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| Aug 18, 2025 | 📰 Featured in IE@Purdue News and Media — Best Paper Award on Burn Diagnosis, LinkedIn, X/Twitter |
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| Aug 01, 2025 | ✨ Awarded NSF Robust Intelligence (RI) Grant — EAGER: Theoretical Foundations for Integrating Foundational Models into Reinforcement Learning (Award #2521982), $300,000, 2025–2027, PI: Juan P. Wachs, serving as Key Personnel. Excited to see support for this project I’ve been working on for quite a while. Grateful for the opportunity to take it further! |
| Jul 30, 2025 | 🔗 Affiliated with CARE — Founding member of the Center for AI and Robotic Excellence in Medicine (CARE) at Purdue University. |
| Jul 17, 2025 | 🏆 Awarded Best Paper Award (Full Paper Poster Category) at MIUA 2025 for the paper titled: Knowledge-Driven Hypothesis Generation for Burn Diagnosis from Ultrasound with Vision- Language Model. 🏆 Received Best Poster Presentation Award at MIUA 2025. |
| Jul 15, 2025 | Attending MIUA 2025 at the University of Leeds, UK. |
| Jun 24, 2025 | 📑 A paper got accepted to the JMIR Medical Informatics 2025. Paper title: AI-Driven Integrated System for Burn Depth Prediction With Electronic Medical Records: Algorithm Development and Validation. |
| Jun 23, 2025 | ✨ Awarded a grant through the Health of the Forces Pilot Funding Program (Purdue University) for our project “Accelerated Expertise: AI-Powered Diagnostic Pathways for Rapid Clinical Mastery of Burns,” in collaboration with Dr. Juan Wachs (Industrial Engineering) and Dr. Aniket Bera (Computer Science). This project aims to enhance acute care and long-term outcomes for burn-injured service members using AI-powered diagnostic tools. Excited to continue working at the intersection of AI and burn care! |
| May 25, 2025 | 📑 An abstract paper has been accepted to the Plastic Surgery The Meeting (PSTM) 2025. The work will be presented at PSTM 2025 — the premier annual conference organized by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS)— at the New Orleans, Louisiana, in October 2025. |
| May 20, 2025 | 📑 An abstract paper has been accepted to the Military Health System Research Symposium (MHSRS) 2025. Paper title: A Chain-of-Thought AI Reasoning Framework for Burn Diagnosis. The work will be presented at MHSRS — the leading forum for military health research — at the Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center in Kissimmee, FL, in August 2025. |
| May 12, 2025 | 📑 A paper has been accepted to the Annual Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA) 2025. Paper title: Knowledge-Driven Hypothesis Generation for Burn Diagnosis from Ultrasound with a Vision-Language Model. Attending MIUA in July in Leeds, UK. |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 📑 A paper got accepted to the Military Medicine Journal 2025. Paper title: A Framework for Advancing Burn Assessment with Artificial Intelligence. |
| Nov 27, 2024 | 🏁 Completed NSF I-Corps Hub: Great Lakes Region. Digital Badge. |
| Nov 04, 2024 | 🚀 Started my Postdoc at Purdue University, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering. The program is currently ranked 1st for online master’s, 2nd for undergraduate, and 3rd for graduate Industrial Engineering by the U.S. News & World Report 2025. |
| Sep 24, 2024 | 🎓 Defended my Ph.D. Thesis. |
| Jul 31, 2024 | 🪧 Presenting a paper on AI for burn care at the Military Health System Research Symposium (MHSRS) 2024 in August, Kissimmee, FL. |
| Jul 31, 2024 | 🎤 Lightning talk on AI in Burn Surgery at ADSA 2024 in October at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
| Jul 31, 2024 | 🎤 Tutorial session on RL Benchmarking at ADSA 2024 in October at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
| Jul 17, 2024 | 📋 🎤 NAACL 2024: Organizer and Chair of the Birds of a Feather (BoF) session on Vision-Language Models in Medical Surgery. |
| May 21, 2024 | 🎤 Lightning talk on Vision-Language Model in Deep RL at MMLS 2024. |