Badr Mellal
Computer Vision Engineer and AI researcher.
Computer Vision Engineer and AI researcher with 8+ years of software engineering
behind it, building production systems and AI applications at scale. Currently
doing a PhD in AI and Computer Vision at LRIT, Faculté des Sciences de Rabat,
Université Mohammed V, on 3D perception, Bird's-Eye-View representation
learning, and deep learning for autonomous systems.
Research focus
- 3D perception and Bird's-Eye-View representation for autonomous systems
- Self-supervised representation learning (DINOv2, I-JEPA)
- Vision Transformers and multimodal learning
- Edge deployment: quantisation, distillation, real-time inference
Experience
- Team Lead at Bandy's Cars, Morocco, 2025 to present
- AI & Infrastructure Engineer, Consulting & Research, Morocco, 2022 to 2025
- Senior Software Engineer at Kuai Sourcing, United Kingdom, 2020 to 2022
- Software Engineer, Backend & Infrastructure, at KLM Engineering, United Kingdom, 2018 to 2020
- Electrical Engineer at MAM PROD, Morocco, 2016 to 2018
Education
- PhD, AI & Computer Vision (in progress) at LRIT, Université Mohammed V Rabat, 2026 to present
- MSc, Artificial Intelligence & Applied Computing at Université Mohammed V Rabat, 2024
- BSc, Electrical Engineering at Université Mohammed V Rabat, 2016
Contact
Rabat, Morocco. Open to remote.
Email: hello@badr-mellal.com
LinkedIn: badr-mellal
GitHub: badrmellal