Youssef holds two masters degrees in digital signal processing and computer vision from Telecom SudParis and Ecole Polytechnique in France. He is interested in object recognition and action recognition algorithms in images and videos. As a full time research assistant, he works on different projects involving pedestrian and car detection and tracking, face recognition, and gesture recognition. During his free time, he enjoys trying new ways to make human-computer interactions faster for programmers, playing squash with his friends, traveling, and swing dancing.