News
- Paper "CogAdapt: Adapting Clinical ECG Foundation Models for Wearable Cognitive Load Assessment" accepted at IEEE EMBS BHI 2026.
- Earned Building Agentic AI Applications with Large Language Models from NVIDIA, hosted by the College of AI, Cyber and Computing at UTSA.
- Won the 2-minute presentation award competition at the 63rd DAC. Watch the presentation video here.
- Awarded the Graduate School Academic Travel Fund to attend the Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2026.
- Paper "Are LLM Benchmarks Already Contaminated? A Systematic Review of Contamination Detection Methods" published at the GEM Workshop — The 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026).
- Paper "Optimizing Task Scheduling in Fog Computing with Deadline Awareness" published at the IEEE 2nd International Conference on Secure IoT, Assured and Trusted Computing (SATC 2026).
- Paper "Are LLM Benchmarks Already Contaminated? A Systematic Review of Contamination Detection Methods" received an Outstanding Paper award at GEM 2026, colocated with ACL 2026.
- Selected as a scholarship recipient for the DAiR3 Data Science Summer School.
- Won the Fan Favorite Award at the Draper Data Science Business Plan Competition 2026.
- Invited to serve as a reviewer for GLSVLSI 2026.
- Awarded the 63rd DAC Young Fellows fellowship.
- Passed the PhD Qualifying Examination. Thank you Dr. Mimi Xie, Dr. Dakai Zhu, and Dr. Wei Wang!
- Started a Research Assistantship at the ASIC Lab, UT San Antonio.
- Paper "QTE-IoT: Q-Learning-Based Task Scheduling Scheme to Enhance Energy Consumption and QoS in IoT Environments" published in Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems.
- Paper "Controller Placement in Software-Defined Networks Using Reinforcement Learning and Metaheuristics" published in Cluster Computing.
- Won the 2-minute presentation award competition at the 62nd DAC.
- Awarded the DAC Young Fellows fellowship and attended DAC 2025 as a Young Fellow.
- Awarded the Graduate School Academic Travel Fund to attend the Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2025.
- Started the PhD in Computer Science at UT San Antonio, advised by Dr. Mimi Xie, and joined the ASIC Lab.