๐ December 2025
๐นOrganizing a Special Session on Robustness and Security of Large Language Models (ROSE-LLM 2025) at the 24th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA 2025)! ย
๐ November 2025
๐น Our paper, titled โQuantifying Robustness and Sustainability Trade-off in Federated Adversarial Learning for Cyber-Physical Systemsโ is accepted at IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing!ย
๐ November 2025
๐น Special session proposal along with Zhen Ni and Hepeng Li, โDeep Neural Networks and Generative AI for Multi-Agent Smart Vehicle Perceptron, Learning, Automation and Optimization,โ has been accepted for inclusion in the IEEE WCCI 2026, world's largest technical event on computational intelligence!
๐ November 2025
๐น Listed as World top 2% of scientists in the annual StanfordโElsevier ranking!
๐ October 2025
๐น Serving as the Advisor of Google Developer Group at FAU! [Link]
๐ October 2025
๐น Our paper, titled โPose to Protect: Federated Skeleton-Based Anomaly Detection for Privacy-Conscious Video Surveillanceโ is presented at ICCV 2025 in Honolulu, Hawaii, one of the premier conferences in computer vision!ย
๐ September 2025
๐น Three papers are accepted in ICMLA'25!
๐ August 2025
๐น Dr. Imteaj joined as a Tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and I-SENSE Fellow at Florida Atlantic University.
๐ June 2025
๐น Presented two papers in CVPR'25 conference. (Ranked #1 CS Conference, 22.1% Acceptance Rate)ย
๐ April 2025
๐น Released a comprehensive survey paper on Distributed LLMs and Multimodal Large Language Models: A Survey on Advances, Challenges, and Future Directions, led by FIU. [Details]
๐ March 2025
๐น CVPR 2025: Our paper, titled "๐๐๐๐๐: ๐๐ก๐ข๐๐ฅ๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฅ ๐๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐จ๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐๐ซ๐ ๐ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง-๐๐๐ง๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐จ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฌ" and ย "Towards Trustworthy Autonomous Vehicles with Vision-Language Models Under Targeted and Untargeted Adversarial Attacks" are published in the CVPR'25 proceeding CVPR'25! (Ranked #1 CS Conference, 22.1% Acceptance Rate)ย
๐น Served as a Reviewer of 2025 CVPR Workshop on Distillation of Foundation Models for Autonomous Driving (WDFM-AD).
๐ February 2025
๐น IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence: Co-First authored journal paper published!
๐น AAAI 2025 Spring Symposium: One paper accepted!
๐ January 2025
๐น Early Career Faculty Excellence Award Nomination โ Honored to be recognized at SIU!
๐น New Course on Generative AI โ Teaching an interdisciplinary course at SIU.
๐น NSF GRFP Review Panel โ Served as a reviewer for the prestigious NSF fellowship program.
๐ December 2024
๐น ORAU Research Innovation Partnerships Grant โ Awarded as Lead PI!
๐น IEEE BigDataโ24 & IEEE ICMLAโ24 โ Two papers presented.
๐น NSF CRII Review Panel โ Served as a panelist.
๐ November 2024
๐น Submitted a paper to CVPR 2025.
๐น Paper published at IEEE BigDataโ24.
๐ October 2024
๐น Paper published at IEEE ICMLAโ24.
๐ September 2024
๐ Listed in Stanfordโs Top 2% Scientists List for 2023 Research Impact!
๐ August 2024
๐น Letโs Talk Research Panelist โ Guided early-career faculty on NSF proposal strategies.
๐ NSF CDER Grant Recipient โ Selected for Distributed Computing training.
๐ July 2024
๐น NASA MOREP Proposal Review Panel โ Contributing to impactful research initiatives.
๐ June 2024
๐น DHS Review Panel โ Serving on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security review board.
๐ May 2024
๐น New Generative AI Course Approved โ Accepted for the University Honors Program (Spring 2025).
๐น Summer 2024 โ Conducted a newly developed Generative AI course at SIU.
๐ April 2024
๐น NSF CRII Grant Awarded โ Grateful for the support!
๐น Outstanding Teacher of the Year โ Honored to receive this award from SIU!
๐น Papers accepted at IEEE ICDCSโ24.
๐ March 2024
๐น DHS CINA Grant Awarded โ Thank you, DHS!
๐น Accepted Papers: INFOCOMโ24, ICCโ24, and 4 papers at COMPSACโ24!
๐ January 2024
๐น Published a paper in IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence!
๐ Past Highlights
๐น IEEE CNSโ23, IEEE IoT Journal, IEEE DSCโ23, IEEE SmartCompโ23, IEEE SSCI 2022, IEEE AI to Accelerate Science and Engineering (AAAIโ23) โ Multiple papers accepted!
๐น NSF & DHS Grants, Teaching AI & ML Courses, Editorial Roles, and Conference Panelist Positions โ Grateful for these opportunities!
๐น Recognized as the 2022 "Real Triumphs Graduate" at FIUโs Commencement Ceremony.