AMZIL Youssef
Passionate about building intelligent systems at the intersection of AI, geospatial analysis, and language understanding. Currently conducting research at Hochschule Neubrandenburg, Germany.
About Me
I'm a Master's student in Data Science and Analytics at Cadi Ayyad University, currently on research exchange at Hochschule Neubrandenburg, Germany, where I'm working on my thesis under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ralf Löwner on high-resolution population estimation using geospatial imagery.
My research sits at the intersection of three domains: Natural Language Processing, where I develop linguistically-informed fine-tuning strategies for low-resource languages; GeoAI and Remote Sensing, leveraging satellite imagery for environmental monitoring and urban analytics; and Computer Vision, building anomaly detection and action recognition systems.
Beyond research, I have hands-on industry experience building production systems — from embedded Qt interfaces deployed on recycling kiosks in Paris to full-stack web platforms and mobile applications. I believe great engineering is inseparable from mathematical rigour.
I'm driven by problems that matter: early wildfire detection, disaster response systems, preserving endangered linguistic heritage. I want to build AI that is both technically rigorous and genuinely useful.
Research & Engineering Projects
From satellite imagery to language models — building systems that matter.
LI-LoRA Cross-Task PEFT Research
Hierarchical LoRA rank allocation validated across ASR and NMT tasks for low-resource languages, achieving ~19% MER reduction and +3.17 BLEU over uniform baseline.
Skeleton-Based Human Action Recognition
ST-GCN achieving 88.34% accuracy on NTU RGB+D at 100 FPS demonstrating the failure of classic feature-vector approaches (SVM: 36%).
Early Wildfire Detection via Satellite Imagery
Unsupervised VAE-WGAN-GP anomaly detector for wildfire identification from Sentinel-2 multispectral data.
GeoAI-Sentinel Multi-Agent Disaster Prediction
Decentralised autonomous drone platform for real-time disaster prediction operating on Edge-Fog-Cloud continuum with zero internet dependency.
Population Estimation via Remote Sensing
High-resolution urban population grid for Morocco using Sentinel-2 and stereo imagery fusion. Master's thesis at Hochschule Neubrandenburg.
Semantic Web Platform for Moroccan Medicinal Plants
OWL/RDF ontology + Jena Fuseki triple store with AI-powered SPARQL generation via Google Gemini for querying Morocco's ethnobotanical heritage.
Professional Experience
Master's Thesis Researcher in GeoAI & Remote Sensing
Hochschule Neubrandenburg
Conducting research on high-resolution population estimation for Moroccan urban areas by fusing Sentinel-2 multispectral data with stereo-derived nDSM. Building a full geospatial ML pipeline from LULC classification to census validation.
JavaFX Developer Intern
ENS Tétouan
Developed a desktop application for academic resource management using JavaFX. Implemented CRUD interfaces, data visualisation components, and database integration with MySQL.
Qt Developer
RECYKIOSK
Built and deployed Qt QML interfaces for smart recycling kiosk terminals. Handled hardware integration, real-time sensor feedback UI, and embedded Linux deployment.
Mobile Developer
Radio Al Muhajir
Developed a cross-platform mobile application for live radio streaming. Implemented playlist management, push notifications, and audio background playback.
Full Stack Developer Intern
RECYKIOSK
Development of a web application for managing IT equipment offers/ lots using the LARAVEL Framework.
Education
Master's in Data Science and Analytics
Polydisciplinary Faculty of Safi, Cadi Ayyad University
Bachelor's in Software and Web Development
ENS Abdelmalek Essaadi University
Diploma in Software Development
Specialized Institute of Applied Technology
Certificates
Data Science Fundamentals with Python and SQL
IBMGenerative AI Prompt Engineering Basics
IBMGoogle Data Analytics
GoogleGet In Touch
Open to research collaborations, engineering roles, and interesting conversations.
Whether you have a research collaboration in mind, a challenging engineering problem, or just want to chat about GeoAI and NLP — I'd love to hear from you.
GitHub
Location
Neubrandenburg, Germany