Supervision
Main Supervisor
- PhD Pablo Caderno, Graduated Jul 2025. Thesis: OPERA: OPportunistic and Elastic Resource Allocation for Big Data over Cloud Computing Frameworks. University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- PhD Leon De Franca Nascimento, expected to graduate Dec 2026. Thesis: Federated Large Language Model in healthcare. Computer Science Institute, Tartu University.
- PhD Simon Pierre Dembele, Former Postdoc of Data Management (left 2025), Tartu University.
- PhD Juan Carlos Ramos Martinez, PhD in Containerize-based Native High-performance Data Analytics 2021-2023.
Co-supervisor/Director
- Mohamed Ragab, PhD Graduate (2023). Thesis: Large Scale Graph Querying and Processing. Tartu University
- Obaidullah Zaland, PhD Student, Umeå University. Fairness and Efficiency in Edge Artificial Intelligence under Highly Volatile Environments.
- Mehreen Tahir, On-Demand Crowdsourced Federated Machine Learning over Edge Devices, Graduate 2025. Dublin City University, Ireland.
- Chaimaa Medjadji, Optimized Federated Knowledge Distillation with Distributed Neural Architecture Search. Luxembourg University, Luxembourg
MSc Supervision (all in Umeå University, Sweden)
| Student | Topic |
|---|---|
| Carl-Johan Munck af Rosenschöld | Next Generation Cloud-native In-Memory Stores. |
| Joar Eliasson | Performance Implications of Scaling Strategies in an Asynchronous Queue-Driven Cloud System |
| Oskar Sandbergjanzon | Data-Driven Framework for DevOps Metrics and Developer Experience Analysis |
| André Marklund | Secure aggregation in FL |
| William Nilsson | Machine Learning Predictive Scaling in CI/CD pipelines |
| Polina Mironchik | Reliability in Cloud-Native Financial Messaging Systems With Kafka |
| Canberk Özen | A Collaborative Approach for Large-scale Electricity Consumption Using Federated Machine Learning |
| Leyla Rahimli | Federated Machine Learning Drift Detection: An Empirical Study on the Impact of Concept and Data Drift (Tartu University) |
| Samuele Langhi | Extending Kafka Streams for Complex Event Recognition. (Tartu University). |
PhD Viva Examiner (International)
- Özgü Göksu, University of Glasgow, UK. Beyond Labels and Centralization: Representation Learning Through Data Curation
- Afsana Khan, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands. Unlocking the Value of Data with Vertical Federated Machine Learning.
- Zeeshan Hameed, University of Bozen-Bolzano. Italy. Improving data availability and security in distributed storage networks