Machine Learning · AI Engineer · Beirut, Lebanon

JAD ALAOUIE

RESEARCHER · BUILDER · ATHLETE

Building production-grade AI systems at the intersection of research and real-world impact. LLMs, computer vision, real-time pipelines — and the discipline of endurance sport applied to everything.

AI Research
LLMs & NLP
Computer Vision
Full-Stack AI
HYROX
Endurance Training
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3+
Years of ML Experience
10+
Production AI Systems
80%
API Cost Reduction Achieved
98%
Model Segmentation Confidence
01

Experience

Jun 2025 — Present
A2Z TechPro
Beirut, Lebanon (Remote)
Tech Lead

Leading end-to-end AI product delivery across multiple clients — fine-tuning LLaMA 3.1 8B for multilingual classification, engineering WhatsApp automation systems processing thousands of interactions, and deploying cinema analytics dashboards integrating live Vista SQL Server data with real-time financial reporting.

LLaMA 3.1 n8n Node.js WhatsApp API Unsloth Docker GGUF Ollama
May 2025 — Present
NCNE — National Center for Natural Hazards
Beirut, Lebanon
AI Research Engineer

Designed a real-time OSINT incident intelligence platform for Lebanon, ingesting X, Facebook, and Telegram feeds every 2 minutes with hybrid AI + rule-based classification. Built an air quality monitoring dashboard for the French Embassy compound. Engineered a YOLOv11n fire detection system optimized for NVIDIA Jetson Nano drone footage.

FastAPI React vLLM YOLOv11 WebSocket Playwright Mask R-CNN
Jan 2025 — Apr 2025
ZAKA AI
Remote — Delaware, USA
AI Intern

Developed multimodal chatbots integrating text, voice, and image interactions using LangChain and Streamlit. Contributed to Aralects — an AI Arabic pronunciation assessment app. Researched text style transfer inspired by Meta's TextStyleBrush. Automated YouTube content pipelines for weekly podcast production.

LangChain Streamlit NLP Arabic AI Python
Sep 2023 — Feb 2024
American University of Beirut
Beirut, Lebanon
Research Assistant

Developed real-time object detection using YOLOv8 for a vision-based navigation system aiding visually impaired individuals. Focused on data preprocessing pipelines, model performance optimization, and evaluation methodologies for embedded deployment.

YOLOv8 Computer Vision Python PyTorch
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Key Projects

P-02

Grand Cinemas AI WhatsApp System

A2Z TechPro · Grand Cinemas Kuwait

Full-scale AI-driven WhatsApp automation in English and Arabic. Fine-tuned LLaMA 3.1 8B using Unsloth for classification and intent recognition. Dockerized on Cloudflare domain, reducing operational costs by over 80%.

LLaMA 3.1 8B Unsloth Whisper n8n Docker Meta API
P-03

Solar Panel Segmentation

NCNE · ESCWA Collaboration

High-precision solar panel detection system using Mask R-CNN with ResNet-152 backbone, achieving 98% average segmentation confidence from aerial imagery. Delivered training sessions to candidates from Syria, Yemen, Djibouti, and Lebanon.

Mask R-CNN ResNet-152 Satellite Imagery PyTorch
P-04

AI Fire Detection — Drone Footage

National Center for Natural Hazards

Real-time fire and smoke detection using YOLOv11n optimized for live inference on NVIDIA Jetson Nano. Paired with a WhatsApp forecasting bot alerting action takers when extreme fire risk is predicted within 3-day windows.

YOLOv11n Jetson Nano WhatsApp API Python
03

Technical Skills

AI & Machine Learning
Core Expertise
  • Large Language Models (LLMs)
  • Fine-tuning — Unsloth, LoRA
  • Computer Vision — YOLO, Mask R-CNN, SAM
  • NLP & Prompt Engineering
  • TensorFlow & PyTorch
  • LangChain, vLLM, Ollama
  • Scikit-Learn, Hugging Face
Engineering & Systems
Build & Deploy
  • Python, Java, C, C++, SQL
  • Node.js, Express.js, FastAPI
  • React, Vite, EJS
  • Docker, IIS, Windows Server
  • REST APIs, WebSocket, n8n
  • SQLite, Microsoft SQL Server
  • JWT, Security Hardening
Data & Analytics
Insight & Visualization
  • Tableau, Matplotlib, Pandas
  • NumPy, data pipelines
  • Supabase real-time backends
  • Playwright web scraping
  • Telegram & social APIs
  • Monitoring & evaluation (M&E)
  • Geospatial & satellite imagery
HYROX
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The Athlete

The same principles that govern elite research govern elite training — discipline, structured iteration, tolerance for discomfort, and obsessive attention to marginal gains. HYROX and functional fitness are not separate from the work. They are the same work.

Training cultivates the mental architecture that research demands: delayed gratification, sustained focus under fatigue, and the capacity to push past the point where most stop. Every session is a proof of concept.

Precision in code.
Endurance in life.
The discipline is the same.
HYROX
Primary Discipline
5:00
Target km Pace
DUAL
Mind & Body System
365
Days Per Year
05

Certifications

DeepLearning.AI
Machine Learning Specialization
Jul 2023
DeepLearning.AI
LangChain for LLM Application Development
Sep 2024
DeepLearning.AI
Quality and Safety for LLM Applications
Sep 2024
IBM
Deep Learning with PyTorch
Oct 2024
IBM
Introduction to Neural Networks and PyTorch
Oct 2024
DataCamp · Coursera
Google Data Analytics + Intermediate Python
2022
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Open to research collaborations, AI engineering roles, and ambitious product builds. If you're working on something that demands precision and performance — let's talk.

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