My research at the Networked and Multi-Agent Intelligent Systems Lab (NMAIS) focuses on multi-agent orchestration, technical AI governance, privacy-preserving federated architectures, trustworthy edge intelligence, and secure distributed systems, including:

1. Multi-Agent Orchestration & Agentic Systems
• Automated reasoning and discovery for Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools, APIs, and intelligent services.
• Inter-LLM communication, ranking divergence, synchronization, and workflow automation across distributed reasoning systems.
2. Privacy-Preserving Federated Architectures
• Federated foundation models, privacy-preserving AI, and collaborative learning across distributed scientific sites.
• Correlation-aware differential privacy, MIC-DP, and user-centric local differential privacy for high-dimensional data.
3. High-Performance Edge Computing & Remote Operations
• Resource allocation, task scheduling, energy-efficient fog computing, and Edge AI workloads for constrained environments.
• Lab-as-a-Service, remote scientific infrastructure, IoT protocols, sensing technologies, and smart-environment telemetry.
4. Trustworthy AI-for-Science & System Governance
• Structure-aware aggregation, poisoned-update filtering, anomaly detection, and real-time diagnostics for mission-critical systems.
• Policy-based access control, IoT forensics, secure microservices, and end-to-end privacy and security risk detection.

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Systems, School of Engineering and Technology at the University of Washington Tacoma. I direct the Networked and Multi-Agent Intelligent Systems Lab (NMAIS), where my research focuses on multi-agent and agentic AI systems, edge intelligence, privacy-preserving architectures, IoT systems, service computing, and secure distributed systems. I currently serve as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. Previously, I worked in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. I completed my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science at the University of Guelph, where my doctoral dissertation received an honorable mention from the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T). I also hold an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and a B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from Florida International University.