Dorde Popovic received his BSc degree in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, in 2022. He received the Andrew Carnegie Scholar Award at Carnegie Mellon University.

Before joining QCRI, Dorde’s research focused on federated learning and edge computing. His senior thesis was the runner-up for the Allen Newell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research at Carnegie Mellon University. It also won second place for the Best Project Award at the Meeting of the Minds Research Symposium.

Currently, his research projects focus on Trojan backdoor attacks and defenses in deep learning. Alongside his collaborators, Dorde developed a detection technique for these attacks that won second place and received the data-efficiency award in the Trojan Detection Challenge at NeurIPS 2022.