KENNESAW, Ga., Sept. 29 -- Kennesaw State University issued the following news release:

Shadin, a student in KSU'sPh.D. in Computer Science program, was the first author of two papers accepted at international AI conferences in 2026. He co-authored the first with KSU researchers Aaron Cummings, Xinyue Zhang, and Bobin Deng. His co-authors on the second were Zhang, Jingyi Wang of San Francisco State University and Miao Pan of the University of Houston. Shadin also received a Doctoral Consortium Award from the International Neural Network Society after presenting his research in Maastricht, Netherlands.

In the first paper, "Feature Importance Based Optimized Multi Teacher Knowledge Distillation in Heterogeneous Federated Learning Environmen...