Walid Fdhila presented research on Trustworthy Decentralized Digital Ecosystems during guest professorship in France
Our colleague Walid Fdhila, senior researcher and team lead at SBA Research and senior researcher at the University of Vienna at the Faculty of Computer Science, gave a talk titled Trustworthy Decentralized Digital Ecosystems, during his stay as guest professor at the Faculty of Sciences and Techniques, Université de Tours, France.
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The talk highlighted the growing importance of designing digital infrastructures that can coordinate, learn, and make decisions without relying on a single trusted authority.
Walid also showcased research and projects conducted within the Distributed and Trusted Digital Systems (DTDS) and CoGNETs.
Abstract
Our digital infrastructure increasingly relies on systems that must coordinate, learn, and make decisions without a single trusted authority. My research investigates how such decentralized ecosystems can be designed to be trustworthy, secure, privacy-preserving, and resilient by design. This presentation provides an overview of multiple projects in privacy-preserving AI, collective intelligence, digital identity, and distributed systems that I have conducted. Across these domains, the central question remains the same: what properties must decentralized systems possess for trust to be justified, and how can these properties be specified, evaluated, and governed at scale?