Projects & Experience
FinGenesis
ML Engineer • 2024 – Present
• Designed and implemented DL/ML models to predict price movements of financial symbols.
• Developed an agentic framework for ticker-based sentiment analysis, enabling actionable insights.
• Designed and implemented rule-based and LLM-based trading strategies with explainability.
• Designed a backtesting framework for evaluating trading strategies.
• Implemented various algorithms from the literature for forecasts post-processing.
• Improved data pipelines efficiencies and speed.
XAI Lab - Concordia University
AI Research Scholar • May 2020 – Sep 2020
• Worked on midterm electric load forecasting by implementing and validating a hybrid ETS+RD-LSTM model.
• Conducted an in-depth literature review of state-of-the-art forecasting methods, identifying key limitations and opportunities for improvement.
• Enhanced the baseline model’s architecture and performance through iterative experimentation and optimization.
• Led a comprehensive ablation study to understand the individual contributions of each model component, and benchmarked performance against other advanced deep learning and statistical models.
A Comprehensive Analysis of a Hybrid Deep Learning Model for Midterm Electric Load Forecasting
21st IEEE International Conference on Smart Cities, Australia • Dec 13, 2023
Authors: Barkous, H., Amayri, M., & Bouguila, N.
Unifi Value Frameworks PDF Lifting Competition ($5000)
Ranked 1/76 • Competition
Developed a solution for extracting structured data from PDF documents.
DataDrive2030 Early Learning Predictors Challenge ($3000)
Ranked 1/336 • Competition
Predicted early learning outcomes based on provided datasets.
Carbon Dioxide Prediction Challenge ($2100)
Ranked 1/441 • Competition
Forecasted carbon dioxide levels using time series data.