CV
Experience
- 2023.7 - Present
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Department of Computer Science, University of Nevada-Las Vegas
- 2019 - 2023
Graduate Teaching/Research Assistant
Department of Computer Science, Georgia State University
Grants
- 2025 - 2027
A Guided Pathway to Enhancing HSI Student Experience and Success in Generative AI with the Planting of Education Oriented GPU Cluster
NSF HSI
- Lead PI, $200,000
- 2025 - 2027
An Explainable AI Supported Performance Monitoring System in Distributed Sustainable Energy Networks
NSF EPSCoR Research Fellows
- Single PI, $300,000
- 2025.1 - 2025.6
Harnessing Data Revolution for Fire Science (HDRFS) Data Analytics Mentor
NSF EPSCoR HDRFS
- PI, $4,750
- 2024 - 2026
Are You Ready for College? An Explainable AI-Supported Efficient Solution for College Students Mental Health Condition Detection and Beyond
University of Nevada-Las Vegas
- PI, $35,000
- 2024 - 2026
Intelligent IoT Security - Next-Generation Cyber Defense Mechanisms and Vulnerability Exploration Using Language Models
South Korea
- Co-PI, $357,739
- 2023 - 2025
Seed Grant of NSF RII Track-2 FEC AI SUSTEIN
NSF EPSCoR
- Single PI, $30,000
Awards
- 2024
NSF SaTC Aspiring PI Workshop Travel Grant
- Awarded by NSF 2024 SaTC Aspiring PI Workshop, Apr. 2024
- 2023
Outstanding Graduate Student Award
- The sole one in each department, awarded by the College of Arts & Sciences, Georgia State University, Apr. 2023
- 2023
Student Travel Scholarship
- AAAI-2023 student travel scholarship award, supported by Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Feb. 2023
- 2022
Best Paper Award
- “A Self-Supervised Purification Mechanism for Adversarial Samples”, IEEE International Conference on Smart Data, Espoo, Finland, Aug. 2022
- 2021
Outstanding Graduate Research Award
- The sole one, awarded by the Department of Computer Science, Georgia State University, May 2021