2025: 1 paper accepted at CAMLIS 2025; 4 papers accepted at IEEE QCE 2025 (including 1 main track, 1 QCRL, and 2 posters); 1 paper accepted at IEEE WF-PST 2025
2024: 1 paper accepted at AAAI 2025
2022: Paper on continual learning and malware accepted at CoLLAs 2022
2023: SoK paper on website fingerprinting defense accepted at IEEE S&P (Oakland) 2023
2022: Paper on Transformers for information security accepted at ACM WoRMA 2022 (co-located with ACM AsiaCCS 2022)
2022: DeepCoFFEA paper accepted at IEEE S&P (Oakland) 2022
2021: GANDaLF paper accepted at PETS 2021
2020: Mockingbird paper accepted at IEEE TIFS; another paper accepted at PETS 2020
2019: 1 paper and 2 posters accepted at ACM CCS 2019; awarded travel grant to attend ACM CCS 2019
Recognized as a Rising Star in AI/ML in Security in January 2024
Served as Program Committee member for top-tier conferences including EuroS&P, AAAI, PETS, CAMLIS, ACM QSec, WoRMA, and SECURWARE
Reviewer for ICLR 2025
Research Experience
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, UTEP, starting Fall 2024
Cybersecurity Research Intern at Cisco Quantum Lab, January 2023
Research Intern at Bell Labs, Summer 2021
Summer Intern at FireEye, April 2020
Researcher at ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute, RIT, 2016–2024
Taught CSEC-759: Advanced Malware Forensic course in 2023