PhD Researcher | Artificial Intelligence & Natural Language Processing
Scientist
becomePhD Programme, BECOME Institute
Connecting language research with applied AI and real-world data challenges.
Fedwa Mansouri is a doctoral researcher in Computer Science at the University of Gabès and a member of BECOME Institute's scientific team through the becomePhD programme. Her work connects artificial intelligence, natural language processing and machine learning with practical data-driven applications.
Doctoral Research
Her doctoral research explores the development of language models using Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning. It focuses on optimising model parameters and training data as part of an ongoing investigation into language-model capabilities.
She holds a research master's degree and a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the Institut Supérieur d'Informatique et de Multimédia de Gabès, Tunisia.
Applied AI Experience
Her experience as a Data Scientist includes preparing and cleaning textual data and developing NLP models to classify banking transactions from their descriptions. This work connects Python development and machine learning with the practical requirements of data quality and automatic categorisation.
Her earlier research examined intrusion detection in vehicular networks using Federated Learning and Blockchain, alongside questions of cybersecurity, privacy and homomorphic encryption.
Contributing Through becomePhD
Through becomePhD, Fedwa brings a focus on language technologies, scientific experimentation and software development to BECOME's applied research community.
Her participation reflects the institute's founding commitment to supporting emerging talent, sharing knowledge and connecting research with practical challenges across borders. It also contributes to BECOME's research direction in Responsible AI & Scientific Computing, where mathematical methods, data and application knowledge are brought together.
- Affiliation
- University of Gabès
Related expertise
Selected Published Research
Her published research explores federated learning and security, including intrusion detection in vehicular networks and privacy-preserving approaches to learning from medical data. Explore the publication records below for their original authorship, research context and publisher references.
2 records
Research article
2025 · Ad Hoc Networks
Fedwa Mansouri; Mounira Tarhouni; Bechir Alaya; et al.
This study examines a distributed intrusion-detection approach for vehicular ad hoc networks using federated learning and blockchain. It connects collaborative model training with security and privacy questions in connected transport systems.
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2023 IEEE Third International Conference on Signal, Control and Communication (SCC)
Mounira Tarhouni; Fedwa Mansouri; Bechir Alaya; et al.
This conference paper examines federated learning with homomorphic encryption for medical-data privacy. It addresses how collaborative model training can be studied alongside the protection of sensitive data.
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