CV

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Education

• B.S.E. in Computer Science, University of Pennsylvania, 2003
• M.S.E. in Computer Graphics and Game Technology, University of Pennsylvania, 2008
• Ph.D in Computer Science, Lehigh University, 2013

Work experience

• 2019 - Current: Associate Professor of Computer Science, Drexel University

• 2014-2019: Assistant Professor of Computing Sciences, Villanova University

• 2018: Visiting Faculty, Naval Research Laboratory

• 2018: Visiting Scholar of Computer Science, University of Delaware

• 2017: Visiting Faculty Scholar, Los Alamos National Laboratory

• 2012-2014: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, The College of New Jersey

• 2008-2013: IDEA Lab Research Assistant, Lehigh University

Recent Publications

Guided Ultrasound Imaging using a Deep Regression Network

Using Sinusoidally-Modulated Noise as a Surrogate for Slow-Wave Sleep to Accomplish Stable Unsupervised Dictionary Learning in a Spike-Based Sparse Coding Models

Modeling Biological Immunity to Adversarial Examples

Learning Spiking Neural Network Models of Drosophila Olfaction

Talks

wHealth - A Window to your future health

January 01, 2013

Invited Presentation at Health 2.0 Fall Conference, CA

Digital Pathology Annotation Data 2017

February 01, 2017

Conference Presentation at SPIE Medical Imaging 2017, San Diego, CA

NICE 2019

December 01, 2019

Conference Presentation at Neuro inspired Computational Elements, NY

CVPR 2020

July 16, 2020

Conference Presentation at CVPR2020, CVPR

AI/ML Reading group at Drexel University

September 01, 2020

Reading group at Drexel University AIML Weekly Reading Group, Philadelphia, PA

Fighting Bias in AI

April 01, 2021

Panel Presentation at PhillyTechWeek, Virtual

Multipath Face Recognition

June 01, 2021

Presentation at Drexel AI, Virtual

Recent Teaching

CS 383/613 Machine Learning

Recent Grant Funding

• “New Frameworks for Ethical Research Amidst Emerging Digital Technologies, Algorithms, and Privacy Norms.” National Science Foundation, NSF. Co-PI, $45,450 7/26/2021.
• “Spartacus-X: Sparse Coding and Extraction of Ultrasound Knowledge for Explainable POCUS AI.” Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, DARPA. Co-PI, $1,000,000, 5/1/2021.
• “The Bias in the Machine.” Drexel University Office of Research & Innovation. PI, $5,000, 8/7/2020.
• “COVID-19: Digital Platform for Patient Recruitment, Testing, Prediction.” Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Key Personnel, $496,783, 6/26/2020.
• “REU Supplement on NSF CAREER Award.” National Science Foundation. PI, $7,900, 9/1/2020.
• “Development of an Automated and Scalable Virtual Assistant to Aid in PPE Ad- herence and Clinical Protocols for Healthcare Worker Safety.” MSH-UHN AMO Innovation Fund. Co-PI, $46,962, 4/17/2020.
• “CAREER: Sparse Associative Deep Learning using Neural Mimicry in Multi- modal Machine Learning.” National Science Foundation NSF CAREER Award. PI, $494,464, 6/1/2019.
• “Hierarchical Sparse Coding for Robustness against Adversarial Attack.” Intel Corporation. PI, $33,566, 9/1/2018.
  Awards