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| Feb 20, 2026 | CVPR 2026 Paper Accepted Our paper, “When Data is Scarce, Learn to Adapt: Robust Federated Learning via Adversarial Meta-Optimization”, has been accepted in the Findings Track of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2026) (Ranked #1 CS Conference). 🔗 Project Page |
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| Jan 01, 2026 | Our project proposal presentation and project demo have been accepted for the 2026 NAIRR Annual Meeting. I will present our research, and Md Zarif Hossain (PhD student) will present the project demonstration in Arlington, Virginia. Grateful to the NSF for travel support. |
| Dec 30, 2025 | Our paper, “Quantifying Robustness and Sustainability Trade-off in Federated Adversarial Learning for Cyber-Physical Systems”, has been accepted in IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing. |
| Dec 15, 2025 | Organized a Special Session on Robustness and Security of Large Language Models (ROSE-LLM 2025) as the Session Chair along with Dr. M. Hadi Amini (FIU) at the 24th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA 2025). |
| Dec 02, 2025 | Awarded the NSF NAIRR Pilot Resource Allocation Grant Supporting advanced research in secure and robust AI systems through the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot. 🔗 Project Details: NAIRR250393 📰 Media Coverage: FAU I-SENSE News |
| Nov 15, 2025 | Recognized among the Top 2% Scientists Worldwide by Stanford University for research impact. 🔗 I-SENSE News Coverage Our special session proposal, “Deep Neural Networks and Generative AI for Multi-Agent Smart Vehicle Perceptron, Learning, Automation and Optimization”, co-organized with Zhen Ni and Hepeng Li, has been accepted for inclusion in the IEEE WCCI 2026 — the world’s largest technical event on computational intelligence. |
| Oct 20, 2025 | Appointed as the Faculty Advisor of the Google Developer Group (GDG) at Florida Atlantic University. 🔗 Learn more |
| Oct 15, 2025 | Our paper, titled “Pose to Protect: Federated Skeleton-Based Anomaly Detection for Privacy-Conscious Video Surveillance”, was presented at ICCV 2025 in Honolulu, Hawaii — one of the premier conferences in computer vision. |
| Sep 15, 2025 | Three papers accepted at ICMLA 2025! |
| Aug 15, 2025 | August 2025 — Major Career Announcement Joined Florida Atlantic University as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and as an I-SENSE Fellow. |
| Jun 15, 2025 | CVPR 2025: Our papers, titled “SLADE: Shielding against Dual Exploits in Large Vision-Language Models” and “Towards Trustworthy Autonomous Vehicles with Vision-Language Models Under Targeted and Untargeted Adversarial Attacks”, are published in the CVPR 2025 Proceedings (Ranked #1 Computer Science Conference, 22.1% acceptance rate). Served as a reviewer for the CVPR 2025 Workshop on Distillation of Foundation Models for Autonomous Driving (WDFM-AD). |
| Feb 15, 2025 | Published a co-first authored paper in IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence. One paper accepted at the AAAI 2025 Spring Symposium. |
| Jan 15, 2025 | Nominated for the Early Career Faculty Excellence Award at Southern Illinois University. Launched a new interdisciplinary course on Generative AI at SIU. Served as a reviewer for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). |
| Dec 15, 2024 | Awarded the ORAU Research Innovation Partnerships Grant as Lead PI. Presented papers at IEEE BigData 2024 and IEEE ICMLA 2024. Served as a panelist for the NSF CRII Review Panel. |
| Sep 15, 2024 | Listed in Stanford’s Top 2% Scientists List for 2023 research impact. |
| Aug 15, 2024 | Served as a panelist in the “Let’s Talk Research” session, guiding early-career faculty on NSF proposal strategies. |
| Aug 15, 2024 | Selected as a recipient of the NSF CDER Grant for Distributed Computing training. |
| Jul 10, 2024 | Served on the NASA MOREP Proposal Review Panel. |
| Jul 01, 2024 | My course proposal is accepted by University Honors program and successfully developed a new course on Generative AI. |
| Jun 20, 2024 | Served on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Review Panel. |
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| Apr 15, 2024 | Received the Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award Honored and grateful to the School of Computing, Southern Illinois University for this meaningful recognition of teaching excellence and curriculum innovation. 🔗 Social Media Post: LinkedIn Announcement |
| Mar 15, 2024 | Awarded the DHS CINA Grant 🇺🇸 Grateful to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for supporting our research in AI-driven security and criminal activity recognition. Media Coverage: The Southern Illinoisan |
| Jan 30, 2024 | Our paper, titled “Securing Privacy in Cloud-Based Whiteboard Services Against Health Attribute Inference Attacks” has been published in IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence. |