EVTS: A Topology-Aware Metric for Evaluating RNA Velocity Embedding Faithfulness
International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine (ICIBM), 2026.
Building Your Data Science Toolkit for Research
TCRDF Research & Innovation Week, 2023.
Student Research Presentations Mentored
Dania M. Zein — Embedding Robustness and Topology Preservation in RNA Velocity Analysis
Oral Presentation, Emerging Researchers National Conference in STEM, 2026.
First Place, Data Science Division.
Dania M. Zein — Uncovering Transcriptional Dynamics in COVID-19: Integrating PBMC scRNA-Seq and RNA Velocity
Poster Presentation, Emerging Researchers National Conference in STEM, 2025.
First Place, Computer Sciences and Information Management Category.
Raven Lee — Transformer-Based Classification of Parkinson's Disease from EEG Using BIDS-Formatted OpenNeuro Datasets
Accepted research paper, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2026.
Raven Lee — Transformer-Based Machine Learning for EEG Data Analysis
Oral Presentation, Mississippi IDeA Conference, 2025.
First Place Oral Presentation.
Selected Professional Activities
NSF Reviewer, 2023–2025.
Referee for journals and conferences in applied mathematics, computational biology, bioinformatics, control theory, and data science.
Organizer, Annual Kincheloe Research Symposium, 2019–2023.
MAA Louisiana/Mississippi Section NExT Fellow, 2016–2017.