Photo Gallery
My student Huaiyu Zhang presented his research, “Adaptive
Melodic-Entropy-Guided Preprocessing for Lightweight MIDI Generation
Models”, at CSUB Student Research Competition.
March 2026
My students JorgeAlberto Pompa and Huaiyu Zhang
participated in the Summer Research Symposium for Doctoral Programs and won the Speed
Presentation Award,
funded by the CV PATH Research Program.
Sep 2025
My research assistant Huaiyu Zhang is
working with Dr. Liu and his research assistant on the project
"Visualizing the Carbon Emissions from the Energy Capital of California"
funded by the California Energy Research Center.
Mar 2024
Dr. Lei chaired one of the sessions at GreenTech 2023.
As session chair, he presented the Best Paper Award medal to the presenter.
Apr 2023
Dr. Lei earned his MBA from CSUB.
Be a lifelong learner. Never give up. Keep going.
Aug 2022
Dr. Lei received his service award certificate from President Zelezny.
May 2022
My advisees Zachary Scholefield, Steven Merino, Clemente Rodriguez, and McKay Russell presented their collaborative
Data Mining research project at
the University of Southern California (Division
of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy).
March 2022
My advisee student
Jonathan Crawford presented his full conference paper at
4th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems.
(virtually)
May 2021
My advisee, Fernando Herrera, presented his work at
6th International Conference on Machine Learning Technologies.
(virtually)
Apr 2021
My advisee, Fernando Herrera, presented his full conference paper at IEEE Green Technologies Conference.
Apr 2019
Research Excellence Award, awarded by President Lynnette Zelezny, Ph.D.
Mar 2019
My advisees Esteban
Lopez, Robert Pierucci, Cesar Nuno, Miguel Trigueros
won first place in the Senior Design Expo.
May 2018
Research Excellence Award, awarded by President Horace Mitchell, Ph.D.
Mar 2018
Presented my research work to President Horace Mitchell, Ph.D.
Apr 2017
