print("Hello World!")I’m a PhD Candidate in Information Technology at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), specializing in AI, cybersecurity, and NLP. My research builds secure, fair, and permission-aware language technologies for high-stakes domains. My work has been published in top NLP venues such as ACL and NAACL Findings and leading security venues, including IEEE S&P and IEEE TDSC. View publications →
What I Do
→ Promote fairness in NLP by mitigating dialectal and linguistic biases to ensure equitable AI performance across diverse user communities.
→ Advance secure, permission-aware AI by embedding access control and role-based reasoning into language models.
→ Strengthen AI-driven cybersecurity through adversarial resilience, privacy-preserving computation, and robust natural language interfaces for threat detection and analysis.
Teaching Philosophy
I teach IS 2053 Programming I course at UTSA, guiding students to master Python, GitHub, and ethical AI use, with a 4.69/5.00 student rating. For me, teaching is about sparking growth through empathy and adapting to each student’s needs. Beyond the classroom, I mentor graduate students on research projects that lead to impactful presentations and publications. View all courses →
My Mission
From my roots in southern Serbia to working and studying across four countries, I am dedicated to advancing knowledge, mentoring with empathy, and building technologies that serve the public good. My mission spans teaching and inspiring students, conducting research that bridges AI, cybersecurity, and society, and fostering collaborations that address real-world challenges with integrity and inclusivity.
News & Updates
🗓️ Upcoming
- October 26, 2025 | INFORMS Annual Meeting Job Market Showcase (Atlanta, GA)
Delivering a job talk on secure and fair natural language interfaces. - December 14-17, 2025 | International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) (Nashville, TN)
Participating in the job market and attending the conference.
📢 Recent Highlights
| Date | Event | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 2025 | Immersion Program (Mysore, India) |
Participated in a week-long UTSA-led immersion on AI, cybersecurity, and emerging markets. |
| Aug 2025 | AMCIS 2025 (Montréal, Canada) |
Our ERF paper on privacy-aware Q&A systems was presented. |
| Jul 2025 |
ACL 2025 (Vienna, Austria) |
Presented paper on mitigating dialect bias in privacy Q&A systems. |
| Apr 2025 | Weatherhead Symposium (Cleveland, OH) |
Explored the impact of AI on work and organizations. |
| May 2025 | NAACL 2025 (Albuquerque, NM) |
Presented schema inference attack research in text-to-SQL systems. |
| Apr 2025 | SPARK Conference (San Antonio, TX) |
Invited talk on ethical AI and data equity. |
| Mar 2025 | Biz AI Conference (Dallas, TX) |
Presented research on dialect bias using a design science approach (FairPrivacy). |
| Oct 2024 | 15ᵗʰ Annual Machine Learning Symposium (New York City, NY) |
Presented early work on dialect bias in language models. |
| Jul 2024 |
DAIR³ Program (Jackson, MS) |
Trained in reproducible AI practices with MIDAS mentorship. |
| May 2024 | Berkeley-Stanford Workshop (Berkeley, CA) |
Engaged in discussions on trustworthy and reproducible AI. |
| Apr 2024 |
Future Leaders Summit (Ann Arbor, MI) |
Presented research and participated in discussions on secure, responsible AI. |
Honored as Department and College PhD Student of the Year for exemplary research achievements
ACL 2025 Poster Presentation
Visiting MYRA School of Business, India
NAACL 2025 Poster Presentation
UTSA Summer Immersion Program 2024
Future Leaders Summit, MIDAS University of Michigan
DAIR3 Program at JSU
The New York Academy of Sciences Presentation
Berkeley-Stanford workshop on Veridical Data Science
Honored as Department and College PhD Student of the Year for exemplary research achievements
ACL 2025 Poster Presentation
Visiting MYRA School of Business, India
NAACL 2025 Poster Presentation
UTSA Summer Immersion Program 2024
Future Leaders Summit, MIDAS University of Michigan
DAIR3 Program at JSU
The New York Academy of Sciences Presentation
Berkeley-Stanford workshop on Veridical Data Science