News

2025

• _{Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2025 Certified Data Science Professional, August 20, 2025}
• _{Oracle AI Vector Search Certified Professional, July 31, 2025}
• _{Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2025 Certified Generative AI Professional, July 23, 2025}
• _{Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2025 Certified AI Foundations Associate, July 17, 2025}
• _{Article published: "AI skills for tomorrow's university librarians" in Times Higher Education Campus, June 10, 2025}
• _{Presentation at CNI Spring 2025 Membership Meeting, Milwaukee, WI, April 7-8, 2025}

2024

• _{Workshop at ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2024), Hong Kong, China, December 16-20, 2024}
• _{Presentation at IEEE BigData 2024, Washington, DC, December 15-18, 2024}
• _{Congratulations to Pradyumna Upendra Dasu for successfully defending his MS thesis, "Topic Modeling for Heterogeneous Digital Libraries: Tailored Approaches Using Large Language Models," at Virginia Tech on December 13, 2024}
• _{Presentation at 27th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD 2024), Livingstone, Zambia, November 4-6, 2024}
• _{Presentation at Access 2024, Montréal, Québec, October 21-23, 2024}
• _{Presentation at 24 Hours of Global IT event, August 28, 2024}
• _{Awarded: IMLS Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program (RE-256655-OLS-24) LIBRAI: Liberating Libraries through Generative Artificial Intelligence Incubator Program, August, 2024 (PI)}
• _{Panelist at 2024 ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition, San Diego, CA, June 27-July 2, 2024}
• _{Presentation at Digital Universities US 2024, May 6-8, 2024}
• _{Presentation at CNI Spring 2024 Membership Meeting, March 25-26, 2024}
• _{Honored to be invited to the 2024 VALLA Cohort, Harrisonburg, VA, March 11-13, 2024}

2023

• _{Congratulations to Chongyu He for successfully defending his MS thesis, "Deep Learning Approach for Cell Nuclear Pore Detection and Quantification over High Resolution 3D Data," at Virginia Tech on December 7, 2023}
• _{Workshop at Fantastic Futures Annual International Conference, Vancouver, Canada, November 15-17, 2023}
• _{Student project demostration at Virginia Tech Science Festival 2023, November 11, 2023}
• _{Tutorial at DCMI Annual Conference, Daegu, South Korea, November 6-9, 2023}
• _{Awarded: IMLS National Leadership Grants (LG-254883-OLS-23) Curating Very Large Biomedical Image Datasets For Librarian-In-The-Loop Deep Learning, September, 2023 (Co-PI)}
• _{Awarded: IMLS Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program (RE-254915-OLS-23) Joint Professional Development Institute To Cultivate Collaborative Library Scholars, September, 2023 (Co-PI)}
• _{Virginia Tech Libraries Collaborative Research Grant Awardee: Leveraging Large Language Models to Understand the Financial Behavior of Women and Minority Groups, August, 2023}
• _{Virginia Tech Libraries Collaborative Research Grant Awardee: Behind Density Lines: Machine Learning and Citizen Scientists in Quantifying Scanning Electron Microscopy Images, August, 2023}
• _{Text and Data Mining Community of Practice - ChatGPT and its Best Practices, August 10, 2023}
• _{Presentation at LD4 Conference on Linked Data, July 10-14, 2023}
• _{Workshop at on Code4Lib Annual Conference, Princeton, New Jersey, March 14-17 2023}
• _{AWS Academy Educator, January, 2023}
• _{AWS Academy Educator, January, 2023}
• _{AWS Learning: Serverless, January, 2023}

2022

• _{AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty, December, 2022}
• _{TensorFlow Developer Certificate, October, 2022}
• _{AWS Certified Data Analytics - Specialty, October, 2022}
• _{Paper presentation at JCDL 2022, Germany and Online, June 20–24, 2022}
• _{Paper presentation at Open Repositories 2022, Denver, June 6-9, 2022}

2021

• _{Professional Scrum Master™ II (PSM II). November, 2021}
• _{JCDL Tutorial: Introduction to Digital Libraries. 2021, September 27, 2021}
• _{AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, September, 2021}
• _{AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, August, 2021}
• _{Presentation at Web Archiving Conference (WAC) 2021, June 15, 2021}
• _{Presentation at Open Repositories 2021, June 10, 2021}

2020

• _{Presentation at Digital Preservation 2020, Nov 12, 2020}
• _{Building a full-stack Serverless Web application with React and AWS, March, 2020}
• _{Code4Lib Journal Issue 47 - Scaling IIIF Image Tiling in the Cloud, Feb, 2020}
• _{Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I), Feb, 2020}

2019

• _{AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty, Aug, 2019}
• _{Docker Certified Associate, July, 2019}
• _{MIT xPro: Data Science and Big Data Analytics Making Data-Driven Decisions, July, 2019}
• _{Paper presentation at Open Repositories 2019, Hamburg}
• _{Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD), June, 2019}
• _{Google Cloud Certified - Professional Data Engineer, March, 2019}
• _{Fedora 5.0.2 Release Manager, Feb, 2019}

2018

• _{AWS Certification Subject Matter Expert - Machine Learning, Oct, 2018}
• _{AWS Certified Security - Specialty, Oct, 2018}
• _{Paper presentation at ETD 2018, Sep 26-28, Taipei, Taiwan}
• _{Google Cloud Certified - Professional cloud architect, Aug, 2018}
• _{Paper presentation at Open Repositories 2018, Bozeman, Montana}
• _{Google Cloud Certified - Associate cloud engineer, June, 2018}
• _{PAWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, Jan, 2018}

2017

• _{AWS Certified Big Data - Specialty, Nov, 2017}
• _{AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional, Oct, 2017}
• _{AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate, Sep, 2017}
• _{AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional, Aug, 2017}
• _{AWS Certified Developer - Associate, Jun, 2017}
• _{AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate, Jun, 2017}