News

2026
April Successfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation titled "Optimizing the Frontier: Enhancing Security and Efficiency of Wireless Communication Systems for Internet of Things" at the University of Texas at Arlington 🎓
2025
November Our paper “Unveiling Graph Copycats: Inference Attacks with Student Models” got accepted at PETS’26.
November Our paper “Towards Enhanced Sparse-View Tomographic Reconstruction Using 3D Gaussian Splatting” got accepted at 3DV'26.
October Got selected as an invited speaker for the IEEE TCCN Rising Star Symposium Series, organized by the IEEE TCCN Special Interest Group on AI/ML in Security.
August Our paper "Beyond Detection: Comparative Explainability Study on Trypanosoma cruzi Using CAMs and DETR Attention" got accepted at IEEE BHI'25.
July Our paper "SemPerGe: Unveiling Text-based Adversarial Attacks on Semantic Communication" has been accepted to CNS 2025.
July Our paper "FedVLM: Scalable Personalized Vision-Language Models through Federated Learning" has been accepted to ECAI 2025.
July Received USENIX travel grant award to attend USENIX VehicleSec 2025.
April Our paper "Beyond the Glow: Understanding Luminescent Marker Behavior Against Autonomous Vehicle Perception Systems" has been accepted to the USENIX VehicleSec 2025.
January Honored to receive a Tuition Assistance Award from Los Alamos National Laboratory, providing full support for my Ph.D. tuition.
January Returned to Los Alamos National Laboratory as a Graduate Researcher.
2024
November Received Los Alamos National Lab Travel Grant Award to attend ICMLA'24.
September My paper from internship at LANL titled "Tensor Train Low-rank Approximation (TT-LoRA): Democratizing AI with Accelerated LLMs" got accepted at the International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA).
May Started my internship as a Research Intern at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
March Got selected to give a talk at NDNComm'24.
February Joined the student volunteers at NDSS VehicleSec'24.
February Received the Travel Grant Award to attend The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2024.
February Won the Best Ph.D. Lightning Talk Award at the Student Computing Research Festival (SCRF) organized by UTA.
February Our lab conducted a successful workshop on "Adversarial Attacks and the Robustness of Object Detection Algorithms for Autonomous Vehicles" at OurCS@DFW.
February Our article "Towards Named Data Networking Technology: Emerging Applications, Use Cases, and Challenges for Secure Data Communication" got published in the Future Generation Computer Systems journal.
January Our article "AutoWatch: Learning Driver Behavior with Graphs for Auto Theft Detection and Situational Awareness" was accepted at NDSS VehicleSec'24.
2023
July Our paper "FedCIME: An Efficient Federated Learning Approach for Clients in Mobile Edge Computing" got published in the proceedings of IEEE EDGE 2023.
March Selected as a recipient of the NSF student travel award for the 2023 CPS-IoT Week.
March Our paper "Work-in-Progress: Deadline-Aware Named Data Networking for Time-Sensitive IoT Applications" got accepted at the 29th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS).
February Our lab conducted a workshop titled "VehicleSec" at OurCS@DFW.
January Our paper "Towards Mitigating Blackhole Attack in NDN-Enabled IoT" got published at the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE).
2022
August Our journal article "Survey of Interoperability Challenges in the Internet of Vehicles" got published in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
April We won the Best Paper Award at AutoSec 2022 for our paper "A Framework for Consistent and Repeatable Controller Area Network IDS Evaluation."
April Received Travel Grant Award by IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P) to attend the symposium.
April Our poster "Mitigating Blackhole Attack in NDNoT" got accepted at the 43rd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P).
March Our paper "In-Vehicle Network Anomaly Detection Using Extreme Gradient Boosting Machine" got accepted at the 10th International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSIoT'2022).
February Received the Best Ph.D. Lightning Talk Award (Runners-up) at the Student Computing Research Festival (SCRF) organized by UTA.
February Our workshop at OurCS@DFW was successful, and the team received Honorable Mentions.
February Our paper "A Framework for Consistent and Repeatable Controller Area Network IDS Evaluation" got accepted at the 4th International Workshop on Automotive and Autonomous Vehicle Security (AutoSec 2022).