Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2024
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
Tenured and promoted to Associate Professor in 2025
Paper 'CANLP: Intrusion Detection for Controller Area Networks using Natural Language Processing and Embedded Machine Learning' accepted by IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (IEEE TDSC)
Paper 'Submodular Swarm Assignment for Multi-Agent Systems under Linear Temporal Logic Constraints' accepted by IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2025
Multiple papers accepted to ICML 2025 Workshops
Paper 'Small Models Struggle to Learn from Strong Reasoners' accepted to Findings of ACL 2025
Participating in a $2,000,000 NSF ACTION AI Institute Educational Supplement to develop modular curriculum integrating cybersecurity, ML/GenAI, and defense strategies
Background
Associate Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Western Washington University
Directs the Safe Artificial Intelligence and Cyber-Physical Systems Lab
Affiliate Faculty in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle
Research focuses on software-defined secure verification and feedback-driven machine learning for reasoning about autonomous cyber systems
Adopts a multidisciplinary approach integrating machine learning, optimization and control, game theory, and formal methods