Othmane Ferrah

Université Moulay Ismaïl — Faculté des Sciences, Meknès

Master's — Parcours d'Excellence, Data Science & AI · Sep 2025 – Sep 2027

Université Moulay Ismaïl — Licence

Licence — Parcours d'Excellence, Data Science & AI · Nov 2024 – Jul 2025

Université Moulay Ismaïl — DEUG

DEUG — Mathematics & Computer Science · 2019 – 2022

Programming

Core languages for software, data, and systems work.

Machine Learning & AI

Applied ML across vision, language, retrieval, and graph learning.

Frameworks & Libraries

Tooling used to train, evaluate, and ship models and apps.

Data & Tools

Databases, local LLMs, and everyday engineering tools.

Design & Creative

Brand, product, and visual craft across digital and photography work.

Languages

Working languages across Arabic, French, English, and Italian.

Research project tracing the evolution of medical image analysis for brain-tumor MRI classification: from handcrafted features to deep learning to Vision-Language Models.

• Handcrafted feature engineering: GLCM, LBP, DWT, HOG and statistical descriptors, with feature selection and ablation studies.
• Benchmarked 8+ ML models: SVM, Random Forest, XGBoost, LightGBM, Logistic Regression, MLP, Extra Trees.
• Evaluated and adapted SOTA Vision-Language Models (VLMs) using LoRA fine-tuning and Teacher Forcing.
• Full comparative analysis across accuracy, interpretability, computational efficiency, and clinical applicability.

A modern web platform centered on a conversational assistant that recommends properties via Retrieval-Augmented Generation so the model never invents listings.

• Frontend in Next.js with SSR, client dashboard, and admin catalogue management.
• Backend in Spring Boot with JWT security and business logic for listings, users, appointments, and agents.
• PostgreSQL/MySQL + pgvector for property embeddings; local Llama 3 via Ollama and Spring AI.

An AI system that detects and classifies hand/body gestures in real time from video for accessibility and HCI.

• Real-time landmark extraction with MediaPipe (hand, pose, body).
• Person/region localization with YOLO.
• Temporal sequence modeling with LSTM networks for dynamic gestures.

A complete graph-analytics pipeline for detecting densely connected communities in large-scale social networks.

• Built and preprocessed large social-network datasets (Pokec, YouTube).
• Implemented and compared Louvain and Leiden algorithms.
• Developed a GNN-based approach for node representations and community discovery.
• Designed a community-driven recommender for friend/content suggestions.

An arcade survival game steered entirely by hand gestures via computer vision — no controller required. Publicly released.

• Real-time hand-gesture recognition with MediaPipe + OpenCV.
• Automatic fallback to mouse/keyboard when no webcam is present.
• Released on itch.io with source on GitHub (GPL-3.0); showcased at the Moroccan Gaming Expo.

An IoT + AI system that optimizes water use with precise, predictive irrigation.

• Connected weather station with real-time environmental and soil sensors.
• Predicts reference evapotranspiration (ET₀) using Penman-Monteith (FAO-56) and/or ML models.
• Automated irrigation decisions driving solenoid valves.

A two-wheeled robot that stays upright through real-time active control of an inherently unstable inverted-pendulum system.

• Tilt estimation from MPU6050 IMU fused with a complementary filter.
• PID controller driving DC motors via PWM with iterative Kp/Ki/Kd tuning.
• Full hardware integration: Arduino Mega, L298N, DC motors, 12V supply.

An immersive VR experience for exploring the solar system and interacting with celestial bodies in real time.

• Interactive 3D environment with planetary rotation and orbital mechanics.
• Showcased at the Moroccan Gaming Expo representing Université Moulay Ismaïl.

A desktop store-management application for SMBs, centralizing daily retail operations.

• Product & inventory management with stock monitoring.
• Sales/purchase tracking, customer & supplier management, invoice generation.
• Activity dashboard with secure authentication and role management.

A web platform that simplifies book borrowing and reservations, delivered iteratively with Scrum.

• Advanced search by title, author, genre, or availability.
• Reservations and loans with automated return tracking.
• Admin dashboard for books, members, and borrowing history.

Co-Founder & Creative Director

• Co-founded an AI startup; shaped product direction and led the full brand and design identity across products and communication.

Data Extraction Developer & Graphic Designer

• Built scripts and workflows to extract and structure raw sources into clean, usable datasets for the product.
• Produced brand visuals and video content for the health platform.

Lead Designer (Co-Founder)

• Co-founded an AI-driven student-orientation platform and led its product design and brand identity.

Graphic Designer

• Delivered graphic design assets and visual identity work as a long-term design partner for the esports brand.

Graphic Designer (Logo Design)

• Designed the logo and supporting brand assets.

• President (since Nov 2024): lead the club's strategy, events, and community growth; drove AI/computer-vision project teams to the Moroccan Gaming Expo.
• Lead Designer (since Jul 2022): own the club's visual identity and event branding.
• Communications Manager (Nov 2023 – Nov 2024): managed communications and outreach.