Manuscript in preparation
R. Z. Hassici, H. Sahraoui, A. Korichi. CROCode: Towards Frugal Coding Agents through Context Optimization. Targeting ICPC 2027.
01 · Research
Making AI coding agents reliable and affordable
My doctoral research at DIRO focuses on empirical analysis and comparative evaluation of open-source and proprietary AI coding agents.
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AI coding agents
Empirical analysis and comparative evaluation of open-source and proprietary coding agents: reliability, cost, and trade-offs.
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Automated program repair
Context retrieval and feedback-driven patch generation for agentic repair pipelines.
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Evaluation & benchmarks
Benchmark design and LLM-as-judge methods for developer tooling, beyond "the tests pass".
02 · Path
Education & experience
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Université de Montréal — DIRO
AI for Software Engineering · GEODES lab
Master's & Ingénieur d'État in AI & Data Science
École Nationale Supérieure de l'Intelligence Artificielle (ENSIA)
Master's grade: 16.08/20
Master's in Management for Engineers
Higher School of Commercial Studies (EHEC)
Double degree program
Research & industry
Software Engineering Research Intern
Université de Montréal
Freelance AI & Software Engineer
Independent
Co-Founder & Lead Mobile Developer
Gostu (Tech Startup)
03 · Work
Selected projects
Products I've built for clients, institutions and my own startup.
CTC Flood Classification
A data collection platform for CTC engineers to input and map nationwide project data for flood monitoring analysis.
Mobilis Arabic Chatbot
An AI-powered Arabic language chatbot that provides customer service support for ATM Mobilis users through the MyMobilis application.
Gostu
An educational platform built for Algerian baccalaureate students with mobile app and web interface.
Bac Recommender System
An AI-powered platform designed to help Algerian students make informed decisions about their university choices based on their baccalaureate results.
04 · Recognition
Honors & awards
- 20251st Place
National AI Olympiads
DroughtFight: time-series forecasting & AI-agent recommendations
- 20251st Place
S.H.E.S.E.M.
AgriScan: agricultural monitoring & edge plant-disease classification
- 20252nd Place · Best Software
National Robotics & Programming Competition
AgriScan
- 20252nd Place
Hack & Train Competition
Remote sensing, segmentation & cybersecurity challenges
- 20253rd Place
Mathurance Hackathon
Insurance provisioning prediction system
- 2024Winner
GDG DevFest
Real-time microservices dashboard with anomaly detection
- 20242nd Place
Yassir Hackathon
LLM & business-intelligence solution
- 2023Winner
Synapson Datathon
NLP solution using BERT and TF–IDF
05 · Services
Freelance: how I can help
I work with startups and teams that need AI built into real products, shipped by someone who also measures whether it works.
AI agents & LLM integration
Agentic features, retrieval and evaluation added to your product, measured rather than guessed.
Full-stack SaaS
From spec to production with Next.js, Node.js and FastAPI, built to client requirements.
ML & data prototypes
Forecasting, NLP and classification models taken from notebook to deployed service.
AI tooling consulting
Choosing and evaluating AI coding tools for your team, backed by current research.