07/24/2025: Completed the "Independent Applying the QM Rubric - Virtual (APPQMR): (Statewide Systems)" workshop and got certificate of completion (Find here).
05/28/2025: Thrilled to share that our paper, “CRADLE: Cooperative Adaptive Decentralized Learning and Execution for UAV network to monitor Wildfire Front,” has been accepted for publication in 2025 IEEE 21st International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2025), Conference Venue: Los Angeles, USA, Date: August 17-21, 2025.
01/30/2025: Super excited to share that our paper, “Exploiting Gaussian Noise Variance for Dynamic Differential Poisoning in Federated Learning,” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (IEEE TAI). Paper Link.
09/26/2024: Excited to contribute to IEEE CCNC 2025 Conference (Date: 10-13 January 2025, Venue, Las Vegas, NV, USA) as a Technical Program Committee (TPC) member.
08/19/2024: Starting my academic career as a Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Cybersecurity at Department of Computational, Engineering, and Mathematical Sciences in Texas A&M University - San Antonio.
08/10/2024: Moved to San Antonio, TX
05/17/2024: Completed my PhD in Computer Science and Engineering w/ conc. in Cybersecurity from University of Nevada, Reno
05/08/2024: I am now an official CISSP holder!
04/26/2024: Defended my PhD Dissertation!
04/13/2024: Passed my Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) exam!
12/14/2023: Attended Invited talk on "Trustworthy AI/ML in Multi-agent Systems", organized by the Computational Modeling and Analysis (CMA) Core, University of Nevada, Reno (UNR). Presentation link.
10/04/2023: Delivered presentation on our latest works in IEEE/RSJ IROS 2023 that took place in Detroit, MI, USA. Attendance Certificate
09/15/2023: Submitted paper titled "CRADLE: Cooperative Adaptive Decentralized Learning and Execution for UAV Network to monitor Wildfire Front" in The 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2024), the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society's flagship conference!
08/07/2023: Received "GSA Travel Award"!
07/11/2023: Presented our research work virtually at the ICMLC 2023 conference that took place at the University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia.
06/23/2023: Paper titled "BRNES: Enabling Security and Privacy-aware Experience Sharing in Multiagent Robotic and Autonomous Systems" has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2023), a top-notch conference in Robotic/AI/ML/Security domain! Click here for the presentation video, here for the paper, and here for the poster.
06/01/2023: My EB2-NIW-based I-140 has been approved by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)! With that in hand, I am now one step closer to removing the barrier of future visa sponsorship requirements (e.g., H-1B) in any U.S. organization.
05/13/2023: The paper titled "Hiding in Plain Sight: Differential Privacy Noise Exploitation for Evasion-resilient Localized Poisoning Attacks in Multiagent Reinforcement Learning" has been accepted for publication in the International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC) 2023.
08/25/2023: Our whitepaper got selected and is invited for full proposal submission in DEFENSE ESTABLISHED PROGRAM TO STIMULATE COMPETITIVE RESEARCH (DEPSCOR) 2023 funding program.
11/28/2022: Defended the PhD Dissertation Proposal for PhD Candidacy!
11/03/2022: Paper titled "A Resource Allocation Scheme for Energy Demand Management in 6G-enabled Smart Grid" got accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the IEEE ISGT NA 2023, which will take place in Washington DC, USA in January 2023.