🎓 Mentorship 

🌟 Mentorship Experience 🌟

🎓 PhD Students

• Md Zarif Hossain (PhD Fellow)

• Awal Ahmed Fime (PhD Student)

• Ebrahim Maghsoudlou Nima (Co-Advising)

• Alex Towell (Co-Advising)

📚 Current MS 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

🎓 Graduated MS Thesis/Project Students (Successfully mentored 7 MS graduates!)

• Mark Sidhom – Fine-Tuned LLM for Healthcare

• Prince Duo – Hallucination Attacks & 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

NSF–DoD REU Site Mentor (Funded Research Experience for Undergraduates at FIU)

• Mentored Raghad Alabagi & Meleik Hyman 

• Provided guidance on research formulation, data collection, analysis, and presentation to help students successfully complete their summer research projects.

NSF–DoD RET Site Mentor (Research Experience for Teachers at FIU)

• Mentored Marisa Behar & Yoandra Abad 

• Helped K-12 STEM educators translate cutting-edge research into their classroom activities & curricula.

🎓 Undergraduate Senior Design/Final Year Project Mentor

• Mentored Glenda Gonzalez & Ricardo Boetto 

• Provided technical support, research direction, and strategic insights for their machine learning & robotics project.

• 📰 Featured in FIU CEC News & KFSCIS News! [Link]

Mentor of FIU Thrive ML Team 

• Part of the Green Family Foundation Neighborhood Health Education Learning Program (NeighborhoodHELP)

• A collaborative AI-driven health research project funded by the Florida Department of Health in Miami-Dade