EP.00 · Pilot

GHAZI
CHERIF

غازي شريف

Robotics engineer from ETH Zürich. AI and automation for life sciences at KVALITO. Co-founder of HyperBody.

Tap the ground to throw a ball

INU-01 is an animated robot dog. Throw it a ball, make it run to music, or watch it do graded push-ups.

Dialogue

Pick who I am talking to
GHAZI

Status

Facts only. No made-up stats
STATUS WINDOWPlayer 1
NAMEGhazi Cherif · غازي شريف
CLASSRobotics engineer · MSc ETH Zürich
BASEZürich, Switzerland
GUILDKVALITO Consulting Group · Commercial Operations & Client Enablement
PARTYHyperBody · co-founder
LANGUAGESFrançais C2 · العربية C2 · English C1 · Español A2 · Deutsch A2
TRAININGGym and running. Measured, obviously.
LOADOUTPython · TypeScript · ROS2 · MediaPipe · LLM + RAG · HubSpot
COMPANIONINU-01 · 4 legs, 8 joints, solved live
SOUNDTRACKAlways on

Episodes

Season 1 · 2017 to now
EP.01EPFL · Sorbonne · ETH Zürich

Training arc

EPFL for the bachelor, a year at Sorbonne in Paris, then the MSc at ETH Zürich in Robotics, Systems & Control. The coursework that stuck: deep learning for autonomous driving (3D point clouds, segmentation, depth), model predictive control, robot dynamics.

MSc · ETH Zürich2017 · 2024
EP.02Balgrist · ETH Zürich

The spine

Master thesis: an RGB-D method to guide pedicle screw placement in robotic spine surgery. ZED stereo cameras, optical tracking, vertebra segmentation, and live tracking in ROS2 for the EU Horizon FAROS project.

96% accuracy · measured2023 · 2024
EP.03ETH Zürich · pdz

Reading intent

Master focus project: I added hand movement data to gaze-based action recognition. Task recognition accuracy rose to 91%. Graded 5.5 out of 6.

91% · measured2022
EP.04The gym · HyperBody

Iron

The gym, measured. I built a form analysis engine: it tracks 33 body landmarks, splits a set into reps, scores depth, tempo and symmetry, flags faults by severity, and keeps a ghost of your best rep to compare against. 14 lifts, from back squat to lateral raise.

The same idea runs the form checks in HyperBody, the AI physique app I co-founded. Press Reps up top: INU-01 gets graded the same way.

HyperBody · liveOngoing
EP.05R&J Cookies · Zürich

The shop

Idea to shop floor with full P&L: budget, permits, suppliers, equipment, staff and SOPs. Up to 200+ units a day for 7 B2B clients and walk-in customers, at about 65% gross margin. The best operations course I have taken, and I paid for it myself.

~65% margin · measured2023 · 2024
EP.06Intellyse · KVALITO

Trust

Intellyse taught me the full SaaS sales cycle and how to automate a pipeline that books its own meetings. At KVALITO I build AI for GxP work: validation documents the AI drafts and a qualified person signs, compliance gates inside the ERP, and engines that turn public signals into account and supplier intelligence.

One rule everywhere: the AI drafts, a human decides.

Human in the loop2024 · now

Measured an observed result Designed how it is built, not a promise

Side quests

Built, or tinkered with
Mario Kart, but realAn Arduino RC car at Helbling: servo steering, Bluetooth control, lights and a horn.Built
Who is in classA face recognition attendance checker, synced to Firebase.Built
Try it onA virtual try-on demonstrator in Python.Built
Stereo eyesA ZED camera toolkit: depth, body tracking, spatial mapping.Built
The ancestorOpenCat, the open-source robot dog. INU-01 owes it a treat.Tinkered
Parallel parkingPath planning and tracking for an autonomous parking demo.Tinkered