I'm currently working as a tenure-track Assistant Professor (Data Science/Machine Learning) in the School of Computing, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901, United States. I'm also the Director of Learning, Optimization, and Analysis from Data Lab (LOAD Lab) at School of Computing, SIU. Previously, I was working as a Research Assistant Professor in Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC), Kansas City (KC), KS 66160, United States. Also, I was working as a Computational Scientist in the Department of Computer Science, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA 70125, United States. My current research interests include Data-centric AI, Large Language Models (LLMs) and Applications, (Interpretable and Trustworthy) Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Big Data Mining, Online Optimization, Outlier/Anomaly/Novelty Detection, Multi-omics Data Integration, Multi-modal Learning, Interpretable Time Series Forecasting using Environmental Data, and AI-related applications.