Jean-Marc Alkazzi, PhD
Founding Engineer · Engineering Manager for Applied AI
Founding Engineer at idealworks (BMW Group spinoff), now leading Applied AI. 8 years building AI systems in the BMW Group ecosystem from Quality Assurance to Multi-Robot Coordination. Shipping intelligent coordination and optimization software for hundreds of autonomous robots in factories and warehouses worldwide.
Experience
Lead Applied AI team and technical strategy across multi-robot coordination, fleet optimization, and logistics production systems
Led R&D in Computer Vision, Language Models, and Reinforcement Learning for Robotics and Quality Assurance within BMW Group factories
Led team building real-time news analysis platform from 30,000+ sources with AI-based event and incident detection; sold to media outlets and governments
Led Computer Vision research projects and BMW Group collaboration initiatives
Built ML-based consumer banking behavior analysis system for marketing insights and branch digitization
Education
Thesis: Industrial Robot Fleet Management Systems: From Research to Production.
Ranked 1st across all engineering departments
Research
J-M. Alkazzi and K. Okumura
J-M. Alkazzi, A. Rizk, M. Salomon, and A. Makhoul
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