Mourad El Hamri

Mourad El Hamri

Associate Professor – Paris Cité University

  • Paris Cité University
  • BioSTM CNRS UMS 3612 - Inserm US25
  • PhD in Machine Learning
  • CNU Qualification sections 26, 27 and 61
  • 4 Av. de l’Observatoire, 75006 Paris, France
  • mourad.el-hamri [AT] u-paris.fr
  • +33 1 00 00 00 00

I am an Associate Professor at Paris Cité University, affiliated with the BioSTM Laboratory and the Faculty of Pharmacy. My research focuses on a central challenge in machine learning: how can models adapt reliably when their environment or task changes? Inspired by the brain’s ability to learn and adapt, I investigate this question through domain adaptation and transfer learning. Optimal transport provides a unifying geometric framework for this work, connecting the structure of data distributions with computational methods and theoretical guarantees.

More recently, I have extended this research to the life sciences, where biological variability makes adaptation both challenging and essential. My aim is to develop models that remain informative across changing experimental conditions while helping reveal the structure and complexity of biological processes.

Optimal Transport
for Machine Learning

My research lies primarily at the interface of optimal transport and machine learning, with a particular focus on domain adaptation and its theoretical guarantees, as well as on applications of optimal transport to human genetics and the pharmaceutical sciences.

SEE MY PUBLICATIONS

Latest News

PhDOctober 2026

Start of Mathis De Jesus’s PhD thesis

Advancing discoveries and validation for genetic studies of complex diseases using optimal transport, co-supervised with Marie Verbanck.

PublicationAugust 2026

Paper accepted in Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews

A toolbox to optimize and scale up microfluidic production of lipid-based nanoparticles.

ProjectApril 2026

VECT-PI funded by the France 2030 PEPR Biotherapies: €2 million

AI-assisted design of novel ionizable lipids for mRNA delivery.

ConferenceJanuary 2026

Paper presentation at AAAI-26 (Singapore)

Theoretical Guarantees for Domain Adaptation with Hierarchical Optimal Transport.

Research Areas