Moez Draief

Moez Draief is currently the Global Chief Scientist and VP of Data Science and Engineering at Capgemini, a multinational consulting company. In this role Moez works with clients in public and private sector organisations on their data science and data engineering delivery projects. Previously, he was the Chief Scientist for Artificial Intelligence at Noah’s Ark Lab of Huawei Technologies. Before moving to industry in 2016, he worked as an academic for a number of years, including a position at Cambridge University (UK) as a Marie Curie Research Fellow and a position at Imperial College London (UK) as an Associate Professor. In the past two years, he has continued to offer MSc courses in the areas of online statistical learning (at ENSAE Paris, France) and Bayesian optimisation (at Université Paris Sciences et Lettres), France. He has continued active research and has had papers published in top-ranked journals and conference proceedings, including papers at NeurIPS, a premier international conference in machine learning area.