CV

Experience

  • 2023.07 - 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

  • 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 - 2024
    Seed Grant of NSF RII Track-2 FEC AI SUSTEIN
    NSF EPSCoR
    • Single PI, $29,000

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