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<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\nNadir GHEZALI<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\nEmbedded Systems Engineer<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nThe project<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
NumidAI is an independent research and development project focused on autonomous wildfire detection at the edge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This project is personal. Wildfires cause devastating damage every year across the world \u2014 including in the region my parents are from, where lives have been lost and vast landscapes of olive groves have turned to ash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Early detection is crucial in wildfire management. Catching a wildfire in its first minutes can mean the difference between containing a small blaze and losing large areas of vegetation and potentially lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n![\"Kabylie,](\"https:\/\/numidai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/incendie_2020.webp\")
\nKabylie, Algeria – 2020. @ EPA<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n![\"Aude,](\"https:\/\/numidai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/aude_aftermath.jpg\")
\nAude, France – 2025. \u00a9 Occitanie Vue du Ciel<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBackground<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\nExperience<\/p>\n\n\n
20+ years in embedded systems and real-time software. C++ and Linux specialist. Experience in video processing, edge computing, and software architecture.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\nWhy NumidAI<\/p>\n\n\n
NumidAI is the concrete application of embedded systems expertise to a problem that matters: early wildfire detection.<\/p>\n
I have worked on every single aspect of the system<\/strong> \u2014 from initial specifications and requirements, through data engineering, model training and evaluation, to embedded integration and optimization on edge hardware.<\/p>\nData<\/strong> \u2014 Dataset aggregation and curation at scale. Metadata taxonomy design. Hard negative mining. Model-assisted labeling. Stratified splitting with strict data leakage prevention.<\/p>\nModel<\/strong> \u2014 Recall-first detection strategy. Signal-aware training distribution. Threshold calibration under operational false-positive constraints.<\/p>\nEmbedded software<\/strong> \u2014 Real-time C++ inference pipeline on edge hardware. Multi-threaded architecture with sub-100ms end-to-end latency. Multi-layer detection and semantic filtering.<\/p>\nEverything else<\/strong> \u2014 System architecture, deployment strategy, field evaluation protocol, technical documentation, and this website.<\/p>\nA project built to validate a technical hypothesis on real hardware, using real data, with the ambition of turning an embedded AI demonstrator into a robust real-world system.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nOpen to<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n- Field validation partnerships with fire services and land management agencies<\/li>\n
- Technical collaboration in edge AI for environmental monitoring<\/li>\n
- Feedback from practitioners working with wildfire camera networks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nContact<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\ncontact@numidai.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\u2192 LinkedIn profile<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2014 About Nadir GHEZALI Embedded Systems Engineer The project NumidAI is an independent research and development project focused on autonomous wildfire detection at the edge. This project is personal. Wildfires cause devastating damage every year across the world \u2014 including in the region my parents are from, where lives have been lost and vast landscapes … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-95","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/numidai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/numidai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/numidai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/numidai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/numidai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":83,"href":"https:\/\/numidai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"https:\/\/numidai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95\/revisions\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/numidai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Background<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\nExperience<\/p>\n\n\n
20+ years in embedded systems and real-time software. C++ and Linux specialist. Experience in video processing, edge computing, and software architecture.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\nWhy NumidAI<\/p>\n\n\n
NumidAI is the concrete application of embedded systems expertise to a problem that matters: early wildfire detection.<\/p>\n
I have worked on every single aspect of the system<\/strong> \u2014 from initial specifications and requirements, through data engineering, model training and evaluation, to embedded integration and optimization on edge hardware.<\/p>\nData<\/strong> \u2014 Dataset aggregation and curation at scale. Metadata taxonomy design. Hard negative mining. Model-assisted labeling. Stratified splitting with strict data leakage prevention.<\/p>\nModel<\/strong> \u2014 Recall-first detection strategy. Signal-aware training distribution. Threshold calibration under operational false-positive constraints.<\/p>\nEmbedded software<\/strong> \u2014 Real-time C++ inference pipeline on edge hardware. Multi-threaded architecture with sub-100ms end-to-end latency. Multi-layer detection and semantic filtering.<\/p>\nEverything else<\/strong> \u2014 System architecture, deployment strategy, field evaluation protocol, technical documentation, and this website.<\/p>\nA project built to validate a technical hypothesis on real hardware, using real data, with the ambition of turning an embedded AI demonstrator into a robust real-world system.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nOpen to<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n- Field validation partnerships with fire services and land management agencies<\/li>\n
- Technical collaboration in edge AI for environmental monitoring<\/li>\n
- Feedback from practitioners working with wildfire camera networks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nContact<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\ncontact@numidai.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\u2192 LinkedIn profile<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2014 About Nadir GHEZALI Embedded Systems Engineer The project NumidAI is an independent research and development project focused on autonomous wildfire detection at the edge. This project is personal. Wildfires cause devastating damage every year across the world \u2014 including in the region my parents are from, where lives have been lost and vast landscapes … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-95","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/numidai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/numidai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/numidai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/numidai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/numidai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":83,"href":"https:\/\/numidai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"https:\/\/numidai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95\/revisions\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/numidai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Experience<\/p>\n\n\n
20+ years in embedded systems and real-time software. C++ and Linux specialist. Experience in video processing, edge computing, and software architecture.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Why NumidAI<\/p>\n\n\n
NumidAI is the concrete application of embedded systems expertise to a problem that matters: early wildfire detection.<\/p>\n
I have worked on every single aspect of the system<\/strong> \u2014 from initial specifications and requirements, through data engineering, model training and evaluation, to embedded integration and optimization on edge hardware.<\/p>\n Data<\/strong> \u2014 Dataset aggregation and curation at scale. Metadata taxonomy design. Hard negative mining. Model-assisted labeling. Stratified splitting with strict data leakage prevention.<\/p>\n Model<\/strong> \u2014 Recall-first detection strategy. Signal-aware training distribution. Threshold calibration under operational false-positive constraints.<\/p>\n Embedded software<\/strong> \u2014 Real-time C++ inference pipeline on edge hardware. Multi-threaded architecture with sub-100ms end-to-end latency. Multi-layer detection and semantic filtering.<\/p>\n Everything else<\/strong> \u2014 System architecture, deployment strategy, field evaluation protocol, technical documentation, and this website.<\/p>\n A project built to validate a technical hypothesis on real hardware, using real data, with the ambition of turning an embedded AI demonstrator into a robust real-world system.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n contact@numidai.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n \u2192 LinkedIn profile<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u2014 About Nadir GHEZALI Embedded Systems Engineer The project NumidAI is an independent research and development project focused on autonomous wildfire detection at the edge. This project is personal. Wildfires cause devastating damage every year across the world \u2014 including in the region my parents are from, where lives have been lost and vast landscapes … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-95","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/numidai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/numidai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/numidai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/numidai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/numidai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":83,"href":"https:\/\/numidai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"https:\/\/numidai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95\/revisions\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/numidai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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