I am a PhD student in the EECS School at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, working under the supervision of Prof. Michalis Vazirgiannis and Prof. Henrik Boström. I am also fortunate to be part of the WASP AI program and my research is supported by the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. My research revolves around Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), delving deeply into their robustness and practical applications. Specifically, my PhD focuses on enhancing the robustness of these models against adversarial attacks while analyzing and developing various attack strategies. I am particularly interested in theoretically understanding the robustness behaviour of GNNs and consequently proposing efficient and viable defense methods. I have been also lately interested in other application of GNNs, such as temporal graphs.
I am currently interning at King AI Labs (Microsoft - ABK) working on Continuous-Time Dynamic Graphs (CTDG). Before that I was a summer intern at the Flatiron Institute within the Foundation Models for Science initiative, where I worked with Leopoldo Sarra and Siavash Golkar. The internship evolved around investigating the possible extension of the Joint Embeddings approach for building Time Series foundation models.
Prior to joining KTH, I completed a MSc Degree in "Applied Mathematics - Data Sciences" from l’Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, France. I also hold a Master of Engineering from EMINES, School of Industrial Management at the Mohammed VI Polytechnique University (UM6P) in Morocco.
My academic CV can be accessed here.