Dr.-Ing. Zeyd Boukhers

Lead of FAIR Data & Distributed Analytics Group

Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT)

Institute for Medical Informatics, University Hospital of Cologne

I believe that AI and data science should be both powerful and trustworthy. My research develops machine learning, semantic web technologies, knowledge management, and FAIR data infrastructure that work reliably across domains—from healthcare and biodiversity to scholarly data and cultural heritage. With dual appointments at Fraunhofer FIT and University Hospital of Cologne, I build systems that enable researchers in any field to harness AI, semantic interoperability, and data science responsibly, transparently, and effectively.

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Research Interests

Leading the FAIR Data & Distributed Analytics Group at Fraunhofer FIT

FAIR Data

Data management, FAIR principles, data spaces

Machine Learning

Deep learning, neural networks, AI applications

NLP

Natural language processing, text mining

Data Sovereignty

Data governance, privacy, security

Research Topics

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Recent News

December 01, 2025

AI-BioDynamics Project Kicks Off!

Our German-Korean AI-BioDynamics project has officially launched, supported by BMBF and MSIT with a total budget of €1.3 million to build an intelligent platform for next-generation biodiversity monitoring. The consortium will work together through November 2028.

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Recent Publications

1. 2026 • Conference Paper

   Unleashing Semantic and Geometric Priors for 3D Scene Completion

   Shiyuan Chen , Wei Sui , Bohao Zhang , Zeyd Boukhers , John See , Cong Yang

   Proceedings of the 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

   Chen, S., Sui, W., Zhang, B., Boukhers, Z., See, J., & Yang, C. (2026). Unleashing Semantic and Geometric Priors for 3D Scene Completion. Proceedings of the 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

   Chen, Shiyuan, , and Wei Sui, , and Bohao Zhang, , and Zeyd Boukhers, , and John See, , and Cong Yang. "Unleashing Semantic and Geometric Priors for 3D Scene Completion." Proceedings of the 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2026.

   Chen, Shiyuan, , and Wei Sui, , and Bohao Zhang, , and Zeyd Boukhers, , and John See, , and Cong Yang. "Unleashing Semantic and Geometric Priors for 3D Scene Completion." Proceedings of the 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2026).

   @inproceedings{Chen2026unleashing,
     title = {Unleashing Semantic and Geometric Priors for 3D Scene Completion},
     author = {Shiyuan Chen and
              Wei Sui and
              Bohao Zhang and
              Zeyd Boukhers and
              John See and
              Cong Yang},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
     year = {2026},
     
   }

2. 2025 • Journal Article

   Context-agnostic data visitation to exchange health data for scientific research: the example of PADME PHT

   Dara Hallinan , Marc Nestor , Muhammad Hamza Akhtar , Constantin Breß , Mehrshad Jaberansary , Christoph Lange , Macedo Maia , Fruzsina Molnár-Gábor , Yeliz Üçer Yediel , Zeyd Boukhers

   International Data Privacy Law

   PDF DOI

   Hallinan, D., Nestor, M., Akhtar, M. H., Breß, C., Jaberansary, M., Lange, C., Maia, M., Molnár-Gábor, F., Yediel, Y. Ü., & Boukhers, Z. (2025). Context-agnostic data visitation to exchange health data for scientific research: the example of PADME PHT. International Data Privacy Law. https://doi.org/10.1093/idpl/ipaf011

   Hallinan, Dara, , and Marc Nestor, , and Muhammad Hamza Akhtar, , and Constantin Breß, , and Mehrshad Jaberansary, , and Christoph Lange, , and Macedo Maia, , and Fruzsina Molnár-Gábor, , and Yeliz Üçer Yediel, , and Zeyd Boukhers. "Context-agnostic data visitation to exchange health data for scientific research: the example of PADME PHT." International Data Privacy Law, 2025.

   Hallinan, Dara, , and Marc Nestor, , and Muhammad Hamza Akhtar, , and Constantin Breß, , and Mehrshad Jaberansary, , and Christoph Lange, , and Macedo Maia, , and Fruzsina Molnár-Gábor, , and Yeliz Üçer Yediel, , and Zeyd Boukhers. "Context-agnostic data visitation to exchange health data for scientific research: the example of PADME PHT." International Data Privacy Law (2025).

   @article{article11,
     title = {Context-agnostic data visitation to exchange health data for scientific research: the example of PADME PHT},
     author = {Dara Hallinan and
              Marc Nestor and
              Muhammad Hamza Akhtar and
              Constantin Breß and
              Mehrshad Jaberansary and
              Christoph Lange and
              Macedo Maia and
              Fruzsina Molnár-Gábor and
              Yeliz Üçer Yediel and
              Zeyd Boukhers},
     journal = {International Data Privacy Law},
     year = {2025},
     doi = {10.1093/idpl/ipaf011},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1093/idpl/ipaf011},
     publisher = {Oxford University Press},
     
   }

3. 2025 • Journal Article

   R4-SLAM: Toward Real-time, Robust, and Resource-Restricted Visual SLAM in Dynamic Environments

   Zhijie Zhang , Cong Yang , Xue Qin , Wei Sui , Zeyd Boukhers , Hui Kong , Jie Liu , Zhijun Li

   IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

   Zhang, Z., Yang, C., Qin, X., Sui, W., Boukhers, Z., Kong, H., Liu, J., & Li, Z. (2025). R4-SLAM: Toward Real-time, Robust, and Resource-Restricted Visual SLAM in Dynamic Environments. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement.

   Zhang, Zhijie, , and Cong Yang, , and Xue Qin, , and Wei Sui, , and Zeyd Boukhers, , and Hui Kong, , and Jie Liu, , and Zhijun Li. "R4-SLAM: Toward Real-time, Robust, and Resource-Restricted Visual SLAM in Dynamic Environments." IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 2025.

   Zhang, Zhijie, , and Cong Yang, , and Xue Qin, , and Wei Sui, , and Zeyd Boukhers, , and Hui Kong, , and Jie Liu, , and Zhijun Li. "R4-SLAM: Toward Real-time, Robust, and Resource-Restricted Visual SLAM in Dynamic Environments." IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (2025).

   @article{article12,
     title = {R4-SLAM: Toward Real-time, Robust, and Resource-Restricted Visual SLAM in Dynamic Environments},
     author = {Zhijie Zhang and
              Cong Yang and
              Xue Qin and
              Wei Sui and
              Zeyd Boukhers and
              Hui Kong and
              Jie Liu and
              Zhijun Li},
     journal = {IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement},
     year = {2025},
     publisher = {IEEE},
     
   }

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