Mohamed Aboelenien Ahmed

  • Haid-und-Neu-Str. 7
    Bldg. 07.21
    76131 Karlsruhe

Short Bio

Mohamed Aboelenien Ahmed received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from the German University in Cairo in 2018 and 2022, respectively. He is pursuing his Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Jörg Henkel since May 2023 at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. His research interest is optimizing machine learning in resource-constrained environments.

Publications

Journals
Mohamed Aboelenien Ahmed, Kilian Pfeiffer, Osama Abboud, Ramin Khalili, Heba Khdr and Jörg Henkel
Accelerated Training on Low-Power Edge Devices
in Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR, 10/2025), PDF, Oct 2025.
Conferences
Mohamed Aboelenien Ahmed, Mohamed Alsharkawy, Hassan Nassar, Heba Khdr, Jeferson Gonzalez and Jörg Henkel
Efficient Federated Learning with Low-Rank Updates under Homomorphic Encryption
in DATE 2026, Verona, Apr 20 - 22 2026.
Mohamed Alsharkawy, Mohamed Aboelenien Ahmed, Hassan Nassar, Jeferson Gonzalez, Heba Khdr, Osama Abboud, Xun Xiao, Jörg Henkel
TrustSeed: Lightweight Attestation Protocol for Ensuring LLM Integrity
in DATE 2026, Verona, Apr 20 - 22 2026.
arXiv
Mohamed Aboelenien Ahmed, Kilian Pfeiffer, Ramin Khalili, Heba Khdr, Jörg Henkel
Efficient Zero-Order Federated Finetuning of Language Models for Resource-Constrained Devices
in arxiv, DOI, PDF, 2025.
Kilian Pfeiffer, Mohamed Aboelenien Ahmed, Ramin Khalili, Jörg Henkel
Efficient Federated Finetuning of Tiny Transformers with Resource-Constrained Devices
in arxiv, DOI, PDF, 2024.

Student Theses

Available Theses

Abbreviation: B - Bachelor Thesis, M - Master Thesis


TopicType of workMentor
Multi-objective Client Selection in Federated Learning (PDF) B / M Ahmed, Mohamed Aboelenien / Khdr, Heba
Ongoing Projects
NameType of workTitleMentor
Denkov, Emilian MartinBachelor thesisAdaptive Pruning for Efficient Training on Resource-Constrained DevicesMohamed Aboelenien Ahmed
Ourgani, AyoubMaster thesisMulti-objective Client Selection in Federated LearningAhmed, Mohamed Aboelenien
Shkembi, AntonioBachelor thesisMulti-objective Client Selection in Federated LearningAhmed, Mohamed Aboelenien
Finished Projects
NameType of workTitleMentorCompletion date
Nam, ChrisBachelor thesisFederated Learning / Resource ManagementDietrich, Benedikt / Ahmed, Mohamed Aboelenien2025-09-01