Abdellah Fourtassi
Maître De Conférences, HDR at Aix-Marseille University
Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
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Top SchoolAbdellah Fourtassi is a Maître de Conférences (HDR) in computer science specializing in Natural Language Processing, with 11 years of research and teaching experience based in Marseille. He leads the CoCoDev research team and runs applied NLP projects at Aix-Marseille University while maintaining collaborations from a visiting stint at Inria and a postdoc at Stanford’s Psychology Department. Trained as an engineer at École Polytechnique and with a PhD in computational cognitive psychology from École normale supérieure, he blends rigorous mathematical foundations with cognitive science perspectives to tackle language understanding problems. His work bridges theory and practice, emphasizing interpretable models and cross-disciplinary methods that draw from psychology, linguistics, and machine learning. A lesser-known facet of his profile is his role in shaping education through co-directing the MASCO cognitive science master’s program, reflecting a commitment to building future talent alongside research.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
CPGE (MP*), CPGE (MP*) at Lycée Moulay Youssef RabatEngineer’s Degree, Multidisciplinary training (Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science), Engineer’s Degree, Multidisciplinary training (Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science) at Ecole polytechnique
English, French, Spanish, Arabic
Github Skills (1)
vocabulary2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
afourtassi/conceptNet
Apr 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:21 commits, 1 PR, 19 pushes in 11 months
afourtassi/SemToPhono
Nov 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 3 months
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