At WWU:
Working with multiple sophomore, junior, and senior EECE students, who have enrolled for Directed Research in Cyber-Physical Systems under my supervision since Winter 2022. Student-led research has resulted in one peer-reviewed conference publication, one conference poster, and two posters presented at WWU Scholars Week 2023.
Our work showing that ASCII art can jailbreak large language models has been featured by multiple media outlets, including ScienceNewsExplores, ArsTechnica, Inc.com, PCGamer, Tom's Hardware, VentureBeat, Twitter.
[Aug 2023] Lunch at La Fiamma Bellingham with students. (Clockwise from Left) Jonah, Jared, Brandon C., Brandon N., Bhaskar
[May 2023] Lunch at Storia Cucina Bellingham with students. (Clockwise from Left) Tyler, Ryan, Bhaskar, Dominic, Minh, Brandon N., Nick, Brandon R., Khoi
Dominic Danis presenting poster on Multi Agent Reinforcement Learning with Prospect Theory at WWU Scholars Week 2023
Ryan Blake presenting poster on LoRa WAN-based Outdoor Air Monitoring System at WWU Scholars Week 2023
[Aug 2022] Lunch at Black Sheep Bellingham with students. (Clockwise from Left) Minh, Dominic, David, Parker, Tyler, Bhaskar
[Aug 2021] High school students who participated in the UW Engineering Academy, Summer 2021.
At University of Washington:
During Summer 2021, I was the Postdoctoral lead for the Engineering Exploration module of Engineering Academy 2021, a Program run by the UW College of Engineering. The program was supported by the Office of Naval Research through a Cyber-STEM Initiative, and aimed to cultivate the academic potential of high school juniors by motivating them to pursue engineering. As part of the Engineering Exploration module, 19 high-school students from the Seattle area were introduced to concepts in interactive machine learning, network security, and threat mitigation, and this was combined with hands-on programming labs. Over half the participants were from traditionally underrepresented student groups. I also co-mentored an undergraduate African-American female student from the University of Dubuque, Iowa, during her summer internship in the Network Security Lab at UW during Summer 2021.
I have worked closely in a mentoring capacity with three Ph.D. students- Baicen Xiao (UW), Qifan Lu (UW), and Luyao Niu (WPI)- and two Postdoctoral Researchers- Arezoo Rajabi (UW), Abdullah Al Maruf (UW).
At University of Maryland:
As part of the TA Training and Development Program in the ECE Department at UMD, I served as a mentor to four teaching assistants every Fall and Spring semester during 2012-2015. Additionally, I led two workshops each year aimed at helping teaching assistants improve their effectiveness as instructors.
[May 2018] With Prof. Ankur Srivastava, Graduate Studies Director, ECE@UMD at event recognizing Outstanding Teaching Assistants and contributors to the TA Training and Development Program.