Teaching

Courses

I have taught various courses in data science, machine learning, and computer science at multiple institutions.

Data Science

University of Koblenz Landau WS20/21 Lecturer

180 students 6 ECTS Course (MSc)

Machine Learning and Data Mining

University of Koblenz Landau WS19/20, WS20/21, WS21/22 Lecturer

340 students 6 ECTS Course (MSc)

Fundamentals of Medical Image Processing

University of Siegen WS14/15 Tutorial Instructor

15 students 5 ECTS Course (BSc)

Introduction to Computer Science

University of Oran WS09/10, SS10, WS10/11, SS11, WS11/12, SS12, WS12/13 Lecturer

700 students 2 ECTS Course (BSc)

Web Information Retrieval

University of Koblenz Landau SS20, SS21, SS22 Lecturer

120 students 6 ECTS Course (MSc)

Big Data

University of Koblenz Landau SS20, SS21 Lecturer

220 students 6 ECTS Course (MSc)

Data Mining

University of Economics in Katowice SS16 Guest tutorial Instructor

20 students 5 ECTS Course (MSc)

Pattern Recognition

University of Siegen SS15 Tutorial Instructor

10 students 5 ECTS Course (MSc)

Research Labs & Seminars

Supervised research labs where students work on practical machine learning and data science projects.

Sensory Data

SD+KO

University of Koblenz Landau WS18/19 Lecturer

15 students 12 ECTS Research lab (MSc and BSc)

Deep Learning

DL+KO

University of Koblenz Landau WS17/18 Lecturer

15 students 12 ECTS Research lab (MSc and BSc)

Machine Learning Application

MLA+KO

University of Koblenz Landau SS19, SS20, WS20/21, WS21/22, SS22 Lecturer

15 students 12 ECTS Research lab (MSc and BSc)

Supervised Theses

I have supervised numerous bachelor, master, and doctoral theses in various areas of computer science and AI.

PhD Theses

Nagaraj Bahubali Asundi

Enabling FAIR Data Exchange and Management in Data Spaces: Frameworks, Challenges, and Solutions

University of Cologne Started in January 2023 Co-Supervisor and Reviewer

Oussama Zoubia

Enhancing Medical Data Management Through FAIR Digital Objects

University of Cologne Started in August 2023 Co-Supervisor and Reviewer

Lingxiao Kong

Adaptive Weighting Strategies in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Large Language Models

University of Cologne Started in April 2024 Co-Supervisor and Reviewer

Master Theses

Riad Benine

Calibrated Multi-Objective Activation Steering for Structured Generation

Higher School of Computer Science - Algeria Ongoing Supervisor and Reviewer

Rafik Messaoud Nacer

Incremental Disclosure-Risk Constraints for Synthetic Record Generation

National Higher School of Artificial Intelligence - Algeria Ongoing Supervisor and Reviewer

Youcef Guergour & Younes Barmaki

Online Inference of User Preference Weights in Multi-Objective LLM Alignment

National Higher School of Artificial Intelligence - Algeria Ongoing Supervisor and Reviewer

Sami Bouab & Abdellah Aimene

Semantic-Constrained Decoding for Knowledge Graph Generation

Higher School of Computer Science - Algeria Ongoing Supervisor and Reviewer

Nils Zhang

Preference-Aware Coefficient Correction for Rewarded-Soups-Style Model Merging

University of Essen Ongoing Supervisor

Rashid Lafraie

Representing Evolving Knowledge Graphs through Incremental Embeddings

University of Koblenz-Landau Completed (October 2020) Supervisor and Reviewer

Dhruv Singh Chandel

A Framework for Complex Natural Language to SPARQL Translation Using Large Language Models and Policy-Based Reinforcement Learning

University of Koblenz Completed (November 2024) Supervisor and Reviewer

Anmol Sharma

LLM-based Tool for FAIR Data Assessment

RWTH University of Aachen Completed (May 2025) Co-Supervisor

Joyeeta Datta

Exploring In-Context Learning Abilities in Compressed Large Language Models

University of Koblenz Completed (March 2025) Co-Supervisor and Reviewer

Dallaa Abdelsamad Taki-Eddine

Aligning Large Language Models at Inference-Time with Preference Vectors using Hypernetworks

Higher School of Computer Science - Algeria Completed (June 2026) Supervisor and Reviewer

Azeddine Bouabdallah

Cryptocurrency Price Prediction using Ensemble Learning

University of Koblenz-Landau Completed (February 2022) Supervisor and Reviewer

Prantik Goswami

Deep Learning for Differential Diagnosis and Prediction in EHR Data with Knowledge Graph Embedding

University of Koblenz-Landau Completed (February 2022) Supervisor and Reviewer

Danniene Wete

Sensory Data Mining for Human Activity Recognition using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA)

University of Koblenz-Landau Completed (December 2019) Supervisor and Reviewer

Ravi Babariya

Generalized Log Parsing Using Memory-Augmented Neural Networks

University of Koblenz Completed (August 2026) Supervisor and Reviewer

Timo Hartmann

Interpretable AI: from Machine Learning Models to Human Understandable Rules

University of Koblenz-Landau Completed (August 2021) Supervisor and Reviewer

Ashik Abdul Rahuman Peer Mohamed

AI-based Smart contracts classification: Comparative study

University of Koblenz Completed (April 2024) Co-Supervisor and Reviewer

Nagaraj Bahubali

Probabilistic Approach for Author Name Disambiguation

University of Koblenz-Landau Compeleted (October 2022) Supervisor and Reviewer

Bachelor Theses

Chen, Siyan

A Pipeline for Spike Detection in Microneurography with Wavelet Denoising and Machine Learning

RWTH University of Aachen Ongoing Co-Supervisor

Süs, Mirko

Early Detection of Abnormal Behaviour in Crowded Scenes

University of Siegen 2017 Co-Supervisor and Reviewer

Jarzyński, Tomasz

Eye Blinking Detection using SVM

University of Siegen 2014 Co-Supervisor and Reviewer