Organization

The Winter Data Science School on "Generative AI" is organized by Centrale Casablanca: Teaching and Research Unit "Applied Mathematics Computer and D@ta Sciences" (UTER MID@S), in collaboration with Emines-UM6P: Data Science and Industrial Process, Chair - OCP S.A., and Ecole Polytechnique - France (l'X), Centre de Mathématiques Appliquées (CMPAX).

Honorary Committee

• Prof. Nicolas Cheimanoff, Director of EMINES - Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique
• Ghita Lahlou, Director of Ecole Centrale Casablanca (ECC)
• Prof. Adnane Boukamel, Deputy Director of Ecole Centrale Casablanca (ECC)
• Prof. Hervé Martinez, Director of Research at Ecole Centrale Casablanca (ECC)
• Prof. Eric Moulines, Prof at Ecole Polytechnique (X) and affiliate prof at UM6P

Organization Committee

• Prof. Mohammed El Rhabi, head of the applied mathematics, Computer and Data Sciences Unit (MID@S Unit) and Prof at Ecole Centrale Casablanca
• Adil Ahidar, Professor of Mathematics, MID@S Unit at Ecole Centrale Casablanca
• Marine Saux, Project Manager, Teaching and Research Chairs at Ecole Polytechnique (X)
• Mehdi Abou El Qassime, PhD at Ecole Polytechnique (X) and Emines
• Abdelghani Elmousaoui, Teaching and research assistant at Emines - UM6P
• Maha Annoukoubi, Teaching and research engineer at Ecole Centrale Casablanca

Organization Team

• École Centrale Casablanca: - Mouad Khaznaoui - Hermann Agossou - Fatima Zahra Assmina - Salma Khayatei Houssaini - Chaimae Sadoune - Ahlame Rida - Achraf Jemali - Meryem Abid - Ahmed Ismail Oulkhir - Mohamed Outaabout - Abdelouahed Mzil - Mohammed Zeddou
• EMINES: Abir Harrasse - Yassmine Eddyb - Oumar Keita - Othmane Ait Ijjou - Saad Khattab

Speakers

• Prof. Yann Lecun, Prof at Courant Institute NY and VP & Chief AI Scientist at Meta (ex Facebook)
• Prof. Eric Moulines, Prof at Ecole Polytechnique (X) and affiliate prof UM6P
• Prof. Eric Xing, Professor of Machine Learning & Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
• Prof. Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni, Executive President of Ai Movement - UM6P, professor and head of the Multi-Agent System group at Sorbonne University, member of the COMEST - UNESCO, member of the Higher Council for Education, Training and Scientific Research
• Prof. Michalis Vazirgiannis, head of the Data Science and Mining group (DaSciM) at LIX, Ecole Polytechnique in France
• Prof. Joëlle Barral, Research & Engineering Senior Director at Google DeepMind
• Benoit Bergeret, Executive Director of ESSEC Business School's Metalab for Data, Technology, and Society
• Luciano Borges, CEO and director of SIANA (JV ONCF and SNCF) , Moroccan Company for High-Speed Train Maintenance
• Prof. Gaël Richard, Professor at Télécom Paris, Institut polytechnique de Paris and scientific co-director of Hi! Paris
• Maxim Panov, Assistant Professor in the areas of Machine Learning and Statistics at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI)
• and more ...

Hackathon Partners

• Dan Constantini, founder of Chainlit, a company that allows users to build LLM apps from their code in minutes
• Victor Sanh, researcher at Hugging Face, a company that develops NLP models and tools
• Redha Moulla, researcher/consultant in data science and artificial intelligence, founder of AxIA, a consulting firm that helps companies in various sectors with development, innovation, and AI strategy
• Mahmoud Zyate, Staff Data Scientist, NLP and ML Architecture enthusiast
• Jawad Alaoui, co-founder of NORMA, a company that provides data science and machine learning solutions
• Sami Najim, data scientist and the founder of Sense4Data, a startup that develops custom data-centric solutions
• Reda Bona, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Sense4Data
• Salma Bouaouid, EHTP Computer Science Engineer
• Soulaimane Zarria, Profesional data engineer and preSales Engineer at iSolution
• Oumayma Banouar, Lamai Professor, Faculty of Science and Technology at Cadi Ayyad University