News & Updates

Selected milestones (papers, submissions, grants, talks). For the most complete record, see the CV and Google Scholar.

2026

  • 2026 Jan 2026: Submitted work on a controlled evaluation of prompted LLM inference vs. fine-tuned encoders (under review).
  • 2026 Jan 2026: Submitted Green NLP work on accuracy–latency–energy trade-offs for online abuse detection (under review).
  • 2026 Spring 2026: Launching the Trustworthy Language Intelligence Lab (TLI Lab) as the research home for security-aware NLP, benchmarking, and efficiency-focused evaluation.

2025

  • 2025 COMPSAC 2025: Published comparative analysis of transformer vs. traditional ML models for cyberbullying detection (DOI).
  • 2025 Dec 2025: Submitted curated UHS Twitter/X dataset and documentation for incident-response utility (under review).
  • 2025 Oct 2025: Presented “CyberTweetGrader&Labeler: Social Media Analytics for Cyberattack Intelligence” at the ND EPSCoR Annual State Conference.
  • 2025 2025–2026: Faculty Small Grant funded to expand and validate CTGL.

2024

  • 2024 MICS 2024: Student-mentored publications on FIFA World Cup sentiment/theme analysis and AI vs. human text detection.
  • 2024 Apr 2024: Co-coordinated the Minot State AI & Data Summit (student posters + mentoring).

Earlier

  • 2023 ICAIIC 2023: Published “Twitter User Sentiments Analysis: Health System Cyberattacks Case Study.”

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