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#: CSUB Student supervised by Dr. Lei
- Chief Researcher, CERC
May 20, 2026
I was selected as a CERC Chief Researcher. This appointment provides an opportunity to contribute to collaborative research activities and to further develop research projects related to intelligent systems and energy applications. - Student Research Competition,
CSUB
March 19, 2026
My student Huaiyu Zhang#, presented his research, “Adaptive Melodic-Entropy-Guided Preprocessing for Lightweight MIDI Generation Models,” at the CSUB Student Research Competition. This work explores a data preprocessing approach for improving lightweight MIDI generation models and reflects our ongoing student research activities in artificial intelligence and machine learning. - Career Pathway Year-Round Research
Program, CSUB
March 5, 2026
I received funding from the Career Pathway Year-Round Research Program at California State University, Bakersfield. The program supports faculty-mentored research experiences and provides students with opportunities to participate in research activities. - Full Conference Paper, LLM 2025
Dec 5, 2025
My student Huaiyu Zhang# published his full conference paper "Adaptive Melodic-Entropy–Guided Preprocessing for Lightweight MIDI Generation Models" as the student author at the 2025 International Conference on Large Language Models (LLM2025). Congratulations~~~ Presentation PPT - Speed Presentation Award, CV
PATH Research Program 2025
Sep 12, 2025
My students JorgeAlberto Pompa# and Huaiyu Zhang# participated in the Summer Research Symposium for Doctoral Programs and won the Speed Presentation Award. This program is sponsored by Central Valley Pathways into Academic, Teaching, and higher Education. Congratulations~~~ - Full Conference Paper, PESGM 2024
July 22, 2024
My work "Nuisance Tripping Prediction in Residential Power Network with Multiple Environmental Factor Historical Data" was published as a full conference paper at The 2024 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM 2024). PESGM is recognized as the No. 1 conference in Energy and Power System area. As the top 300 papers in the field, the paper was selected for an oral presentation in the Paper Forum Sessions. - Conference Keynote Speaker, 2024
Jun 21, 2024
Delivered a keynote speech "Data Driven Systematic Analysis on Power Grid" at the 8th International Conference on Computing, Control and Industrial Engineering (CCIE 2024), Wuhan, China - Spring SoCalGas Student Research
Fellowship, California State University Office of the Chancellor, 2024
Apr 26, 2024
My student Riley Bezdek# won research fellowship award from SoCalGas STEM-NET. Only six students from among the 23 CSU campuses received this honor. Congratulations~~~ - Full Conference Paper, ECCE 2023
Oct 31, 2023
My collaboration work with Dr. Zhongzhe Liu "Demand Profiling Oriented Nuisance Tripping Forecasting for Residential Power Network" was published as a full conference paper at The Fifteenth Annual IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition. ECCE is recognized among the top three conferences in Energy and Power System area. Great Job~~~ - Outstanding Undergraduate Published Paper Award, CSUB
May 4, 2023
My student Noah Pitts# is honored for the "Outstanding Undergraduate Published Paper Award" for his extraordinary achievement in his research work. Congratulations~~~ - Full Conference Paper, GreenTech 2023
Apr 23, 2021
My student Noah Pitts# published his full conference paper "Analysis of Power Resilience for Outdated Residential Power Distribution Systems in Realistic Operating Conditions" as the student author at the Fifteenth Annual IEEE Green Technologies Conference. Congratulations~~~ Presentation PPT - Attend the "30toR1" event as outstanding PhD alumni, UTSA
Apr 2, 2023
Dr. Lei attended The University of Texas at San Antonio's "30toR1" event as one of the outstanding PhD alumni. UTSA News - Heard the Future Calling, CSUB 2022 Fall Commencement Ceremony
Jan 10, 2023
Dr. Lei was reported by Things to Know Today and CUSB news, for earning an additional graduate degree from the MBA program, and walking the stage at the 2022 Fall Commencement Ceremony. "Never give up, and eventually we will reach our destination." CSUB News - Full Conference Paper, ICCBB 2022
Dec 26, 2022
My students McKay Russell#, Steven Merino#, Clemente Rodriguez#, Zachary Scholefield# published their research work, "Utilizing Data Clustering for Hypotheses Discovery in Multimodal Exercise and Health Interventions with LimitedSample Size", as a regular paper (student author) at 6th International Conference on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. Congratulations~~~ Presentation PPT - Full Conference Paper, ICHMS 2022
Nov 19, 2022
My collaboration work with Dr. Linh Bui "A Hidden Markov Model Based Intelligent Platform for Characterizing Behaviors" was published as a full conference paper at IEEE 3rd International Conference on Human-Machine Systems. Great Job~~~ Presentation PPT - Student Research Presentation, CERC
Research Symposium
May 26, 2021
My students Jonathan Crawford#, Andrew Folsom#, Angela Tante#, Vananh Vo# presented their project at the California Energy Research Center’s interdisciplinary energy research symposium. - Full Conference Paper, ICPS 2021
May 10, 2021
My students Jonathan Crawford#, Andrew Folsom#, Angela Tante#, Vananh Vo# presented (full video) their published full conference paper "California Oilfield Underground Aquifer Injection Monitoring by Blockchain Technology" as the student author at 2021 4th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems. Congratulations~~~ - Full Conference Paper, ICMLT 2021
Apr 23, 2021
My student Doney Peters# published his full conference paper "Low Cost Autonomous UAV Swarm Application in Wildfire Surveillance and Suppression" as the student author at 2021 6th International Conference on Machine Learning Technologies. Congratulations~~~ - CSUB Outstanding Student Research
Competition
Mar 6, 2020
My students Jonathan Crawford#, Andrew Folsom#, Angela Tante#, Vananh Vo# presented their work “Parking Analysis via Image Processing” in the competition. - Research Excellence Award
Mar 5, 2020
Received the Bronze Award for the previous year. - CSU COAST Undergraduate Student
Research Program
Dec 14, 2018
My students Jonathan Crawford#, Andrew Folsom#, Angela Tante#, Vananh Vo# was funded for their project “Elephant Seal Migration Tendencies by Real Time Image Processing” project. - Full Conference Paper, IEEE Green
Technologies Conference
Apr 7, 2019
My student Fernando Herrera# presented his published full conference paper "Adaptive Heliostat Control Strategy Based on Gossip Algorithm in Preventing Transient Thermal Flux" as the student author at 2019 IEEE Green Technologies Conference. Congratulations~~~ - Student Research Presentation, WRPI
Annual Conference
Apr 6, 2019
My students Doney Peters# and Jaskaran Chahal# presented their work "Autonomous Air Quality and Water Vapor Density Detection Via Quadcopter" at 11th Annual Water Resources and Policy Initiatives Conference. Congratulations~~~ - Student Research Scholars Travel Award
Mar 28, 2019
My students Fernando Herrera# was awarded as CSUB Student Research Scholars. Congratulations~~~ - Research Excellence Award
Mar 7, 2019
Received the Bronze Award for the previous year. Awarded by President Lynnette Zelezny. - CSUB Outstanding Student Research
Competition
Mar 1, 2019
My students Fernando Herrera# presented his work “Gossip Algorithm Based Adaptive Heliostat Control” in the competition. - CSU COAST Undergraduate Student
Research Program
Dec 14, 2018
My student Jonathan Crawford# was funded for his project “Automatic Target Honing UAV Operations for Marine Life Observation and Measurements” project. - Senior Design Expo Award 1st Place
May 20, 2018
My students Esteban Lopez#, Robert Pierucci#, Cesar Nuno#, Miguel Trigueros#'s senior design project got the 1st place in Senior Design Expo Award. Congratulations~~~ - CSUB Outstanding Student Research
Competition
Mar 10, 2018
My students Eric Smith# and David Vaughan# presented their work “Predicting Street Traffic Network Configuration via Topological Similarities between Traffic Nodes” in the competition. - Research Excellence Award
Mar 1, 2018
Received the Bronze Award for the previous year. Awarded by President Horace Mitchell. - Research Excellence Day—Faculty Poster
Presentation
Apr 21, 2017
Presented the research work “Electrical circuit protector modeling and analysis” to other faculty members and President Horace Mitchell. - CSU COAST Undergraduate Student
Research Program
Dec 14, 2016
My student Andy Koumane# was funded for his project “Observation of Pollution in Skies above Seawater and Costal Areas” project. - Joined the Dept of CEECS at CSUB
Aug 15, 2016
Joined the Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science as a tenure-track Assistant Professor
- University of Louisiana System Academic
Summit 2016
Apr 14, 2016
My student Joseph P DeBartola's project "Developing a Feasible and Scalable Solution for Recipe Analysis and Recommendation Using Open Source Software" represented MSU at the University of Louisiana System (ULS) Academic Summit. - Mentoring for USRS 2016
Mar 8, 2016
My student Joseph P DeBartola's work "Utilizing Big Data Analysis of Recipes and Ingredients to Forge a Healthier and Tastier Lifestyle" is selected for 2015-2016 McNeese State University Alumni Association Undergraduate Scholar and Research Symposium. - 8th Annual Fall Research Invitational
at UL Lafayette
Nov 20, 2015
My student Joseph P DeBartola's work "Big Data analysis of recipes and ingredients" represented MSU at the 8th Annual Fall Research Invitational at UL Lafayette. - Mentoring for USRS 2015
Mar 12, 2015
My student Cunzhi Zhao's work "Academic behavior analysis based on students' social network relationships" is selected for 2014-2015 McNeese State University Alumni Association Undergraduate Scholar and Research Symposium. Congratulations, Cunzhi! - Funded by McNeese Foundation
Nov 20, 2014
"Improve the Breast Cancer Prediction Accuracy by Enhancing Biological Network", McNeese Foundation Endowed Professorships - Invited Talk at SSCET 2014
Sep 19, 2014
Topic "A Random Walk Based Approach for Improving Interaction Network and Increasing Prediction Accuracy", 2014 SSCET conference, New Orleans, LA, USA - Joined the Dept of EECS at McNeese
State University
Aug 15, 2014
Joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science as a tenure-track Assistant Professor
- Ph.D. Dissertation Defense
Jul 30, 2014
Dissertation title: "BIOLOGICAL NETWORK RECONSTRUCTION, DENOISING, AND APPLICATIONS IN CANCER CLASSIFICATION" - Presidential Dissertation Fellowship
Nov 27, 2013
In recognition of outstanding scholarship in their field, only five recipients received this financial award to assist them with the completion of their dissertation research. - Student Success Story in UTSA
May 3, 2013
One of the student success stories at the University of Texas at San Antonio, academic year 2013~2014. - Invited Talk at Jiangxi University of
Traditional Chinese Medicine
Apr 12, 2013
Gave an invited talk at Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanchang, China, "Random Walk Based Analysis of Biology Network". - Poster Presentation on RECOMB 2013
Apr 7, 2013
Presented my work "A novel link prediction algorithm for reconstructing protein-protein interaction networks by topological similarity" at the 17th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB2013), Beijing, China - Received the UTSA Graduate Student
Research Award 2013
Apr 4, 2013
Received the Graduate Student Research Award from UTSA Graduate School. Only five recipients have won this honor for the year 2013. - Received the Travel Award for RECOMB 2013
Mar 15, 2013
Received the NSF Travel Fellowship for 17th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB2013), Beijing, China - Visiting MIT
Jan 16, 2013
Visiting at Li-Huei Tsai’s Lab at Picower Institute, MIT; working on the “Chromatin Remodeling In CKp25 Neurodegeneration Mice” project. - Received the Professional Development
Award
Nov 2, 2012
Received the Professional Development Award for Fall 2012 semester from Graduate School, UTSA - Poster Presentation on ACM RACS 2012
Oct 25, 2012
Presented my current work on 2012 Research in Applied Computation Symposium (RACS 2012), San Antonio, TX, USA - Paper Presentation on IEEE BIBM 2012
Oct 6, 2012
Presented my paper "A random walk based approach for improving protein-protein interaction network and protein complex prediction" on IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine 2012 (BIBM2012), Philadelphia, PA, USA - Received the Travel Award for BIBM 2012
Sep 13, 2012
Received the Travel Award for IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine 2012 (BIBM2012), Philadelphia, PA, USA - Received "Who’s Who" award for 2012 in
UTSA
Apr 6th 2012
Received this individual award given to college students-- Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges. The award is based on academic achievement, leadership, and membership in extracurricular activities and organizations. -
Presentation on SBEC 2011
Apr 30, 2011
Presented my work "Genome-Wide Analysis of Nelf-Mediated RNA Polymerase II Pausing by ChIP-Sequencing" in Sequence Analysis and Next-generation Sequencing Session on Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference2011 (SBEC2011), UT Arlington, Texas, USA -
Received Certificate in College Teaching with Distinction
Apr 21, 2011
Received Certificate in College Teaching with Distinction. Only 29 students earned this honor in year 2011. -
Best Paper Nominee for EvoBIO 2010
Apr 7, 2010
Best Paper Nominee for the 8th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics(EvoBIO 2010). (My paper) -
Received
College of Science Presidential Scholarship
Oct 28, 2009
Received College of Science Presidential Scholarship from the College of Science at UTSA. -
Distinguished Award on Presentation Competition
Mar 2, 2009
Received Distinguished award, UTSA Graduate Student Project Presentation Competition, Graduate School, UTSA.
