News & Updates

• 09/2025: Our paper "Are We Going To Crash?: The Effect of an AI Presence in User Experience during a VR Flight" has been accepted for presentation at the International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC) 2025.

• 09/2025: My experience report "Theory Is Cool But So Are Microcontrollers: Computer Science Student Reactions to Arduino TinyML" has been accepted for publication in the ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) 2026.

• 07/2025: Our paper “Planogen: A Procedural Generation Framework for Dynamic VR Research Environments” has been published in the MDPI Virtual Worlds journal.

• 04/2025: I will serve as a Program Committee member for the IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI) 2025 Special Session: "Repurposing EDA for Unlocking Emerging Technologies".

• 03/2025: I was nominated for recognition at the Thank-An-Eagle Program, a program where EMU community members have a chance to thank an instructor who has helped them during their time here at EMU.

• 03/2025: Our paper "Leveraging Highly Approximated Multipliers in DNN Inference" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Access. 

• 02/2025: I will serve as a Program Committee member at the 20th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC) 2025.

• 02/2025: Our paper “Impact of GPT-Driven Teaching Assistants in VR Learning Environments” has been accepted as a regular paper in an upcoming IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies (TLT) issue.

• 02/2025: One paper accepted at the IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy CyberInfrastructure for IoT and Microelectronics 2025.

• 01/2025: Two papers accepted at the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2025.

• 01/2025: My application "Accelerating Autophagy Research with AI: An Interdisciplinary Approach" has been selected as an awardee for EMU's Summer Research/Creative Activity Award 2025!

• 01/2025: My grant proposal, aimed at acquiring Arduino boards for my new Embedded AI course, has been funded through EMU’s eFellows Classroom Technology Grant.

• 10/2024: The Embedded AI Systems Lab got funding through the James H. Brickley Endowment for Faculty Professional Development and Innovation.

• 09/2024: Our paper "Toward Dynamic NPC Interactions: Integrating GPT-Driven Agents in 3D Virtual Environments" has been accepted at the International Symposium on Visual Computing!

• 08/2024: I will be serving as a Technical Program Committee member for the DATE 2025 conference, Track A1: Power-efficiency and Smart Energy Systems for Sustainable Computing.

• 01/2024: I am excited to share that my research proposals focusing on AI-enhanced virtual reality for gait analysis education and the integration of computational technologies with virtual reality in computer science education have been funded by the Summer Research Award and the eFellows Award at Eastern Michigan University!

• 09/2023: I will be serving as a Technical Program Committee member for the DATE 2024 conference, Track A1: Power-efficient and Sustainable Computing.

• 08/2023: Our paper "Synthesizing Play-Ready VR Scenes with Natural Language Prompts through GPT API" got accepted at the 18th International Symposium on Visual Computing. Many congrats to my Ph.D. student Lazaros Rafail Kouzelis on his first publication!

• 08/2023: I am thrilled to announce that I have joined the Department of Computer Science at Eastern Michigan University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor! I am looking forward to contributing to the growth of the department and collaborating with my new colleagues and students.

• 04/2023: Very excited to announce that our paper titled "Automated Energy-Efficient DNN Compression under Fine-grained Accuracy Constraints" received the best paper award at the DATE'23 conference (Track A)!  

• 03/2023: I successfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation!