Rahool Dembani has had an active period of research dissemination, training, and collaboration spanning from mid-2024 through the end of 2025. His activities have included presenting research papers at international conferences, participating in specialized summer schools, and engaging in collaborative workshops. The topics covered range from agricultural image security and federated learning encryption to sustainable urban energy management.
Below is a chronological summary of his research presentations, training, and events during this period.
NEMO 2024 Summer School
Date: July 2024 Event: NEMO 2024 Summer School Location: University of Vienna
Rahool attended the NEMO 2024 Summer School, organized by OMiLAB NPO. This event provided training on modeling methods and open-source tools, fostering collaboration within the digital ecosystem community.
TALLHEDA Brainstorming Event
Date: December 4, 2024 Event: TALLHEDA Brainstorming Event Location: Agricultural University of Athens
Rahool Dembani, along with colleagues Havva Uyar and Clare Sullivan, presented the Entrust project during this collaborative session. The event included a formal presentation and a banner display, highlighting the project’s goals and ongoing work.
PhD Research Presentation: Privacy of Agricultural Data
Date: December 16, 2024 Event: PhD Research Presentation Location: Agricultural University of Athens
Closing out 2024, Rahool delivered a focused presentation on his PhD research, titled “Privacy of Agricultural Data.”The talk addressed critical challenges in protecting sensitive agricultural information in an increasingly digitalized farming sector.
DATAMITE Event
Date: February 6, 2025 Event: DATAMITE Event
Early in 2025, Rahool and colleagues from SingularLogic presented the Entrust project during the DATAMITE event, showcasing the project’s progress and its intersection with data monetization and interoperability themes.
AI-on-Demand Platform Innovation Lab
Date: June 11, 2025 Event: AI-on-Demand Platform Innovation Lab Host: AI4Europe
Rahool attended the Innovation Lab hosted by AI4Europe, engaging with the latest developments in the European AI-on-Demand platform and exploring new avenues for AI innovation and collaboration.
EuroS&P 2025: Agricultural Image Security
Date: July 2, 2025 Conference: 10th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P 2025)
Rahool presented a poster paper titled “FUSIONCRYPT: Enhancing Agricultural Image Security Through Hybrid Encryption.” The research outlines a hybrid encryption approach designed to protect image data used in agricultural monitoring systems.
GSERM Summer School: Open-source LLMs
Date: July 15, 2025 Event: Global School in Empirical Research Methods (GSERM) Location: University of St.Gallen (HSG)
Continuing his training, Rahool attended the “Open-source LLMs” summer school course. This session focused on the development, fine-tuning, and application of open-source Large Language Models in research.
IntelliSys 2025: Privacy in Federated Learning
Date: August 28, 2025 Conference: 11th Intelligent Systems Conference (IntelliSys 2025)
In August, Rahool presented “Enhancing Privacy and Efficiency in Federated Learning through Hybrid Homomorphic Encryption.” The paper proposed a methodology utilizing hybrid homomorphic encryption to secure data processes within federated learning environments while maintaining computational efficiency.
11th Annual Big Data Conference
Date: September 25, 2025 Event: 11th Annual Big Data Conference Location: Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
Rahool attended the 11th annual Big Data Conference, participating in discussions on the latest trends in big data analytics, management, and their applications across various industries.
Ubicomp-ISWC 2025: Urban Energy Management
Date: October 14, 2025 Conference: Ubicomp-ISWC 2025
Moving to sustainable computing applications, Rahool presented “Memory-Augmented LLMs for Sustainable Urban Energy Management via Weather-Energy Pattern Learning.” The study demonstrated how Memory-Augmented Large Language Models can analyze weather-energy patterns to support more efficient management of urban energy grids.
FLICS 2025: Adaptive Defense in Federated Learning
Date: December 26, 2025 Conference: Federated Learning and Intelligent Computing Systems (FLICS 2025)
Rahool concluded the year with a presentation titled “JADE-FL: Joint Adaptive Defense and Encryption for Federated Learning.” This paper introduced “JADE-FL,” a system designed to provide simultaneous defense mechanisms and encryption protocols to strengthen the security of federated learning networks.