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aztecx/README.md

Hi, I'm Assem Alhelou 👋

MSc Applications of Artificial Intelligence
University of Essex (Dec 2025)

Thesis: Byzantine-robust federated learning for IIoT intrusion detection

  • Autoencoders deployed on Raspberry Pi edge clusters
  • Defenses against Byzantine attacks and concept drift
  • Outperformed Logistic Regression and Random Forest baselines

BSc Computer Science
American University of Beirut (Jun 2021)

  • Exchange semester: American University, Washington DC

Experience

  • Full-Stack Developer @ Valnet (2021–2024) – PHP/JS/SQL for high-traffic sites
  • Machine Learning Intern @ ZAKA AI – Video analytics pipelines with NVIDIA TLT

Tech Stack

Python PyTorch TensorFlow Scikit-learn Docker Git Raspberry Pi

Key Projects

  • FL-IDS-Surveillance – Federated IDS with Byzantine defenses (thesis core)
  • news-tldr-toolkit - Toolkit to generate TL;DR summaries of news articles and text files using a local summarisation model.
  • ai-resume-screener – AI resume screener for tech roles: compares a resume and job description using skill overlap and a semantic similarity model (CLI + Streamlit UI, all local).

Connect

LinkedIn

Open to junior AI/ML Engineer & Software Engineer roles!

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  1. GroupProject GroupProject Public

    Dart 1

  2. FL-IDS-Surveillance FL-IDS-Surveillance Public

    Federated Learning-based Intrusion Detection System (FL-IDS) for Industrial IoT (Surveillance sector). Includes defences against concept drift and poisoning attacks with robust aggregation methods …

    Jupyter Notebook

  3. news-tldr-toolkit news-tldr-toolkit Public

    Toolkit to generate TL;DR summaries of news articles and text files using a local summarisation model.

    Python

  4. ai-resume-screener ai-resume-screener Public

    AI resume screener for tech roles: compares your CV with a job description using skills and semantic similarity.

    Python