[April 2024] Awarded the "Graduate Scholar of the Year 2024" by the Outstanding Student Life Awards organized by the Division of Academic & Student Affairs at FIU, for research contributions made in the academic year 2023-24.

[March 2024] Published a conference paper titled "PAROLE: Profitable Arbitrage in Optimistic Rollup with ERC-721 Token Transactions" in the 54th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2024).

[March 2024] Defended the Dissertation Proposal on the topic, "Analysis and Mitigation of Cyber Threats in the Off-chain Scalability Solutions of Blockchain".

[February 2024] Published a conference paper titled "Secured UAV Navigation: A Novel Intrusion Detection System Based on PWM Signal Analysis" in the IEEE Swiss Conference on Data Science (SDS2024).

[November 2023] Honored with the 2023 "ECE Ph.D. Publication Incentive Awards" by Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at FIU, for the research regarding UAV-assisted Energy Harvesting of IoT devices, which resulted in one conference and one journal paper. 

[October 2023] Presented a poster titled "SHiP: Securing Hashed Timelock Contracts in Payment Channel Networks" at the 2023 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS 2023)

[October 2023] Awarded NSF Student Travel Grant for 2023 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS). This award recognizes students who have strong academic background and research potentials in the field of Secured Communications and Networking, as demonstrated by their coursework and/or research experience (Award Abstract # 2331646).

[September 2023] Published a journal titled "Feasibility Analysis for Sybil Attacks in Shard-Based Permissionless Blockchains" in ACM Journal on Distributed Ledger Technologies (ACM DLT).

[August 2023] Published a conference paper titled "FAKey: Fake Hashed Key Attack on Payment Channel Networks" in the 2023 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS 2023).

[June 2023] Published a conference paper titled "Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System-Based Lightweight Intrusion Detection System for UAVs" at the 48th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2023).

[April 2023] Published a journal titled "Deep Learning-based Energy Harvesting with Intelligent Deployment of RIS-assisted UAV-CFmMIMOs" in Elsevier International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking (Elsevier Computer Networks).

[April 2023] FIU UGS invited to represent FIU in the Engineering category at the 8th Conference of Florida Graduate Schools (CFGS 2023). [Statewide Graduate Research Symposium]

[April 2023] Awarded Second Place (among 81 posters) in the Engineering category for the poster titled "Data driven ANFIS-based IDS for UAV" at the FIU GSAW Scholarly Forum 2023.

[January 2023] Completed and obtained Microsoft: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals (MS SC-900) Certification.(Credential) 

[December 2022] Completed and obtained Microsoft: Azure Fundamentals (MS AZ-900) Certification.(Credential) 

[November 2022] Completed and obtained Microsoft: Azure AI Fundamentals (MS AI-900) Certification.(Credential) 

[September 2022] Passed the Ph.D. Qualifying Exam.

[September 2022] Published a journal titled "Trajectory Synthesis for a UAV Swarm Based on Resilient Data Collection Objectives" in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (IEEE TNSM).

[August 2022] Published a conference paper titled "FeD-UP: Federated Deep Reinforcement Learning-based UAV Path Planning against Hostile Defense System" in the 18th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2022).

[May 2022] Published a workshop paper titled "A Literature Review on Blockchain-enabled Security and Operation of Cyber Physical Systems" in the 16th IEEE International Workshop on Security, Trust, and Privacy for Software Applications (STPSA 2022).

[April 2022] Inducted by the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi by election of the chapter at FIU (Phi Kappa Phi FIU) for outstanding academic achievements in the academic year 2020-2021. 

[December 2021] Successfully completed the Fall 2021 NSF I-Corps cohort (Midwest Oct - Dec 2021) as Entrepreneurial Lead of team 2426 - SHChecker.

[November 2021] Published a conference paper titled "FICBIT: An improved Fractal Image Compression using Bio-Inspired Techniques" in the 5th IEEE International Conference on Electrical Information and Communication Technology (EICT 2021).

[August 2021] Published a conference paper titled "iAttackGen: Generative Synthesis of False Data Injection Attacks in Cyber-physical Systems" in the 9th IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS 2021).

[August 2021] Got accepted to the NSF National I-Corps program, as team SHChecker (Serving as the Entrepreneurial Lead). Title: "I-Corps: Smart Healthcare System Threat Analyzer" (Award Abstract # 2138301).

[July 2021] Published a conference paper titled "BIOCAD: Bio-Inspired Optimization for Classification and Anomaly Detection in Digital Healthcare Systems" in the IEEE International Conference on Digital Health (ICDH 2021).

[June 2021] Published a conference paper titled "CURE: Enabling RF Energy Harvesting using Cell-Free Massive MIMO UAVs Assisted by RIS" in the IEEE 46th Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2021).

[May 2021] Published a conference paper titled "REPlanner: Efficient UAV Trajectory-Planning using Economic Reinforcement Learning" in the 7th IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP 2021).

[April 2021] Got recommendation from the Bay Area NSF I-Corps program held virtually at UC Berkeley, as team SHChecker. (Served as the Entrepreneurial Co-Lead)

[December 2020] Joined Analytics for Cyber Defense (ACyD) Lab, FIU as a Graduate Research Assistant (GRA).

[August 2020] Started Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Florida International University (FIU).