2022: Collaborated with my Ph.D. advisor on several successful NSF-funded grant proposals aligned with my dissertation research.
Student Mentoring
Aug’24-Current: Mentoring an undergraduate and a graduate student to cultivate a skilled and experienced researcher.
Aug'22-Dec'23: Mentored an undergraduate and two graduate research students to enhance their research experience through weekly meetings focused on reviewing existing literature, exploring new ideas, brainstorming solutions, and publishing multiple collaborative articles.
Outreach
May'24: Lectured on prompt engineering, emphasizing the role of AI tools in developing research ideas, as part of the EPIC SPICE Internship program under the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) STEM Internship Program.
Lab Management
Jan'23-Current: Supervising the Shehu AI Lab by leading weekly group meetings, engaging in research discussions with fellow students, and managing lab resources effectively.
Aug-Dec'22: Managed the Machine Learning Reading Group, facilitating weekly presentations and discussions on scholarly articles and recent advancements in the ML community.
External Reviewer
2024: Large Language Models for Biological Discoveries (AAAI 2024: LLMs4Bio)
2024: GIGAScience
2022-2024: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
2021-2024: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB)
2024: Biology Methods and Protocols (BMP)
2021-2024: Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB)