PhD Candidate · Reinforcement Learning & Game Theory · UM5
Bahae Eddine
Halim
AI Strategist & Senior Tech Lead — CTO at XAI.ma. 15+ years across digital transformation — full-stack engineering, data science, and AI — leading multidisciplinary teams that design, ship, and scale. Today that means sovereign AI systems for Morocco and the reinforcement-learning models behind adaptive education.

- Location
- Rabat, Morocco
- PhD
- RL & Game Theory
- Role
- CTO, XAI.ma
- Response
- < 24 hours
// about
From information systems to reinforcement learning.
I'm an AI strategist and senior tech lead with 15+ years across digital transformation — full-stack engineering, data science, and AI — spanning software engineering and venture leadership. I trained in information systems and business intelligence before moving into machine learning, and I'm now a PhD candidate applying reinforcement learning and game theory to adaptive learning systems at Mohammed V University.
I lead by building with the team, not above it. My squads mix young creatives, developers, and AI engineers — and output is measured the same way a client measures it: did it ship, does it convert, did it grow? Most of my time goes into XAI.ma, the AI consulting studio I co-founded, where I architect RAG pipelines, multi-agent systems, and MLOps platforms for clients — alongside a handful of my own products, including JurIA, a legal-research assistant for Moroccan law, and Waraqa, an academic paper-generation studio.
Before the AI work, I ran a full-service digital marketing agency — SEO, SEM, social, and web — and I still ship with that lens on. Every product I build is engineered to be found (SEO/GEO), to grow itself (growth loops), and to look sharp (UI/UX & design): full-stack and SEO for MSLEGY.com, the national AI society website SMIA.ma, and growth platforms like Cardify.ma and Jibly.ma.
I still teach — two AI & data-science modules at UM5 — and I still build community, having founded three networks connecting Moroccan data scientists, researchers, and founders.
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// experience
Career timeline
- Faculty of Sciences Rabat — Master of Research in Chemistry, Materials & Energy: using ML to predict physico-chemical properties of energy materials ahead of lab synthesis.
- EST Salé — Digital Marketing & Commerce: GenAI for hyper-personalized CRM and predictive ad-spend analytics.
// ventures
Running services
The ventures and communities currently in production — and a couple still building.
// skills
Areas of expertise
// work
Featured & the X-Ecosystem
The rest of the X-ecosystem
// education
Education
PhD, Reinforcement Learning & Game Theory
Mohammed V University in Rabat · Oct 2024 – Jul 2027
State Engineer, Business Intelligence & Data Science
ISMAGI Rabat · Sep 2019 – Aug 2021
Professional Bachelor's, Information Systems & Big Data
Ecole Supérieure de Technologie de Salé · 2018 – 2019
Marketing (no diploma) — IT & leadership focus
Ecole Nationale de Commerce et de Gestion, Tanger · 2011 – 2016
// contact
Let's build something.
Open to remote and freelance AI/consulting work, tech-lead roles, and research collaborations in reinforcement learning and game theory.