Academic Profile

I’m a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Deep Learning for Precision Health Lab at UT Southwestern Medical Center, working with Dr. Albert Montillo to develop foundation models for neuroimage analysis — curating pre-training datasets and designing optimization pipelines for downstream tasks like segmentation and classification. My broader interests span medical imaging, vision-language models, generative modeling, and 3D reconstruction. I completed my PhD in Computer Science at UT Arlington under Dr. Habeeb Olufowobi at the Cyber-Physical System Security Lab, where I worked on VLMs and autonomous vehicular perception systems (AVPS) for driving.

Latest News

• February 2026 - Our paper A Collaborative Distillation Framework for Graph Neural Networks got accepted at European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning (ESANN).
• November 2025 - Our paper Unveiling Graph Copycats: Inference Attacks with Student Models got accepted at Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS).
• November 2025 - Our paper Towards Enhanced Sparse-View Tomographic Reconstruction Using 3D Gaussian Splatting got accepted at International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV).
• August 2025 - Received travel grant to attend PyTorch Conference’25.
• August 2025 — Received travel grant to attend USENIX VehicleSec’25.
• August 2025 — Our paper Beyond the Glow: Understanding Luminescent Marker Behavior Against Autonomous Vehicle Perception Systems got accepted at USENIX VehicleSec’25.
• July 2025 — Our paper FedVLM: Scalable Personalized Vision-Language Models through Federated Learning got accepted at ECAI’25.