News

• Feb 2026: I will be attending the AI Days 2026 conference, organized by the Swiss AI Center, in Martigny and Fribourg on March 23–25.
• Feb 2026: This semester, I am once again teaching the Internet of Things (IoT) course, highly relevant subject that offers exciting learning opportunities for students.
• Feb 2026: I am looking for an intern to work on Agentic AI for breast cancer detection. If you’re interested, feel free to get in touch.
• Jan 2026: A new blog post on Swiss universities and their academic culture is now available. Link.
• Dec 2025: I will spend the second half of January 2026 (13-21st) in Zurich (ETH and UZH) working on the Generative AI project.
• Dec 2025: Our paper “Federated Breast Lesion Segmentation in Kaapana: A Synthetic Multi-Site Evaluation” was accepted at the BAI’26 conference to be held in Tunisia ! Congrats Shqipe!
• Dec 2025: Consider applying for our fully funded, highly professional BIP on “Industrial Robotics in Practice” at HSO. 
• Nov 2025: I am happy to welcome our new intern at DSG – Tringa Saliu ! Tringa will work on an important project focused on AI-based breast cancer detection.
• Oct 2025: I will attend the Swiss AI Summit in Zurich beginning of November 2025.
• Sep 2025: On October 25th, I will speak at Software Freedom Kosova (SFK), on the topic “Mesh, Chain, and Brain: Open Networks, Blockchain Economies, and Edge AI !
• Sep 2025: As part of the ChallengeEU project, I will be in Brussels on 27–28 October to attend the WP Leads & Co Leads meeting.
• Sep 2025: I will serve on the Program Committee for MiddleWedge 2025  workshop co-located with ACM Middleware 2025 in Nashville, USA. Consider submitting a paper !
• Sep 2025: I’ll be visiting EPFL in Lausanne and University of Bern on the 18th and the University of St. Gallen on the 19th of Sep in Switzerland to explore future research collaborations.
• July 2025: I will be at the Smart City Zürich Futures Festival on 28th of August. Happy to connect and talk with anyone interested in AI!
• July 2025: I’m organizing the ChallengeEU WP2 meeting, which will take place in Offenburg on September 16–17, 2025.
• July 2025: I will serve on the Program Committee of the renowned IFIP WONS 2026 Conference, to be held in Valais, Switzerland! 
• July 2025: Alba Adili, our DSG intern, has been accepted into the Master’s in Computer Science at the University of Bern ! Congrats Alba !
• June 2025: I am the co-founder of Sormena GmbH, a Zürich-based AI startup working on generative AI.
• June 2025: I’ll be in Zürich the first week of July  (August), working on the LLM project .
• June 2025: I will be conducting a short research stay at the University of Birmingham and the University of Cambridge from 15-18th of June !
• May 2025: Our research on air pollution in Tetova was recently featured on MRT1, the national television channel. Link.
• May 2025: Lamir Shkurti,  my PhD student, has successfully defended and earned his doctoral degree. Congrats Lamir ! 
• May 2025: As part of WP2 of ChallengeEU, I will visit HSO (Offenburg) and FHNW (Basel) in the first week of June (2-5th).
• Apr 2025: Our paper “A Two-Board Design for Interconnected Intelligence in Tiny IoT” has been accepted for presentation at Expat’25, to be held in the exotic Faial Island, Portugal.
• Apr 2025: Our students, Samir, Menan, Hamit and Agon took first place at the Global Innovation Challenge with their solar-powered air quality project. Congrats guys !
• Apr 2025: We’re organizing the Air Pollution Exhibition on May 28–29 in Tetova with the University of Birmingham !
• Mar 2025: Our paper on monitoring and querying LoRa Mesh Nodes has been accepted at the IEEE SAIA workshop in Bologna.
• Mar 2025: Two new interns, Samir and Menan, have joined the DSG group to work on LoRa technology. Welcome guys !
• Feb 2025: I will talk about our ongoing LLM work at the Smart City Zürich Festival on September 2025—details soon !
• Jan 2025: We have a new intern at DSG ! Welcome, Alba ! Alba will work on Tetova’s air pollution visualization platform.
• Jan 2025: Hamit Kamberi joins the DSG group full-time to work on the Challenge EU project. Welcome Hamit !
• Jan 2025: Our proposal for the Research England International Strategy and Partnership Fund, in partnership with the University of Birmingham, has been approved ! Stay tuned for updates ! 
• Jan 2025: The Challenge EU project has been officially launched, with the kickoff meeting scheduled for 12th March 2025 in Offenburg (DE) and Basel (CH).
• Dec 2024: As of today, I am promoted to Full Professor at SEEU. Five challenging and amazing years here have gone by so fast!