About

The longer story.

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Story

From cooperating agents to cooperating people.

I grew up in Tangier wanting to change the world with technology.

I trained as a software engineer at ENSIAS, then specialized in distributed AI in Paris. Six years of industrial research followed at Thales and Safran: a PhD on cooperating agents, three patents and AI for critical systems.

Clients taught me the rest. Most leaders are not short of AI ideas; they are overwhelmed by them. I help them find the real need and choose the technology that fits, as Chief AI Officer of Spaceling and today with Synara, the firm I founded.

I believe in regulating AI without stopping it, which is why I am preparing the ISO/IEC 42001 Lead Implementer certification.

Values

What I stand for.

I care about

  • Human oversight, by design
  • Decisions that can be explained
  • Goals you can measure
  • Teams that own what we build

I distrust

  • AI for the sake of AI
  • Demos that never reach real users
  • Black boxes in critical decisions
  • Projects nobody can maintain

Path

Where I have been.

  • since 2026Founder & managing director, SynaraTangier
  • since 2025Chief AI Officer & founding team member, SpacelingLondon
  • since 2025Creative director France & AI expert, Love Brand GroupBarcelona
  • 2025-2026AI strategy & automation consultant, Tanger Med EngineeringTangier
  • since 2024Independent AI consultantMorocco & Europe
  • 2022-2024AI research engineer, Safran TechParis
  • 2018-2022Research engineer & PhD candidate, Thales Research & TechnologyParis
  • 2017-2018Master’s degree in distributed AI, Université Paris CitéParis
  • 2014-2017Software engineering degree, ENSIASRabat

Publications

What I have published.

  • 2026
    Evaluation of Accuracy and Reproducibility of an AI-Based Cephalometric Landmark Detection Software: A Comparative Study with Manual AnnotationsJournal of Clinical and Experimental Dentistry · with A. El Merouani Drissi, H. Ben Mohimd, A. Alassfar, F. Zaoui, H. Benyahia
    In press
  • 2022
    Decentralized Interdependent Task Allocation via Coalition Formation for Cooperative Multi-Agent SystemsPhD thesis · Université Paris Cité, prepared at Thales Research & Technology
    theses.fr ↗
  • 2021
    Decentralized Coalition Structure Formation for Interdependent Task AllocationIEEE ICTAI 2021 · with E. Bonzon, C. Buron, P. Moraitis, P. Savéant, O. Shehory
    IEEE ↗
  • 2019-2021
    3 patents co-invented at ThalesOne of them classified by the French Ministry of Defence