About me

Walid Iguider, Ph.D. is the Chief Technology Officer at Neural Factory S.R.L., an AI platform company accelerating Italian manufacturing SMEs through intelligent automation and data-driven decision-making. He is a PhD computer scientist and entrepreneur with 12+ years of experience building intelligent systems — from algorithmic fairness and recommender systems to autonomous agents and enterprise LLM platforms.

At Neural Factory, Dr. Iguider leads the technical vision, designing a three-tier AI system combining knowledge graphs, conversational analytics, and autonomous agents for manufacturing digitization.

Prior to Neural Factory, Dr. Iguider served as a Senior AI Engineer at FairMind S.R.L., where he led R&D of a generative AI platform for software development acceleration, built production-ready LLM systems, and contributed open-source models to HuggingFace. Before that, he was a senior data scientist at Stackhouse (Spindox S.P.A. company), designing data-driven marketing AI for Stellantis across Europe. He also held a position as a senior data scientist at Athlos. Earlier in his career, he was a doctoral researcher at the Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Laboratory and collaborated with Abinsula Srl and the Data Science and Big Data Analytics research group of Eurecat.

Dr. Iguider holds a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Rabat, a master’s degree in Software Quality from Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University of Fez, and completed his doctoral program in Computer Science, with a focus on Data Science, at the University of Cagliari. His Ph.D. research aimed to leverage Machine Learning to support decision-making in sports remote coaching platforms.

His experience includes collaborating with national and international companies in Emirates, France, Italy, Morocco, and Spain. He is fluent in Arabic, English, French, and Italian.