🎤 Talks / Teaching and Short Courses

Invited talks and short courses. Each title links to the seminar page or the published material.

• Fine-tuning Federado de Modelos de Linguagem de Grande Escala (LLMs)Short course · March 2026 · IV Workshop do H.IAAC, Unicamp A four-hour hands-on session on privacy-preserving fine-tuning of large language models across distributed clients, built around the Flower framework.
• Client Clustering for Federated Learning in Data Heterogeneous ScenariosInvited talk · October 2025 · ML Systems Seminar Series, University of Cambridge How grouping clients by data distribution makes aggregation more efficient and improves both convergence and personalisation under heterogeneity.
• Fine-tuning Federado de Modelos de Linguagem na Era da ComunicaçãoShort course · May 2025 · SBRC 2025, Natal An introduction to fine-tuning language models across distributed clients without centralising their data, published in the symposium's "short-course" book.