| Oct 20, 2026 | Preparing “LeakScope: Lifecycle-Aware Static Detection of Memory Retention Patterns in Android” (lead author) for submission to the 25th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys 2027). |
| Oct 05, 2026 | Presented at ISSRE 2026 (Limassol, Cyprus) — Doctoral Symposium talk, tool-pitch, and poster on “Toward Reliable Detection of Android Lifecycle Violations with Static Analysis and Domain-Adapted Code Models.” |
| Sep 30, 2026 | Received the Award for Excellence in Research & Innovation from AIEYS (AI-Explain You Science), Excellence Recognition Award 2026. |
| Sep 20, 2026 | Received the Research Excellence Award at ACMRD 2026 & the 10th International CoSiM Conference, Uelzen and Berlin, Germany. |
| Sep 05, 2026 | Delivered an invited keynote, “Bridging Program Analysis and Large Language Models for Mobile App Security and Reliability,” at ACMRD 2026 (Uelzen & Berlin, Germany, online). |
| May 11, 2026 | Passed my PhD dissertation proposal defense. My committee has approved the proposal on LLM-assisted static analysis for Android memory leak detection. |
| Apr 25, 2026 | Competing in the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition at Wichita State University Graduate School — presenting doctoral research in three minutes to a general audience. |
| Apr 15, 2026 | Serving as a peer reviewer for IEEE Communications Standards Magazine (2026). |
| Apr 01, 2026 | Serving as a reviewer for the Iraqi Journal of Information and Communication Technology (2026). |
| Jan 15, 2026 | Began mentoring an undergraduate researcher and a junior PhD student at the Software Analysis and Intelligence Laboratory on static program analysis and empirical evaluation workflows. |
| Oct 05, 2025 | Passed my PhD Qualifying Examination, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Wichita State University. |
| Oct 02, 2025 | Received the Research Excellence Award at the 3rd International Conference on Emerging Trends and Innovation, 2025. |
| Oct 01, 2025 | Received the Young Researcher Award at the 3rd International Conference on Emerging Trends and Innovation, 2025. |
| Oct 15, 2024 | Oral presentation at CANSec 2024 (17th Central Area Networking and Security Workshop), University of Oklahoma — “Software-Based Side-Channel Attacks in Software-Defined Networks.” |
| Feb 20, 2024 | Technical workshop/demo at WuLUG — “Timing Side-Channel Attacks and Defenses for Login Authentication.” Demonstrated timing side-channel risk in password-checking logic and presented mitigation code for constant-time comparison. |
| Nov 15, 2023 | Poster presentation at the WSU College of Engineering Research Day, John Bardo Center, Wichita State University — “Software-Based Side-Channel Attacks.” |