Group

Group and collaborators

I work on federated learning and decentralized AI in the Skövde Artificial Intelligence Lab (SAIL) at the University of Skövde, and supervise PhD students in Sweden and Morocco.

Supervision

PhD students

Current doctoral students and their thesis topics.

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AB

Abed Al Bakkour

University of Skövde, Sweden

Distributed AI in the steel industry.

2025–2029ProcTwin

Distributed AI · Digital twins · Steel manufacturing

FA

Fatiha Ait Baali

Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco

Federated fine-tuning of large language models for domain-specific applications: balancing personalization and privacy.

2024–2027

Federated learning · LLMs · Privacy · Virtual assistants

CL

Chaima Lhasnaoui

Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco

Enabling federated learning on the edge for enhanced privacy in medical imaging (FedMedical).

2023–2026

Federated learning · Medical imaging · Edge AI · IoT

Examination

Doctoral examination

External examiner4 Apr 2024

Collaborative Predictive Maintenance for Smart Manufacturing: From Wireless Control Systems to Federated Learning

Ali Bemani (PhD) · University of Gävle, Sweden

Affiliations

Research groups

Groups I have been part of.

Skövde Artificial Intelligence Lab (SAIL)

University of Skövde · 2022 – now

Data science, federated learning, deep learning, NLP, decentralized AI, IoT

Current

Hellander Lab, Computational Science and Engineering

Uppsala University · 2020 – 2022

Federated learning, deep learning, NLP, applied cloud computing

Deep Data Mining Group (DDM)

Umeå University · 2018 – 2020

Data mining, privacy preservation, semantic web, knowledge graphs, information retrieval

Network

Collaborators

Universities, institutes and companies I work with.

Research collaborations5
  • Uppsala University · FEDn, federated NLPSweden
  • Scaleout Systems · FEDn frameworkSweden
  • Umeå University · Privacy-aware data federationSweden
  • Cadi Ayyad University · PhD co-supervisionMorocco
  • University Hassan II · STINT initiation grantMorocco
ProcTwin consortium10
  • SSABSweden
  • SwerimSweden
  • PrevasSweden
  • BFIGermany
  • MCLAustria
  • CELSA GroupSpain
  • CARTIFSpain
  • Aquiles SolutionsSpain
  • isendSpain
  • ESTEPBelgium

Interested in joining?

I welcome PhD and master's students working on federated learning, privacy-preserving AI and decentralized systems.

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