Team & Mentorship

Students, collaborators, and service activities.

GBAI Lab

Founder & Director

Green Bay AI Lab (GBAI Lab) focuses on efficient, robust, and explainable AI for real-world deployment. We work on resource-aware deep learning and edge AI for computer vision, trustworthy biometrics and cybersecurity, and efficient foundation models for constrained settings.

Student mentorship

Selected

Research mentorship (Ph.D.)

  • Syed Konain Abbas — contactless fingerprint segmentation & spoof synthesis (2023–present) — 2 publications
  • Rashik Shadman — explainable face recognition & transfer learning (2021–2025) — 2 publications
  • Afzal Hossain — biometric recognition & security (2021–2023) · completed MS 2023

Undergraduate advising

  • Logan Dewick — efficient object detection using AI (2023–2025)
  • Bibesh Pyakurel — pavement distress detection using AI (2023–2025)
  • Kong Yang — pavement distress detection using AI (2023–2025)
  • Conrad Gende — edge hazard detection / deployment (2021–2022)

Academic service

Committees · Reviewing

Committees

  • Member, AI Policy & Guidelines Committee, UW–Green Bay (2025–present)
  • Member, Computer Science Curriculum Review Committee, UW–Green Bay (2024–present)

Reviewing & program committees

  • Program Committee: IEEE ICMLA (2025)
  • Journal reviewer: Springer Nature (Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing), Wiley, Elsevier
  • Conference reviewer: IEEE ICMLA; IEEE ICWS; IEEE SERVICES; others