| Aug 18, 2025 | Thrilled to announce a new NSF award (Award ID 2520496, \$211,976) for collaborative research on Responsible AI in data-intensive educational research with Temple University and University of Utah! |
| Jul 14, 2025 | Honored to receive the Best Paper Award for “Causally Fair Node Classification on Non-IID Graph Data” at the 4th Workshop on Ethical Artificial Intelligence: Methods and Applications (co-located with ACM SIGKDD’25). |
| Jan 07, 2025 | Awarded two NSF National AI Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot awards to support research and education in trustworthy AI. See the complete NAIRR Pilot Award list. |
| Jan 05, 2025 | Secured a research grant (federal \$176k; cost-share \$177k) from the DOT TraCR Center to advance research in AI Fairness and Security for transportation systems. |
| Sep 01, 2024 | Received a research grant (\$758k) from the VIPR-GS Research Center to develop Hyperspectral AI technologies for next-generation autonomous off-road vehicles! |
| May 15, 2024 | Awarded a research grant (\$60k) from South Carolina EPSCoR to advance Causal and Trustworthy AI applications in precision healthcare and medical decision-making! |
| Jul 12, 2023 | Published a paper titled “AI-Cybersecurity Education Through Designing AI-based Cyberharassment Detection Lab,” accepted by the 2023 IEEE ASEE Frontiers in Education Conference. |
| Jun 13, 2023 | Invited as a postsecondary expert to support SC K-12 teachers in incorporating AI into their classrooms. |
| Apr 07, 2023 | Two papers on causality and fairness accepted by IJCNN 2023. |
| Mar 10, 2023 | Project “Detecting and mitigating AI bias in automated medical diagnosis” funded by the Prisma Health Seed program. |
| Feb 22, 2023 | Paper “Achieving Counterfactual Fairness for Anomaly Detection” accepted by PAKDD 2023. |
| Nov 15, 2022 | Two papers on causality and fairness accepted by the IEEE Big Data Conference. |
| May 27, 2021 | Collaborative project “Learning Platform and Education Curriculum for Artificial Intelligence-Driven Socially-Relevant Cybersecurity” funded by the NSF SaTC-Edu program. |
| Dec 02, 2020 | Paper “A Generative Adversarial Framework for Bounding Confounded Causal Effects” accepted by AAAI 2021. |
| Sep 25, 2020 | Paper “Fair Multiple Decision Making through Soft Interventions” accepted by NeurIPS 2020. |
| Jul 17, 2020 | Co-taught a fairness course at NSF Track 2 CRESH: Summer School on AI & Smart Health. |
| Apr 17, 2020 | Successfully defended Ph.D. dissertation! |
| Apr 06, 2020 | Accepted an Assistant Professor offer at Clemson University, starting August 2020. |
| Sep 03, 2019 | Paper “PC-Fairness: A Unified Framework for Measuring Causality-based Fairness” accepted for poster presentation at NeurIPS 2019. |
| May 10, 2019 | Two papers accepted by IJCAI 2019: - “Achieving Causal Fairness through Generative Adversarial Networks.”
- “Counterfactual Fairness: Unidentification, Bound and Algorithm.”
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