Bridging the gap between experimentation and real-world impact.
- 🔬 Senior ML Research Engineer at Technology Innovation Institute (TII), Abu Dhabi
- 🦅 Core member of the Falcon LLM foundational models team — contributing to Falcon 3, Falcon H1, and Falcon H1R
- 🛠️ 10+ years bridging research and engineering, from early-stage startups to billion-dollar scale-ups to national AI initiatives
- 🌍 Previously led ML/NLP teams at Contentsquare (Paris) and HrFlow.ai
- 🗣️ Native Arabic · Professional English & French
| Year | Title | Link |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Falcon-H1R: Pushing the Reasoning Frontiers with a Hybrid Model for Efficient Test-Time Scaling | arXiv |
| 2025 | Falcon-H1: A Family of Hybrid-Head Language Models Redefining Efficiency and Performance | arXiv |
| 2024 | Welcome to the Falcon 3 Family of Open Models | HF Blog |
| 2022 | Web Page Tree Node Classification with Deep Learning | YouTube |
| 2022 | Unsupervised clustering of website URLs and pattern recognition | YouTube |
| 2021 | How Contentsquare reduced TensorFlow inference latency with SageMaker | AWS Blog |
🏛️ Also inventor on 3 US patents (US 11727196, US 11681771, US 11841891) on web semantic understanding.
- 🤗 Hugging Face — huggingface.co/slimfrikha
- 💼 LinkedIn — linkedin.com/in/slimfrikha
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