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  • 2025-07-24 — Completed the “Independent Applying the QM Rubric - Virtual (APPQMR): (Statewide Systems)” workshop and received a certificate of completion.
  • 2025-05-28 — Paper accepted: “CRADLE: Cooperative Adaptive Decentralized Learning and Execution for UAV network to monitor Wildfire Front,” IEEE CASE 2025 (Los Angeles, USA; Aug 17–21, 2025).
  • 2025-01-30 — Paper accepted: “Exploiting Gaussian Noise Variance for Dynamic Differential Poisoning in Federated Learning,” IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (IEEE TAI).
  • 2024-09-26 — Serving as a Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for IEEE CCNC 2025 (Jan 10–13, 2025; Las Vegas, NV, USA).
  • 2024-08-19 — Started as a Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Cybersecurity at Texas A&M University–San Antonio.
  • 2024-08-10 — Moved to San Antonio, TX.
  • 2024-05-17 — Completed PhD in Computer Science and Engineering (Cybersecurity), University of Nevada, Reno.
  • 2024-05-08 — Became an official CISSP holder.
  • 2024-04-26 — Defended PhD dissertation.
  • 2024-04-13 — Passed the CISSP exam.
  • 2023-12-14 — Attended invited talk on “Trustworthy AI/ML in Multi-agent Systems” (CMA Core, University of Nevada, Reno).
  • 2023-10-04 — Delivered presentation on our latest work at IEEE/RSJ IROS 2023 (Detroit, MI, USA).
  • 2023-09-15 — Submitted paper “CRADLE: Cooperative Adaptive Decentralized Learning and Execution for UAV Network to monitor Wildfire Front” to ICRA 2024.
  • 2023-08-25 — Whitepaper selected and invited for full proposal submission under DEPSCoR 2023 funding program.
  • 2023-08-07 — Received a GSA Travel Award.
  • 2023-07-11 — Presented our research work virtually at ICMLC 2023 (University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia).
  • 2023-06-23 — Paper accepted: “BRNES: Enabling Security and Privacy-aware Experience Sharing in Multiagent Robotic and Autonomous Systems,” IEEE/RSJ IROS 2023.
  • 2023-06-01 — EB2-NIW-based I-140 approved by USCIS.
  • 2023-05-13 — Paper accepted: “Hiding in Plain Sight: Differential Privacy Noise Exploitation for Evasion-resilient Localized Poisoning Attacks in Multiagent Reinforcement Learning,” ICMLC 2023.
  • 2022-11-28 — Defended PhD dissertation proposal for PhD candidacy.
  • 2022-11-03 — Paper accepted: “A Resource Allocation Scheme for Energy Demand Management in 6G-enabled Smart Grid,” IEEE ISGT NA 2023 (Washington DC, USA).