Summary
Yousri Kessentini is a senior researcher and head of the DeepVision research team at the Digital Research Center of Sfax, combining an academic pedigree (PhD in pattern recognition) with hands-on leadership in deep learning, computer vision, document processing and data fusion. As an associate professor and former postdoc in industry, he has coordinated multiple industry-partnered research projects and published extensively while serving as a reviewer for international venues. An NVIDIA GPU grant recipient and certified NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute instructor and ambassador, he bridges cutting-edge GPU-enabled research and practical training. Based in Sfax, Tunisia, he leads a multidisciplinary team that turns ML research into robust solutions—a role informed by years of work in handwriting recognition and document dematerialization that often surfaces in his applied research.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Habilitation à diriger des recherches (HDR), Computer Science, Habilitation à diriger des recherches (HDR), Computer Science at université de Sfax - University of Sfax (USS)
Research Doctorate, Computer Science, Research Doctorate, Computer Science at Université de Rouen Normandie