COURSES & LECTURES

Summer Semester 2026:

• Introduction to Deep Learning,

  Master of Data Science program at the University of Luxembourg. Luxembourg.

Winter Semester 2025:

• Human–Computer Interaction

  Bachelor of Computer Science program at the University of Luxembourg. Luxembourg.

Summer Semester 2025:

• Recommender Systems: an overview

  Doctoral Course in Computer Science and Computer Engineering, University of Luxembourg. Luxembourg.

• Introduction to Deep Learning,

  Master of Data Science program at the University of Luxembourg. Luxembourg.

Winter Semester 2024:

• Human–Computer Interaction

  Bachelor of Computer Science program at the University of Luxembourg. Luxembourg.

Summer Semester 2024:

• Recommender Systems: an overview

  Doctoral Course in Computer Science and Computer Engineering, University of Luxembourg. Luxembourg.

• Introduction to Deep Learning,

  Master of Data Science program at the University of Luxembourg. Luxembourg.

• The 7th Summer School on Computational Interaction: Computational Methods for Designing Recommender Systems,

  University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

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Winter Semester 2023:

• Recommender Systems: an overview

  Doctoral Course in Computer Science and Computer Engineering, University of Luxembourg. Luxembourg.

Summer Semester 2023:

• Prototyping with Deep Learning,

  Master of Data Science program at the University of Luxembourg. Luxembourg.

Winter Semester 2022:

• Recommender Systems: an overview

  Doctoral Course in Computer Science and Computer Engineering, University of Luxembourg. Luxembourg.

• Web development II: Back-end engineering

  Bachelor of Computer Science program at the University of Luxembourg. Luxembourg.

Summer Semester 2022:

• Prototyping with Deep Learning,

  Master of Data Science program at the University of Luxembourg. Luxembourg.

• The 6th Summer School on Computational Interaction: Deep Learning

  Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany (June 2022).

PUBLIC OUTREACH

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• The Artificial in Artificial Intelligence: Demystifying AI and Its Role in Everyday Life

  Lecture at the Digital Learning Hub, Luxembourg (May 2025).

• Designing Recommender Systems: A Case Study Approach from Discriminative to Generative AI

  Lecture at the Digital Learning Hub, Luxembourg (June 2025).

• Artificial Intelligence Demystified: A Practical Guide to Getting Started

  Lecture at the Digital Learning Hub, Luxembourg (October 2025).

• AI Unmasked: Understanding AI and Its Cybersecurity Implications

  Lecture at the Digital Learning Hub, Luxembourg (October 2025).

• AI for You: Hands-On Designing Intelligent and Personalized Systems (Part 1)

  Lecture at the Digital Learning Hub, Luxembourg (December 2025).

• AI for You: Hands-On Designing Intelligent and Personalized Systems (Part 2)

  Lecture at the Digital Learning Hub, Luxembourg (December 2025).

ALUMNI

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• Kayhan Latifzadeh, Brainsourcing for Affective Attention Estimation (BANANA), University of Luxembourg, 2022 ‑ 2025

• Fan Xu, Multimodal Learning, University of Luxembourg 2023 ‑ Present

Current and Past students

PHD STUDENTS (MENTORSHIP):

MASTER’S STUDENTS: (THESIS, PROJECTS & INTERSHIP)

• Raghav VADAVADAGI, Cross Domain Recommendation in Art Therapy, University of Luxembourg, 2026.

• Omkar Desai, Liora: Agent from work for Therapists' assistance, 2025

• Désirée Claire Annie Lemarquis, What Can a Swiped Word Tell Us More? Demographic and Behavioral Correlates from Shape‑Writing Text

  Entry, University of Luxembourg, 2022

• Omar Ouardighi, Isolated Sign Language Recognition using Sequence Model, University of Luxembourg, 2023

• Alina Khanova, Emotion Classification from Speech, University of Luxembourg, 2023

• Alessandro Giffra, Spacecraft detection and classification using Detectron2, University of Luxembourg, 2023

• Rafidison Santatra Rakotondrasoa, Voice synthesis from image data a.k.a image captioning with voice, University of Luxembourg, 2022

• Manasvi Ponaka, Face Anonymization Using Image Obfuscation, University of Luxembourg, 2022

• Ya Wang, Cartoon Images Generation based on GAN, University of Luxembourg, 2022

• Greeshma Seetharaman Menon, Fashion AI Recommenders Using Deep Learning, University of Luxembourg, 2022

• Beyza Özen, Phrase to Phrase Similarity Scoring with Semantic Matching, University of Luxembourg, 2022

• Hamed Vaheb, Speech Emotion Detection using Deep Learning, University of Luxembourg, 2022

• Raikibul Hasan, Classification Of Work‑Out Pose Using Deep Learning, University of Luxembourg, 2022

• Michael Mbajwa, UI Description: Predicting Natural/Human Language summaries of mobile user interfaces by finetuning a pre‑trained state‑of‑the‑art image captioning model, University of Luxembourg, 2022

• Elnaz Khaveh, Speech Emotion Recognition using Convolutional Neural Networks, University of Luxembourg, 2022

• Max Sinner, Latent Representation Learning of Molecular Graph Structures using Graph Auto‑Encoder, University of Luxembourg, 2022

• Nima Gozalpour, A Proposal for Identification in using EEG Through Deep Neural Network, University of Luxembourg, 2022

• Victor Zhang, Personalized adaptation in Cobotics with Deep Reinforcement Learning, University of Lorraine & TELECOM Nancy, 2022

• Paul Creusot, Personalized adaptation in Cobotics with Deep Reinforcement Learning, University of Lorraine & TELECOM Nancy, 2022

• Arthur Schmidt, Personalized adaptation in Cobotics with Deep Reinforcement Learning, University of Lorraine & TELECOM Nancy, 2022

• Najib Aghenda, Deep learning and clustering based recommendations, University of Lorraine, France 2019

Bsc Students (Final Projects, BSP & INTERNSHIP)

• Tudor Mihai Pristav [BSP], Immersive Expression Art Therapy AR/VR, University of Luxembourg, 2024/2025 ,

• Stefan Penchev [BSP], Human-in-the-Loop Web Interface for Cross-domain Visual Art Recommendation, University of Luxembourg, 2024/2025 .

• BOIKO Yelyzaveta [BSP], AffecTunes: Enhancing Music Recommendations Through Affective inference, University of Luxembourg, 2024/2025 .

• LEOVEANU Bianca-Gabriela [BSP], NovelNarratives: Crafting Tailored Literary Journeys through Advanced Personalized Book Recommendations, University of Luxembourg, 2023/2024 .

• WILEMAN Matthew-Stephen [BSP], Simulation of life on Titan, University of Luxembourg, 2024 .

• Alexandre Tinouert [Research Assistant], Precision in Personalization: A Constrained Optimization Approach to Personalized Content and Path Recommendations, University of Luxembourg, 2023 .

• João Delfim Da Cruz Pereira [Bachelor Thesis], Euro Cordiale 2.0: Optimizing User Interaction in a Custom Design Template for a Modern Website, University of Luxembourg, 2023.

• Angelica RINGS [BSP], Detecting AI-Generated Art, University of Luxembourg, 2023.

OPEN POSITIONS

Below, I post current openings that could be your next adventure either at the University of Luxembourg, ArtAICare or ArtAICare Academy. If you are interested in working with me at the intersection of Machine Learning and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) feel free to send me an email:

• bereket [DOT] yilma AT_SYMBOL uni [DOT] lu (For acedemic roles)

• bereket [DOT] yilma AT_SYMBOL artaicare [DOT] com (For industry roles)

• PhD Positions

  • Current openings: 0

• Master's Thesis/ Internship/ Research Assistant (Internship)

  • Current openings: 2

    • Multimodal Cross-domain Recommendation @ArtAICare [Master's Thesis, Starting February, 2026.]

    • Multimodal Multistakeholder Aware News Recommendation [Master's Thesis, Starting February, 2026.]

• BSP/Bachelor Thesis/ Research Assistant(Internship)

  • Current openings: 0

• Industry Roles

  • Current openings: 5

    • Full-stack developer @ArtAICare [Starting June 2026.] - #2 [Part-time On-site]

    • VR/AR/XR developer @ArtAICare [Starting June 2026.] - #1 [Part-time On-site]

    • Arts Therapists @ArtAICare [Starting November 2026.] - #2 [Full-time On-site/Hybrid]

    • Arts Therapy supervisors [Starting November 2026.] - #2 [Full-time On-site/Hybrid]

    • Multiple Trainers @ArtAICare Academy [Part-time Hybrid] wth expertise in:

      • NeuroScience

      • Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs)

      • Art Therapy

      • Psychology