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Academic Career

Experience

Research and academic positions across Europe, Asia, and the UK.

6+
Positions
5
Countries
4+
Years Teaching
1
Co-Supervised MSc

Academic Positions

Research & Teaching Roles

Apr 2026 – Present
Current
Research Collaborator
Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science (DISI), University of Trento, Trento, Italy
Continuing research collaboration on federated learning and edge AI following PhD completion. Working on ongoing publications and EU project deliverables.
Jan 2026 – Present
Current
Senior Researcher / Associate Professor
Human Environment Technology (HET), Mykolas Romeris University (MRU), Vilnius, Lithuania
Leading research in federated learning, trustworthy AI, and human-environment technology at MRU's HET department. Teaching, supervision, and research grant activities.
Apr 2024 – Sep 2024
Visiting
Visiting Researcher
Department of Electronics Engineering, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
Collaborative research on federated learning for edge computing environments. Delivered guest lectures on privacy-preserving machine learning and co-authored research publications.
Oct 2023
Visiting
Visiting Researcher
Department of Electronics Engineering, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
Short-term research visit for collaborative work on communication-efficient federated learning.
May 2022 – Aug 2023
Part-Time
Specialist
Department of Biomechanical Engineering, Vilnius Tech University, Vilnius, Lithuania
Contributed to research on AI applications in biomechanics. Developed machine learning models for biomedical signal processing and collaborated on interdisciplinary publications. Project end: 31-Aug-2023.
Jan 2020 – Mar 2020
Remote
Visiting Researcher
Essence Data Engineering & Distributed Computing Systems, School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Remote research on distributed machine learning systems. Participated in research seminars and established international research collaborations.

Student Supervision

Co-Supervised Theses

2024
Hafiz Muhammad Bilal
MSc Data Science, University of Trento, Trento, Italy
Thesis: Enhancing Communication-Efficient Federated Learning for Human Activity Recognition through Highly Compressed Models