Professional Activities
Secretary at the IEEE Mobile Section.
Technical Program Committee Member at the 2024 International Conference on Intelligent Systems, Blockchain, and Communication Technologies.
Session Chair and Member of the Organizing Committee at the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Computing and Machine Intelligence.
Track Chair of Computing at the 9th IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things.
Session Chair and Member of the Organizing Committee at the 2023 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and Internet of Things.
Session Chair of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Technologies at the 8th IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things.
Track Chair of Signal Processing and Analysis, Fields, Waves, and Electromagnetics, Components, Circuits, Devices and Electronic Systems at the 8th IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things.
Session Chair of Signal Processing at the 2022 IEEE SoutheastCon.
Track Chair of Signal Processing at the 2022 IEEE SouthEastCon.
Track Chair of Neural Networks, Machine and Deep Learning at the 28th IEEE International Conference on Electronics Circuits and Systems.
Session Chair of Basic and Enabling Technologies at the 7th IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things.
Track Chair of Basic and Enabling Technologies at the 7th IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things.
Session Chair of IoT Experimental Results and Deployment Scenarios at the 6th IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things.
Track Chair of Signal Processing for IoT at the 6th IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things.
Recognition/Awards
Featured on the USA Website:
https://www.southalabama.edu/departments/publicrelations/pressreleases/070924nasagrant.htmlReceived the College of Engineering Excellence in Research Award (2024).
Co-Investigator, NASA LWS Funded Project Entitled (Substorm Identification With The WINDMI Magnetosphere - Ionosphere Nonlinear Physics Model).
Project Period: 7/2024 - 6/2028. Total Award Amount: $635,004.Certificate of Appreciation for Chairing a Technical Paper Session at the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Computing and Machine Intelligence (2024).
Certificate of Appreciation for Chairing a Technical Paper Session at the IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Block Chain and Internet of Things (2023).
Cya Johnson, a medical student and co-mentee, has received the Clyde G. Huggins Award for Summer Research. This was featured at the MedSchoolWaterCooler Blog: http://medschoolwatercooler.blogspot.com/2023/08/medical-students-receive-awards-for.html
Featured at the USA Website: https://www.southalabama.edu/departments/publicrelations/pressreleases/081122gong.html
Senior Personal, NSF EPSCoR RII Track 2 Funded Project Entitled (Building Research Infrastructure and Workforce in Edge Artificial Intelligence).
Project Period: 8/2022 - 7/2026. Total Award Amount: $6,000,000.Featured at the UAB CCTS Pilot Program Website: https://www.uab.edu/ccts/news-events/news/get-to-know-the-2022-pilot-awardees
Article entitled “A Deep Learning Framework for the Detection of Oil Spills from SAR Data” has been selected as an “Editor’s Choice Article”.
PI, USA Research and Scholarly Development Funded Project Entitled (A Novel Fully Automated Detection Framework for Oil Spills in Synthetic Aperture Radar Images).
Project Period: 5/2022 - 11/2023. Total Award Amount: $24,922.PI, NIH UL1TR003096 Funded Project Entitled (Artificial Intelligence for Identification of Mild Cognitive Impairment Biomarkers in Parkinson's Disease).
Project Period: 5/2022 – 4/2023. Total Award Amount: $20,197.Featured on the USA Website: https://www.southalabama.edu/departments/publicrelations/pressreleases/032621deeplearning.html
PI, SCEEE Research Experiences for Undergraduates Supplement.
Project Period: 1/2021 - 3/2022. Total Award Amount: $5,000.PI, SCEEE Research Initiation Funded Project Entitled (Detection of Early Stage Parkinson's Disease Using Deep Learning Based Electroencephalography).
Project Period: 8/2020 - 3/2022. Total Award Amount: $27,500.Senior Member IEEE Grade Elevation (2020).
Certificate of Appreciation for Chairing a Technical Paper Session at the 6th IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things (2020).