EMAI Alumni
Class of 2026
ALHALAWANI, NAJEH
Lebanon
- Mobility: Second semester at Sapienza University and second year at Radboud University
- Master's Thesis: Deep Learning-Based Side-Channel Analysis on Edge LLMs
ALI, MUHAMMAD
Pakistan
- Mobility: Second semester at the University of Ljubljana and second year at Radboud University
- Master's Thesis: DiagnosticBench: A Multimodal Benchmarking Framework for Evaluating Vision-Language Models in Industrial Diagnostic Reasoning
BAILKOSKI, WILLIAM ALEXANDER
United Kingdom
- Mobility: Second semester at the University of Ljubljana and second year at Pompeu Fabra University
- Master's Thesis: Streamlining Neural Certificate Synthesis
ČATAR, NELI
Slovenia
- Mobility: Second semester at Sapienza University and second year at the University of Ljubljana
- Master's Thesis: Multimodal Representation Learning for 3D Model Retrieval
DIAZ LUPONE, MAURO
Spain
- Mobility: Second semester at Radboud University and second year at the University of Ljubljana
- Master's Thesis: Provably efficient large-scale reinforcement learning via primal-dual optimization
ĐOKOVIĆ, LAZAR
Serbia
- Mobility: Second semester at Radboud University and second year at the University of Ljubljana
- Master's Thesis: A memory-based deep learning method for long-term visual point tracking
DUHNEV, DANIEL
Bulgaria
- Mobility: Second semester at Radboud University and second year at Pompeu Fabra University
- Master's Thesis: Radiomics-Based Analysis of Grayscale Ultrasound for Pancreas Transplant Rejection Detection
HERNÁNDEZ CANCINO ESTRADA, JOSÉ EDGAR
Mexico
- Mobility: Second semester at Sapienza University and second year at the University of Ljubljana
- Master's Thesis: Vision-Language-Action model for bimanual robotic manipulation of textile objects
HUYN, LIEN HUONG
Vietnam
- Mobility: Second semester at Sapienza University and second year at Radboud University
- Master's Thesis: Understanding Object Detectors via Sparse Dictionary Learning
JIMÉNEZ DE FONSECA, MARCELO ENRIQUE
Chile
- Mobility: Second semester at Sapienza University and second year at Pompeu Fabra University
- Master's Thesis: Automated Prompt Optimisation for Clinical Trial Matching: Design and Evaluation of a Database-Agnostic Framework
KHALEEL, TAHA
Pakistan
- Mobility: Second semester and second year at Radboud University
- Master's Thesis: Interpretable, Training-Free Stopping and Expansion Control for Agentic GraphRAG
KRISHNAN, GOPIKA
India
- Mobility: Second semester at the University of Ljubljana and second year at Pompeu Fabra University
- Master's Thesis: Hybrid Mamba-Transformer Architectures for Audio-Visual Singing Voice Separation: Architecture, Interpretability, and Efficiency
LIANG, YUNFEI
United States of America
- Mobility: Second semester at Radboud University and second year at the University of Ljubljana
- Master's Thesis: Logical Anomaly Detection using Segmentation Transformers
LIEHE, PHILIPP HEINRICH
Germany
- Mobility: Second semester at the University of Ljubljana and second year at Pompeu Fabra University
- Master's Thesis: With Great Trust Comes Great Adoption: Reliable Confidence Metrics for short-form LLM Generations in a post-hoc setting
LIN, AIMEE
New Zealand
- Mobility: Second semester at Sapienza University and second year at the University of Ljubljana
- Master's Thesis: Generative models for sketch synthesis
OSORIO RIVERA, JUAN PABLO
Colombia
- Mobility: Second semester and second year at the University of Ljubljana
- Master's Thesis: Multi-Modal Machine Learning for Image-Based Snow Coverage Estimation
RAZA, ASHIR
Pakistan
- Mobility: Second semester at Sapienza University and second year at the University of Ljubljana
- Master's Thesis: Preserving Gender Privacy in Remote Face Verification with Human-Machine Evaluation
ROTTER, JANNE DAVID
Germany
- Mobility: Second semester at Sapienza University and second year at Pompeu Fabra University
- Master's Thesis: Access Timing as Scaffolding: A Reinforcement Learning Approach to GenAI in Education
RUMIANTSEVA, EVGENIIA
Russia
- Mobility: Second semester at Sapienza University and second year at Pompeu Fabra University
- Master's Thesis: Do coding agents keep secrets? Benchmarking and mitigating credential leakage in LLM agents code generation
SHOKAYEVA, DARIGA
Kazakhstan
- Mobility: Second semester at Radboud University and second year at Sapienza University
- Master's Thesis: Robustness of CLIP-Based Deepfake Face Detectors under Adversarial Attacks
SUBHAN, ALI
Pakistan
- Mobility: Second semester at Sapienza University and second year at the University of Ljubljana
- Master's Thesis: Synthetic Data Generation for Face Anti-Spoofing Using Conditional Generative Models
TÓTH, GELLÉRT GÁBOR
Hungary
- Mobility: Second semester at Sapienza University and second year at the University of Ljubljana
- Master's Thesis: Diffusion Model with Latent Perturbation for Anomaly Detection in Machine Sounds
TSKHE, YELIZAVETA
Kazakhstan
- Mobility: Second semester and second year at Sapienza University
- Master's Thesis: Panoramic Urban Scene Classification with Domain-Informed MoE
VECCHI, ALESSANDRO
Italy
- Mobility: Second semester and second year at Radboud University
- Master's Thesis: Context-aware school detection: beyond visual footprint
Class of 2025
BASSOTTO, CRISTIAN
Italy
- Mobility: Second semester at the University of Ljubljana and second year at Radboud University
- Master's Thesis: ML-based attack on module-LWE assessing the security of module-lattice-based schemes
CALIS, AHMET
Turkey
- Mobility: Second semester at the University of Ljubljana and second year at Pompeu Fabra University
- Master's Thesis: Towards trustworthy AI research assistants: leveraging knowledge graphs for knowledge synthesis
CARPES, ANTONIO ALBERTO
Spain
- Mobility: Second semester at Radboud University and second year at Sapienza University
- Master's Thesis: From perception to action: implementing in-context imitation learning on a franka robot for pick-and-place tasks
CHISSICH, ROBERTA
Italy
- Mobility: Second semester at Sapienza University and second year at Radboud University
- Master's Thesis: Field identification in low-resolution satellite images: a performance analysis of semantic and instance segmentation models on the fields of the world dataset
CIANCI, GIUSEPPE
Germany
- Mobility: Second semester at Sapienza University and second year at Pompeu Fabra University
- Research Engineer on the Visual Studio Code at Microsoft in Zurich (Switzerland)
- Master's Thesis: Multimodal hierarchical masked autoencoders tailored to ECG time series for atrial fibrillation risk stratification
DIMITRIEVIKJ, ALEKSANDAR
North Macedonia
- Mobility: Second semester at Radboud University and second year at Pompeu Fabra University
- Enrolled in an industrial PhD at Chalmers University (Sweden) in collaboration with AstraZeneca
- Master's Thesis: Steering vector-guided molecular generation using language models
DORIN, DARIANA
Romania
- Mobility: Second semester at Sapienza University and second year at Pompeu Fabra University
- Enrolled in a PhD programme
- Master's Thesis: Federated fine-tuning of foundation models for human activity recognition using wearable data under EU regulations
DUTHIE, HONOR
United Kingdom
- Mobility: Second semester at Radboud University and second year at Sapienza University
- Employed at Australian Super, Melbourne (Australia)
- Master's Thesis: Evaluating feature matching and ensemble strategies for monocular pose estimation in colonoscopy videos
FIGUEIRA, JOAQUÍN
Spain
- Mobility: Second semester at the University of Ljubljana and second year at Radboud University
- Enrolled in a Phd programme at the Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands)
- Master's Thesis: Self-supervised and in-context learning techniques for automated optical inspection
GHEORGHIU, ADRIAN
Romania
- Mobility: Second semester at Sapienza University and second year at Radboud University
- Enrolled in an industrial PhD at Zenseact in Gothenburg in collaboration with Uppsala University (Sweden)
- Master's Thesis: Graph neural networks for clutter and target classification in automotive radar
GONZALEZ, MANFRED
Costa Rica
- Mobility: Second semester and second year at the University of Ljubljana
- Enrolled in a PhD programme and employed in industry as a Senior Data Scientist
- Master's Thesis: Face de-identification using diffusion models
KORMUSHEV, NIKOLAY
Bulgaria
- Mobility: Second semester and second year at the University of Ljubljana
- Research Assistant at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich - ETH, (Switzerland)
- Master's Thesis: A Novel method for open-vocabulary panoptic segmentation
LENDERING, CAMILE
Netherlands
- Mobility: Second semester and second year at the University of Ljubljana
- Enrolled in a Phd programme at the Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands)
- Master's Thesis: Deep learning for predicting wave parameters from wind components in the Adriatic basin
LUMBUROVSKA, LEONIDA
North Macedonia
- Mobility: Second semester at Sapienza University and second year at Pompeu Fabra University
- Enrolled in a Phd programme at the University of Zurich (Switzerland). Topic: Temporal Multimodal Explainable AI for Enhanced Diagnosis and Understanding of Multiple Chronic Diseases
- Master's Thesis: Attention-enhanced 3D convolutional neural network for automated lung nodule malignancy assessment
MOREIRA, PEDRO JOSÉ
Portugal
- Mobility: Second semester at Sapienza University and second year at Pompeu Fabra University
- Master's Thesis: Deep research agentic framework for mitigating bias in AI-driven healthcare diagnostics
NIAYESH, NAZANIN
Germany
- Mobility: Second semester at Sapienza University and second year at Radboud University
- Software developer with data science specialisation at CISMO (Austria).
- Master's Thesis: Multi-turn attacks for automated LLM red teaming
PATTICHIS, ANDREAS
Cyprus
- Mobility: Second semester at Radboud University and second year at Pompeu Fabra University
- Enrolled in a PhD programme
- Master's Thesis: Overcoming operational barriers to scalable school detection using low-cost satellite imagery and cross-country knowledge distillation
PERRONE DE MENEZES, BERNARDO
Italy
- Mobility: Second semester at Sapienza University and second year at the University of Ljubljana
- Quantitative Developer II at Scalable Capital (Germany)
- Master's Thesis: Deep learning for precipitation nowcasting in Slovenia
VEGAS, NEUS
Spain
- Mobility: Second semester at Radboud University and second year at Sapienza University
- Enrolled in a PhD programme at the University of Bern (Switzerland). Topic: Generative Prediction of MHC-TCR Binding Peptides
- Master's Thesis: Set covering machine on t-cell receptor LLM representations for lung cancer prediction