Research Statement

Privacy-Preserving
Distributed AI

Modern AI systems are getting more powerful and more centralized at the same time. That creates real problems: privacy risks, single points of failure, and data that organizations cannot share. I build distributed AI frameworks that let multiple parties train models together without exposing raw data. My work covers healthcare, cybersecurity, and environmental monitoring.

Research Vision

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Hospitals, banks, IoT networks, and mobile devices all hold sensitive data that AI needs. The problem is that privacy laws, competition, and security risks make it impossible to pool that data in one place. I build tools that let AI models train across separate data silos without moving or exposing any raw data.

02

I also study the security of decentralized systems themselves. Smart contracts and federated learning protocols have real vulnerabilities that attackers exploit. I build detection and defense tools grounded in representation learning and multimodal analysis to protect these systems.

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Both research areas share a core principle: test under realistic adversarial conditions, not just clean benchmarks. Systems built with a clear threat model in mind are more secure and generalize better. My results consistently show this.

Research Themes

Theme 01

Federated Learning & Privacy-Preserving AI

I build federated learning frameworks that train models across distributed data owners without centralizing any sensitive data. The main failure modes I address are backdoor attacks, heterogeneous data distributions, and communication bottlenecks that block real-world deployment.

RBBD reduces backdoor attack success below 15% while keeping model utility intact

Federated deforestation detection from satellite imagery reaches 0.85 IoU without sharing raw data

Aggregation strategies for non-IID medical and IoT data distributions

Related Publications

RBBD: A Representation-Based Framework for Edge-Case Backdoor Defense in Federated Learning· 2025 IEEE 7th International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems

Theme 02

Blockchain Security & Smart Contract Analysis

Smart contracts hold billions of dollars in value but break under subtle code vulnerabilities. I build multimodal tools that fuse source code, opcode, and bytecode to catch vulnerabilities that single-modality approaches miss.

VulnFusion: multimodal transformer for smart contract vulnerability detection

QuadraCode AI fuses source code, opcode, and bytecode representations (8 citations, ICCCN 2024)

Blockchain-IoT framework for supply chain transparency and traceability

Related Publications

VulnFusion: Exploiting Multimodal Representations for Advanced Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection · 2024 6th International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications

QuadraCode AI: Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection with Multimodal Representation · 2024 33rd International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks

A Blockchain and IoT-Enabled Framework for Ethical and Secure Coffee Supply Chains· Future Internet 17

Theme 03

Robust Machine Learning for Healthcare & Science

I apply machine learning to safety-critical domains where reliability directly affects patient outcomes. My work covers brain tumor segmentation, Alzheimer's classification, ICU outcome prediction, cervical cancer detection, and physiological stress analysis.

ICU length-of-stay prediction from MIMIC-III (27 citations, most cited work)

fNIRS mental workload classification with CNN and ML ensembles (12 citations)

ACGAN-augmented brain tumor segmentation with independent validation

Scalable multimodal cervical cancer detection pipeline

Related Publications

Mental Workload Classification from fNIRS Signals by Leveraging Machine Learning · 2023 IEEE Signal Processing in Medicine and Biology Symposium

Improved Classification of Alzheimer's Disease with Convolutional Neural Networks · 2023 IEEE Signal Processing in Medicine and Biology Symposium

Brain Tumor Segmentation and Classification Using ACGAN with U-Net and Independent CNN-Based Validation· 2024 IEEE Signal Processing in Medicine and Biology Symposium

Personalized Stress Detection from Chest-Worn Sensors by Leveraging Machine Learning · 2024 International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Energy Technologies

Theme 04

Distributed Systems & Big Data Engineering

Scalable AI needs scalable infrastructure. I benchmark distributed data pipelines, optimize parallelization for preprocessing bottlenecks, and build cloud-native ML systems with measurable throughput and latency gains.

MPI4Py preprocessing optimization, 36 citations, published in Machine Learning with Applications

Apache Spark vs. Airflow benchmarking for batch ML workloads

Serverless AWS fraud detection system, 94.9% accuracy, low latency

Related Publications

A Big Data Optimization Comparison using Apache Spark and Apache Airflow · 2025 IEEE 15th Annual Computing and Communication Workshop

Theme 05

Game Theory & Strategic AI

Federated learning and multi-agent systems are strategic environments. Participants can act selfishly, collude, or drop out to maximize their own gain. I apply mechanism design, Nash equilibria, and cooperative game theory to build distributed AI systems where honest participation is the rational choice.

Models FL participation as a strategic game under data heterogeneity and free-rider incentives

Mechanism design for incentive-compatible aggregation in cross-silo federated settings

Game-theoretic analysis of adversarial behavior in blockchain consensus protocols

Cooperative game theory for fair reward allocation among federated learning contributors

Future Directions

Federated Foundation Models

Applying federated learning to large language and vision-language models, where communication costs and data heterogeneity are far greater than in standard FL.

Stronger Privacy Guarantees

Building tighter, composable privacy accounting methods that give real guarantees for deployed federated systems without the accuracy loss of standard DP-SGD.

Robust Smart Contract Auditing

Combining static analysis, fuzzing, and learned representations to build audit pipelines that catch new vulnerability classes as Solidity and the EVM evolve.

Privacy-Preserving Environmental AI

Using federated multi-source remote sensing for climate and biodiversity monitoring, enabling global environmental models without centralizing sovereign satellite data.