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RESEARCH & CONSULTINGPARIS, FRANCE

ZAKARI AIT OUAZZOU

AI research.ML engineering.

I’m Zakari, a PhD researcher at Télécom Paris and co-founder of Memseek. I research model explainability and build and evaluate machine-learning systems.

YOUR PROJECT, STEP BY STEP

Find the right problem.

I help define the decision, the data, and what success means.

PhD · Télécom Paris / Institut Polytechnique de Paris Co-founder · Memseek

01 / SELECTED WORK

Research &
open source.

CO-FOUNDER & CORE DEVELOPER · 2026–PRESENT

Memseek

An open-source context engine for AI agents. It updates knowledge as evidence changes, keeps its sources and history, and assembles context for each task.

I co-founded Memseek and build the engine that maintains this context.

RETRIEVAL RESEARCH · PYTHON LIBRARY

MemBukkit

I designed the memory and retrieval architecture: preserve source evidence, select what matters, and limit how much the model needs to read.

MemBukkit82.0%
Full context56.4%

Reported answer accuracy · LongMemEval-S · 500 questions.
Same GPT-4o-mini reader and official GPT-4o judge.

BDA 2025 · XAI RESEARCH

MINES

I develop methods that update a model’s explanations as the model changes, reducing the need to recompute them from scratch.

MINES at BDA 2025
Publication details

With Talel Abdessalem and Albert Bifet.

  • MINES: Model-agnostic INcremental, Entropy-based Solutions for Efficient Local Explanations in Streaming Machine Learning. BDA 2025, Toulouse.
  • MINES: Efficient Incremental Local Feature Attribution for Evolving Data Streams. Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems. Accepted; in production.

ONGOING RESEARCH

M-BOX

I’m developing models whose predictions follow an inspectable graph of concepts, and testing whether that structure remains interpretable as the data changes.

02 / CONSULTING

What I can
help you build.

01

Model explainability

Investigate what drives your model’s predictions, evaluate its explanations, and diagnose changes in its behavior.

02

Agent memory & retrieval

Build and evaluate memory and retrieval systems that keep answers connected to their sources.

03

Applied ML & evaluation

Develop forecasting or ranking models, design experiments, and build evaluation pipelines to compare approaches.

03 / INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

Where I’ve
done the work.

AUG 2024–PRESENT

Darma

Machine Learning Engineer

Led applied ML for a scheduling assistant: preference-aware ranking, temporal knowledge graphs, retrieval, and evaluation.

FEB 2023–FEB 2024

Voltalis

Data Scientist / R&D Engineer

Built LSTM forecasting and diagnostic models for energy demand and demand response, working with noisy operational time series.

FEB–AUG 2022

TotalEnergies

Data Scientist Intern · Digital Factory

Developed explainability and drift-analysis methods for time-series forecasts. This industrial work later fed into my PhD research.

SEP 2021–FEB 2022

DEEPXP

Data Science Consultant

Built NLP and data-science applications for Airbus projects.

Zakari smiling outdoors, wearing a Trouble Maker sweatshirtZAKARI AIT OUAZZOU · PARIS, FRANCE

04 / ABOUT

I’m Zakari.

I’m doing a PhD in AI at Télécom Paris / Institut Polytechnique de Paris, supervised by Talel Abdessalem and Albert Bifet. My focus is making model explanations more interpretable and efficient.

I spent January–March 2026 at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. I also teach AI and logic at Télécom Paris and mentor computer-science projects at ENSTA Paris.

PhD in Artificial Intelligence
Télécom Paris / IP Paris · 2024–2027 expected
MSc in Data Science & AI
Sorbonne Université · 2022 · Excellence Diploma
BSc in Computer Science & Mathematics
Sorbonne Université · 2020 · Highest honors

Outside work, I climb.

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CONTACT

Let’s work
together.

Tell me what you’re building, where you’re stuck, and what you need help with.

Email me zak@aozakari.com