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Mennan Selimi

Mennan Selimi

Full Professor at SEEU.

Contact:
m.selimi [at] seeu.edu.mk 
Office: Building 304.08, SEEU Campus Tetovo, North Macedonia

Distributed Systems & Data Science · DSG

Research

Mennan Selimi

Research

My research is centered on intelligent and distributed systems for real-world environments. I am particularly interested in how computing systems can become more efficient, adaptive, privacy-aware, and useful in practice. Three major research clusters that I am working are:

  • Federated and Embedded AI
    We develop machine learning systems that run on resource-constrained devices and learn collaboratively without sharing raw data. This includes TinyML on microcontrollers, federated learning across mesh networks, and adaptive algorithms for devices with limited memory, bandwidth, and power. Current focus: federated learning for medical imaging in multi-site clinical settings. 

  • AI for Health and Environment
    We apply AI to problems with direct societal impact. Our ongoing projects include AI-driven breast cancer detection using federated approaches (preserving patient privacy across hospitals), and community-scale air pollution monitoring in Tetova using low-cost IoT sensors. Collaborations: University of Birmingham.

Projects

CHALLENGE EU

WP2 Lead · Active

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H2020 Fed4Fire+

Fed4FIRE: Federation for Fire Plus (2020-2022)

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H2020 Smart4All+

Smart4All: Digital Innovation Hubs in SE Europe (2019 - 2023)

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H2020 LightKone

LightKone: Lightweight Computation at the Edge (2017 - 2020)

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H2020 RIFE

RIFE: Architecture for an Internet for everybody (2015 - 2018)

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H2020 UMOBILE

UMOBILE: Universal, Mobile-centric Architecture (2014 - 2018)

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FP7 CONFINE

CONFINE: Community Networks Testbed for the FI (2011 - 2015)

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FP7 CLOMMUNITY

CLOMMUNITY: A Community Networking Cloud (2013 - 2015)

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FP7 SOFIA

SOFIA: Smart Object for Intelligent Applications (2009 - 2012)

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AIR MONITORING

Air Pollution Monitoring System for the city of Tetova (2022-2025)

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SEEU WISP

SEEU-WISP: Wireless Testbed within SEEU Campus (2020)

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Talks

  • Mesh, Chain, and Brain: Open Networks, Blockchain Economies and Edge AI,
    Software Freedom Kosova 2025, Oct 2025, Prishtina, Kosovo.

  • Joint E-Campus – ChallengeEU University Alliance,
    ChallengeEU WP2 Meeting, Sep 2025, Offenburg, Germany.

  • KOMKI: Contact Management using LLMs ,
    Stadt Zurich Schulamt, Oct 2024, Zurich, Switzerland.

  • FederatedMesh: Collaborative Federated Learning for Medical Data Sharing in Mesh Networks,
    Horizon H2020 Smart4All General Assembly Meeting, May 2023, Lisbon, Portugal.

  • Assessing the Nexus Between Air Pollution and Human Mobility,
    Webinar on Ethics in Citizen Science, BRIDGE Project, Mar 2023, Online.

  • Air Pollution Monitoring Project at SEEU: Highlights
    Japan Embassy visit at SEEU,  Feb 2023, Tetovo, North Macedonia.

  • Decentralized Machine Learning at the Edge,
    FEMTO-ST Insitute, May 2022, Besançon, France.

  • 50 Shades of Blockchain: Cryptocurrency Vs. Money,
    University of Zurich, November 2020, Zurich, Switzerland.

  • Energy and Connectivity: Towards a Low Emission Campus,
    IETF 108 Online, July 2020, Madrid, Spain.

  • 50 Shades of Cloud: Re-inventing Cloud with a Blockchain,
    Qantarot, July 2020, Skopje, North Macedonia.

  • Re-inventing Community Cloud with a Blockchain,
    BarCamp Tetove, December 2019, Tetove, North Macedonia.

  • Decentralized Monitoring System for Edge,
    LightKone M34 General Meeting, October 2019, Lisbon, Portugal.

  • Decentralized Monitoring for Guifi.net Nodes,
    LightKone M30 General Meeting, June 2019, Munich, Germany.

  • Information-Centric Edge Computing Platform,
    Facebook , December 2018, San Francisco, US.

  • Towards Blockchain-enabled Wireless Mesh Networks,
    ACM MobiSys, December 2018, Munich, Germany.

  • Hyperledger Fabric Experience in Guifi.net,
    Ammbrtech Meeting, February 2018, Barcelona, Spain.

  • PiCasso: Edge Platform for Mesh Networks,
    RIFE Progress Meeting, 2018, Zurich, Switzerland.

  • Mesh Networking Experience at Guifi.net,
    GAIA IETF 101 Meeting, 2018, London, UK.

  • Towards Blockchain-enabled Wireless Networks,
    University of Prishtina, 2018, Prishtina, Kosovo.

  • Towards Decentralised Resilient Community Clouds,
    ACM Middleware,2017, Las Vegas, USA.

  • Service Placement in Wireless Mesh Networks,
    RIFE Progress Meeting, 2017, London, UK.

  • Practical Service Placement Approach for Microservices Architecture,
    ACM CCGrid, 2017, Madrid, Spain.

  • Bandwidth-aware Service Placement in Micro-Clouds,
    IEEE LCN, 2016, Dubai, UAE.

  • Network-aware Service Placement in Micro-Clouds,
    University of Cambridge, 2016, Cambridge, UK.

  • Video Streaming in Wireless Mesh Networks,
    CLOMMUNITY Progress Meeting, 2015, Trieste, Italy.

  • Live Video Streaming in Community Clouds,
    IEEE CloudCom, 2015, Vancouver, Canada.

  • Community-Lab Testbed: Hands-on Session,
    CONFINE Plenary Meeting, 2014, Antwerp, Belgium.

  • Cloud-Based Extension for Community-Lab,
    MASCOTS, 2014, Paris, France.

  • Experiences with Distributed Heterogeneous Community Clouds,
    SIGCOMM DCC, 2014, Chicago, USA.

  • Services in Community Network Clouds,
    ICCSA, 2014, Guimaraes, Portugal.

Service

Journal Reviewer

  • IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management

  • Future Generation Computer Systems – Elsevier

TPC Member