People
Collaborators and research partners I work with across institutions.
Core Collaborators
Feras A. Batarseh
Associate Professor, Biological Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech; Director, A3 (AI Assurance and Applications) Lab
Feras A. Batarseh is an Associate Professor with the Department of Biological Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech and the Director of the A3 (AI Assurance and Applications) Lab. His research spans AI Assurance, Cyberbiosecurity, AI for Agriculture and Water, and Data-Driven Public Policy.
Interests: Artificial Intelligence Assurance · Intelligent Water Systems · Cyberbiosecurity · Context and Causality · AI for Agricultural Policy
Yezhuo Li
Research Assistant Professor — Decision Science x Trustworthy AI, Old Dominion University
Research Assistant Professor at Old Dominion University developing reliable and robust decision frameworks for complex data-driven and AI-enabled systems under uncertainty, partial observability, and trust constraints.
Interests: Decision-making under uncertainty · Reliability and sensitivity of decision processes · Imperfect and heterogeneous information · Robustness of data-driven decision systems · Cybersecurity and cyber-physical systems
Research Partners
Akanksha Tyagi
MS Research Assistant — ML x Cybersecurity, University of Arkansas
Akanksha Tyagi is a Master's student in Computer Science at the University of Arkansas and a Research Assistant under Dr. Qinghua Li. Her work centers on ML for cybersecurity, including software vulnerability testing and infrastructure security. Previously, at IIIT Hyderabad, she focused on reinforcement learning for intelligent transportation systems. She also brings experience as a software engineer and web developer, and holds a Bachelor's degree from the College of Engineering Roorkee.
Interests: Cybersecurity (fuzzing and vulnerability detection) · CPS security · Intelligent transportation systems · Generative modeling and optimization
Website · LinkedIn · GitHub · atyagi@uark.edu
Rutba Aman
Lecturer — Computer Science and Engineering, Primeasia University, Dhaka
Interests: Social network privacy and de-anonymization · Machine learning and deep learning · Natural language processing and sentiment analysis · Data mining · Health informatics
Istiak Ahmed
Business Analyst, Servopro IT
Received a B.Sc. degree in Mathematics from Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh. Previous work includes "An Efficient Computational Scheme for Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations in Two Independent Variables," focusing on the application of the method of characteristics for solving hyperbolic partial differential equations and developing compatible computational tools. Currently working at Servopro IT as a Business Data Analyst.
Interests: Data Science · Agentic AI Security · LLMs · Statistics
Umme Rumman
Information Service Assistant; Digital Marketing Executive (SEO), Tottho Apa (Government Project)
Experienced IT professional with a background in software QA, technical support, and digital marketing. Skilled in troubleshooting systems, coordinating projects, and optimizing search performance; eager to apply these skills in complex, data-driven environments.
Interests: Software quality assurance (manual & automation) · Technical troubleshooting and support · SEO / SEM / SMM · Web content and analytics · Go programming (learning)