News

• Nov 2025: Together with HSO and ECAM, we are organizing a Winter School on Robotics to be held in Offenburg —stay tuned for updates!
• 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.
• Aug 2025: This semester, I am teaching a new elective course: Internet of Things (IoT), a much-needed and exciting subject.
• 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! 
• Dec 2024: I was a guest on Arlinda Baftiu’s TV program, where I talked about my academic journey and challenges. Video here.
• Dec 2024: Our journal paper, AdaptiveMesh: Adaptive Federated Learning for Resource-Constrained Wireless Environments, has just been published! Paper here.
• Nov 2024: We’re looking for a technical/research assistant to join the Challenge EU project. Reach out if you’re interested!
• Nov 2024: I will speak about the potential of LLMs at Smart City Zürich.
• Oct 2024: A demo paper from our team has been accepted for presentation at ACM/IEEE SEC 2025 in Rome !
• Oct 2024: I will be giving a talk on innovation and implementation of LLMs at Stadt Zürich from October 24th to 25th.
• Sept 2024: Shqipe Salii has joined the DSG group and will be working on her PhD under my supervision ! Welcome Shqipe !
• Sept 2024: I gave a talk at Prishtina Hackerspace – FLOSSK on the role of open source initiatives in our research.
• July 2024: We are part of the Challenge EU alliance for the next 4 years. I am looking for motivated students and researchers to develop cutting-edge digital AI platform for 9 EU universities.
• May 2024: My latest book, Wireless Community Networks: Deploying IoT Services with Micro-Clouds has just been published!
• May 2024: Two papers accepted at the IEEE MECO 2024 conference. Congrats Nelum and Lamir!