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I'm Abderaouf Gacem, an engineer–researcher specializing in graph machine learning and graph LLMs, with hands-on experience from problem framing to production-ready delivery. I bridge research in PyTorch/Keras with practical engineering in Python/C/C++ to deliver end-to-end ML systems. I enjoy collaborating across academia and industry to turn ideas into scalable, real-world solutions.…

Abderaouf GACEM

Data Scientist, AI Engineer, Back-End Developer

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I'm Abderaouf Gacem, an engineer–researcher specializing in graph machine learning and graph LLMs, with hands-on experience from problem framing to production-ready delivery. I bridge research in PyTorch/Keras with practical engineering in Python/C/C++ to deliver end-to-end ML systems. I enjoy collaborating across academia and industry to turn ideas into scalable, real-world solutions.…

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I’m Abderaouf Gacem, an engineer–researcher specializing in graph machine learning and graph LLMs, with hands-on experience from problem framing to production-ready delivery. I bridge research in PyTorch/Keras with practical engineering in Python/C/C++ to deliver end-to-end ML systems.
I enjoy collaborating across academia and industry to turn ideas into scalable, real-world solutions.

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English

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French

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Arabic

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Work Experience

Graph ML Researcher at LIRIS–CNRS (GOAL Team)

November 1, 2020 - April 1, 2024

Proposed and evaluated scalable GCN sampling and latent augmentation methods; built reproducible PyTorch pipelines (dataset prep, baselines, ablations, metrics); published five papers and workshop papers; Best Paper Award at AICCSA 2024; coordinated with teaching units to deliver algorithms, C/C++, networking, systems security, Git and Python data science.

DLI Certified Instructor at NVIDIA, Deep Learning Institute

May 1, 2025 - Present

Ongoing certification to deliver NVIDIA DLI courses.

Assistant Teacher (ACE, ATER) at Polytech Lyon

November 1, 2020 - April 1, 2024

Led/assisted: Algorithmics (L3/M1), C/C++ (DS/OOP, L2/L3), Networking (L3), Systems Security (M1); Full responsibility for Git & Project Management (L3) and Python for Data Science (M1).

Collaborator and developer at COOFFA (AI, data start-up)

January 1, 2018 - December 31, 2020

Start-up to generate and exploit data within the informal network of retail in Africa to optimize the supply chain and give access to creditworthiness; MIT Entreprise Forum Africa Tech competition prize at VivaTech (Paris).

Team Manager at School Of AI Algiers

September 1, 2019 - July 31, 2020

Monitoring and helping on the preparation of AI content for talks and workshops targeting students and AI enthusiasts.

Intern at Netfer Technologie || Ardis

August 1, 2018 - September 1, 2018

Shipped an ETL web app (Exhibitor Management) for an international exhibition. Reviewed firewall rules; migrated MySQL → PostgreSQL, improving data integrity and maintainability.