Usama Zafar
PhD student at Department of Information Technology; Division of Scientific Computing
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 29 97
- E-mail:
- usama.zafar@it.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Hus 10, Lägerhyddsvägen 1
- Postal address:
- Box 337
751 05 UPPSALA
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Short presentation
Usama Zafar is a Ph.D. student at the Division of Scientific Computing, Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, Sweden. His research interests include distributed computing, security and privacy, distributed and federated machine learning.
Keywords
- artifical intelligence
- cybersecurity
- distributed computing
- federated machine learning
- privacy
Biography
Usama Zafar received his Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Software Engineering from National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan. He completed his Master’s Degree in Advanced Computing Science from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Usama has worked at Netsol Technologies for two years, focusing on research and development of finance management products. He is currently conducting research in secure federated machine learning under the supervision of Prof. Salman Toor and Prof. André Teixeira at Uppsala University.