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Dr. Mohamed Assellaou

AI Transformation Leader

Profile

With 16+ years of experience across AI, data, and technology, I lead teams that turn AI strategy into real impact—building systems people rely on day-to-day. I’ve worked across defense, mining, automotive, and energy, delivering AI systems and agentic workflows that automate real business tasks, support better decisions, and help organizations move from experimentation to scalable AI adoption.

What motivates me most is the space between business and technology. I like sitting with stakeholders long enough to understand what actually matters to them, then turning those needs into an AI roadmap, leading the team that brings it to life, and staying involved through the harder part: helping people change how they work. I focus less on what’s technically impressive and more on what creates value, gets adopted, and stays in use.

I also teach AI, from executive programs to university courses, because I enjoy helping people understand not just what AI can do, but how to turn it into something useful.

Trained at leading schools in France and Morocco

PhD in Applied Mathematics — ENSTA Paris (École Polytechnique doctoral school)

MSc in Optimization, Game Theory & Economic Modelling — École Polytechnique

Engineering Degree in Modelling & Scientific Computing — EMI, Rabat

Certifications

How I work

AI strategy aligned to business objectives, with ROI quantified for the board

Change management and structured adoption, not just deployment

Cross-functional teams of up to 18 across AI, data science and operations

Experience

Current role

AI & Tech Solutions Architect — Lead Data & AI Engineer

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June 2026 – Present | Rabat, Morocco
Program leadership

Senior AI Program Manager / Senior Scientist

Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P)
2024 – June 2026 | Rabat, Morocco
Program leadership

Program Manager

Administration of National Defense
2017 – 2023 | Rabat, Morocco

Senior Project Manager

Administration of National Defense
2010 – 2017 | Rabat & Benslimane, Morocco

Project Manager

Material Processing Facility
2011 – 2012 | Benslimane, Morocco

Instructor

Technical Training Center for Materiel Service
2006 – 2007 | Rabat, Morocco

Skills

AI Strategy & Transformation

AI Roadmapping AI Maturity Frameworks ROI Quantification Board & C-Suite Business Cases Portfolio Prioritization Build vs. Buy

Change & Stakeholder Management

Enterprise Change Management AI Adoption Programs Executive Communication Training & Enablement Vendor Negotiation Governance & Risk AI Ethics & Explainability

Delivery & Team Leadership

Program Management PMP® / Agile Solutions Architecture Team Building & Mentorship Technical Proposals & RFPs Cross-Functional Teams (18+)

AI/ML & MLOps

ML DL NLP PyTorch TensorFlow LLMs RAG Hugging Face QLoRA LangGraph AutoGen CrewAI YOLO Object Detection OCR VLMs Prompt Engineering Fine-Tuning Evaluation & Guardrails MLflow Weights & Biases Kubernetes

Applied Mathematics

Optimal Control Stochastic Systems HJB Equations Optimization Dynamical Systems Numerical Methods

Cloud & DevOps

Google Cloud Platform Azure AWS CI/CD Versioning Monitoring Cost Optimization Governance Terraform (IaC) Python SQL Spark Polars & Pandas Airflow

Projects

Selected AI systems I have designed and shipped. Walkthrough videos are being recorded — get in touch if you would like a live demo.

Enterprise AI Chatbots

Enterprise AI Chatbots

Smart systems to securely manage specific knowledge flow inside companies using LLMs and RAG.

NLP RAG LLM LangChain FastAPI
Multi-agent Systems

Multi-agent Systems

Teams of specialized agents that plan a task, split it between them, and check each other's work before returning a result.

LangGraph CrewAI AutoGen LLMs Tool Use RAG
AI Platform Engineering

AI Platform Engineering

Build scalable AI platforms with infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native architectures.

Bedrock S3 API Gateway Terraform CI/CD (GitHub Actions)
Computer Vision Detection

Computer Vision Systems

Computer vision system to help industrials extract content from images and videos.

Computer Vision VLMs YOLO OCR Deep Learning

Publications

Peer-reviewed research spanning optimal control and HJB equations, multi-agent LLM systems, machine unlearning and low-resource NLP.

When Forgetting Fails: Machine Unlearning for Large Language Models Across Training, Post-Training, and Inference

2026 Preprint

MASDA: A Multi-Agent System with Dynamic Planning and Adaptive Verification for Automated Data Analysis

2026 IEEE Proceedings

A logistic 4.0: A review of optimal temperature control problems in refrigerated transport systems

2021 Conference Paper

Sharing economy in a context of pandemic propagation: case of the COVID19

2020 Conference Paper

Mathematical programming for data classification: A short survey

2019 Conference Paper

A Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman approach for the numerical computation of probabilistic state constrained reachable sets

2019 Book Chapter (Springer)

Value function and optimal trajectories for a maximum running cost control problem with state constraints. Application to an abort landing problem

2018 Journal Paper

A Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman approach for the optimal control of an abort landing problem

2016 Journal Paper

Error estimates for second order Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations. Approximation of probabilistic reachable sets

2015 Journal Paper

Safety analysis under probabilistic target constraints

2012 Conference Paper

My Courses

Graduate and executive teaching at UM6P, INPT and ENSTA Paris. Course materials are free to download.

Python for Data Science

Python for Data Science

From basic concepts and data analysis to machine learning

Probability for Data Science

Probability for Data Science

Important concepts of probability for Data Science and AI

Statistics for Data Science

Statistics for Data Science

Descriptive statistics and advanced methods for inferential statistics

Translating Business Problems

Translating Business Problems into AI Models

Methodology for translating business problems to AI problems and study of well-posedness

Data Management

Data Storage, Collection, Preprocessing and Visualisation

Store, collect and manipulate structured data

AI Workflow

AI Workflow

AI solution architecture: from identifying the business problem to deploying the AI model in production.

MLOps

Introduction to MLOps

Concepts of ML and DevOps to productionize AI models and maintain efficiency

Computer Vision

Computer Vision

Object Detection, Tracking, OCR, Vision Models and VLMs

Multicriteria Decision Making

Multicriteria Decision Aid

Advanced Techniques for multicriteria decision aid

Advisory & Mentorship

Organizations I have advised on AI transformation, optimization and digital strategy — as a consultant, technical lead or mentor.

2019 – 2020
International Development

Optimization and optimal control consulting for transport and energy system efficiency projects.

2024 – 2026
Manufacturing

Collaborated with domain experts to translate complex industrial challenges into AI solutions.

2024 – 2026
Research, Development & Education

Senior Scientist role with AI program delivery and advanced course development in AI and data science.

2010 – 2023
Defense Industry

Technical and managerial leadership and mentorship.

2018 – 2023
Engineering School

Lecturer in probability, statistics, optimization, and Python for data science applications.

2020 – 2021
Audit and Strategy

Audit and strategic analysis for all components related to governance, programs, administration, systems and business of an engineering school.

2021
Consulting

World bank Study of African Road Safety Agencies

2019 – 2020
Research and Consulting

Optimal Temperature control inside refrigerated transport of foods

2020 – 2021
Innovation

Strategic analysis and technical mentorship for emerging technology initiatives.

12+
Major Clients
16+
Years Experience
30+
AI/Tech Systems in Production
50,000+
Users Served

Contact Me

I am always open to discussing new projects, collaboration opportunities, or training sessions. Feel free to reach out to me via the form or my direct contact details.

Rabat, Morocco

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