Salman Toor

Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Information Technology; Division of Scientific Computing

Telephone:: +46 18 471 10 12
Mobile phone:: +46 73 703 15 39
E-mail:: salman.toor@it.uu.se
Visiting address:: Hus 10, Regementsvägen 10
Postal address:: Box 337
751 05 UPPSALA

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Salman Toor is an Associate Professor in Scientific Computing at Uppsala University. He is an expert in the field of distributed computing infrastructures and applied machine learning. Toor is the co-chair of the Scientific Machine Learning (SciML) research group at Uppsala University and co-founder and CTO at Scaleout Systems AB. He has supervised and reviewed more than forty masters thesis projects and is currently the principal supervisor of two Ph.D students.

Keywords

Distributed computing infrastructures; Federated machine learning; System scalability and performance

Biography

Salman Toor earned his Masters and PhD in Scientific Computing from Uppsala University. In 2014, Toor finished his postdoctoral research from CMS program, Helsinki Institute of Physics, Finland. From 2015-2017, Toor was employed as a researcher in the Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University and as a senior cloud architect at Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC). Toor is the co-chair of the Scientific Machine Learning (SciML) research group at Uppsala University and co-founder and CTO at Scaleout Systems AB. Toor is one of the lead architects of the FEDn framework, designed and developed for scalable federated machine learning. Toor is a co-PI of the Gigacow project and a named researcher in the HASTE and SustAinimal projects. Together with extensive research experience, Toor has over 15 years of teaching experience in different international institutions. He has designed and developed both masters and PhD level courses in the field of distributed computing infrastructures.

Research

Research Grants

2025 – 2027 Mixture of Experts Models Tailored for Fleet Intelligence (PI). Funded by Vinnova
2025 – 2027 DREAM – Distributed, Robust and Efficient AI for Autonomous Vehicles (Co-PI). Funded by Vinnova
2025 – 2027 Continuous Active Federated Learning for Data Streams (Co-PI). Funded by Vinnova
2023 – 2025 Robust IoT Security: Intrusion Detection Leveraging Contributions from Multiple Systems (Co-PI). Funded by Vinnova
2022 – 2027 Data-driven Vulnerability Analysis for Critical Infrastructures (PI). Funded by eSSENCE Graduate School
2022 – 2023 Improving Livestock Health and Welfare Through Collaborative AI (Swedish PI). Funded by SASUF
2022 – 2028 Secure Federated Learning at Scale (PI). Funded by Cybersecurity Graduate School, Uppsala University
2021 – 2024 SustAinimal (Senior Scientist). Funded by Formas
2018 – 2023 GIGACow (Co-PI). Special call for research infrastructure, SLU
2018 – 2022 HASTE (Senior Scientist). Funded by SSF
2019 – 2021 Data, Information and Knowledge Exchange for Higher Education Development (Swedish PI). Funded by SASUF
2019 – 2020 A Platform for Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning Using the Ethereum Blockchain and Smart Contracts (PI). Funded by Vinnova

Student(s) Supervision

2023 – 2028 Principal Supervisor for Mr. Usama Zafar’s doctoral thesis
2022 – 2027 Principal Supervisor for Mr. Zhenlu Sun’s doctoral thesis
2022 – 2027 Associate Supervisor for Mr. Patrick Hennig’s doctoral thesis
2022 – 2024 Principal Supervisor for Mr. Tianru Zhang’s doctoral thesis
2017 – 2022 Mentor for Mr. Omar Javed’s doctoral thesis
2016 – 2019 Associate Supervisor for Dr. Marco Capuccini's doctoral thesis
2017 – ongoing Supervised and reviewed more than forty M.Sc. theses

PhD Thesis Opponent and Doctoral Committee Memberships

2026 Committee Member for Vishnu Narayanan's PhD defense at KTH
2025 Committee Member for Pirah Noor Soomro's PhD defense at Chalmers University
2025 Opponent for Sina Sheikholeslami's PhD defense at KTH
2024 Opponent for Sourasekhar Banerjee's PhD defense at Umea University
2024 Committee Member for Ali Dadras's PhD defense at Umea University
2024 Committee Member for Shenghui Li's PhD defense at Uppsala University
2023 Committee Member for Han Wang's PhD defense at KTH
2022 Committee Member for George Kalamatianos's PhD defense at Uppsala University
2021 Committee Member for Khalid Mahmood's PhD defense at Uppsala University

Media

My Compay

Scaleout Systems

YouTube Videos

Publications

Selection of publications

Recent publications

All publications

Articles in journal

Comprehensive doctoral thesis

Managing Applications and Data in Distributed Computing Infrastructures

Toor, Salman Zubair

2012
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Comprehensive licentiate thesis

Managing applications and data in distributed computing infrastructures

Toor, Salman

2010
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Conference papers

Manuscripts (preprints)

QTL as a service: PruneDIRECT for multi-dimensional QTL scans in cloud settings

Mahjani, Behrang; Toor, Salman; Nettelblad, Carl; Holmgren, Sverker

2016
Restore: A Reinforcement Learning Approach For Data Migration In Multi-Tiered Storage

Zhang, Tianru; Papon, Tarikul Islam; Toor, Salman; Athanassoulis, Manos
InfoHier: Hierarchical Information Extraction via Encoding and Embedding

Zhang, Tianru; Ju, Li; Singh, Prashant; Toor, Salman