Senior Researchers

Zulfiqar Ahmad Khan

Post-doc
Deep learning, Anomaly detection, Federated learning
[2025 - ongoing]

Atif Rizwan

Post-doc
Federated learning, On-device learning
[2025 - yet to start]

PhD Students

Anindya Sundar Das

Ph.D. Candidate
Anomaly detection, Secure machine learning, Complex data
[Main supervisor, 2022 - ongoing]

Obaidullah Zaland

Ph.D. Candidate
Federated learning, Robotic manipulation
[Main supervisor, 2023 - ongoing]

Pim Kerkhoven

Ph.D. Candidate
Responsible machine learning,
[Main supervisor & Virginia Dignum as Co-supervisor, 2023 - ongoing]

Deepanjan Mitra

Ph.D. Candidate
Serverless computing, Systems security
[Co-supervisor, enrolled in University of Calcutta, India, 2023 - ongoing]

Yinuo Zhang

Ph.D. Candidate
DDoS attacks, Cloud-edge continuum
[Main supervisor, 2025 - ongoing]

Adil Bin Bhutto

Ph.D. Candidate
Serverless Edge AI, Systems security
[Main supervisor, 2025 - ongoing]

Ongoing MS thesis

• Sajjad Haydar, MS in Artificial Intelligence, Spring 2024 (AI-based Blind Image and Video Quality Estimator), Department of Computing Science, Umeå University, Sweden

Ongoing Interns

• Soumit Saha, B.Tech. in Mathematics and Computing final year student at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Patna, India. [Period: June 2025 - ongoing]
• Devvjit Bhuyan, B.Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering final year student at Tezpur University (a Central University), India. [Period: October 2022 - ongoing]

PhD Grading Committee Member

• Sina Sheikholeslami, Doctoral candidate in Distributed Computing at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, 2025.
• Sana Imtiaz, Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctoral candidate in Distributed Computing at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, and Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, 2021.

PhD Thesis Evaluator

• University of Malakand, Pakistan, 2021