Machine learning. Still learning, with a few projects on GitHub, Hugging Face, and Kaggle.
Security. Vulnerability research. Active on HackerOne.
Also some graphic design on the side, mostly in Photoshop.
I think AI is a national security matter, not just an industry. A country that can't train, audit, or deploy its own models has handed over part of its future to whoever can. That's how I read most of what I do. Machine learning and security are two halves of the same question: whether a place like Algeria helps shape the technologies that increasingly run the world, or merely consumes them.
I enjoy both. The math, systems, and bugs would be reason enough. What turns interest into commitment is what sits on top of them: this work has to get done somewhere, by someone, and the people who can do it shouldn't wait for permission. Most countries don't get to opt out of the AI century. They get to choose whether the people doing the work are theirs or someone else's. I'd rather do that work where it is needed.
I want to matter in the older sense: to look back in ten or twenty years and name things that were built, fixed, or understood because I was there. The prestigious problems already have queues of capable people; the necessary ones often don't. I'd rather work on something that mattered to a few hundred people in Algeria than something that mildly impressed a few thousand strangers on a feed.
I'm still a student. Most of the real work is ahead of me, and what's behind me is groundwork. Serious work is slow, unglamorous, and hard to summarise at a dinner party. It may take years to be noticed, or never be noticed at all. That's still a life well spent. I know which direction to walk in, and I am walking. Inshallah, the rest is a question of time.
Email is the reliable channel: ilyes.abbas@ensia.edu.dz.
Elsewhere:
Discord and Instagram, both as il.y.s.
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