News

2024

[12/2023] Served as a Chair of the REU Symposium for Undergraduate Research in Data Science, Systems, and Security at the 2023 International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA).
[12/2023] Received a new grant from the NSF CPS (NIFA) Program (Co-PI).
[12/2023] Served as a panelist for the DOE WPTO TEAMER Program.
[10/2023] Received a new grant from the DOE WPTO TEAMER Program (Co-PI).
[08/2023] Received a new grant from the NSF CyberTraining Program (PI).
[08/2023] Successfully guided 18 students for nine weeks in the summer of 2023 as PI of the NSF REU Site Sensing and Smart Systems.
[05/2023] Received a new grant from the NSF IIS Program (Co-PI).
[05/2023] Served as a panelist of the National Science Foundation (NSF).
[03/2023] Received a new grant from the FAU Technology Fee Program (PI).
[01/2023] Our NSF REU Site in Sensing and Smart Systems is now accepting applications.
[01/2023] Received a gift of $1M cash from FPL/NextEra Foundation to establish the Center of Intelligent Energy Technologies (InETech). I will be serving as the Center’s Director.

[12/2022] Served as the Job Matching Chair of the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM).
[10/2022] Received a new grant from the DOE WPTO Lab Call Program (FAU PI, ANL Lead).
[10/2022] Received a new grant from the DOE WPTO TEAMER Program (Co-PI).
[09/2022] Served as a panelist of the National Science Foundation (NSF).
[07/2022] Finalist of the Energy Systems Best Paper Award at the 2022 American Control Conference.
[06/2022] 44 participants have been virtually trained for two weeks in the summer of 2022 through our NSF CyberTraining Program.
[06/2022] Served as a panelist of the National Science Foundation (NSF).
[05/2022] Served as a panelist of the National Science Foundation (NSF).
[04/2022] Served as a panelist of the National Science Foundation (NSF).
[01/2022] Received the prestigious NSF CAREER Award.

[12/2021] Served as the Poster Co-Chair of the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data.
[10/2021] Received a new grant from the DOE TEAMER Program (Co-PI).
[06/2021] 29 participants have been virtually trained for two weeks in the summer of 2021 through our NSF CyberTraining Program.
[04/2021] Our NSF REU alumni Erica Lindbeck has been awarded the competitive, prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRFP).
[03/2021] Served as the Publicity Chair of the 2021 International Conference on High-Performance Big Data and Intelligent Systems.
[03/2021] Serve as the Big Data Poster Co-Chair of the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data.
[03/2021] Our group member Yu Huang has been awarded the “Best Journal Publication” (Honorable Mention) and David Wilson has been awarded the “Best Teaching Assistant”, both by the College of Engineering and Computer Science at FAU.
[02/2021] Our NSF CyberTraining project website is online. All eligible applications are welcome!
[02/2021] Served as a reviewer of the National Science Foundation (NSF).
[01/2021] Served as an external reviewer of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada.

[12/2020] Our group member Arezoo Hasankhani has been awarded the “Dr. Steven G. Schock Scholarship” for the 2020-2021 academic year by FAU College of Engineering and Computer Science.
[08/2020] Our group member Yu Huang has been awarded the “Graduate Fellowship for Academic Excellence” for the 2020-2021 academic year by FAU Graduate College.
[07/2020] Received a new grant from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (Co-PI).
[07/2020] Received a new grant from the NSF CyberTraining Program (PI).
[07/2020] Our group member Min Shi has successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation entitled “Multifaceted Embedding Learning for Networked Data and Systems.” He is now a Postdoc at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Congratulations!
[06/2020] Received a new grant from the Department of Energy WPTO (Co-PI).
[04/2020] Served in the Program Committees of ACM KDD 2020.
[02/2020] Our group member Min Shi has been awarded “RA of the Year ” and David Wilson has been awarded the “Best Qualifying Exam”, both by the College of Engineering and Computer Science at FAU.

[09/2019] Received the prestigious Early-Career Research Fellowship Award from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Gulf Research Program.
[06/2019] Delivered talks at Wuhan University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, South China University of Technology, Chongqing University of Science and Technology, and Hunan University of Science and Technology.
[05/2019] Our project-funded undergraduate researcher, Erica Lindbeck, has been offered a summer internship at NREL.
[04/2019] Received COECS and I-SENSE 2019 Seed Grant (Co-PI).
[03/2019] Received Florida State 2019 Cyber Florida Capacity Building Award (PI).
[03/2019] Received Florida State 2019 Cyber Florida Collaborative Seed Award (PI).

[08/2018] Received a new grant from the National Science Foundation (Co-PI).
[08/2018] Our students Erica and Sean won the Best Research and Best Presentation of the NSF: FAU REU Sites Programs 2018, respectively.
[06/2018] Received NVIDIA GPU Grant for research on cyber-physical smart grid security and resilience.
[05/2018] Received I-SENSE 2018 Seed Grant (Co-PI).
[03/2018] Our project-funded undergraduate researcher, Nathan Witztum, has been offered a summer internship at NREL.

[10/2017] Received Walter & Lalita Janke Foundation Science Research Fund (PI).
[04/2017] Received Florida State 2017 Cyber Florida Collaborative Seed Award (PI).