About

AI engineer. Conversational systems. A bias toward questions.

I'm Aissam Outchakoucht. I build conversational AI, publish open resources for Moroccan Darija, and write — sometimes two-minute notes on NLP, sometimes longer essays on what we think we know.

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Now

The short version

I currently work as an AI specialist, after three years at Affiniti AI in London building conversational systems for mental health, and a stretch as head of R&D at MonarkIT in Marrakech.

I started Darija Open Dataset, still one of the largest open Darija ⇆ English resources for NLP. I'm a certified TensorFlow Developer. I use Python. I keep a public trail of tutorials, papers, and notes.

Path

From cryptography to conversation

01
2025 — now · Casablanca
AI Specialist, inwi
Conversational AI inside a telecommunications company — production systems, not slides.
02
2022 — 2025 · London
Conversational AI Specialist, Affiniti AI
AI for mental health. Helping therapists deliver better outcomes to more patients.
03
2019 — 2022 · Marrakech
Head of R&D, MonarkIT
Chatbots and voice assistants. Built conversational products and the research behind them.
04
2017 — 2022 · ENSEM, Casablanca
PhD, IoT security & machine learning
Access control, blockchain, and ML for the Internet of Things.
05
2014 — 2016 · Mohammed V University, Rabat
MSc, Cryptography and Information Security
The cryptographic and security foundations that still shape how I think about systems.