Mohammed Alwedaei
I study what it means to build civilization well when the primary building materials are digital.
My work begins with a single question: what does it mean to build civilization well when the primary building materials are digital? That question pulls across five domains — artificial intelligence, digital infrastructure, monetary and economic systems, security and privacy, and governance. Not as separate disciplines, but as one interconnected condition that defines how power, knowledge, and agency are distributed in the world we are actively constructing.
I approach each domain through three simultaneous lenses: how things are designed, what philosophical assumptions are embedded in that design, and how those assumptions shape human behavior and institutional structure. I am a researcher and lecturer at Ahlia University in Bahrain. My writing lives at Annotated Thought — a research-first hub where the essays and the engineering projects are two expressions of the same inquiry.
Agentic AI
Active
Systems that do not merely respond but act, decide, and influence — and what this implies for human autonomy and individual agency.
First essay in progressPrivacy & Distributed Systems
Active
Examined not only as technical problems but as expressions of deeper questions about trust and control in digital infrastructure.
Philosophy of Digitalization
Ongoing
An inquiry into how digital systems shape the conditions of civilizational quality — from governance and currency to urban life and public services.
Federated Learning
Byzantine-Resilient Aggregation Under Combined Differential Privacy and Homomorphic Encryption in Hierarchical Federated Learning for Healthcare
A dual-layer defense combining MAD-based anomaly detection and reputation-weighted aggregation on plaintext gradient norms — preserving Byzantine resilience under simultaneous CKKS homomorphic encryption and differential privacy in hierarchical healthcare federated learning.
Federated Learning
Privacy-Utility Tradeoffs in Hierarchical Federated Learning Under Combined Differential Privacy and CKKS Homomorphic Encryption for Distributed Healthcare Networks
Examining the tradeoff between differential privacy guarantees and model utility when combining CKKS homomorphic encryption in hierarchical federated learning, applied to distributed healthcare networks.
Privacy
Privacy-preserving Techniques: A Review
A comprehensive review of cryptographic, non-cryptographic, hybrid, and decentralized privacy-preserving techniques, comparing their strengths, limitations, and applications.
Cloud Computing
Developing a Cloud-Based API for Adopting SaaS Microservice Architecture
An analysis of designing and developing SaaS using microservices architecture, focusing on industry-standard methods and the effectiveness of atomic service design.
Teaching is where the research meets its next generation. The courses below train students not only in technical foundations but in the critical thinking that building digital systems responsibly demands.
- Introduction to Programming Techniques using Java
- Advanced Programming using Python
- Distributed Systems
- Information Security
- Relational Databases
Annotated Thought
Where the essays and the engineering meet.
Annotated Thought is a sustained public inquiry into what it means to build civilization well — where philosophical arguments are tested against real engineering, and engineering decisions are interrogated by philosophy.
Get in touch at mohammed.alwedaei@outlook.com or follow the work at Annotated Thought