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[2023, September 15] Gave an invited talk on Generative AI and Large Language Models at Baird Holm’s 2023 Technology and Data Protection Forum
[2023, August 28] We received the 2023 UNL Grand Challenges Planning Grant Award for our research on Participatory Artificial Intelligence for behavior change to improve climate resilience and food security via a tribal non-tribal community partnership
[2023, August 9] Gave a presentation on "ChatGPT and Limits of AI" to the Lincoln Public Schools (LPS) science teachers at the UNL-LPS STEM Connector event
[2023, August] Chinh Hoang joined my lab as a Ph.D. student. Welcome!
[2023, August] Congratulations to Nathan Roberts and Sharif Akil for obtaining the 2023-2024 UCARE (Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experience) award!
[2023, July 19] Our article on AI-based intervention is published in PLoS One
[2023, July 13] Gave an invited talk on "Modern AI, its discontents, and how I am using it for social good" at LES (Lincoln Electric System)'s PluggedIn event which is targeted for a future leadership development group
[2023, July 6] Received the Research Development Fellows Program (RDFP) Award
[2023, June 25 - 28] Presented our paper on the Trajectory-Clustering Framework for Assessing AI-Based Adaptive Interventions at the 2023 ASEE (American Society for Engineering Education) Annual Conference in Baltimore, Maryland
[2023, June 9] Congratulations Ahatsham for obtaining the David Swanson Memorial Open Science Grid (OSG) Travel Award!
[2023, May 30] Congratulations to Keyik Annagulyyeva and Yusup Orazov for obtaining the UCARE (Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experience) award! Welcome to the team
[2023, May 23] Received the Faculty Affairs award for the External Mentoring Program
[2023, May 19] My undergraduate research assistant Nathan Roberts received the Undergraduate Honors Award for the most original research in the 2023 Student Research Days Poster Sessions and Creative Exhibitions. Congratulations, Nathan!
[2023, April 3] Our paper on AI-based adaptive interventions has been accepted at the 2023 ASEE (American Society for Engineering Education) Annual Conference
[2023, March 28] My undergraduate research assistant Nathan Roberts (sponsored by UCARE) presented a poster on his research on the generalizability of deep learning vision models during the UNL 2023 Spring Student Research Days. Well done, Nathan!
[2023, March 24] Received the 2023 College of Engineering Holling Family Distinguished Teaching Award for Excellence in Inclusive Teaching
[2023, February 26] My interview on Artificial Intelligence and Ethics was hosted on a UNL podcast
[2023, January] Ahatsham joined my lab as a Ph.D. student. Welcome!
[2022, September 2] Received a grant from the Nebraska Governance and Technology Center (NGTC) at the UNL for preliminary research on building an AI to combat misinformation in social media
[2022, December 11 - 15] Presented our paper on self-supervised learning (SSL) at the 21st IEEE International Conference in Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA) in Nassau, Bahamas
[2022, October 19] Received the UNL College of Engineering (COE) 2021-2022 Research Excellence Award
[2022, October 3] Selected as the 2022-2023 Research Development Fellows Program (RDFP) fellow at UNL
[2022, September] Served as an NSF panelist
[2022, September 7] Congratulations Nathan Roberts for obtaining the UCARE (Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experience) award! Welcome to the team
[2022, September 2] Our paper titled "Self-Supervised Learning in the Twilight of Noisy Real-World Datasets" has been accepted at the 21st IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA)
[2022, September 2] Received a grant from UNL's Longitudinal Networks Core (LNC) for preliminary research on the AI-based psychological intervention system
[2022, August 5] My student Thomas Walton (Summer 2022 UCARE) presented a poster on his research on the neural network during the UNL COE Summer Undergraduate Research Fair (SURF). Well done, Tom!
[2022, July 25] Story of our NSF-sponsored research on AI for behavioral intervention is published in the Nebraska Today
[2022, June 21] Received the UNL Collaboration Initiative Grant. Role: Co-PI. Project: An Innovative AI-Augmented Real-Time Remote Access Engineering Lab Using Robotics and Computer Vision
[2022, June 7] Received the UNL Collaboration Initiative Grant. Role: Co-PI. Project: Artificial intelligence-based condition monitoring and fault detection for power system equipment
[2022, June 1 - 3] Attended the NSF AAAS-Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) Initiative summit in Washington DC
[2022, May 12] Session chair at the 2022 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)
[2022, March 23] Congratulations Thomas Walton for obtaining the Summer 2022 UCARE award!
[2022, February 13] Article accepted in the Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems: Technology, Planning, and Operations
[2022, January 17] Submitted 3 grant applications for AI-based projects to the UNL Collaboration Initiative
[2021, December 17] Received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for designing an AI-based psychological just-in-time intervention system to improve STEM performance
[2021, December 15] Presented our paper at the 20th IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT 2021)
[2021, December 1] Congratulations to Rojina Deuja for successfully defending her M.S. thesis on Semantically Meaningful Sentence Embeddings
[2021, November 8] Presented our paper at the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2021)
[2021, November 4] Joined a panel discussion on Racial Bias in Artificial Intelligence Models as part of the Cooper Community Conversation at the UNL
[2021, October 21] Paper accepted at the 20th IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT 2021)
[2021, September 24] Talk given at the Youth Leadership Lincoln seminar "Arts and Media" on My Students, Online Misinformation, and AI
[2021, August 26] Paper accepted at the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2021)
[2021, July 28] Article published in the Journal of Machine Learning With Applications
[2021, May 13] Received the UNL CSE Department Students Choice Award for Outstanding Teaching of Graduate-Level Courses
[2021, April 22] Congratulations to Atharva Tendle for successfully defending his M.S. thesis on "The Revolution Will Not be Supervised": An Investigation of the Efficacy and Reasoning Process of Self-Supervised Representations
[2021, April 13] Congratulations to Yuanzhi Chen for successfully defending his M.S. thesis on Towards a Machine Learning-based Generalizable Framework for Detecting COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media
[2021, April 6] Received a grant from the Nebraska Governance and Technology Center (NGTC) at the UNL for developing a Deep Learning framework to identify health-related misinformation from online social media
[2020, November 13] Talk given at the INFOTEC Conference by AIM Institute on Challenges of AI to Detect Misinformation
[2019, October] Paper accepted at the 2019 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI 2019)
[2019, August] Our paper is presented by Mohamed Aly (undergraduate research assistant) at the 15th International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering (FECS 2019), Las Vegas, USA
[2019, May] Presented our paper at the 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2019), Montreal, Canada
[2019, May] Poster presented at the 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2019), Montreal, Canada
[2019, March] Article published in the Journal of Autonomous Agents and multi agent Systems
[2018, October 24] Talk given on "Technology & Democratic Engagement" at the Broader Considerations of Technology Series Public Lecture organized by UNL CSE Ambassadors
[2018, April 4] Talk given on "AI & Employment" at the Broader Considerations of Technology Series Public Lecture organized by UNL CSE Ambassadors
[2017, May] Received the UNL CSE Department Students Choice Award for Outstanding Teaching of Undergraduate-Level Courses
[2016, August] Paper accepted at the 19th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2016)
[2015, December] Presented our paper at the 2015 IEEE/ WIC/ ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-2015)
[2015, May] Received the UNL CSE Department Students Choice Award for Outstanding Teaching of Undergraduate-Level Courses
[2015, February] Received the UNL Parents Association Award (Certificate of Recognition for Contributions to Students)
[2015, January] Presented our paper at the 29th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Austin, Texas
[2014, August] Joined the UNL as an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE)