Aaqib Saeed
Curriculum vitae
Assistant Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology, leading the Decentralized AI Research Lab. For research and publications, see the publications list.
Education
Ph.D., Computer Science
Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Oct 2017 – Jun 2021
- Research on self-supervised and federated learning.
- Graduated with distinction, cum laude.
- Part of the Horizon 2020 EU project SCOTT.
M.Sc., Computer Science
University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
Sep 2015 – Aug 2017
- Specialization in Data Science and Smart Services.
- Graduated cum laude.
- Research Honors Programme.
Professional experience
Assistant Professor (Tenured, UD1)
Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Since Mar 2023
Research Scientist
Philips Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Aug 2021 – Feb 2023
Industrial Fellow
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Sep 2020 – 2021
Research Intern, Deep Learning
Google Research, Paris, France
Jul 2020 – Oct 2020
Research Intern, Machine Intelligence
Google Research, Zurich, Switzerland
Jun 2019 – Sep 2019
Graduate Intern, Deep Learning
Philips Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Nov 2016 – May 2017
Research Intern, Machine Learning
EIT Digital / TNO, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Jul 2016 – Oct 2016
Services
- Co-organized the Special Session on Question Answering and Reasoning on Audio and Time-Series Data at ICASSP 2026, and Federated Learning for Audio Understanding.
- Organized a workshop at ICASSP 2025, and the Human-centric Representation Learning Workshop at AAAI 2024 and AAAI 2022.
- Reviewer for ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML, AAAI, CVPR, ICASSP, Interspeech, ACM IMWUT, The Web Conference, and multiple IEEE/ACM journals.
Awards and scholarships
- NGF AiNed Fellowship Grant (€1.2M, Principal Investigator).
- Google Gemini Academic Program Award (€45K).
- PhD thesis distinction, cum laude, Eindhoven University of Technology.
- University of Twente Scholarship for M.Sc. studies.