About me

Short Biography

Hi! My name is Mourad Gridach. I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Oxford Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford. Previously, I was visiting fellow at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford working with Professor Irina Voiculescu on biomedical image segmentation. I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Colorado working with Professor Larry Hunter. I am a Professor of computer science focusing especially on Artifiical Intelligence and Applied Mathematics from Agadir, Morocco.

I have completed my BSc degree in computer science at the Faculty of Science, Fez (FSF). I did my Master of science studies at the High Institute of Techology in Fez (HITF) in computer science (honours).

I got my PhD at the Faculty of Science Fez where I specialized in Computational Linguistics where I developed a Morphological Analyzer with my supervisor Mr. Noureddine Chenfour.

Now I’m working on computational linguistics, mainly focusing on Named Entity Recognition (NER), Sentiment Analysis (SA), and other field of NLP. I am also interested in Computer Vision.

I would say that Marvin Lee Minsky from MIT was the influencial person of my whole life. I almost watched all his talks and lectures and read most of his works. Every time I don’t feel good or I lost concentration, I watch one of his talks and Ouuupa I feel better. I was planning to visit him at MIT last summer, but unfortunately He died early that year in January :( 2016.

Hobbies

• Kickboxing, Full conatact, K1, Body building, Volley-ball.
• Reading books and novels.
• Traveling.
• Watching movies. Here is a list of my favorite movies:
  • Beautiful Mind
  • Ex Machina
  • Interstellar
  • Her
  • The Martien
  • Gladiator
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • The Last Samourai
  • The Revenant
  • Blood Diamond
  • …

Favorite Books

• The Society of Mind by Marvin Lee Minsky.
• A Theologico-Political Treatise by Baruch Spinoza
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Samuel Kuhn
• العقل السياسي العربي by Mohamed Abed Al-Jabri
• أمير المؤمنين الملكية والنخبة السياسية المغربية by John Waterbury
• …

Favorite Novels

• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
• Crime and Punishment by Fiodor Dostoïevski
• Anna Karenina
• I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
• Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
• The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
• Inferno by Dan Brown
• The Gamer by Fiodor Dostoïevski
• Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
• …