Invited Talks and Presentations

2026

• August 2026 — Generative AI & Large Language Models for Financial Markets: From Behavioral Prediction to Autonomous Trading. KDD 2026 Tutorial, Jeju Island, Republic of Korea – 3-hour lecture-style tutorial with Zangir Iklassov, Hachem Madmoun, and Jean-Jacques Duhot. tutorial website

• August 2026 — GFlowNets: Learning to Sample in Proportion to Reward. Invited Talk at Yandex School of Data Analysis, Russia.

• July 2026 — A Gentle Introduction to LLM Reasoning. Invited Talk at Math&Maroc Competition 2026, Ben-Guerir, Morocco.

• June 2026 — A Gentle Introduction to LLM Reasoning. Keynote at NETYS 2026, Agadir, Morocco.

• June 2026 — Mitigating Societal Cognitive Overload in the Age of AI. Invited talk at SKEMA Business School, France.

• March 2026 — GFlowNets for Diverse Generation: Foundations and Applications to LLM Mathematical Reasoning. Spring School – AI for Impact (March 23–25, 2026), Ben Guerir, Morocco.

• February 2026 — GFlowNets: Diverse Generation for LLM Mathematical Reasoning. Invited talk at EuroMed University of Fes (online).

• January 2026 — MenaML Winter School 2026. KAUST, Saudi Arabia. Invited talk: “Generative Modeling with Flow Networks and Applications in Sciences”; audience of 300+ participants; Mentor for undergraduate and graduate students. website

• January 2026 — AI for Science Symposium. Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Doha, Qatar. Invited talk: “GFlowNets: Diverse Generative AI for Molecular and Biological Sequence Design”; Panelist in AI for Science discussion. website

2025

• November 2025 — GFlowNets for Scientific Discovery: From Mathematical Reasoning to Biological Sequence Design. Invited talk at the International Laboratory of Stochastic Algorithms and High-Dimensional Inference (HDI Lab), HSE University (online).

• September 2025 — Teaching LLMs to Reason Diversely: Process Reward Models and Step-Level GFlowNets for Mathematical Problem Solving. Invited talk at Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi, Mathematics Department Seminar.

• May 2025 — GFlowNets: A Novel Framework for Diverse Generation in Combinatorial and Continuous Spaces. Invited talk at Yandex Education (online) to undergraduate and graduate students.

• May 2025 — A tutorial on Probabilistic Reinforcement Learning. METIS Spring School - 3h lecture to an audience of 200+ undergraduate and graduate students and researchers. slides

• May 2025 — Advancing Scientific Discovery with Generative AI. Invited talk at SKEMA Center for Artificial Intelligence; audience of approximately 70 students and faculty.

• March 2025 — GFlowNets: An Introduction and Recent Advances. Presented at the MBZUAI–Berkeley Joint Workshop on Emerging Directions of Machine Learning; audience of approximately 70 faculty and students. workshop website

• February 2025 — GFlowNets: A Novel Framework for Diverse Generation in Combinatorial and Continuous Spaces. Invited presentation at the MBZUAI Paris Workshop; audience of approximately 100 faculty and students. workshop website

2024

• December 2024 — Advancing the Fourth Paradigm: Machine Learning Frameworks for Experimental Science. Keynote at MoroccoAI 2024 conference.

• September 2024 — Active Learning with Generative Flow Networks. Talk at Henceforth; audience of approximately 50 research engineers.

• May 2024 — Participation in the Canada–UAE Business Council (Montréal). Attended as AI Advisor as part of TII Senior Researcher role.

2023

• November 2023 — Continuous GFlowNets. Talk at Mila GFlowNet Workshop (online); recorded presentation (video link).

• November 2023 — Large Language Models – A Historical Perspective. Talk at École Hassania des Travaux Publics (EHTP); audience of approximately 150 faculty and students.

• November 2023 — Large Language Models – A Historical Perspective. Talk at Henceforth; audience of approximately 50 research engineers and faculty.

• September 2023 — Generative Flow Networks. Invited online talk at the Intelligent Connectivity and Networks/Systems Group, University of Oulu.

• June 2023 — Generative Flow Networks. presentation to UM6P researchers and engineers (online).