Teaching & Mentoring

Instructor

• CYBR 442, CINF 496/596 - Trustworthy AI (Under/Grad-level, Spring 2024, Fall 2024)

• CYBR 108 - Programming Essentials for Cybersecurity (Fall 2024)

• CINF 723 - Information and Computing  (Spring 2024)

• CYBR 445/545 - Principles and Practices of Cyber Security (Under/Grad-level, Fall 2023)

• IS 665 - Data Analytics for Information Systems (Graduate-level, Spring 2022)

• ECE 446 - Machine Learning (Undergraduate-level, Spring 2015)

Teaching Assistant

• IS 663 - System Analysis and Design (Fall 2022)

• ECE 353 - Introduction to Probability and Random Signals (Winter 2018)

• CS 325 - Analysis of Algorithm (Fall and Spring 2018)

• CS 290 - Web Development (Summer 2017)

• CS 372 - Introduction to Computer Networks (Spring 2017)

• CS 225 - Discrete Structures in CS (Fall 2016, Winter 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2017, Winter 2017)

• ECE 446 - Artificial Intelligence (Spring 2015). 

Supervisor

• Ph.D. Students: Kiel Dang and Kien Vu (new Ph.D. students starting from Fall 2024)

  • • 5 preprints submitted to AAAI 2025, ACM AsiaCCS 2025, IEEE BigData 2025, CsoNet 2025

Mentoring

• Ph.D. Students: Khang Tran and Pelin Ayranci

  • • Resulted in 4 co-author publications at IEEE BigData 2022, IEEE TMC 2022, and JOCO - Springer 2022

• Master Students: Huong Ngo

• Undergraduate Students: Pradnya Desai, Simran Kaur, Vaisnavi Nemala, Hang Nguyen, and Anuja Badeti

  • • Resulted in 2 co-author publications at ICONIP 2021 and IJCNN 2020. They are now off to Microsoft, Google,  Bloomberg LP, etc. 

    • An undergraduate female student published a paper as the lead author on DP in continual ML at the 28th ICONIP'21, a leading forum in neural networks and related fields. The paper opens up a new direction by discovering unknown privacy risks in continual ML and with an initial solution to address them. Based on that, the student won the following awards:

      1. 1. Pradnya Desai, Finalist for the NCWIT Collegiate Award’2022. The award honors the outstanding and impactful computing contributions of undergraduate and graduate women, gender-queer, or non-binary students national-wide.

         2. Pradnya Desai, Presidential Leadership Awards’2022. This is the most prestigious award that NJIT can bestow upon a student.

         3. Pradnya Desai, 2022 Dana Knox Student Research Showcase Silver Medal. 

  • Highschool Students: Andrew  Dassonville (in Saturday Academy's Apprenticeships in Science & Engineering Program)

  • Vietnam Education Foundation 2.0 (VEF 2.0) and Danang University of Technology 

    • Support Vietnamese students to prepare applications, and improve interviewing, writing, and speaking skills to apply to leading US universities

    • Successful applications

      1. Toan Tran, New York University (Ph.D., Fall 2023) and University of Tennessee (Master, Fall 2021)

      2. An La, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Master, Fall 2021)

      3. Cong Tran, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand (Master, Spring 2023)