// PRINCIPAL DATA SCIENTIST, NIKE, INC.

BELHAL KARIMI

DATA SCIENTIST

Principal Data Scientist across Nike's core domains, partnering with orgs like Design & Commerce. 15+ papers. Two startup exits.

◈ LATEST UPDATES

MAR '23

Monk AI acquired by ACV Auctions.

FEB '23

Brainattic acquired by Master The Monster.

MAR '22

Joined Nike to lead Search Retrieval & Ranking.

◈ THE STACK I REACH FOR

Generative AI & Deep Learning

FLUX / SDXL / SD3 3D AI Federated Learning Compression Algorithms

Advisory

Computer Vision Generative Video Healthcare AI Technical Due Diligence

Search (Match & Rank)

Multimodal Retrieval Neural Ranking RAG Embedding Modeling

◈ SCOUTING REPORT

THE
ROSTER

Four positions, one player.

PLAYMAKER

Principal Data Scientist

Partnering with orgs like Design & Commerce across Nike's core domains, from generative design tools to search & ranking.

STRIKER

Startup Advisory

Scientific advisor to Monk AI & Brainattic (both acquired) and EyeCareX.

SPRINTER

15+ Publications

Research across ICLR, NeurIPS, UAI, COLT & ACML in optimization & generative models.

DRAFT PICK

PhD, MIT & Samsung AI

PhD from École Polytechnique & INRIA, visiting scholar at MIT, early reps at Samsung AI and Baidu AI.

◈ CURRENT FOCUS

AI FOR
DESIGNERS

Principal Data Scientist, Nike. Building generative tools that move design faster, not just differently.

01 · COLORWAY ENGINE

One franchise,
infinite colorways

Generative models that auto-produce on-brand colorway options for Nike's top franchises, turning a single silhouette into dozens of production-ready palettes in minutes, not weeks.

02 · SKETCH TO 3D

From napkin sketch
to 3D shoe

Custom post-trained generative models take a designer's rough sketch and generate a full 3D model of the shoe, collapsing the idea-to-prototype loop from weeks to hours.

IDEA→SKETCH→POST-TRAINED MODEL→3D SHOE

◈ SPONSORSHIP DECK

ADVISORY
DEALS

Signed as scientific advisor. Some deals close with a trophy.

Monk AI

EXITED

Scientific Advisor · Paris, FR

Damage-detection computer vision built on Mask R-CNN. Acquired by ACV Auctions.

VISIT ↗

Brainattic

EXITED

Scientific Advisor · Montreal, CA / Paris, FR

Search engine in video streams & automated trailer generation. Acquired by Master The Monster.

VISIT ↗

EyeCareX

ACTIVE

Scientific Advisor · Vancouver, BC, CA

AI-enabled at-home eye tests connected to remote optometrists.

VISIT ↗

◈ TROPHY CASE

RESEARCH
DROPS

Peer-reviewed plays. Drag the shelf to scroll.

NEURIPS · 2019

On the Global Convergence of (Fast) Incremental EM Methods

NEURIPS · 2020

Towards Better Generalization of Adaptive Gradient Methods

COLT · 2019

Non-asymptotic Analysis of Biased Stochastic Approximation

ICLR · 2022

Distributed Adaptive Optimization with Gradient Compression

PH.D. THESIS · 2019

Nonconvex Optimization for Latent Data Models

ALT · 2022

Minimization by Incremental Stochastic Surrogate

UAI · 2023

THEROSTER

Principal Data Scientist

Startup Advisory

15+ Publications

PhD, MIT & Samsung AI

AI FORDESIGNERS

One franchise,infinite colorways

From napkin sketchto 3D shoe

ADVISORYDEALS

Monk AI

Brainattic

EyeCareX

RESEARCHDROPS

On the Global Convergence of (Fast) Incremental EM Methods

Towards Better Generalization of Adaptive Gradient Methods

Non-asymptotic Analysis of Biased Stochastic Approximation

Distributed Adaptive Optimization with Gradient Compression

Nonconvex Optimization for Latent Data Models

Minimization by Incremental Stochastic Surrogate

Layer-wise & Dimension-wise Locally Adaptive FL

THE
ROSTER

AI FOR
DESIGNERS

One franchise,
infinite colorways

From napkin sketch
to 3D shoe

ADVISORY
DEALS

RESEARCH
DROPS