At present, I am working on improving robustness of ML practical applications, Data Quality and security
assurance, improving security and robustness of Federated Learning.
12/2024 I am proud to be selected as one of the fellows for 2025 Teach Access Fellowship
cohort! Teach
Access is a non-profit, sponsored by Microsoft and other organizations, that collaborates with academic
institutions and industry oriented in supporting educators to teach and students to learn about digital
accessibility. As a fellow, I am eager to use the resources and support provided to benefit the community. I
look forward to collaborating with other program fellows to exchange ideas, and share effective strategies,
knowledge, and experience that will enrich my approach to enhancing the accessibility of the courses I am
currently teaching and will developing for Spring and Fall 2025 semesters at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.
08/2024: I am pleased to announce that on 09/01 I will be joining University of Texas Rio Grande Valley as an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) in the Department of Computer Science. I look forward to
contributing to the academic community, continuing my research in AI/ML security and robustness, and working
alongside the outstanding faculty team headed by Dr. Emmet Tomai, the
Department Chair.
04/2024: On 04/29, my PhD dissertation defense has commenced (successfully) at RIT. This is an
important milestone in my life, which has been achieved through the years of hard but truly inspiring,
passionate, and rewarding work of solving challenging problems and building my unique knowledge and skill
sets. Success is rarely achieved in isolation, and this dissertation would not have been possible without the
unwavering support and guidance of a remarkable group of individuals, who significantly contributed to shaping
and maturing my research endeavor, including my advisor, Dr. Leon Reznik, and my PhD dissertation committee members: Dr. Ivan De Oliveira
Nunes, Dr. Stanislaw Radziszowski, and Dr. Igor Khohklov.
I extend my deepest gratitude for the help in maturing myself as a researcher, and for the opportunity to have
a collaboration with them to: Dr. Ernest Fokoue, Dr. Richard Zanibbi, Dr. Roman Yampolskiy, Dr. Sergey
Lyshevski, Dr. Garegin Grigoryan, Dr. Haibo Yang, Dr. Ilia Viksnin, Dr. Igor Komarov, Raman Zatsarenko,
Dmitrii Korobeinikov, Harshil Patel, Anirudh Narayanan, Shivam Mahajan, Chirayu Anil Marathe, Moinuddin Memon,
Kartavya Manojbhai Bhatt, Rahul Ganesh, Matthew Hyland, John Flory, Antoun Obeid, Akshaya Nandkishor Satam,
Srujan Shetty, Ruslan Gataullin, Iuliia Kim, Egor Marinenkov, Pavel Belyaev, Evgenii Neverov, Nikita Tursukov,
Eduard Lazarev, Timofey Melnikov, Maria Usova, Julia Lyakhovenko, Dr. Kseniya Salakhutdinova, and many others.
To all of you, my deepest gratitude!
09/2023: I am excited to announce that Dr. Reznik and myself are starting our new (2023-2026) research project funded by NSF:
Collaborative research: IDEAS lab: ETAUS: Smarter Microbial Observatories for Realtime ExperimentS
(SMORES). This big ($1.5M) project will be performed in collaboration between Harvard University, RIT,
Florida International University and University of Georgia. It involves studies and practical work in biology,
AI and engineering as well as field underwater experiments in Florida and California. The project will study
marine sediments, which play a critical role in natural carbon sequestration. We propose to develop a novel
seafloor sensor/sampler array to better understand how tidal pumping and subsurface currents influence
seafloor oxygenation and sedimentary carbon cycling. Our team will be responsible for developing smarter
control systems that use ML models and techniques to understand how to make intelligent predictions about when
and where to best sense/sample based on the historical and real-time data.
06/2023: On 06/14, I had the opportunity to serve as a volunteer judge for the students' science projects presented at the international GENIUS Olympiad held at RIT. With students
coming from all over the world, the event was an amazing platform for cultural exchange and development! The
opportunity to serve as a judge was extremely beneficial for me in various ways. I was excited and pleased to
enhance my knowledge about approaches to sustainable environmental problems in different world regions, as
well as improve my skills in project evaluation and grading, which I will definitely leverage in my future
career. I had a chance to talk with many students about their projects, and I was astonished by their
confidence, knowledge, and the employed efforts on the problems they are working on! I firmly believe that
such olympiads and contests are indeed fundamental and advantageous in the early stage to motivate future
professionals in their endeavors to make our world better.
06/2023: From 06/05 to 06/06 I had a great opportunity to present our recent research results at the
IEEE CAI 2023 conference happened in Santa Clara, CA.
I presented two research papers there: Federated Learning for Robust Computer Vision in Intelligent
Transportation Systems (Chuprov, S., Bhatt, K.M., & Reznik, L.); and Federated Learning with Trust Evaluation for Industrial
Applications (Chuprov, S., Memon,
M., & Reznik, L.).
The second paper was included into the 10 best conference's papers list based on the reviews, and
was selected for the oral presentation during the technical sessions. I want to express the most
sincere gratitude to the IEEE CAI'23 organizers and reviewers for this incredible privilege, and to the
amazing public for their attention and the chance to obtain useful feedback and aspects for the future work
from the Q&A discussion. In addition, I want to congratulate my co-authors and thank them for their valuable
contributions: Kartavya, Moinuddin, and Dr. Reznik! Without you, these papers would not be possible.
05/2023: Our paper, ``Robust
Autonomous Vehicle Computer-Vision-Based Localization in Challenging Environmental Conditions'' has been
finally published in the ``Challenges in the Guidance, Navigation and Control of Autonomous and Transport
Vehicles'' Special Issue, MDPI Applied Sciences
Journal.
04/2023: From 04/21 to 04/22 I had been privileged to participate in UPSTAT 2023 conference
that took place at the Rochester Institute of Technology. At the event, I presented our work ``Enhancing
Federated Learning Security with Reputation and Trust-Based Indicators'' authored by myself, Prof. Leon
Reznik, and Moinuddin Memon (both affiliated with RIT). I am thrilled to announce that our work won the
Gold Medal in the poster session! I want to express our deep gratitude to the UPSTAT'23 Organizing
Committee and to all conference's participants!
01/2023: From 01/23 to 01/27 I had an honor to participate in POWDER-RENEW Mobile and Wireless Week 2023
at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City. The event was diligently organized by the POWDER team and was full
of novel and useful knowledge and hands-on practical tutorials on how to work with the POWDER platform. POWDER
team-members were really friendly and eager to help in case of any questions and issues. During the event, I
have developed both my personal skills and knowledge, and also new collaborations with other participants,
which will definitely help me to advance my further research. Greatly appreciate POWDER team vigilance and
organization, and looking forward to the next year event!
11/2022: From 10/30 to 11/02 I had an amazing time in Dallas, TX, participating in 2022 IEEE Sensors
conference. Any conference is about people, and the Sensors community definitely proves this thesis! So many
engaging talks and interesting speakers. I also presented our two papers, which you can find below in
Conference Proceedings section.
08/2022: I am happy to announce that our paper ``Study on Destructive Informational
Impact in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Intergroup Communication'' has been finally published in the MDPI
Symmetry Journal's Special Issue ``Symmetry in Distributed Algorithms and Parallel Algorithms and Their
Applications''. I want to thank all the co-authors contributed to this paper: Egor, Nikita, Iuliia, and
Ilia - congrats!
07/2022: Congrats to my colleague, Dr. Ilia Viksnin, who have recently published his co-authored book in Russian:
``Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Safety: Informational, Functional and Criminal Law Aspects''! The book
discusses issues in understanding the responsibility for unmanned autonomous vehicles safety accidents, and
proposes interesting insights related to the topic. I also contributed to the book publishing process by
assisting with the editing and proofreading. Please, use this link for the reference.
05/2022: I am happy to announce that I have completed my first Ph.D. year at RIT and successfully
passed the Research Potential Assessment. I want to kindly thank all who have been helping me in this journey,
especially, my pre-assessment committee members: Dr. De Oliveira Nunes,
Dr. Radziszowski,
and my advisor Dr. Reznik.
08/2021: I am starting my Ph.D. in Computing and Information Sciences at RIT, under the supervision of
Prof. Leon Reznik.