Elbaraa Elalami

Elbaraa Elalami (also listed as Baraa Elalami) is an applied-mathematics-trained engineer and quantitative/ML practitioner based in the United Arab Emirates. He represented Morocco at the International Mathematical Olympiad 2011, where he won a silver medal (rank 113, 22 points). He studied at Ecole Polytechnique (2013-2017, Engineer's degree and MSc in Applied Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science) and completed a Master's in Quantitative Finance at Ecole des Ponts ParisTech (2017-2019), later starting an MSc in Artificial Intelligence at City St George's, University of London (2021-2022, coursework completed). His professional history as reported on his LinkedIn profile lists a Quantitative Researcher role at Natixis (Paris, 2016) and a Machine Learning Engineer role at SparkCognition (later rebranded Avathon), where he is listed as currently employed.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. The subject's LinkedIn profile (via the enrichment index) lists an actual role as Quantitative Researcher at Natixis, Paris, dated 2016 (caller-supplied lead refines this to March-August 2016); Natixis is a French corporate and investment bank whose asset-management arm (globalam.natixis.com) places it in quantitative finance, so the employer classification holds. Identity is supported by converging evidence: the IMO 2011 Morocco contestant Elbaraa Elalami, an Ecole Polytechnique ResearchGate profile under the same name, and this LinkedIn profile's Ecole Polytechnique education. Caveat: the Natixis role rests on LinkedIn/index data (the subject's own profile record) and no independent primary-source document corroborating the role was located, so the employment evidence is index-only rather than primary-source confirmation.2016
• Listed job title is Machine Learning Engineer at SparkCognition, whose company page is sparkcognition.com; the same LinkedIn profile also names the employer 'Avathon', consistent with SparkCognition's corporate rebrand, indicating the ML role is current rather than a past position.2022
• Represented Morocco at IMO 2011 and won a silver medal, scoring 22 points (rank 113, 80.1 percentile), the top Moroccan result of that edition.2011
• Education timeline shows a quantitative/technical arc: Ecole Polytechnique engineering degree and MSc in Applied Mathematics, Economics and CS (2013-2017), then a Master's in Quantitative Finance at Ecole des Ponts ParisTech (2017-2019), then an MSc in Artificial Intelligence at City St George's, University of London (2021-2022, coursework completed) - a sequence moving from pure/applied math toward ML engineering.2013
• Public ResearchGate profile under 'Elbaraa Elalami' is affiliated with Ecole Polytechnique and CMAP (Centre de Mathematiques Appliquees, UMR CNRS 7641), corroborating the Ecole Polytechnique education listed on LinkedIn.