I am Selssabil Boudefel, an AI Engineer dedicated to designing, building, and deploying AI systems that deliver real-world impact. I have practical experience across NLP, ASR, and computer vision, gained through internships and freelance projects. I enjoy exploring new frameworks and technologies, and I am passionate about deep learning and running experiments to systematically optimize model performance. I hold an Engineering degree and a Master's in Computer Science with a specialization in AI and Data Science. I thrive in collaborative environments, working with teams and stakeholders to translate goals into scalable AI solutions.

SELSSABIL BOUDEFEL

I am Selssabil Boudefel, an AI Engineer dedicated to designing, building, and deploying AI systems that deliver real-world impact. I have practical experience across NLP, ASR, and computer vision, gained through internships and freelance projects. I enjoy exploring new frameworks and technologies, and I am passionate about deep learning and running experiments to systematically optimize model performance. I hold an Engineering degree and a Master's in Computer Science with a specialization in AI and Data Science. I thrive in collaborative environments, working with teams and stakeholders to translate goals into scalable AI solutions.

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I am Selssabil Boudefel, an AI Engineer dedicated to designing, building, and deploying AI systems that deliver real-world impact. I have practical experience across NLP, ASR, and computer vision, gained through internships and freelance projects. I enjoy exploring new frameworks and technologies, and I am passionate about deep learning and running experiments to systematically optimize model performance.

I hold an Engineering degree and a Master’s in Computer Science with a specialization in AI and Data Science. I thrive in collaborative environments, working with teams and stakeholders to translate goals into scalable AI solutions.

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Experience Level

Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert

Language

English
Advanced
Arabic
Advanced
French
Advanced

Work Experience

AI Engineer at Darelwai
July 1, 2025 - Present
Built and processed a dataset of over 7,000 instances on HuggingFace; Fine-tuned ASR models using NVIDIA NeMo to optimize performance for target speech recognition tasks; Achieved a WER of 5.41% on real-time transcription; Deployed ASR models with NVIDIA Riva and AWS to enable scalable, production-ready AI services for real-time streaming applications.
ML Engineer Intern at Thynk Tech Dz
March 1, 2025 - July 1, 2025
Developed a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system for legal document retrieval using LangChain; Led end-to-end data processing pipeline, integrating OCR for text extraction, dataset preprocessing and cleaning; Leveraged OpenAI APIs to generate context-aware, accurate responses from processed legal documents.
Final-year Intern at LITAN, ESTIN
February 1, 2025 - July 1, 2025
Conducted an in-depth research project on DeepSeek-R1, focusing on its reasoning capabilities for personalized news recommendation; Designed and implemented experiments to evaluate recommendation accuracy and relevance using real-world news datasets.
Computer Vision Research Intern at CERIST
July 1, 2023 - October 1, 2023
Developed and optimized computer vision models for Kinship Verification using facial image datasets; Conducted data preprocessing and feature extraction to improve model accuracy; Evaluated model performance on different pairs of relatives, achieving up to 85.68% accuracy.

Education

Engineering at Higher School of Computer Science and Technologies (ESTIN), Bejaia, Algeria
January 1, 2020 - January 1, 2025
MSc in Computer Science (Specialization in AI & Data Science) at Higher School of Computer Science and Technologies (ESTIN), Bejaia, Algeria
January 1, 2020 - January 1, 2025

Qualifications

AWS Certified AI Practitioner— AWS
December 1, 2025 - January 10, 2026

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Media & Entertainment, Education, Professional Services