✨ Exciting Recent Updates! ✨

From groundbreaking research and prestigious awards to impactful teaching and media recognition—here’s a glimpse into the latest milestones and achievements. Grateful for the journey and the incredible collaborations that make it all possible! 🙌📚💡

Stay tuned… more innovation is on the horizon! 🌐🔥

🏆 September 2025

Three papers are accepted in ICMLA'25!

🏆 August 2025

Dr. Imteaj and his PhD Students joined s a Tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and I-SENSE Fellow at Florida Atlantic University.

🏆 June 2025

• Presented two papers in CVPR'25 conference.

🏆 April 2025

🔹 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]

🏆 March 2025
🔹 CVPR 2025: Our paper, 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'25 proceeding CVPR'25! (Ranked #1 CS Conference, 22.1% Acceptance Rate) 

🔹 Served as a Reviewer of 2025 CVPR Workshop on Distillation of Foundation Models for Autonomous Driving (WDFM-AD).

🏆 February 2025
🔹 IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence: Co-First authored journal paper published!
🔹 AAAI 2025 Spring Symposium: One paper accepted!

🏆 January 2025
🔹 Early Career Faculty Excellence Award Nomination – Honored to be recognized at SIU!
🔹 New Course on Generative AI – Teaching an interdisciplinary course at SIU.
🔹 NSF GRFP Review Panel – Served as a reviewer for the prestigious NSF fellowship program.

🏆 December 2024
🔹 ORAU Research Innovation Partnerships Grant – Awarded as Lead PI!
🔹 IEEE BigData’24 & IEEE ICMLA’24 – Two papers presented.
🔹 NSF CRII Review Panel – Served as a panelist.

📌 November 2024
🔹 Submitted a paper to CVPR 2025.
🔹 Paper published at IEEE BigData’24.

📌 October 2024
🔹 Paper published at IEEE ICMLA’24.

📌 September 2024
🏆 Listed in Stanford’s Top 2% Scientists List for 2023 Research Impact!

📌 August 2024
🔹 Let’s Talk Research Panelist – Guided early-career faculty on NSF proposal strategies.
🏆 NSF CDER Grant Recipient – Selected for Distributed Computing training.

📌 July 2024
🔹 NASA MOREP Proposal Review Panel – Contributing to impactful research initiatives.

📌 June 2024
🔹 DHS Review Panel – Serving on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security review board.

🏆 May 2024
🔹 New Generative AI Course Approved – Accepted for the University Honors Program (Spring 2025).
🔹 Summer 2024 – Conducted a newly developed Generative AI course at SIU.

🏆 April 2024
🔹 NSF CRII Grant Awarded – Grateful for the support!
🔹 Outstanding Teacher of the Year – Honored to receive this award from SIU!
🔹 Papers accepted at IEEE ICDCS’24.

🏆 March 2024
🔹 DHS CINA Grant Awarded – Thank you, DHS!
🔹 Accepted Papers: INFOCOM’24, ICC’24, and 4 papers at COMPSAC’24!

📌 January 2024
🔹 Published a paper in IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence!

🏆 Past Highlights
🔹 IEEE CNS’23, IEEE IoT Journal, IEEE DSC’23, IEEE SmartComp’23, IEEE SSCI 2022, IEEE AI to Accelerate Science and Engineering (AAAI’23) – Multiple papers accepted!
🔹 NSF & DHS Grants, Teaching AI & ML Courses, Editorial Roles, and Conference Panelist Positions – Grateful for these opportunities!
🔹 Recognized as the 2022 "Real Triumphs Graduate" at FIU’s Commencement Ceremony.