CV
Two-page CV (October 2026): Yassine_ElKheir_CV.pdf.
PhD researcher at DFKI and TU Berlin. Defense expected April 2027. Looking for research and applied scientist roles from November 2026. The homepage is the narrative version of the same record: work, talks, papers, and how to collaborate.
Now
- PhD researcher, DFKI and TU Berlin, 2024 to present. Advisors: Sebastian Möller and Tim Polzehl. Thesis: robust audio deepfake detection, from SSL models to audio LLMs.
- Project lead and day-to-day coordinator, Fake-O-Meter, May 2026 to February 2029. DFKI coordinates the consortium (TU Berlin, OVGU Magdeburg, EAH Jena, Deutsche Welle, dpa). Funded by the BMFTR. Project site, DFKI page.
- Project lead, Software Campus, July 2026 to present. Federally funded project (€115k) with Holtzbrinck and Springer Nature on multimodal deepfake detection and fact-checking.
- Project lead, VERIDIC.
- Visiting researcher, NII Tokyo, December 2025 to April 2026, with Xin Wang and Junichi Yamagishi.
- Founding research scientist (part-time), Gretchen AI, Berlin, January 2025 to present.
- Research consultant, CAMB.AI, April 2025 to present.
- Research associate, QCRI, Doha, 2022 to 2024.
Education
- Ph.D. Computer Science, TU Berlin / DFKI, 2024 to 2027. Defense expected April 2027.
- M.Sc. Machine Learning, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 2022. Double degree.
- Diplôme d'Ingénieur, Télécom Paris, 2022. Top 5%.