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July 2026 Milestone

I successfully defended my dissertation.

July 2026 Recognition

The Computer Science and Engineering department at UT Arlington featured me in a social media post. View the post.

April 2026 Publication

Our paper “Revisiting Asymmetries in Black-box Link Stealing against Graph Neural Networks” got accepted at ICML’26.

April 2026 Award

I received the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award presented at the College of Engineering Academic Excellence Ceremony at UTA.

April 2026 Award

I received the Graduate School Summer 2026 Dissertation Fellowship at UTA.

January 2026 Publication

Our paper “A Collaborative Distillation Framework for Graph Neural Networks” got accepted at ESANN’26.

November 2025 Publication

Our paper “Unveiling Graph Copycats: Inference Attacks with Student Models” got accepted at PETS’26.

November 2025 Publication

Our paper “Towards Enhanced Sparse-View Tomographic Reconstruction Using 3D Gaussian Splatting” got accepted at 3DV.

September 2025 Service

I was selected as a reviewer for ICLR 2026.

August 2025 Publication

Our paper “Beyond Detection: Comparative Explainability Study on Trypanosoma cruzi Using CAMs and DETR Attention” got accepted at IEEE BHI’25.

August 2025 Publication

Our paper “Beyond the Glow: Understanding Luminescent Marker Behavior Against Autonomous Vehicle Perception Systems” got accepted at USENIX VehicleSec’25.

July 2025 Service

I was selected as a reviewer for RTSS 2025.

July 2025 Publication

Our paper “FedVLM: Scalable Personalized Vision-Language Models through Federated Learning” got accepted at ECAI’25.

May 2025 Career

I returned to the Los Alamos National Lab as an intern with the Materials Science and Technology (MST) Division’s MST-8 group.

May 2025 Service

I was selected as a reviewer for BMVC 2025.

September 2024 Service

I was selected as a reviewer for ICLR 2025.

May 2024 Career

I started my internship as an Applied Machine Learning Research Fellow at the Los Alamos National Lab.

April 2024 Award

I was awarded the Kelcy Warren Graduate Fellowship for Engineering at UTA.

March 2024 Award

I received the Travel Grant Award to attend The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2024.

February 2024 Publication

Our article “Towards named data networking technology: Emerging applications, use cases, and challenges for secure data communication” got published in the Future Generation Computer Systems journal.

February 2024 Service

I joined the student volunteers at VehicleSec’24.

January 2024 Publication

Our article “AutoWatch: Learning Driver Behavior with Graphs for Auto Theft Detection and Situational Awareness” was accepted to VehicleSec’24.

September 2023 Award

I was selected as one of the recipients of the 2023 Tapia Registration scholarship to attend ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference.

August 2023 Award

I was selected as one of the recipients of the participant support stipend for 2023 STARS Celebration.

May 2023 Publication

Our paper “Deep Reinforcement Learning for Energy-Efficient Task Offloading in Cooperative Vehicular Edge Networks” got accepted in the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics.

May 2023 Publication

Our paper “FedCime: An Efficient Federated Learning Approach For Clients in Mobile Edge Computing” got accepted in the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing and Communications.

March 2023 Award

I was selected as one of the recipients of the NSF student travel award for the 2023 CPS-IoT Week.

November 2022 Service

I volunteered as an exhibitor during SC 22 at Dallas, TX.

October 2022 Award

I was recognized as an “Outstanding Teaching Assistant” by the Computer Science and Engineering department at UTA.

July 2022 Publication

Our paper “Survey of Interoperability Challenges in the Internet of Vehicles” got accepted in the Transactions of Intelligent Transportation Systems.

April 2022 Award

We won the best paper award at AutoSec 2022 for our paper “A Framework for Consistent and Repeatable Controller Area Network IDS Evaluation”.

March 2022 Publication

Our paper “In-Vehicle Network Anomaly Detection Using Extreme Gradient Boosting Machine” got accepted in the 10th International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSIoT’2022).

February 2022 Award

My presentation during the Ph.D. Lightning Talk Award at the Student Computing Research Festival (SCRF) got Honorable Mentions.

February 2022 Service

Our workshop at OurCS@DFW was successful, and the team received Honorable Mentions.

February 2022 Publication

Our paper “A Framework for Consistent and Repeatable Controller Area Network IDS Evaluation” got accepted in the 4th International Workshop on Automotive and Autonomous Vehicle Security (AutoSec 2022).