Research Assistant, KU 6G Research Center

Amine Kidane

Building LLM-assisted systems for 6G vehicular networks, edge intelligence, and multimodal real-world deployment.

I am a Research Assistant at Khalifa University's 6G Research Center, where I build DRL- and RAG-enhanced multimodal LLM frameworks for on-demand service deployment in 6G vehicular networks. My work focuses on real-time reasoning across conversational, visual, and sensory inputs for network intelligence and edge orchestration.

Before this, I worked on hardware-aware robotics, adversarially robust machine learning, and applied AI product development, giving me a research profile that spans both theory and deployment.

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Khalifa University AI track GPA 3.96/4.0 8x President's List

Snapshot

Research profile at a glance

Seven papers to date, with five accepted and two under review, alongside a strong academic record and hands-on work across networking, robotics, and applied AI systems.

7 papers across journals, conferences, and magazines
5 accepted papers
2 under review
250+ AI Club community members reached

Publications

Selected accepted work

Accepted papers from the current research cycle across two journals, two conferences, and one magazine.

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Accepted Journal
January 2026

AI-Native Cloud-Edge Orchestration for 6G Metaverse Networks: An LLM-Guided Multi-Agent DRL Approach

D. Ayepah-Mensah, A. K. Ghebreziabiher, G. O. Boateng, R. Mizouni, A. Mourad, H. Otrok, J. Bentahar, and S. Muhaidat

Complex & Intelligent Systems

Accepted Conference
October 2025

A RAG-Assisted DRL Framework for Microservices Deployment in 6G Vehicular Networks

D. Ayepah-Mensah, A. K. Ghebreziabiher, G. O. Boateng, R. Mizouni, A. Mourad, H. Otrok, J. Bentahar, and S. Muhaidat

IEEE WiMob 2025

Accepted Magazine
July 2025

On-Demand Vehicular Service Deployment in 6G: A Collaborative Large-Small LM Architecture

A. K. Ghebreziabiher et al.

IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine

Accepted Journal
June 2025

Move-LLM: Multimodal LLM-Assisted DRL Framework for On-Demand Service Deployment in 6G Vehicular Networks

G. O. Boateng, A. K. Ghebreziabiher, R. Mizouni, A. Mourad, H. Otrok, J. Bentahar, and S. Muhaidat

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Accepted Conference
2025

Towards On-Demand Metaverse Service Deployment in 6G Vehicular Networks Using Multimodal LLMs

G. O. Boateng, A. K. Ghebreziabiher, R. Mizouni, A. Mourad, H. Otrok, J. Bentahar, and S. Muhaidat

IEEE INFOCOM 2025 Workshops

Experience

Research and engineering trajectory

Jun 2024 – Present

Research Assistant

Abu Dhabi, UAE

KU 6G Research Center, Khalifa University

Research on DRL- and RAG-enhanced multimodal LLM frameworks for on-demand service deployment in 6G vehicular networks.

  • Designed LLM-assisted deployment frameworks that reason over conversational, visual, and sensory inputs under real-time constraints.
  • Worked across institutions on 6G network intelligence, microservice placement, and edge computing paradigms.
  • Contributed to a publication pipeline that now includes five accepted papers and two manuscripts under review across IEEE and Complex & Intelligent Systems venues.
Jan 2024 – May 2024

AI Software Engineer Intern

Remote

Rhetora.ai

Built an AI co-pilot sales platform spanning prospecting, lead nurturing, and deal closure workflows.

  • Integrated automation, scheduling, and AI assistance into a single sales workflow.
  • Focused on practical decision-support tooling rather than isolated model demos.
May 2023 – Aug 2023

Visiting Undergraduate Researcher

Abu Dhabi, UAE

eBrain Lab, NYU Abu Dhabi

Designed a quantized and hardware-aware neural architecture search framework for autonomous robots.

  • Achieved 15% faster inference and 1.2x higher energy efficiency on embedded GPUs.
  • Explored hardware-software co-design for deployable AI in robotic settings.
Jun 2022 – Sep 2022

Cybersecurity Intern

Abu Dhabi, UAE

EBTIC

Studied defenses against adversarial attacks on machine-learning models in cyber-physical systems.

  • Evaluated robustness-enhancement strategies for safety-sensitive settings.
  • Improved resilience with a 5.7% reduction in successful attack rates.

Projects

Selected builds and applied work

Electrical Impedance Tomography Image Reconstruction

Aug 2023 – Jan 2024

Explored variational autoencoders for ill-posed inverse problems in EIT image reconstruction, targeting measurable image-quality gains over prior baselines.

Medical imagingInverse problemsVAEs

Automatic Waste Segregation System

Sep 2022 – Sep 2023

Led a patented senior design project on smart waste segregation using computer vision modules and mechanical actuators.

Computer visionEmbedded systemsActuation

MBZIRC Maritime Grand Challenge

Oct 2022 – Jan 2023

Worked on computer vision and navigation for heterogeneous teams of UAVs and USVs operating in GNSS-denied environments.

RoboticsNavigationMulti-agent systems

ZenMate

Oct 2023

Built a chatbot on Alibaba Cloud using Llama 2 during the Alibaba Cloud GenAI Hackathon.

LLMsCloud deploymentHackathon

Quantum Crop Rotation Optimizer

Apr 2023

Developed a quantum-computing-based crop rotation optimizer for UAE agriculture at the NYUAD Hackathon for Social Good.

Quantum computingOptimizationSocial good

High-Speed Printing Anomaly Detector

Oct 2023

Created an anomaly detector for high-speed printing systems using PaDiM to improve production monitoring efficiency.

Anomaly detectionIndustrial AIPaDiM

Education

Training and distinctions

BSc in Computer Engineering (AI Track)

Khalifa University · Aug 2019 – Jan 2024

Abu Dhabi, UAE

  • GPA: 3.96/4.0
  • President's List: 8/9 semesters
  • Full Undergraduate International President's Scholarship (10% acceptance rate)

Leadership and service

  • Co-founded the AI Club at Khalifa University, grew it to 250+ members, and helped organize LLM-focused activities and hackathons.
  • Completed 150 hours of peer tutoring in C++ and Calculus across three semesters.
  • Represented Khalifa University in the Techstars Innovation Bootcamp IP commercialization challenge.
  • Organized a Global Day event centered on Eritrean culture and presentation design.

Skills

Technical toolkit

Languages

PythonJavaCC#C++MATLABTypeScriptJavaScriptSQLPHP

Frameworks

HuggingFaceOpenCVScikit-learnTensorFlowPyTorchKerasQiskitReactDjangoNode.js

Cloud & Compute

HPCAWSAlibaba CloudRunPodVast.ai

Tools

GitVS CodeVisual StudioEclipseIntelliJ IDEAMATLABR

Databases

MySQLPostgreSQLMongoDBSQL

Robotics

ROS 2PX4NavigationLocalization

Recognition

Awards and competitions

  • EDGE Pioneers 4.0 Hackathon Series 3 — anomaly detector for high-speed printing systems
  • Alibaba Cloud GenAI Hackathon 2023 — recognized as Sustainability Expert in GenAI for Social Good in MENA
  • 17th IEEE Software Engineering Competition — Second Prize
  • Khalifa University Programming Contest — First Prize (won twice)
  • Musabaqat Mathematics Competition V — 5th among 90 students from 4 universities
  • Open Mathematics Olympiad — Second Prize
  • Golden Key International Honor Society Inductee

Contact

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