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PhD Candidate
Department of Electronic Systems (IES)
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
Trondheim, Norway

About Me

Hi! My name is Ehsan, but you can also call me Ethan! I am a PhD candidate at the Department of Electronic Systems (IES) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Norway.

My research is centered on the application of signal processing techniques to enhance the privacy, security, robustness, and efficiency of machine learning algorithms.

For more details, please find my CV here (last updated May 2025).

Contact: firstname [dot] lastname [at] ieee [dot] org

Research Interests

My main research interests are:

• Distributed and Federated Machine Learning
• Privacy-Preserving Techniques
• Applications of Signal Processing in Machine Learning
• Reliable Uncertainty Estimation using Conformal Prediction Methods
• Bayesian Approaches to Learning and Inference
• Causal Discovery and Inference in Machine Learning
• Recommender Systems

Publications

Resilience In Online Federated Learning: Mitigating Model-Poisoning Attacks Via Partial Sharing

E. Lari, R. Arablouei, V. C. Gogineni, and S. Werner

IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks

Noise-Robust and Resource-Efficient ADMM-Based Federated Learning For WLS Regression

E. Lari, R. Arablouei, V. C. Gogineni, and S. Werner

Under Review, Submitted to Elsevier Signal Processing, Preprint on ArXiv

Privacy-Preserving Distributed Nonnegative Matrix Factorization

E. Lari, R. Arablouei, and S. Werner

EUSIPCO 2024

Distributed Maximum Consensus Over Noisy Links

E. Lari, R. Arablouei, N. K. D. Venkategowda, and S. Werner

EUSIPCO 2024

On The Resilience Of Online Federated Learning To Model Poisoning Attacks Through Partial Sharing

E. Lari, V. C. Gogineni, R. Arablouei, and S. Werner

ICASSP 2024

Continual Local Updates For Federated Learning With Enhanced Robustness To Link Noise

E. Lari, V. C. Gogineni, R. Arablouei, and S. Werner

APSIPA 2023

Resource-Efficient Federated Learning Robust To Communication Errors

E. Lari, V. C. Gogineni, R. Arablouei, and S. Werner

SSP 2023

Teaching

• Digital Signal Processing (TTT4120)
• Design of Integrated Circuits (TFE4152)
• Estimation, Detection and Classification (TTT4275)