Mentorship
A record of student advising, research mentorship, and academic guidance across doctoral, master’s, undergraduate, and community-centered programs.
PhD Students
🎓 Doctoral Advising
Current PhD mentees
Md Zarif Hossain
PhD Candidate
Awal Ahmed Fime
PhD Student
Mentoring doctoral researchers in advanced AI, secure learning systems, and next-generation multimodal intelligence.
Graduated MS Thesis and Project Students
📚 Master’s Student Mentorship
Graduated 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
AI Research Mentorship Thesis Supervision Project Advising Applied Machine Learning
Undergraduate Research Students
🧪 Undergraduate Research Mentorship
Student researchers engaged in advanced AI projects
Nadia D Lafontant
Resource-Efficient Fine-Tuning of Vision-Language Models
Ian Tudor
Drone Swarming, Distributed Streaming, and Learning
Supporting undergraduate researchers through hands-on projects in efficient AI, distributed systems, and emerging multimodal technologies.
Program Mentorship
🧑🏫 NSF-DoD REU Site Mentor
Research Experiences for Undergraduates
Raghad Alabagi
Meileik Hyman
🏫 NSF-DoD RET Site Mentor
Research Experiences for Teachers
Marisa Behar
Yoandra Abad
Recognition and Community Projects
📰 Recognition and Broader Mentoring Engagement
Community-connected and collaborative mentoring efforts
Featured in FIU CEC News and KFSCIS News
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
Student Development Research Leadership Community Engagement Collaborative Mentoring