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Publications (2026)

Below is a list of CSE@UCA faculty/student publications in 2026. The names of faculty members and students are displayed in bold and italics, respectively. For 2025 publications, please visit here.

Articles in Conference Proceedings

  • S. Ahmed and N. U. Eisty, “Characterizing the Usefulness of Code Review Comments in Scientific Software for Software Quality and Scientific Rigor,” in Proceedings of the ACM Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing Conference, Article 27, pp. 1–12, 2026.
  • A. O. D. Karami, E. Erdin, and S. Ullah, “Design and Implementation of a Low-Cost CPS Security Testbed,” in Proceedings of the 2026 Southeast Symposium on Contemporary Engineering Topics, 2026.
  • K. Graham, M. J. H. Faruk, and S. Ullah, “Cursorvision: AI-Driven Real-Time Gaze-Controlled Framework for Accessible Stem Learning and Educational Gaming,” in Proceedings of the 2026 Southeast Symposium on Contemporary Engineering Topics, 2026.
  • A. Cary, Z. Atchley, M. J. H. Faruk, and S. Ullah, “CodePulse: Beyond LLM Predictions with CodeBERT-Validated Hybrid Framework for Reliable Python Bug Detection,” in Proceedings of the 2026 Southeast Symposium on Contemporary Engineering Topics, 2026.
  • M. J. H. Faruk, M. K. Siam, J. Q. Cheng, H. Gu, L. P. Dehner, and M. He, “Reinforcement Learning-Guided Adaptive Fusion Model: Hybrid-Parametrized Quantum Circuits for Robust Histopathological Tumor Classification,” in Proceedings of the 2026 IEEE 14th International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, pp. 611–620, 2026.
  • M. J. H. Faruk, J. Q. Cheng, and H. Gu, “Reinforcement-Guided Adaptive Multimodal Quantum Machine Learning Fusion with Generative AI Reasoning for Clinical Decision Support,” in Proceedings of the 2026 IEEE 14th International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, pp. 1184–1186, 2026.
  • M. M. Islam, H. Shahriar, A. Cuzzocrea, M. Rahman, M. J. H. Faruk, and F. Wu, “RPPFL: Random Projection-Based Personalized Federated Learning for IoT Intrusion Detection,” in Proceedings of the 2026 IEEE 50th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference, pp. 3108–3117, 2026.
  • M. J. H. Faruk, M. K. Siam, J. Q. Cheng, H. Gu, L. P. Dehner, and M. He, “A Hybrid Classical-Quantum Machine Learning Framework for Tumor Mutation Classification: A Comprehensive Study of Quantum Optimizers in Medical Image Analysis,” in Proceedings of the 2026 IEEE 14th International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, 2026.
  • C. Kenyon and Z. K. Stine, “Exploring the Interpretive Differences Between Large Language Models Through Representational Similarity Analysis,” in Proceedings of the 2026 Southeast Symposium on Contemporary Engineering Topics, 2026.
  • M. Nicholson, F. Faustin, and S. Ullah, “Towards Analyzing Network Fingerprinting from Attacker’s and Defender’s Perspective,” in Proceedings of the 2026 Southeast Symposium on Contemporary Engineering Topics, 2026.

Articles in Journals

  • R. Adhikari, C. Busch, and D. R. Kowalski, “Near-Optimal Stability for Distributed Transaction Processing in Blockchain Sharding,” Theoretical Computer Science, vol. 1086, 116239, 2026.
  • M. E. Celebi and M. L. Pérez-Delgado, “Median Cut Color Quantization Algorithm: Retrospective,” Journal of the Optical Society of America A, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 403–412, 2026.
  • M. L. Pérez-Delgado, J. A. Román-Gallego, and M. E. Celebi, “Grey Wolf Optimization for Color Quantization,” Computer Vision and Image Understanding, vol. 265, 104659, 2026.
  • S. Wongvibulsin, C. A. Primiero, A. S. Adamson, C. Barata, B. Betz-Stablein, M. E. Celebi, B. Dawant, P. Guitera, K. M. Kelly, H. Kittler, K. Kose, B. Landman, J. S. Lehman, Y. Liu, A. McNeil, J. Malvehy, L. V. Maul, A. S. Payne, I. Saknite, Y. R. Semenov, H. P. Soyer, P. Tschandl, V. Varra, L. Wheless, V. M. Rotemberg, and E. R. Tkaczyk, “Incubating Artificial Intelligence Initiatives and Careers in Dermatology,” Journal of Investigative Dermatology, vol. 146, no. 9, pp. 2587–2591.e1, 2026.
  • A. Alromaizan, G. Alzahrani, A. Khan, L. Alhumaid, M. K. Siam, M. U. Khan, M. J. H. Faruk, and H. Shahriar, “Toward a Unified Framework for Secure Coding: A Comprehensive Synthesis of Best Practices,” Computers, vol. 15, no. 4, 220, 2026.

Books

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