🎓 Master's Research Student in Software Engineering at Université de Sherbrooke, Canada

🔬 Researching Federated Learning, Transfer Learning, Privacy-Preserving AI, and Explainable AI at MEDomicsLab.

💻 Passionate about building intelligent, scalable, and user-friendly software solutions, bridging the gap between Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence.

• 🎓 Master's Research Student in Software Engineering at Université de Sherbrooke.
• 🔬 Working on MEDfl, a framework for Federated Machine Learning.
• 🤖 Interested in Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Federated Learning, and Agentic AI.
• 🔐 Exploring Differential Privacy, Explainable AI (SHAP), and Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning.
• 🛠️ Experienced in Full-Stack Web Development, DevOps, MLOps, and Distributed Systems.
• 🌐 Former Google Developer Groups (GDG) Algiers organizer and Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador.
• 📚 Passionate about research, open-source development, and building impactful technologies.

Contributing to the development of MEDfl, a framework designed to simplify federated machine learning experimentation and deployment.

Key features and research areas:

• Federated Learning in simulation and real-world environments.
• Support for neural networks and federated XGBoost.
• Aggregation strategies including FedAvg, FedAdam, FedYogi, FedProx, and others.
• Transfer Learning and Differential Privacy.
• Federated SHAP for explainable AI.
• Hyperparameter optimization using Grid Search and Optuna.
• Distributed training and orchestration across multiple machines.
• User-friendly desktop interface for creating and executing federated learning pipelines.

Technologies: Python, PyTorch, Flower, XGBoost, Opacus, SHAP, Go, Next.js, Electron.

Federated Learning · Privacy-Preserving AI · Distributed Machine Learning · Explainable AI · Transfer Learning · Deep Learning · MLOps · Agentic AI · Software Engineering

I'm always interested in collaborating on innovative software engineering, artificial intelligence, and open-source projects.

📧 Email: ouael.nedjem.eddine.sahbi@usherbrooke.ca

⭐ Building intelligent systems that are scalable, collaborative, and privacy-aware.