Mentorship

PhD Students

• Md Zarif Hossain (PhD Candidate)
• Awal Ahmed Fime (PhD Student)

📚 Graduated MS Thesis and Project Students

• Dina Famouri – Human Activity Recognition with Keypoint Analysis
• Oleksandr Jockusch – Federated Meta-Learning for Emotion and Sentiment-Aware Multi-modal Complaint Identification
• Revathi Gajjala – Physics-Informed Neural Networks
• Veerendra Reddy Ayaluri – Federated Learning Testbed for Mobile Agents
• Sai Sandhiptha Bayya – Ensuring Fairness in Federated Learning for Healthcare Systems
• Mark Sidhom – Fine-Tuned LLM for Healthcare
• Prince Duo – Hallucination Attacks and Impacts on Large-Language Models
• Venkata Gnana Prakash Paruchuri – Topic Modeling on Research Articles using BERT
• Gireesh Nadh Mekala – Road Traffic Prediction using Federated Learning
• Srivatsa Tangirala – Poisoning Attacks in Federated Learning using GANs
• Madhu Nimeshika Dasika – Skin Cancer Classification using Transfer Learning
• Wasimuddin Fathimullah – Intrusion Detection with Federated Reinforcement Learning

🎓 Undergraduate Research Students

• Nadia D Lafontant – Resource-Efficient Fine-Tuning of Vision-Language Models
• Ian Tudor – Drone Swarming, Distributed Streaming, and Learning

🧑‍🏫 Program Mentorship

NSF–DoD REU Site Mentor

Mentored Raghad Alabagi and Meileik Hyman.

NSF–DoD RET Site Mentor

Mentored Marisa Behar and Yoandra Abad.

📰 Recognition and Community Projects

• Featured in FIU CEC News and KFSCIS News: Link
• Mentor of FIU Thrive ML Team, part of the Green Family Foundation Neighborhood Health Education Learning Program (NeighborhoodHELP)
• Collaborative AI-driven health research project funded by the Florida Department of Health in Miami-Dade