Professional Service
I am committed to advancing the scientific community through active participation in peer review, mentoring emerging researchers, and organizing high-impact conferences and workshops.

Peer Review Activities

Government Agencies

  • DOE Office of Science: Accelerator Stewardship and Accelerator Development Comparative Review Panel, FY 2023
  • DOE Office of Science: Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR), FY 2023 Phase-1 Release 2
  • DOE Office of Science: Accelerator Stewardship and Accelerator Development Review Panel, FY 2024

Journals

  • Machine Learning: Science and Technology - [3 reviews]
  • Engineering Research Express - [3 reviews]
  • Journal of Computational and Cognitive Engineering - [2 reviews]
  • Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical - [1 review]
  • Journal of Supercomputing - [1 review]
  • Physical Review Accelerator and Beams - [1 review]
  • American Journal of Neural Networks and Applications - [1 review]

Conferences & Workshops

  • IJCNN 2025 - Main Track Area Chair
  • IEEE ICASSP 2026 - Area Chair
  • NeurIPS 2025 - ML and Physical Science Workshop
  • AAAI 2025 - Multi-Agent AI in the Real World Workshop
  • CHEP 2024 - 27th International Conference on Computing in HEP
  • IJCNN 2026 - Main Track Area Chair
  • 2nd International Conference on Computer Technology and Information Science

Mentorship Activities

I am dedicated to mentoring the next generation of scientists and engineers across diverse career stages, from high school students to postdoctoral researchers.

Postdoctoral Researchers

  • Ahmed Mohammed (2023–present) - Postdoc, Data Science Department, Jefferson Lab, Newport News, VA

Graduate Students

  • Arun Thakur (Spring 2025) - MS Capstone Project, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
  • Ashish Verma (Spring 2025) - MS Capstone Project, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
  • Alex Broderick (Spring 2025) - MS Capstone Project, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
  • Victor Minjares Neriz (Summer 2024) - MS Student, Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, Mexico
  • Alex Glandon (2022) - PhD Student, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA

Undergraduate & High School

  • Denis Furletov (2021–2025) - Bachelor Student, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
  • Alan Li (2021) - High School Student
  • Daniel Khalil (2021) - High School Student

Conference & Workshop Organization

I actively contribute to the scientific community by organizing and chairing sessions at premier international conferences and workshops focused on machine learning, particle accelerators, and AI applications.

Convener & Area Chair

  • Convener - AI/ML for Accelerators, AI for EIC Workshop 2025
  • Area Chair - International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2025), Rome, Italy

Scientific Organizing Committee

  • 5th ICFA Beam Dynamics Mini-Workshop on Machine Learning for Particle Accelerators, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, April 2025
  • 4th ICFA Beam Dynamics Mini-Workshop on Applications of ML in Particle Accelerators, Gyeongju-si, South Korea, March 2024
  • AI for Robust Engineering and Science (2023, 2024, 2025)
  • AI4EIC International Hackathon (2022), College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
  • Jefferson Lab AI/ML Hackathon (2021), Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA

Program & Session Chair

  • Program Chair - AI for Robust Engineering and Science 2024, Richland, WA, May 2024
  • Session Chair - Field Summaries Session, ICFA Beam Dynamics Workshop 2024
  • Session Chair - Assured Digital Twins for Robust Engineering and Science, AIRES 2023