I am an AI Researcher at MIT Lincoln Lab. I earned my Ph.D. in Information Sciences and Technology at The Pennsylvania State University under the guidance of Dr. Dongwon Lee at the PIKE Lab in August 2023. While at Penn State, I was a Button-Waller Fellow, an NSF Scholarship for Service Scholar, and an Alfred P. Sloan Scholar. I earned a B.S. in Mathematics, with a minor in Statistics at University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) in May 2018. While at UMBC, I was a McNair scholar and a member of Pi Mu Epsilon (the Mathematical Honorary Society). My research interests are: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data mining in the application domain of Cybersecurity. Specifically, I am interested in:
- NLP (Natural Language Processing)
- NLG (Natural Language Generation), such as Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Adversarial Robustness & Adversarial Machine Learning
- TDA (Topological Data Analysis)
News
- Sep 2024 - Selected to participate in the 2025 EWM-EMS Summer School: Stability in Topological Data Analysis at Institut Mittag-Leffler
- Sep 2024 - 1 paper on Evaluating the Adversarial robustness of multi-lingual deepfake text detector - Authorship Obfuscation in Multilingual Machine-Generated Text Detection has been accepted to EMNLP-Findings 2024
- Jul 2024 - Invited to serve as a PC member at Workshop on Detecting AI Generated Content (DAIGenC) @ COLING 2025 conference
- Jul 2024 - Invited to serve on a virtual panel of professionals to speak to USM LSAMP Summer Research Fellows about career pathways.
- Jul 2024 - Selected to participate in the 2024 Dagstuhl Seminar - “Fair Division: Algorithms, Solution Concepts, and Applications”
- Jul 2024 - 1 paper on Deepfake Text Detection with Topological Data Analysis accepted to ECAI 2024, titled TOPFORMER: Topology-Aware Authorship Attribution of Deepfake Texts with Diverse Writing Styles
- Jun 2024 - A new preprint titled, PlagBench: Exploring the Duality of Large Language Models in Plagiarism Generation and Detection
- May 2024 - Invited to be a Reviewer for Widening Natural Language Processing (WiNLP) 2024
- May 2024 - 1 paper on the philosophical paradox of authorship before and after authorship masking - A Ship of Theseus has been accepted to ACL’24
- May 2024 - Invited to give a talk at the Geo Regional African Group at Cohere for AI
- Apr 2024 - Selected to participate in the 11th Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) 2024
- Mar 2024 - 1 paper on using statistical psycholinguistic features to detect Deepfake Texts - GPT-who has been accepted to NAACL-Findings’24
- Mar 2024 - Invited to be a PC member at ECAI 2024 conference
- Jan 2024 - Upcoming Invited Talk at St. George’s University, Grenada on Feb 15th
- Jan 2024 - A new preprint titled, Authorship Obfuscation in Multilingual Machine-Generated Text Detection is available
- Dec 2023 - Attended EMNLP 2023 in person for 3 accepted papers - MULTITuDE, F3, and HANSEN
- Nov 2023 - A new preprint titled, A Ship of Theseus: Curious Cases of Paraphrasing in LLM-Generated Texts is available
- Oct 2023 - Tutorial: Catch Me If You GPT: Tutorial on Deepfake Texts accepted at NAACL 2024
- Oct 2023 - A new preprint titled, GPT-who: An Information Density-based Machine-Generated Text Detector is available
- Sep 2023 - A new preprint titled, TopRoBERTa: Topology-Aware Authorship Attribution of Deepfake Texts is available
Press Mentions:
- State College community acknowledges past, celebrates present at Juneteenth festival (State College News, June 2022)
- Mission Possible: making Northeast Ohio a top draw for talent (WKYC Cleveland, April 2022)
- Is AI the Future of Content Generation? (Bloggers Insight, August 2021)
- Five top technology trends from 2021 that are here to stay (Ericsson Blog, June 2021)
- Finance’s Embrace Of AI-Generated Writing (Robot Writers AI, March 2021)
- Researchers test detection methods for AI-generated content (Penn State News, February 2021)
- Siblings pursue parallel doctoral degrees (Penn State News, August 2020)
- Adaku Uchendu to extend passion for mathematics through information sciences Ph.D. at Penn State (UMBC News, April 2018)