Dr Azadeh Ghari-Neiat

About

Dr. Azadeh Ghari-Neiat is a Senior Lecturer in Software Engineering at the University of Queensland. Her research sits at the intersection of the Internet of Things (IoT), mobile computing, crowdsourcing, federated learning, and cybersecurity, with a particular focus on building trustworthy, privacy-preserving intelligent systems deployed at scale. Her current work explores federated fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs), enabling collaborative model adaptation across distributed environments without compromising data privacy, with emerging interests in the security and robustness of autonomous AI agents – bridging her long-standing expertise in distributed computing with the evolving challenges of trustworthy generative AI.