Archer Fellowship Graduation

Graduated from the Summer 2025 Archer Fellowship. Pictured left to right: Katie C. Romano, Obaid Ullah Ahmad, and John M. Zerwas, MD.

DoD Workshop

Attended the 2025 Department of Defense Institutions of Higher Education (IHE) Opportunities Workshop and Intern Symposium as an Atlantic Council representative [Jul 2025]

AI+ expo

Attended the AI+ expo as an Atlantic Council representative [Jun 2025]

2025 Summer Fellow at Geotech Center

Interned at the Geotech Center of the Atlantic Council, focusing on AI and technology policy [Jun 2025]

Graduate Archer Fellowship

Selected as a Summer 2025 Graduate Archer Fellow. Spent Summer 2025 in the Nation’s Capital, Washington D.C., learning about policy making [May 2025]

PhD Proposal

Successfully presented my dissertation proposal [Apr 2025]

Three Minute Thesis

Finalist: The University of Texas at Dallas 2025 Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Competition

Competed as a finalist in the 3MT® challenge, presenting my dissertation research in clear, engaging language for a general audience within three minutes. [Apr 2025]

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The International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications 2024

Attended CNA 2024 and presented my work on  "Learning Backbones: Sparsifying Graphs

through Zero Forcing for Effective Graph-Based Learning" [Dec 2024]

2024 American Control Conference

Attended ACC 2024 and presented my work on  "Control-based graph embeddings with data augmentation for contrastive learning" [July 2024]

Annual NACURH Conference

70th annual NACURH conference, New Mexico State University, NM as a delegate of RHA UTD. [May 2024]

Regional Leadership Conference

Attended SWACURH RLC 2023 as a delegate of RHA UTD. [Nov 2023]

Qualifying Exam

Successfully passed the qualifying exam for a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in the spring of 2023. [Mar 2023]