Resume
Research Experience
- Served as Co-PI or Senior Personnel on multiple federally funded research projects
- Co-PI on NSF CyberCorps Scholarship for Service project (2024–2029)
- Co-PI on NSF RAPID project integrating AI into K-12 education via social media analysis (2023–2024)
- Collaborator on HBOI-funded studies on Florida whale distribution and behavioral ecology (2022–2024)
- Senior Personnel on DARPA-funded 'Grouper Guard' underwater acoustic smart-sensing project (2018–2024)
- Co-PI on US Army Research Office project on Personal Cloud for Research (2022–2023)
- Co-PI on U.S. Department of Education HSI-STEM grant to support Hispanic and low-income CS students (2020–2023)
- Senior Personnel on NSF S-STEM grant to support low-income students in AI Master’s programs (2020–2025)
Background
- Associate Dean and Professor, College of Engineering & Computer Science, Florida Atlantic University
- Research interests: Signal Processing, Machine Learning and Large Language Models
- Topic Modeling and Sentiment Analysis
- Marine Animal Sound Detection and Classification
- Biomedical Applications: Cancer Diagnosis, Seizure Detection, Emotion Detection and Classification