News

• May 2025: As part of WP2 of ChallengeEU, I will visit HSO (Offenburg) and FHNW (Basel) in the first week of June.
• April 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.
• April 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 be conducting a short research stay at the University of Birmingham and the University of Cambridge in May 2025 !
• Feb 2025: I will talk about our ongoing LLM work at the Smart City Zürich Festival on June 5, 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!
• Oct 2023: I’ve been appointed as one of the Program Committee Chairs for the upcoming DAIS conference scheduled to take place in Groningen from June 17th to June 21st, 2024 !
• Sep 2023: Our paper “FederatedMesh: Collaborative Federated Learning for Medical Data Sharing in Mesh Networks” got accepted at CollaborateCom conference !
• Aug 2023: I will be serving as the Program Committee for the ACM/IFIP Middleware Workshop on Middleware for Edge Computing (MiddleWEdge). Consider submitting a paper !
• Jun 2023:  I contributed as an expert to the development of the National Development Strategy focused on Green and Digital Transformation !
• May 2023:  Embarked on a visit to the University of Birmingham in the UK for the Air Quality Monitoring project !
• May 2023: Presented our work on machine learning in healthcare at H2020 Smart4All General Assembly meeting in Lisbon, Portugal !
• Feb 2023: First master thesis defence at the DSG group !  Lenart Ibraimi successfully defended his master thesis “Participatory Air Pollution Monitoring System Using Portable Low-cost Sensors”. Congrats Lenart !
• Feb 2023: I conducted training sessions on Horizon Europe programme (Prishtina & ITP Prizren) organised by Edutask Institute and GIZ.
• Oct 2022: Our paper entitled “Server-side Adaptive Federated Learning over Wireless Mesh Network” got accepted at ICITS’23 to be held in Peru !
• Sep 2022: Two new students joined our group at MVDSI ! Lamir Shkurti (PhD candidate) and Leda Shaqiri (Master student) will be part of the DSG ! Welcome guys !
• Jun 2022: Our paper “Designing a Double LoRa Connectivity for the Arduino Portenta H7” got accepted at IEEE LANMAN conference !
• Apr 2022: Officially kick-started the project “Air Pollution and Human Mobility” supported by University of Birmingham and IOM !
• Feb 2022: We are hiring a technical / research assistant to work with us on the air pollution monitoring project !
• Nov 2021: We are the winners of the 9th H2020 Fed4Fire+ Open Call ! We are hiring a senior researcher to work with us at MVDSI ! Stay tuned for a news update !
• Oct 2021: Two papers on Federated Machine Learning got accepted ! They will be presented at ACM/SIGHCI IoT 2021 conference in Switzerland and ICITS 2022 conference in Costa Rica !
• Sep 2021: Together with the University of Birmingham (UK) and International Organization for Migration (IOM) we are kick-starting the project “Assessing the Nexus Between Air Pollution and Human Mobility in the City of Tetova” !
• Aug 2021: Our work on Federated Learning got accepted at IEEE Globecom 2021 conference to be held in Madrid, Spain ! Congratulations Lenart !
• Jul 2021: We were nominated and selected for the Elsevier FGCS Editor’s Choice Award for our journal paper on Multi-criteria Optimization in Edge Clouds !
• Apr 2021: Nominated and selected in the Program Committee of Horizon Europe programme for North Macedonia !
• Mar 2021: Our paper on “Multi-criteria Optimization in Edge Clouds” has been accpeted for publication in the Elsevier FGCS journal (Impact Factor: 7.187) ! Kudos to the team !