Mr. Youssef BAKOUNY (EL)

School of Engineering of Beirut

Maître de conférences

(+961) 1 421 000 ext 3337 youssef.bakouny@usj.edu.lb

Youssef Bakouny is an Assistant Professor (“Maîtres de Conferences”) at École Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Beyrouth (ESIB) of Saint-Joseph University of Beirut (USJ), where he specializes in Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Software Engineering (SE). He graduated as the top student in 2012 with a Computer and Communications Engineering (CCE) degree from USJ, followed by PhD in Software Engineering between 2015 and 2019. Between 2012 and 2015, Youssef was employed by Murex as a software engineer working on a critical real-time distributed computing framework.Before assuming his current full-time role, Youssef was a part-time lecturer at USJ from 2015 to 2021. For the benefit of his students, Youssef obtained, during this period, a university diploma in pedagogy in higher education in 2017. As an Assistant Professor since 2021 at ESIB, he teaches CCE and Master’s in AI students and coordinates the Master’s in AI and the AI University Diploma programs. He collaborates on various research projects with partners like Murex, Hotel-Dieu de France (HDF), American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC), IDEALworks (BMW Group), INRIA, IRD, CNRS, CESBIO, Grenoble Alpes University, Lille University, Mines Paris and Sorbonne University. He is currently supervising several doctoral theses on topics such as UI test automation using computer vision and image annotation refinement.