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Name Joe Najm
Label Engineer
Email joe.najm@hotmail.com
Phone +41 078 346 50 01
Url https://joenajm.github.io/
Summary EPFL Master's graduate and Formula One engineer with a strong passion and interest for computer vision, machine learning, software development, and data science, with experience in biomedical research and motorsport! [Eligible to work in Switzerland].

Work

  • 01.12.2024 - Ongoing
    Performance Development Engineer
    Audi Formula One project (Sauber Motorsport AG)
    Webapp software developer. F1 Performance Engineer for Nico Hülkenberg specialised in live driving lines for Practice, Qualifying, and Race. Data acquisition of telemetry for competitors during live sessions
    • Software Development
    • Typescript
    • Svelte
    • Machine Learning
    • Driving Lines
    • Data acquisition
    • Data management
  • 01.09.2023 - 30.09.2024
    Data Analysis Intern
    Audi Formula One project (Sauber Motorsport AG)
    Automatic extraction of trajectory information from on-board F1 footage using Deep networks and Visual SLAM
    • Data Analysis
    • Machine Learning
    • SLAM
    • Statistics
    • Visual Odometry
    • State Estimation
    • Pose Estimation
    • Jira
    • GIT
    • Scrum Master
  • 01.07.2022 - 31.05.2023
    Student Research Assistant
    Medical Image Analysis Lab (CHUV, Lausanne)
    Trained and deployed deep models for the detection and classification of lesions in brain MRI images. Developed a software to make the network easily accessible to clinicians with no prior coding experience, using docker (available in projects section)
    • Data Analysis
    • Machine Learning
    • 3D images
    • Software development
    • Docker
    • Medical Imaging
    • Statistical Analysis

Volunteer

  • 01.09.2021 - 31.08.2023
    Head of perception, driverless division
    Supervised and led a team to develop the vision/perception pipeline for a self-driving racing car with important constraints: the code should be robust to potential sensor failures, accurate and run in real-time on an embedded computer (Nvidia Jetson Orin).
    • Computer Vision
    • Machine Learning
    • LiDAR
    • Monocular Camera
    • Real-time
    • Sensor fusion
    • Sensor Calibration
    • DBScan
    • Nvidia Jetson
    • TensorRT
    • Ransac
    • PnP
    • Testing and Debugging
    • Team Management

Education

  • 01.09.2021 - 09.09.2024

    Lausanne, Switzerland

    Master's
    Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
    Electrical Engineering, specialization: signal, image and video porcessing
    • Deep Learning
    • Applied Data Analysis
    • Computer Vision
    • Modern NLP
    • Network Machine Learning
    • Lab in Android development
    • Image Analysis and Pattern Recognition
  • 01.09.2018 - 31.08.2021

    Lausanne, Switzerland

    Bachelor
    Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
    Electrical and Electronics Engineering
    • Signal Processing
    • Power Electronics
    • Energy Distribution
    • Signal and Systems
    • Control Systems
    • Electromagnetism

Publications

Skills

Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Pytorch
sklearn
Computer Vision
NLP
Graph Machine Learning
Data Analysis
Deep Learning
Data Visualization
Pandas
Numpy
Plotly
Webapps development
Statistics
Computer Vision
Deep Learning
Pattern Recognition
OpenCV
Visual SLAM
Pose estimation
PnP
Android App Development
Kotlin
Kotlin Jetpack Compose
Team Player
Collaboration
Jira
Scrum Master
GIT

Languages

French
Native speaker
Arabic
Native speaker
English
Fluent
Spanish
Intermediate
German
Beginner

Projects

  • 01.09.2023 - 27.09.2024
    Automatic Extraction of Yaw Rate and Velocity from on-board Formula One footage
    Extract trajectory information (Yaw Rate and velocity) from monocular on-board Formula One footage.
    • Visual SLAM / Visual Odometry for State and Pose estimation in C++
    • Trained / Deployed deep networks using Python and Pytorch.
    • Webapps development using Gradio for data visualization
    • Statistical analysis on the results to evaluate the robustness of the experimented methods
  • 01.09.2021 - 31.08.2023
    EPFL Racing Team Driverless perception
    Supervised and led a team to develop the vision/perception pipeline for a self-driving racing car with important constraints: the code should be robust to potential sensor failures, accurate and run in real-time on an embedded computer (Nvidia Jetson Orin)
    • Developed a real-time object detection and distance estimation algorithms, using a monocular camera and a LiDAR.
    • Performed object and keypoints detection, as well as PnP for distance estimation using just a monocular camera
    • Performed Ground removal using Ransac, DBscan clustering, ego-motion correction on the LiDAR pointcloud
    • Performed sensor calibration (obtain intrinsic and extrinic parameters) and sensor fusion using computer vision projections (3D-2D) to obtain better results
    • Integrated robust and realtime algorithms to the main pipeline with ROS2
    • Deployed, tested and debugged the algorithms for realtime use on a Nvidia Jetson
  • 01.09.2021 - 31.08.2023
    Streamline RimNet: Tools for Automatic Classification of Paramagnetic Rim Lesions in MRI of Multiple Sclerosis
    Improve the current network for the classification of brain lesions, and find a good and easy way to automatically deploy it to clinicians without prior coding knowledge required. Resulted in an abstract publication at ECTRIMS 2023
    • Trained deep networks for the detection and classification of Multiple-Sclerosis lesions in brain MRI images with Pytorch
    • Performed data pre-processing and normalization using biomedical imaging frameworks such as Monai
    • Developed a software tool to deploy the model to clinicians using docker. Software extracts a patch around a click, feeds it to the network and provide live feedback to the user
    • Published an abstract at the ECTRIMS 2023 conference, regarding the robustness of the deep model with respect to the center patch selection
  • 01.09.2023 - 31.12.2023
    Android application: GymRat
    Free, opensource and fully local android application written in kotlin to track exercises at the gym, as well as the bodyweight, calories and protein
    • Kotlin
    • Fitness
  • 05.08.2024 - 08.08.2024
    Android application: MyMeds
    Free, opensource and fully local android application written in kotlin compose to track available medications at home, expiry date and category
    • Kotlin
    • Kotlin Compose
    • Health
  • 15.02.2021 - 30.06.2021
    ApiZoom – deep learning to quantify the Varroa parasite in honey bee hive images
    Bachelor thesis with Prof. Jean-Philippe Thiran. Main task: automatically detect toxic bee-killer parasites on bee-hive images.
    • Computer Vision
    • Metric analysis: Precision, Recall, F1, mAP, AUC ...
    • Successfully trained a YOLOv5 network for the automatic detection of the toxic varroa mites