Earned Machine Learning Specialization from Stanford University

Successfully completed the Machine Learning Specialization from Stanford University, deepening my expertise in advanced machine learning techniques and applications.

Awarded CPS Rising Star 2025 Fellowship

Received a highly competitive fellowship (<0.17% acceptance rate) to attend the NSF Cyber Physical Systems Rising Star Workshop and PI meeting to establish scholarships and networks among the CPS community.

Papers Accepted at IROS 2024

Two papers accepted at the 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS): "HGP-RL: Distributed Hierarchical Gaussian Processes for Wi-Fi-based Relative Localization in Multi-Robot Systems" and co-authored "Anchor-Oriented Localized Voronoi Partitioning for GPS-denied Multi-Robot Coverage."

Received Pioneers of Natural Sciences Laboratory Robotics Award

My work on "PhysicsAssistant" has been selected for the Pioneers of Natural Sciences Laboratory Robotics talk at ICRA 2024 Accelerating Scientific Discovery Workshop and received an award of £500, funded by the Leverhulme Research Centre for Functional Materials Design and the Acceleration Consortium.

G-SciEdBERT Model Published on Hugging Face

Our G-SciEdBERT model, a contextualized LLM for Science Assessment Tasks in German, is now available on Hugging Face. This specialized model is fine-tuned for automatic scoring of German-language science education assessments.

Paper on ChatGPT Fine-tuning Published

Our research on fine-tuning ChatGPT for automatic scoring of educational assessments has been published in Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence. This work demonstrates significant improvements in scoring accuracy by using specialized fine-tuning techniques.

Appointed as Guest Editor for International Journal of Science Education Special Issue

Selected to serve as a Guest Editor for a special issue titled "The Game-Changer: Generative Artificial Intelligence for Science Education and Research" in the International Journal of Science Education.

PhD Dissertation Nominated for Distinguished Dissertation Award

My PhD dissertation has been nominated by the University of Georgia for the 2024 CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award based on the quality and impact of my work in the field of computer science and robotics.

AI Gender Bias Research Preprint Released

Released a preprint of our research paper "AI Gender Bias, Disparities, and Fairness: Does Training Data Matter?" exploring important ethical considerations in AI development.

Paper Published in Algorithms Journal

Our paper "On the Intersection of Computational Geometry Algorithms with Mobile Robot Path Planning" has been published in the journal Algorithms.