Virtual research collective · Distributed

Cross-lab people index

Researchers remain connected to the labs where their work lives.

REQS records participation, institutional affiliation, and source lab without presenting the collective as an employer or university unit.

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Portrait of Davor Svetinovic

Davor Svetinovic

REQS Labs initiator · Trust Lab lead

Department of Computer Science, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE · Visiting Fellow, ADIA Lab, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Security and resilience of autonomous agents, multi-agent systems, programmable blockchains, and cyber-physical infrastructure.

Member lab: Trusted Agentic Systems Lab

02

Portrait of Khaled Elbassioni

Khaled Elbassioni

Theory Lab lead · Professor of Computer Science

Department of Computer Science, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Design and analysis of algorithms for large-scale continuous and combinatorial optimization, approximation, robustness, strategic interaction, and operations research.

Member lab: Theory Lab

04

Dr. Huned Materwala

Senior Researcher

Machine Learning Engineer, Alpha Augmented Services, Switzerland · Advisory Board Member R&D, Realm Inveo Inc., Canada

Blockchain systems, applied machine learning, optimization, and energy-aware computation.

Member lab: Trusted Agentic Systems Lab

05

Dr. Sajjad Khan

Senior Researcher

Institute for Information Management and Control, WU Vienna · Research Institute for Cryptoeconomics

Secure and privacy-preserving federated learning, blockchain interoperability, and distributed computing.

Member lab: Trusted Agentic Systems Lab

10

Essey Amanuel

Researcher

Department of Computer Science, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE

PhD research on reinforcement learning, LLM agents, and multi-agent decision-making in blockchain markets.

Member lab: Trusted Agentic Systems Lab

12

Safa Minhaj Syeda

Researcher

Department of Computer Science, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Master's research on agentic AI for DeFi security, MEV-resistant Ethereum transaction routing, and selective agentic reasoning under ambiguous risk.

Member lab: Trusted Agentic Systems Lab

13

Asma Alshebli

Researcher

Department of Computer Science, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Master's research on LLM application security and privacy, red-team testing, and threat mitigation.

Member lab: Trusted Agentic Systems Lab