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2025:

January: Serving as a Faculty Hiring Committee Member
January: I have started working as "Lead (Administrative & Instructional)" for Break Through Tech AI Program, UMD Instructional Hub. The Break Through Tech AI Program, initiated by Cornell Tech, empowers students, particularly women and underrepresented groups, with skills in high-demand tech fields like data science, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML), helping them secure jobs in the fastest-growing areas of tech.

Oct 28: Paper name "SuperFoldAE: Enhancing Protein Fold Classification with Autoencoders" got accepted in Computational Structural Bioinformatics Workshop (CSBW 2024), the proceedings will be published by Springer as part of the CCIS series. Congratulations to my students Shraddha Patre and Riya Kanani!
Oct 26: Conducted a Workshop for Technica 2025 on the topic of "Empower your Date: Neural Network with Pytorch".
Sep 18-21: I will be joining the Richard Tapia Conference in San Diego as a Judge for the ACM Research Poster Competition.
September: Serving both CS Undergrad Scholarship committee and D&I Committee (2024 - 2025).
May 2024: Check out my interview with Technica https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBvIbUqa8q4&t=24s
Jan 2023 - August 2024: Serving as a Faculty Hiring Committee Member
March 20 -23: Attended ACM SIGCSE Symposium, Oregon, Portland.

October 16: Serving as a Faculty Panelist for "Academic Jobs Workshop" organized by UMD CS department; Location IRB-4105 (CMNS), time: 1-3 pm.
June 06: Check out my interview for joining UMD. Thanks to CS UMD for their warm welcome and recognition.
May 05: I am thrilled to share that I will be receiving the "Outstanding Dissertation Award 2023" from the Department of CS, George Mason University, VA for my Ph.D. dissertation work on "Deep latent variable models for learning representations of protein tertiary structures". Time to celebrate!
April 29: I am excited to share that I am going to be the Program Co-Chair of the 16th Computational Structural Bioinformatics Workshop (CSBW 2023) at ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB) 2023, Houston, TX. The accepted paper link can be found here.
April 28 ( Time: 10:50 am EST): I have completed my Ph.D. Public Defense successfully and became a Doctorate!
March 29 ( Time: 1:54 pm EST): I have passed my Ph.D. Pre-Defense successfully!

December 1: Excited to announce that my paper entitled "Data Size and Quality Matter: Generating Physically-realistic Distance Maps of Protein Tertiary Structures" published in Biomolecules MDPI (ISSN 2218-273X) ( IF: 6.064) Journal has been chosen as an Editor's 2022 Choice Article.
November 21: I received the IEEE BIBM/CSBW travel award to attend IEEE BIBM Conference Workshop 2022 in Las Vegas, USA.
August 1: My journal paper named "Data Size and Quality Matter: Generating Physically-realistic Distance Maps of Protein Tertiary Structures" has been selected and featured as "Title Story" of the Journal Biomolecules (ISSN 2218-273X) ( IF: 6.064) and is currently visible on their homepage.
January 14: My Advancement to Candidacy approved officially.

December 06 ( Eastern Time 4:00 pm): I have passed my Ph.D. Proposal successfully.
May 07 ( Eastern Time 2:51 pm): I have passed my Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam successfully.

August 24 ( Eastern Time 7:08 pm): I have passed all of my Ph.D. Qualifying Exams (attended Summer-2018) successfully.