Affiliations [July 2023 - present]:
Postdoctoral research associate at the Department of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering (CMSE) at Michigan State University, hosted by Dr. Saiprasad Ravishankar in the Signals, Learning, and Imaging Group (SLIM), and Dr. Rongrong Wang.
Visiting scholar at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, hosted by Dr. Qing Qu.
Education:
In Fall 2018, I started pursuing my Ph.D. degree at the Data Science and Machine Learning Laboratory (DSML) within the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Central Florida. I successfully completed my Ph.D. studies in May 2023 under the supervision of Dr. George Atia and Dr. Wasfy Mikhael.
I earned my B.S. degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the University of Baghdad, Iraq in 2009.
Internships:
During the period from September 2019 to December 2022, I had the privilege of being a research intern at the Information Directorate at the Air Force Research Laboratory, advised by Dr. Alvaro Velasquez.
Research Interests:
Robust image reconstruction.
Diffusion models.
Domain adaptation.
Adversarial machine learning.
Combinatorial optimization.
Awards:
Early Career Research Talk - First Place. Michigan State University - CMSE Department. 3rd Data Science Student Conference 2023 3rd Data Science Student Conference (DISC) 2023.
CV:
My CV can be found here.