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Dorde Popovic
Research Assistant
Educational Qualifications
BSc in Computer Science
Entity
Qatar Computing Research Institute
Division
Cybersecurity
Biography
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.
BSc in Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
2022
- Trojan Backdoor Attacks and Defenses in Deep Learning
- Robust Machine Learning
- Federated Learning
- Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
Research Assistant
Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
2022 - Present
- 2022, Andrew Carnegie Society Scholar Award, Carnegie Mellon University.
- 2022, Allen Newell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research Runner-up, Carnegie Mellon University.
- 2022, Outstanding Academic Achievement Award–1st in Class, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar.
- 2022, Best Project Award at Meeting of the Minds Research Symposium Runner-up, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar.
- 2022, Trojan Detection Challenge Runner-up and Data-Efficiency Award, NeurIPS.