The Agora Project (Supporting AI Ecosystems)

Do you have the feeling that only a few players are controlling the AI game? Would you like to make AI technology accesible to everyone? Then, come and help us to make Agora a reality!

We have a number of thesis/project topics under the umbrella of the Agora project. This project aims at building a unified data infrastructure for supporting AI ecosystems that bring together data, algorithms, models, and computational resources. For a general overview check this paper.

Potential topics:

• Federated Learning
• Federated data storage
• compliant data processing
• Secure data processing
• Dataset sharing
• … just drop me an email ;)

Potential Intended Learning Outcomes depending on the concrete topic:

• Ability to contribute to large open source codebases
• Ability to use new technology
• Ability to use data management techniques to improve systems performance
• Ability to leverage machine learning techniques to improve systems performance

Prerequisites: good programming skills in Java; (preferably) knowledge in big data systems (e.g., Apache Flink, Apache Spark).