Resume
Academic Achievements
- Recipient of the 2023 IEEE Smart Computing Special Technical Community Early Career Award
- Named to the inaugural Dallas Innovates AI 75 List
- Elevated to IEEE Senior Member in 2025
- Won CSE Department TTT-Faculty Teaching Excellence Award in 2025
- Published in top-tier venues including EMNLP, ICCV, IROS, ACL, and USENIX Security
Background
- Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of North Texas (UNT)
- Director of the Responsible AI Lab
- Co-leader of the Learning · Language · Vision (LLaVi) Lab
- Affiliate Assistant Professor in the Department of Data Science at UNT
- Research interests: Responsible AI, Generative AI, Data Security & Privacy