Research

Publications and competitions.

Publications

Edge AI System for Optimising Energy Consumption in Smart Buildings 2025
Aboud, R.; Boudaoud, S. A.; Hamdad, L.; Allal, I.

Accepted at MedCCAI 2025. Presents an edge AI architecture for energy optimisation in smart buildings using federated learning and LSTM-based inference deployed directly on edge devices.
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Hybrid Water Wave Optimiser with Simulated Annealing for the Bin Packing Problem 2023
Aboud, R. et al. · ESI internal report (French, unpublished)

Hybrid metaheuristic combining water wave optimisation with simulated annealing (BFS + DFS), applied to the Bin Packing Problem. Developed as part of a team project at ESI; achieves highly competitive results against standard benchmarks.
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Competitions

Monitoring Data Cup 2025 — Mentor 2025

Mentored highly competitive students solving real-world AI problems for major Algerian companies (e.g. Yassir). Guided competitors in data nature evaluation and problem framing.

HAICK 2022 — ML Datathon 2024
School of AI Club, ESI

Ranked 7th out of 15 teams. Solved industry ML problems using XGBoost and SVM.