Yazid Attabi

Yazid Attabi is a Machine Learning Researcher at Croesus since March 2021 and has served as a Research Associate and Post-Doctoral Researcher at McGill University since December 2016, focusing on innovative speech enhancement techniques that combine deep learning with non-negative matrix factorization. Previous roles include a Lecturer at École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS) from January 2009 to May 2016, teaching courses on intelligent systems and vocal communication, as well as working as a Post-doc Researcher at LIVIA, where efforts concentrated on classifier combinations for continuous affect prediction. Yazid's academic journey includes a PhD focused on automatic emotion recognition from speech, and earlier experience as a Computer Systems Analyst at Nabil Warda Inc., where contributions involved developing software for financial statement generation and accounting corrections. Yazid holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Université des Sciences et de la Technologie 'Houari Boumediène' and has furthered education through programs at Mitacs Inc & E.M. Sciences Ltd.