
Master in Data Science and Intelligent Systems

Faculty of Sciences and Technologies of Fez

Focusing on Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Big Data

2021 – 2024
Undergraduate in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science

Faculty of Sciences and Technologies of Fez

Focused on Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science

Professional Experience .

Feb. 2026 – July 2026
AI Research Engineer Intern

UM6P, The Vanguard Center

Designed an end-to-end knowledge graph construction pipeline from unstructured data and developed an agentic framework for evidence-grounded QA, incorporating Graph Theory techniques such as Personalized PageRank for enhanced retrieval and reasoning.

Knowledge GraphsOntologyGraphRAGGraph TheoryNLP
April 2024 – June 2024
Software Engineer Intern

SRM FM

Developed an IT Asset Management web application to improve equipment tracking, user allocation, and reporting via an interactive dashboard.

ReactSpring BootChart.jsJava

Achievements .

Publications, professional certifications, and hackathon honors.

Publications

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Certifications

2025
Deep Learning Specialization

Coursera course certificates

Completed The Deep Learning Specialization thaught by Andrew Ng.

2025
Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate

Google Professional Certificates - Coursera

Completed The Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate.

Honors & Awards

May 2026
4th Place – HackAI

Morocco's Largest AI Hackathon

Ranked 4th out of 29 teams with a perfect score (100/100) on AI challenges (LLM quantization, VLMs, ASR).

June 2025
1st Place – EMAN Aerospace

Innovation Competition

Designed a conceptual solution for detecting vulnerabilities across IT infrastructures.