[Dec 2023] Our paper titled `BadChain: Backdoor Chain-of-Thought Prompting for Large Language Models' has been accepted to the NeurIPS 2023 Workshop on Backdoors in Deep Learning- The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. This is joint work with Zhen Xiang and Zidi Xiong at UIUC, Bo Li at Univ. of Chicago/ UIUC, Fengqing Jiang and Radha Poovendran at UW. 

[Nov 2023] Our paper titled `CANLP: NLP-Based Intrusion Detection System for CAN' has been accepted to the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing. This is joint work with Denis Donadel, Alessandro Brighente, and Mauro Conti at the University of Padua, and Kavya Balasubramanian, Adithya Gowda Baragur, Dinuka Sahabandu, and Radha Poovendran at UW.

[Sep 2023] Our paper titled `FedGame: A Game-Theoretic Defense Against Backdoor Attacks in Federated Learning' has been accepted to the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). This is joint work with Jinyuan Jia at Penn State, Zhuowen Yuan at UIUC, Bo Li at Univ. of Chicago/ UIUC, Arezoo Rajabi, Luyao Niu, Dinuka Sahabandu, and Radha Poovendran at UW. 

[Aug 2023] Our paper titled `MDTD: A Multi-Domain Trojan Detector for Deep Neural Networks' has been accepted to the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS). This is joint work with Arezoo Rajabi, Surudhi Asokraj, Fengqing Jiang, Luyao Niu, Jim Ritcey, and Radha Poovendran at UW.

[May 2023] Dominic Danis and Ryan Blake present posters at WWU Scholars Week 2023. Both posters attracted an enthusiastic audience from among the WWU community!! 

[May 2023] Our paper titled `Learning Dissemination Strategies for External Sources in Opinion Dynamic Models with Cognitive Biases' has been accepted to the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). This is joint work with Abdullah Al Maruf, Luyao Niu, and Radha Poovendran at UW, and Andrew Clark at WUSTL. 

[Mar 2023] Our paper titled `BARON: Base-Station Authentication Through Core Network for Mobility Management in 5G Networks' has been accepted to the ACM Conference on Security and Privacy for Wireless and Mobile Networks  (WiSec). This is joint work with Alessandro Lotto, Alessandro Brighente, and Mauro Conti at the University of Padua, and Vaibhav Singh and Radha Poovendran at UW. 

[Mar 2023] Our paper titled `Robust Satisfaction of Metric  Interval Temporal Logic Objectives in Advresarial Environments' has been accepted to MDPI Games, Special Issue on Game-Theoretic Analysis of Network Security and Privacy. The article has also been selected to feature on the Issue Cover Page! This is joint work with Luyao Niu and Radha Poovendran at UW, and Andrew Clark at WUSTL. 

[Mar 2023] Our paper titled `Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Prospect Theory' has been accepted to the SIAM Conference on Control and its Applications 2023. Congratulations to WWU Undergrads Dominic, Parker, and David, who led this work!! 

[Mar 2023] WWU Electrical and Computer Engineering junior Tran Minh Khoi Le has been awarded the WWU College of Science and Engineering Jarvis Memorial Summer Research Award. Congratulations, Khoi!! 

[Jan 2023] Our paper titled `Cognitive Bias-Aware Dissemination Strategies for Opinion Dynamics with External Information Sources' has been accepted to the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems 2023 as a Poster Presentation. This is joint work with Abdullah Al Maruf, Luyao Niu, and Radha Poovendran at UW, and Andrew Clark at WUSTL. 

[Nov 2022] Our paper titled `LDL: A Defense for Light-Weight Membership Inference Attacks' has been accepted to the 18th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security 2023. This is joint work with Arezoo Rajabi, Dinuka Sahabandu, Luyao Niu, and Radha Poovendran at UW. 

[Nov 2022] Attended the NSF CPS PI Meeting 2022 in Washington, D. C., and presented a poster for my CRII grant. 

[Jul 2022] Our paper titled `Privacy-Preserving Reinforcement Learning Beyond Expectation' has been accepted to the 61st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. This is joint work with Arezoo Rajabi, Abdullah Al Maruf, and Radha Poovendran at UW. 

[Jun 2022] Completed teaching EECE 397C: Artificial Intelligence and Reinforcement Learning (v 1.0)- a newly conceptualized and designed Junior/ Senior undergrad elective at Western. The course v 2.0 will be offered as EECE 384 during Fall 2022!

[Mar 2022] Completed teaching my first research class at Western - EECE 495: Directed Research in Cyber-Physical Systems. Student reports covered topics including from Reinforcement Learning to Satisfy Temporal Logic Objectives, Sensor Design for Particulate Matter Detection, and CPS-based Design for Control of HVAC Systems. 

[Jan 2022] Awarded a CRII grant from the NSF for a project titled Cognizant Learning for Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems. 

[Jan 2022] Our paper titled `Agent-Temporal Attention for Reward Redistribution in Episodic Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning' has been accepted to the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2022 as an Oral Presentation. This is joint work with Baicen Xiao and Radha Poovendran at UW.

[Dec 2021] Presented our paper titled `Reinforcement Learning Beyond Expectation' at the 60th Conference on Decision and Control (Virtual). This is joint work with Luyao Niu and Andrew Clark at WPI, and Radha Poovendran at UW. 

[Dec 2021] Completed teaching my first undergrad class at Western - EECE 480: Control Systems. 

[Nov 2021] Baicen Xiao defends his Ph.D. dissertation at UW ECE! Participated in the defense as a member of the evaluating committee. 

[Sep 2021] Joined Western Washington University as an Assistant Professor!