---
title: "Elie Bakouch"
category: "people"
role: "Research Engineer"
company: "Prime Intellect"
linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/eliebak/"
twitter: "https://x.com/eliebakouch"
sourceLabels: ["Official speaker roster", "Official conference schedule"]
---
# Elie Bakouch

## Profile
Research Engineer at [[prime-intellect|Prime Intellect]].

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/eliebak/)
- [X / Twitter](https://x.com/eliebakouch)

## Biography
Elie Bakouch is a Research Engineer at [[prime-intellect|Prime Intellect]], working to advance open pre-training and mid-training. Previously at Hugging Face, he created and trained the SmolLM series of efficient language models and contributed to numerous open research efforts including Open-R1, SmolVLM, and the open pre-training playbooks, comprehensive guides and recipes for training language models from scratch

## Conference Sessions
- [[2026-06-30-elie-bakouch-the-era-of-auto-research]] — « the era of (auto) research » (2026-06-30, 12:05pm-12:25pm)

## Evidence Graph
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### Linked Sessions
- [[2026-06-30-elie-bakouch-the-era-of-auto-research|« the era of (auto) research »]]

### Media Signals
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