Samir JALLOUL is a computer science, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and foreign languages MS/PhD student at Boston University, living in Boston (Massachusetts), Mohammedia (Morocco) and Siberia (Russia) also a citizen of the world.
Prior to his return to the academia circle, he worked for VivaKi Nerve Center a member of the Paris-based Publicis Groupe S.A., with a focus on delivering cutting edge marketing visualizations tools. During his time at Publicis Groupe he worked in various capacities, spanning domestic and international Fortune 100 clients to include (American Express, Oral-B, General Motors, Renault Nissan, Emirates, and Bank of America).During his studies at Northeastern University he worked for both the Gillette Company and Procter & Gamble gaining tremendous exposure to the industry. As an intern under the Global Architecture & Technology wing, he was responsible for enterprise-wide day-to-day management, implementation, and new technology adoption across both landscapes. Samir has also worked under the Global Integration Management wing, where he focused on top business driven initiatives and project pipeline at Gillette Company. As an active ‘Entrepreneur in Action’ he successfully bootstrapped Trancespot and Undu Mobile, Inc. early in his undergraduate years at Northeastern University. Trancespot was conceived for his love of Electronic/Trance music, as an early pioneer of CMS and Streaming Internet Radio. Trancespot catered it’s services to the underground & club DJ’s looking for recognition and following globally.Undu Mobile, Inc. was conceived as a small application, he wrote while vacationing in Morocco. It was a simple concept around social networks and presence ‘Organic networks’ on the go, anywhere, anytime’ he realized the various opportunities available from generating social graphs based on proximity and locality of devices (users). He continued to develop the idea upon his return to Boston, but has decided to continue work on Undu Mobile, Inc. platform as a research project. Undu Mobile, Inc. continues to live and morph into his research in Crawlers & Artificial Intelligence at Boston University.