Apr 18, 2025 -- My students, Mahsa Khazaei and Elaina Rohlfing, presented a poster at the UMSL Graduate Research Fair.

Apr 11, 2025 -- Gave an invited talk at Kansas City University, for the Nexus Informatics conference.

Apr 01, 2025 -- My students, Mahsa Khazaei and Elaina Rohlfing, presented a poster at the UMSL Research and Innovation event.

Mar 28, 2025 -- The poster of my PhD student, Mahsa Khazaei, won the award and was selected for presentation.

Mar 02, 2025 -- Our paper (by Mahsa Khazaei) got accepted in SoftwareX journal.

Feb 25, 2025 -- Our paper (by Junzhi Wen) got accepted in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series.

Feb 03, 2025 -- Following a new awarded NSF grant (PI: Dr. India Jackson), I will be serving as the Scientific Mentor for this project. 🎉

Feb 10-12, 2025 -- Attended the COSPAR ISWAT 2025 Working Meeting in Florida.

Jan 15, 2025 -- A new MS student will be joining my team.

Nov 21, 2024 -- Gave an invited talk in the NSF Rare Event Workshop, at UChicago.

Oct 26, 2024 -- Our paper (by Mahsa Khazaei) was accepted in Big Data 2024 conference. [link]

Oct 20, 2024 -- A blog post about our recently released dataset was published. [link]

Oct 16-19, 2024 -- Served on the Scientific Organizing Committee of the 2024 SEP Forecasting workshop at Georgia State University.

Sep 11, 2024 -- Our paper was accepted in Nature, Scientific Data journal.

Sep 08, 2024 -- Mahsa Khazaei submitted a paper to Big Data 2024.

Aug 28, 2024 -- Gave an invited talk at Saint Louis University (SLU).

Aug 20, 2024 -- Three undergraduate students joined my team for Fall 2024.

Aug 10, 2024 -- A graduate student joined my team for Fall 2024.

Aug 02, 2024 -- Received NSF REU award. 🎉

Aug 01, 2024 -- Gave a talk for the TGI's GeoAI working group.

May 21, 2024 -- Gave an invited talk for the Boulder Solar Alliance Seminar.

May 17, 2024 -- Served as a Committee Member for the PhD Candidacy Presentation of Amulya Reddy Lakku.

Apr 26, 2024 -- My graduate student, Kartik Chaurasiya, defended his M.S. Project and passed.

Apr 22, 2024 -- Served as a Committee Member for the Master's Thesis Defense of Arun Kumar.

Apr 19, 2024 -- Served as a judge for the UMSL Graduate Research Fair.

Apr 18, 2024 -- Presented a poster at the Space Weather Workshop.

Mar 20, 2024 -- Was awarded the UMSL Research Award. 🎉

Mar 01, 2024 -- Hired graduate students and closed the search.

Feb 09, 2024 -- Submitted an internal grant proposal.

Feb 01, 2024 -- Started the international search for prospective graduate students.

Jan 11, 2024 -- Our NASA proposal was selected (F.2 Topical Workshops, Symposia, and Conferences) 🎉

Dec 07, 2023 -- Alekhya Nagubandi and Rohan Adhyapak defended their M.S. Project and passed.

Oct 26, 2023 -- Gave an invited talk for the Lowell Center for Space Science & Technology at UMass Lowell. [link]

Jul 15, 2023 -- Joined the University of Missouri St. Louis, as an Assistant Professor.

Mar 20, 2023 -- Served as a panelist for NSF.

Jan 06, 2023 -- Teaching Data Science Capstone (DSCI 4350) this semester again.

Dec 27, 2022 -- Two new MS students cleared the technical interviews and received RA offers for the Spring 2023.

Nov 10, 2022 -- Gave an invited talk at the Institute for Space Weather Sciences (ISWS), at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) [link]

Nov 02, 2022 -- Launched the MLEcoFi website for tracking the progress of our NSF awarded project. [link]

Oct 01, 2022 -- Started the interview process of the prospective Ph.D. students for the Data Mining Lab.

Sep 20, 2022 -- Became an Associate Editor for the journal of Expert Systems With Applications. [link]

Sep 18, 2022 -- Was invited to serve as the program committee member for the 17th ICDM International Workshop, SSTDM-2022. [link]

Aug 01, 2022 -- Started the interview process of the prospective M.S. students for my project MLEcoFI, and the Data Mining Lab.

Jul 20, 2022 -- Shreejaa Talla and Krishna Puthucode defended their M.S. Capstone projects and passed. 

Jul 19, 2022 -- Won a CSSI NSF Award. (Award No. 2209912) [link] 🎉

Jun 19, 2022 -- Our paper got accepted in the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP). [link]  

Jun 14, 2022 -- Our paper got accepted in the ECML PKDD conference. [link] 

Jun 01, 2022 -- Our paper got accepted in the 21st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing. 

May 01, 2022 -- Started my new job as a Research Assistant Professor at the Georgia State University.

Apr 27, 2022 -- Our paper got accepted in the Neural Computing and Applications journal. [link] 

Apr 09, 2022 -- Our paper got accepted in the Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) journal. [link] 

Apr 03, 2022 -- Agreed to  serve as Program Committee member for ECML PKDD 2022.

Mar 14, 2022 -- Agreed to review for the Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) journal.

Mar 04, 2022 -- Gave an invited talk for the ACM Chapter at Georgia State University.

Dec 11, 2021 -- My students and I gave 3 talks at the AGU Fall Meeting 2021. [link]

Sep 23, 2021 -- Our paper got accepted in the SFE-TSDM workshop of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM). [link] 

Aug 19, 2021 -- Egill Gunnarsson defended his M.S. Capstone projects and passed. 

Jul 13, 2021 -- Junzhi Wen defended his M.S. Capstone projects and passed. 

May 20, 2021 -- Our paper got accepted in the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) conference. [link] 

May 01, 2021 -- Started my new job as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Data Mining Lab at the Georgia State University.

Apr 01, 2021 -- Announced my 2nd Summer Code Sprint class for graduate students. [link]