Our Team
At the Secure Prediction, Edge AI, and LLM Lab, our vision is to drive transformative research in the domain of federated learning, large language models, vision-language models, cybersecurity, and multi-modality. We aspire to pioneer advancements that redefine the boundaries of AI and machine learning, while ensuring the security and privacy of distributed and decentralized systems.
Lab Director
Assistant Professor (Tenure-track )
šØāš« Iām Ahmed Imteaj, a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University. šļø I also serve as a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Sensing and Embedded Network Systems Engineering (I-SENSE) at FAU. š I am the Founding Director of the Secure Prediction, Edge AI, and LLM Lab, where my team and I push the boundaries of AI, cybersecurity, and intelligent edge systems. š Our mission: to design next-generation technologies that are powerful, trustworthy, secure, and resilient ā bridging the gap between cutting-edge research and real-world impact.
Ph.D. Students
Ph.D. Students (Co-Advising)
Research Thesis/Project: Federated Learning for resource constraint edge devices
Lab Alumni
Research Thesis/Project: Audio Processing, Federated LEarning.
Research Thesis/Project: Cybersecurity and Pattern recorgnition.
Research Thesis/Project: Predicting Road Traffic through Federated Learning with Sentiment Analysis on Social Media Data
Research Thesis/Project: Assessing Vulnerability in Variational Autoencoder GANs
Research Thesis/Project: Intrusion Detection with Federated Reinforcement Learning
Research Thesis/Project: Skin Cancer Detection through Transfer Learning Algorithm
Research Thesis/Project: Drone Swarming, Distributed Streaming and Learning
Research Thesis/Project: Computer Vision, LLMs, UAVs
Research Thesis/Project: Identification of Violent Scene from Human Action and Pose Estimation
Research Thesis/Project: Developing Large Language Models for Personalized Applications
Research Thesis/Project: Efficient Fine-tuning of Large-Language Models
Research Thesis/Project: Physics Informed Neural Networks
Research Thesis/Project: Crime Analytics with Advanced Machine Learning