- Toward Integrated Security and Privacy Solutions for Multi-Modal AI, COVACCI, $60,000, January 2025 - January 2026, Role: PI
- Trustworthy AI in the Data Revolution for Adaptation and Resilience in Coastal Communities, ICAR, $31,000, Role: Co-PI
- A Compound AI System for Transportation Resilience Management in Flood-Prone Coastal Areas, ICAR, $31,000, Role: Co-PI
- Faculty Proposal Preparation Program (FP3) Award, ODU, August 2024 - May 2025, Role: Sole-PI
- Cheng Fund for Innovative Research Award, COS, ODU, $1,5000, May 2024 - August 2025, Role: Sole-PI
- CRII: CNS: Towards Robust and Efficient Dynamic Spectrum Sharing with Knowledge Transfer, NSF, $175,000, October 2023 - September 2026, Role: Sole-PI
- TrustAI: enhancing human confidence and trust in AI models, CCI, $60,000, December 2022 - August 2025, Role: Co-PI
- Summer Research Fellowship Program (SRFP) 2022 Award, ODU, May 2022 - August 2022, Role: Sole-PI
- Provost's Initiative for Retention of Underrepresented Faculty (PI-RUF) Award, ODU, $10,000, Role: Sole-PI
- Gabron Family Graduate Fellowship Scholarship Award, URI, March 2021
- Kenneth J. & Virginia E. Hylander Graduate Engineering Fellowship Scholarship Award, URI, March 2021
- Outstanding Graduate Researcher Award, URI, February 2021
Research Experience
- Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Old Dominion University, July 2021 - Present
Education
- Ph.D. in Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, University of Rhode Island, supervised by Prof. Haibo He, May 2021
- M.S. in Computer Science and Technology, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, China, 2017
- B.S. in Computer Science and Technology, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, China, 2014
Background
Research interests lie in Computer Vision and Machine Learning, focusing on developing scalable algorithms to learn robust representations from large-scale data and their applications in industrial processes, as well as Wireless Communications.