Projects
Active Research Projects
| Project | Focus | Role |
|---|---|---|
| VR Starting Grant | Federated optimization for autonomous agents; utility-based participation mechanisms | PI |
| Core FL Research | Resource-aware FL (Bayesian optimization), knowledge distillation, communication-efficient FL | Lead |
| FedFM | Federated Foundation Models — taxonomy, systems, and challenges | Lead |
| Flybold | FL benchmarking for object detection (FedAvg vs. FedAdam) | Lead |
| FLSorbonne (dAIEDGE) | FL + Spiking Neural Networks + neuromorphic systems | Co-PI |
| HORIZON-CL4 (RIA) | European Network of AI Excellence Centres | Participant |
Past Major Grants & Awards
- Projects of Excellence, P TIN2016-76373 — Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness.
- Google Cloud Grant ($10,000 infrastructure usage).
- Europe Horizon 2020 — HPC-Europa3 program.
- ACM Europe Summer School on HPC Computer Architectures for AI (Barcelona, 2019).
- 3rd Big Data Keystone Summer School (TU Wien, Austria).
- Grant from Xunta de Galicia and USC as an innovative researcher.
- Best Paper Award: IEEE TrustCom 2019 — SST-ITS Workshop (New Zealand).
- SDNHPC: Solutions for new challenges in HPC (Spanish federation funded).
- OPERA-P: A new analytical framework for Big Data workloads.
- Pilot-Abstractions for Data-Intensive Applications (SESAME/Synchrotron).
- Big Data Security in Hadoop and IoT Ecosystem (collaboration with four academic bodies in Europe and North America).