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  • 2026-09-04 — Honored to be appointed as the Undergraduate Program Coordinator (Cybersecurity) at A&M-SA effective from Spring-2027
  • 2026-08-26 — Congratulations to our lab member Amber Parker for her next role as Software Developer at IBM starting from December 2026
  • 2026-07-17 — Paper accepted: "SecureFL-IoV: Differentially Private Federated Intrusion Detection for IoV Using a Two-Stage RF," IEEE CNS 2026 (Newark, Delaware, USA; Sep 14-17, 2026).
  • 2026-05-19 — Honored to be recognized as The Most Influential Mentor at A&M-SA this Spring-2026, selected by one of my graduating students Jacqueline Aguilar
  • 2026-05-16 — Paper accepted: "Learning-based Denial-of-Key-Generation (DoKG) Attack Against Quantum Key Distribution," IEEE IRI 2026 (Seattle, WA, USA; July 31- Aug 02, 2026).
  • 2026-05-03 — Paper accepted: "Towards Practical UAV Intelligence: Data-Efficient Fine-Tuning of Small Vision Language Models for Emergency Response," SmartNets 2026 (Link Campus University, Rome, Italy).
  • 2026-05-03 — Paper accepted: "VertiSplitRAG: Privacy-Preserving Retrieval-Augmented Generation Through Vertical Attribute Partitioning," SmartNets 2026 (Link Campus University, Rome, Italy).
  • 2026-04-07 — AI/ML Research Showcase: Our research lab delivered a poster presentation on Privacy-Preserving Computer Forensics with Multi-Agent AI Triage
  • 2026-03-25 — 2026 CAE Symposium Acceptance: Our extended abstract titled "From mass extraction to ethical triage: multi-agent AI for privacy-preserving computer forensics" has been accepted for publication.
  • 2026-03-16 — Multi-Institutional Research Initiative Advances: Our collaborative proposal(s) "PromptSafe.ai: A privacy-aware framework for FERPA-compliant, responsible AI use across institutions" and "Strengthening Cybersecurity Education Through a Consortium of HBCU and Hispanic-Serving Institutions" have been selected for initial stage funding.
  • 2026-03-06 — Research Funding Awarded: I'm thrilled to announce that our proposal "Connecting the dots: A multi-agent AI framework for cyber threat intelligence (CTI)" has been selected for funding by Texas A&M University-San Antonio's Office of Research and Sponsored Program (now known as Division of Research and Innovation) .
  • 2025-11-04 — Serving as a Mentor in CAHSI Local REU program: I have been selected as a mentor for NSF-supported CAHSI Local REU program.
  • 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).