Olivera Kotevska, PhD

Olivera Kotevska, PhD

R&D 100 Award winner. DOE PI, privacy-preserving federated learning & AI safety for science. $33M+ portfolio.

Talks

Bridging privacy, trust, and AI across research communities.

Invited Talks

Talks where I was specifically invited by the organizing institution or venue.

2026
Agentic AI and Humans as Co-PIs: A New Paradigm for Scientific Discovery, The Future of Computing, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA.
2026
Building Trust in Federated Learning for Science, AI Seminar Series, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.
2025
Enhancing Privacy and Communication Efficiency in Federated Learning: Dynamic Sketching and Shuffling Mechanisms, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Knowledge Graph and Machine Learning Bridge Program, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
2024
Privacy preserving algorithms for scientific applications, CyberSecurity Week, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA.
2024
Unveiling Threat Models in Gradient Inversion Attacks under Federated Learning, SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Data Science, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
2023
Explainable, high confidence models for dynamic systems, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA.
2022
Privacy algorithms: Research practice and Industry transfer, IEEE Region 6 Hawaii Section, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
2022
Privacy algorithms: Current development and Future directions, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, USA.
2022
The Future is Private: Challenges and Opportunities, Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA.
2022
Securing Smart Cities, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) World Smart Cities and Building Day, USA.
2021
Solutions for Edge Computing Paradigm, CHIPS Workshop, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA.
2021
Smart Devices and AI for Energy Efficiency, NOAA Second Workshop, Washington, D.C., USA.
2020
Real-time and Physics Based Data Analytics for Thermal Power Plants, Private Sector Sponsor, USA.
2020
Towards Smart Cyber Physical Systems, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Lunch with Researcher, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA.
2019
Misinformation impact on Covid-19, U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) Affiliated Agency, USA.
2018
Safety and Security in Smart Cities and Regions, Smart Regions Conference, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
2017
Learning based event model for knowledge extraction and prediction system in the context of Smart City, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA.
Panels

Invited panel participation and moderation.

2026
R&D 100 Application & Insights Panel, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA.
Tutorials

Hands-on instructional sessions at conferences and workshops.

2024
Privacy preservation for Electric Grid, SoutheastCon Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
2021
Intelligent control of IoT-based Systems, International Conference on IoT, Big Data, and Security (IOTBDS), Online.
2018
Data Science for Internet of Things (IoT) - Case Study: Smart Home, Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference, Orlando, Florida, USA.