Jan 2026: Joined Saint Leo University as an Assistant Professor in the College of CARDS
June 2025:Paper: "Risk-aware autonomous search and rescue with multi-agent reinforcement learning" accepted in Risk Analysis: An International Journal.
Dec 2024: New paper: "Deep Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Real-World Signalized Traffic Corridor Control", 23rd ICMLA, 2024.
May 2024: Promoted to Data Scientist-II position in Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL).
May 2023: PhD completion. Joined Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) as a Post Doctoral researcher.
Feb 2023: PhD dissertation defended.
Jan 2023: Paper published in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. [pdf]
Nov 2022: Received CHIH FOUNDATION RESEARCH & PUBLICATION AWARD 2022.
Oct 2022: New paper: "DROP: Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Optimal Perturbation for MPPT in Wind Energy", 54th NAPS, 2022. [pdf]
July 2022: Paper published in IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. [pdf]
Jun 2022: Accepted a position as AI Research Intern in Samsung Research America.
Apr 2022: Presented as the finalist in FLORIDA BLUE HEALTH INNOVATION CHALLENGE 2022. [News] [Plaque]
Apr 2022: New paper: "LSTM Based Load Prediction for Distribution Power Grid with Home EV Charging", IEEE KPEC, 2022. [pdf]
Mar 2022: Paper published in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. [pdf]
Nov 2021: Paper published in IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems. [pdf]
Oct 2021: Presented a project in Artificial Intelligence + X.
Oct 2021: Passed Doctoral Candidacy Exam.
Oct 2021: Received NSF travel grant for NAPS, 2021.
Sep 2021: Two papers accepted to the 53rd North American Power Symposium NAPS, 2021 . [paper-1] [paper-2]
July 2021: Session Chair for L34: Reinforcement learning and adaptive dynamic programming III in IJCNN, 2021.
Jun 2021: Received IEEE CIS Participation grant for IJCNN, 2021.
Mar 2021: Participated as a judge in Undergraduate Student Reserach Symposium.
Mar 2021: Presented a project in Graduate Student Reserach Symposium.
Feb 2021: New paper: "Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Cost-Benefit Analysis for Hospital Capacity Planning", IJCNN, 2021. [pdf]
Oct 2020: Received NSF Student Grant for SmartGridComm, 2020.
Aug 2020: New paper: "Predictive Maintenance for Increasing EV Charging Load in Distribution Power System", 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm, 2020). [pdf]
Jun 2020: New paper: "A Markov Decision Process Model for Socio-Economic Systems Impacted by Climate Change" ICML, 2020. [pdf]
Oct 2019: Received travel grant from Office of Graduate Studies, University of South Florida for IEEE GlobalSIP, 2019.
Aug 2019: New paper: "Scenario Planning for Sea Level Rise via Reinforcement Learning" , IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP). [pdf]
Feb 2018: Started working on the NSF funded project .
Jan 2018: Received USF Graduate Fellowship.
Jan 2018: Started working as a Graduate Teaching and Research Assistant at University of South Florida.