Saeed Alsamhi

Senior Research Fellow

Saeed Alsamhi is a Senior Research Fellow at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, University of Galway. His research focuses on QoS, space technologies (high-altitude platforms, drones, tethered balloons), multi-robot collaboration, human-robot interaction, activity and emotion recognition, B5G, smart environments, Dataspace 4.0, and Industry 4.0/5.0. He has made significant contributions to wireless communication networks for IoT and smart cities, integrating UAVs, robotics, reinforcement learning, federated learning, blockchain, and digital twins. His 211+ publications, 6,057+ citations, and H-index of 45 reflect the quality and impact of his work.

Saeed has established strong research collaborations globally and has served as a Lead Guest Editor for Drones, Energies, and Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience. He is also a technical committee member and track chair at multiple IEEE conferences. Currently, his work focuses on decentralized data sharing, wastewater-to-energy solutions, water quality monitoring, smart paludiculture, and climate change adaptation.

Specialties & Research Focus:
 Autonomous & Drone Computing
 Multi-Robot Collaboration & Human-Robot Interaction
 Edge Intelligence & IoT
 Smart Environments & Industry 4.0/5.0
 Dataspace 4.0 & Decentralized AI
 Multimodal Disease Detection & Healthcare 5.0
 Water Quality Monitoring & Wastewater-to-Energy
 QoS & QoE Optimization
 Metaverse & B5G
 Large Language Models (LLMs)
 Smart Paludiculture & Sustainable Agriculture

Key Projects & Achievements:
✔ Lead ResNJRwater Project (Interreg) at University of Galway
✔ Work Package Leader (WP Leader) – SmartPludi in PlusDemos Project (Horizon Europe)
✔ Lead – SFI Project on Irish Seafood Traceability and Safety (Collaboration with Technical Universities)
✔ Published in high-impact journals and IEEE Transactions