About

Welcome to my website! I’m an engineer-scientist working on translational biomedical AI. See my CV for details.

Short Bio

Fluent in both human and programming languages, Nazim holds a B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and an M.Eng. in Computer Engineering from the University of Boumerdès Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. He worked as an Embedded Software Engineer and later co-founded Deadline Technologies and Deadline Store, gaining hands-on experience in prototyping and product development. After completing a year of biomedical engineering and research studies at the University of North Dakota, he joined the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where he earned an M.S. and Ph.D in Computer Science. His research sits at the intersection of embedded systems, AI, and human biology. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Virology and Vaccine Research (CVVR) at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital in Boston, where he builds GPU-accelerated multi-omics pipelines and AI models that connect molecular data to disease mechanisms.

Brief Summary on My Research

My research focuses on understanding biomedical phenomena, from DNA to physiology, and identifying key biomarkers that distinguish physiological states, behaviors, or disease conditions. I apply artificial intelligence (grounded in that biological understanding, not as a black box) to uncover meaningful patterns in complex health data. My work spans the full pipeline: from designing and prototyping sensor-integrated wearable devices for biomarker acquisition, to data analysis, modeling, and real-time AI deployment.

I’m a computer engineer by training, and today most of my work is computational: designing multi-omics pipelines that integrate DNA, RNA, and chromatin data, often at single-cell resolution, and building AI models on top of them. Each omics layer captures one facet of the same biology; integrating them is how we start to see the system as a whole rather than one part at a time. You can read more on my Research Page.

Entrepreneurship & Innovation

I’ve participated in several entrepreneurial and product-driven engineering efforts. In 2019 I co-founded Deadline Technologies, where I produced development boards for academic and industrial use. This experience involved full product lifecycle: PCB design, firmware, marketing, and direct sales. I also co-founded Deadline Store, an electronics retail and community initiative that helped make maker tools and components more accessible to students and builders in Algeria.

Quantitative Trading & Market Analysis

When I need a break from research, I analyze financial markets: price action, time-series modeling, and how expectations about future moves get priced into options (IV). I built an automated TradingView generator that visualizes expected moves from option chain data. It’s a hobby, but it runs on the same loop as my research: identifying patterns, testing hypotheses, building models, and evaluating them over time.

Outside research, I enjoy going to the gym, watching sports, traveling, writing, and I like to think I’m pretty good at soccer and pool.

If you made this far, thank you ! your attention is much appreciated in an age full of noise.

Nazim.