Mahmoud Rahat

Mahmoud Rahat is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Information Technology, Halmstad University, Sweden. He is affiliated with the Center for Applied Intelligent Systems Research (CAISR) since 2019, focusing on data-driven solutions for industrial applications.

• Research Expertise: Machine Learning, Predictive Maintenance, Robotics, Natural Language Processing
• Industrial Collaboration: Volvo Group Truck Technologies, Northern Illinois University (2015-2016)

His work bridges academia and industry through projects in intelligent mobility and automated idea detection. He has developed innovative approaches in survival analysis and XAI (Explainable AI) for predictive maintenance systems.

Current trends in his publications include:

• Explainable AI methods for industrial data (Shapley values, Integrated Gradients)
• Survival analysis in neural networks
• Domain adaptation for automotive sensor data
• Federated learning frameworks
• Virtual sensors via tensor completion

Mahmoud supervises academic projects including:

• Lecturer: Machine Learning for Predictive Maintenance, Big Data Parallel Programming
• Course Responsible: Applied Data Mining
• Examiner: Degree Project in Computer Science and Engineering