Trustworthy & semantic AI
Confidence algebra, provenance, temporal validity, privacy, interoperability, and secure machine knowledge.
Research / Publications
Research and publications.
My published and accepted papers, preprints, conference presentations, and open-source research.
16Published papers
26Accepted / forthcoming
6Preprints
44Scholarly outputs
The catalog contains 44 scholarly outputs. Five of the six arXiv preprints are also accepted conference papers, so the filters include both statuses. Published papers link to earlier manuscripts where available.
Research topics
Research areas.
The work is grouped by topic.
Agent systems & governance
Context-aware execution, deliberative simulators, controlled agent trees, and auditable recommendation systems.
Edge AI & AIoT
Protocols, compact reasoning, constrained-device MCP, wearable sensing, and embedded intelligence.
Efficient machine learning
Physics-grounded energy metrics, compact architectures, and environmental accountability for compute.
Health & embodied AI
Wearables, medical imaging, speech analysis, privacy-aware biomedicine, and humanoid robotics.
Compact data systems
Reasoning-carrying binary linked data, hash-augmented structures, compressed-domain processing, and semantic interchange for machines.
Canonical bibliography
Publications & preprints
2026
Veracity-Aware Machine Learning Data Exchange: Grounding JSON-LD in Subjective Logic
Accepted application paper · IEEE CIC 2026IEEE CIC 2026 · Application-track paper · November 5, 10:00–12:00, CIC Application Session 1: Intelligent Data Systems, Cedar/Pine
Grounds machine-learning data exchange in Subjective Logic to represent and propagate confidence in JSON-LD workflows.
CDXF: A Universal Binary Interchange Format for Lossless Metadata Preservation in AI Data Pipelines
Accepted paper · IEEE ComComAp 2026IEEE ComComAp 2026 · Paper · December 14–17, 2026 · Paphos, Cyprus / hybrid conference
Presents a universal binary interchange format that preserves metadata across JSON, YAML, XML, and TOML in AI data pipelines.
Privacy-Preserving Epistasis Detection via GPU-Accelerated Homomorphic Encryption
Accepted workshop paper · IEEE ICDM 2026TML4DM 2026 workshop · IEEE ICDM 2026 · November 12–15 conference, Shenyang, China · Workshop schedule to be announced
Studies privacy-preserving detection of gene interactions using GPU-accelerated homomorphic encryption.
Transistor-Level Energy Modeling of Transformer Inference: Prefill/Decode Phase Separation and Cross-Architecture Transfer
Accepted · IEEE UEMCON 2026IEEE UEMCON 2026 · Conference paper · October 8, 2:15–2:30 p.m. EDT, Session 14: Embedded Systems / Core AI & Energy-Sustainability · Presenter: Vincent Occhiogrosso.
Models the energy of transformer inference by separating prefill and decode phases and studying transfer across architectures.
Privacy-Preserving Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Healthcare: Two-Server Secret Sharing with Information-Theoretic Guarantees
Accepted workshop paper · IEEE HealthCom 2026WCIHS 2026 workshop · IEEE HealthCom 2026 · Workshop 5, October 21, 10:15–11:30, Kovno Room
Studies privacy-preserving healthcare retrieval-augmented generation using two-server secret sharing with information-theoretic guarantees.
AASN: Automated Multi-Agent Synthesis and Discovery via Compositional Agent DNA
Accepted paper · AGENTICS 2026AGENTICS 2026 · Paper · AGENTICS26-1O, October 28, 12:15–13:30, A305–Shannon · Presenter: Rwaida Alssadi
Studies automated synthesis and discovery of multi-agent systems through compositional agent DNA.
Beyond Proportional Allocation: Transistor-Level Energy Attribution for Containerized ML Workloads
Accepted · IEEE CloudCom 2026IEEE CloudCom 2026 · Conference presentation · October 29, Cloud Computing: Sustainability, Efficiency, and Security, Alésia Room · Session: 2:00–3:30 p.m. Paris time (CET)
Studies transistor-level energy attribution for machine-learning workloads running in containers.
Pollard: Governed Semantic Execution Trees for Framework-Independent AI Agent Control and Replay
Accepted paper · IEEE ICTAI 2026IEEE ICTAI 2026 · Paper · Preprint: arXiv:2610.16145 · October 12, 2026 · Scheduled November 3, 10:10 a.m. Eastern, Session 21C, Royal Palm 3; Presenter: Muntaser Syed.
Presents governed semantic execution trees for controlling and replaying AI agent work across frameworks.
Hashrope: A Persistent Data Structure for Mechanisms of LLM Context Management
Accepted paper · IEEE ICTAI 2026IEEE ICTAI 2026 · Paper · Preprint: arXiv:2610.16144 · October 12, 2026 · Scheduled November 2, 11:30 a.m. Eastern, Session 12A, Royal Palm 1; Presenter: Muntaser Syed.
Introduces a persistent data structure for managing large-language-model context.
StegaQR: Learned Private Data Embedding in Standard-Decodable QR Codes
Accepted paper · IEEE ICTAI 2026IEEE ICTAI 2026 · Paper · Scheduled November 3, 1:45 p.m. Eastern, Session 23A, Royal Palm 1; Presenter: Muntaser Syed.
Explores learned private-data embedding in QR codes that remain decodable by standard readers.
Exact Privacy-Preserving Similarity Search via Two-Server Additive Secret Sharing
Accepted paper · IEEE ICTAI 2026IEEE ICTAI 2026 · Paper · Scheduled November 3, 4:30 p.m. Eastern, Session 24C, Royal Palm 3; Presenter: Muntaser Syed.
Examines two-server additive secret sharing for privacy-preserving similarity search.
CBOR-LD-Ex: Compact Linked Data with Reasoning Metadata for Constrained IoT Networks
Accepted paper · IEEE WF-IoT 2026IEEE WF-IoT 2026 · Conference presentation · October 26
Presents compact linked-data encoding with reasoning metadata for constrained IoT networks.
IMU-JEPA: Comparing Latent Prediction and Signal Reconstruction for Self-Supervised Wearable Sensor Representation Learning
Accepted paper · IEEE WF-IoT 2026IEEE WF-IoT 2026 · Conference presentation · October 26
Compares latent prediction and signal reconstruction for self-supervised learning from wearable sensor data.
Zero-Shot Attack-Family Generalization with 1-Bit LLM Routers at the IoT Edge
Accepted paper · IEEE WF-IoT 2026IEEE WF-IoT 2026 · Conference presentation · October 26
Studies how 1-bit language-model routers generalize to unseen attack families at the IoT edge.
Compliance Algebra for IoT Energy Data Governance: Detecting Silent Failures in Smart Meter Pipelines
Accepted paper · IEEE WF-IoT 2026IEEE WF-IoT 2026 · Conference presentation · October 26
Studies compliance algebra for detecting silent governance failures in IoT smart-meter data pipelines.
Drug Integrity Algebra: Quantifying End-to-End Pharmaceutical Safety with Subjective Logic
Accepted main-track paper · IEEE HealthCom 2026IEEE HealthCom 2026 · Paper presentation · Session 3, October 20, 14:30–15:45, Great Hall
Models uncertain pharmaceutical supply-chain evidence with Subjective Logic to assess drug integrity across connected stages.
Privacy-Preserving Confidence-Aware FHIR R4 Exchange: A HIPAA Compliance Algebra Grounded in Subjective Logic
Accepted main-track paper · IEEE HealthCom 2026IEEE HealthCom 2026 · Paper presentation · Session 1, October 19, 14:30–15:45, Great Hall
Proposes uncertainty-aware compliance operators for FHIR R4 exchange and evaluates privacy-preserving aggregation of compliance evidence.
SQT-IoT: A Bandwidth-Efficient Speech Codec for IoT Edge Communications
Accepted · IEEE UEMCON 2026IEEE UEMCON 2026 · Conference paper · October 8, 10:45–11:00 a.m. EDT, Session 11: Embedded Systems & IoT · Presenter: Vincent Occhiogrosso.
Explores a bandwidth-efficient speech codec for communication between IoT edge devices.
Beyond FLOPs: A Vision for Physics-Grounded Energy Intelligence in Machine Learning
Accepted · ACM AI Summit 2026ACM AI Summit 2026 · Conference presentation
Presents a vision for grounding machine-learning energy assessment in physical computation costs beyond operation counts.
corpusgen: An Open-Source Toolkit for Phoneme-Coverage-Optimized Speech Corpus Design Across Languages
Published · Interspeech 2026Interspeech 2026 · Paper · pages 5916–5917
Demonstrates an open-source toolkit for designing multilingual speech corpora with optimized phoneme coverage.
Ergonomic Assessment of LLM-Assisted Work among Bangladeshi Technology Users: A Multi-Instrument Survey Study
Accepted · IEEE GHTC 2026IEEE GHTC 2026 · Conference paper · Session 7B: Socio-Technical Approaches in Engineering, October 9, 1–2:30 p.m., Room C120B
Uses multiple survey instruments to study ergonomic aspects of LLM-assisted work among Bangladeshi technology users.
Semantic Confidence Algebra for Crowdsourced Disaster Report Verification: A JSON-LD Extended Approach
Accepted · NADIM / AICCSA 2026NADIM 2026 workshop · IEEE/ACS AICCSA 2026 · Paper
Applies semantic confidence algebra and extended JSON-LD metadata to verification of crowdsourced disaster reports.
Rules Before Oracles: Auditable, User-Configurable Argument Selection for Deliberative Polling
PreprintarXiv:2608.23979 · August 25, 2026
Defines seven audit criteria for civic recommenders and evaluates a user-configurable, one-hop endorsement rule across roughly 17,000 agentic simulations, including adversarial flooding and a peer-to-peer deployment mapping.
Transistor-Level Energy Analysis of Signal Processing Algorithms: Beyond Operation Counting
Accepted · IEEE MLSP 2026IEEE MLSP 2026 · Atlanta, Georgia · September 28–October 1, 2026 · Presentation in Session 3 on Thursday, October 1, 1–3 p.m. ET
Extends TOML to 37 signal-processing algorithms across two NVIDIA GPUs, modeling compute, memory, command-dispatch, and fused-sequential costs against profiler and energy measurements.
MultiSpecQR: Multi-Spectral QR Code Encoding and Neural Network-Assisted Decoding via Color Channel Multiplexing
Accepted paper · IEEE ICMLA 2026IEEE ICMLA 2026 · Paper presented on October 5, 2026, at 11:00 · Special Session 1A (SS1-A)
Combines three independent QR payloads through RGB channel multiplexing and uses neural-assisted decoding, with a palette mode supporting up to nine layers.
TraceCoder: Explainable and Auditable Code Generation with Position-Key Snippet Versioning
Accepted paper · AGENTICS 2026AGENTICS 2026 · Paper presentation · IJCCI26-1A, October 29, 15:45–16:45, B317–Tesla · Presenter: Rwaida Alssadi · Preprint: arXiv:2607.26307 · July 28, 2026
Introduces an auditable code-generation workflow that preserves benchmark-driven repair history, explains how failures shaped individual snippets, and uses stable fractional position keys to track evolving code without disrupting surrounding lines.
Chronofy: A Temporal-Logical Decay Architecture for Information Validity in Time-Aware Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Published paper · IEEE IRI 20262026 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration for Data Science (IRI) · Paper · pages 454–459 · Earlier manuscript: arXiv:2607.20560
Introduces a three-layer neuro-symbolic architecture that preserves fact age in temporal embeddings, applies learnable decay during retrieval, and verifies the validity of retrieved evidence with Signal Temporal Logic to reduce temporal hallucination and trigger data re-acquisition when context is stale.
Epistemic Edge: Subjective Logic Guardrails for LLM-Driven IoT Actuation
Published paper · IEEE IRI 20262026 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration for Data Science (IRI) · Paper · pages 37–40
Applies Subjective Logic guardrails to LLM-driven IoT actuation so decisions can account for uncertain, conflicting, or stale edge-state evidence before acting.
The Environmental Cost of Digital Sovereignty: Water, Energy, and Emissions Impacts of Sovereign AI Infrastructure in the Global South
Accepted · IEEE GHTC 2026IEEE GHTC 2026 · Accepted paper · Session 7B: Socio-Technical Approaches in Engineering, October 9, 1–2:30 p.m., Room C120B · Preprint: arXiv:2607.13443 · July 15, 2026
Reviewers Choice Award, IEEE GHTC 2026 — Research on the Broader Impacts of Engineering Efforts track.
Models water, electricity, and emissions pressures for sovereign-AI deployment scenarios and proposes principles for environmentally responsible, resource-aware infrastructure.
Evaluation of Alternative-Based Information Systems for Deliberative Polling using an Agentic Simulator
Accepted paper · AGENTICS 2026AGENTICS 2026 · Accepted paper · AGENTICS26-4O, October 29, 11:45–13:00, B317–Tesla · Presenter: Rwaida Alssadi · Preprint: arXiv:2606.11692 · June 10, 2026
Introduces an agentic simulator for measuring justification coverage, diversity, and adversarial robustness in large-scale deliberative polling systems.
MCP-Edge: Extending the Model Context Protocol to Constrained IoT Devices
Peer reviewed2026 IEEE Cloud Summit · Washington, DC · June 25–26, 2026 · pages 80–85
Extends the Model Context Protocol to constrained IoT devices through a tiered architecture spanning MCP-Lite endpoints, gateways, and full protocol clients.
JSON-LD 1.2 and Beyond: Extensions for Machine Learning Data Exchange
Peer reviewedThe International FLAIRS Conference Proceedings 39(1) · Marco Island, Florida · May 17–20, 2026
A systematic gap analysis and backward-compatible extension set for representing confidence, provenance, temporal scope, embeddings, integrity, and validation in AI-generated linked data.
TOML: Transistor Operations for Machine Learning: A Physics-Grounded Energy Efficiency Framework
Peer reviewedThe International FLAIRS Conference Proceedings 39(1) · Marco Island, Florida · May 17–20, 2026
Extends transistor-level energy modeling to multiple machine-learning architectures and introduces metrics for switching, memory-compute balance, and capability-normalized efficiency.
Counting Constraints in POMDPs based on PID Controllers
Published paperThe International FLAIRS Conference Proceedings 39(1) · Marco Island, Florida · May 17–20, 2026
A Bayesian architecture for incorporating uncertain event-count constraints into POMDP decision processes, integrating probabilistic counts with PID-style control.
Real-Time Neck Posture Classification Using a Lightweight Wearable IMU Pendant
Peer reviewedThe International FLAIRS Conference Proceedings 39(1) · Marco Island, Florida · May 17–20, 2026
Evaluates lightweight models and physics-informed rules for classifying seven neck-posture states from a single wearable IMU on constrained hardware.
2025
Counting Doors by Integrating POMDP Models and PID Controllers
Peer reviewed38th Florida Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics · Paper · May 9, 2025
Integrates probabilistic door counting into robot planning and control, connecting uncertain perception with POMDP reasoning and PID controllers.
2023
Comparative Evaluation of Transfer Learning for Classification of Brain Tumor Using MRI
Peer reviewed2023 International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA) · December 15, 2023 · pages 697–702
Compares transfer-learning architectures for classifying brain tumors from MRI scans and examines their relative diagnostic performance.
2022
An Insight into the Intricacies of Lingual Paraphrasing Pragmatic Discourse on the Purpose of Synonyms
Journal articleBulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics 11(5) · October 1, 2022 · pages 2958–2967
Examines neural paraphrasing and synonym choice with attention to semantic preservation, fluency, and pragmatic discourse.
Multi-Dimensional Spectral Process for Cepstral Feature Engineering & Formant Coding
Journal articleJournal of Electrical Electronics Engineering 1(1) · August 15, 2022 · pages 1–20
Introduces a multi-dimensional speech feature approach and the Speech Quefrency Transform for joint analysis of pitch, formants, and spectral structure.
Medical Imaging a Transfer Learning Process with Multimodal CNN: Dermis-Disorder
Book chapterThird International Conference on Image Processing and Capsule Networks · Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems · July 29, 2022 · pages 556–573
Applies multimodal convolutional transfer learning to the classification of dermatological disorders from medical imagery.
Exploring Public Attitude Towards Children by Leveraging Emoji to Track Out Sentiment Using Distil-BERT a Fine-Tuned Model
Book chapterThird International Conference on Image Processing and Capsule Networks · Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems · July 29, 2022 · pages 332–346
Uses a fine-tuned DistilBERT model and emoji signals to examine public sentiment and online attitudes concerning children.
2019
Towards Enhanced Comprehension of Human Errors in Cybersecurity Attacks
Book chapterAdvances in Human Error, Reliability, Resilience, and Performance · AISC 778 · 2019 · pages 163–175
Studies human error as a factor in cybersecurity incidents and frames improved comprehension as part of more effective defensive systems.
2018
Models and Framework for Supporting Humanoid Robot Planning & Exploration
Conference paper31st Florida Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics · May 10–11, 2018 · pages 1–5
Proposes learned models and a high-level task framework for planning, localization, and exploration with a Nao humanoid robot.
Cooperation Protocols for Ad-Hoc Robot Teams Composition in Labyrinth Exploration
Published presentationFLAIRS-31 proceedings · AAAI Press · page 552 · May 21–23, 2018
Coordination protocols for dynamically composing robot teams during labyrinth exploration.
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Research artifacts
Software and presentations.
Research software, conference presentations, and project proposals.
Current Cybersecurity Threats: Analysis and Solutions From A Human Factors Perspective
Muntaser Syed and Mohammad Algarni. Accepted presentation in the Human Factors in Cybersecurity session at AHFE 2016.
Voice controlled autonomous system for hazard detection and rescue operations
Accepted presentation for NAECON 2018. Presenting author: Muntaser Syed.
Corpusgen v0.1.7
Current archived release of the language-agnostic speech-corpus generator by Muntaser Syed, Marius Silaghi, Sheikh Abujar, Sharun Akter Khushbu, and Fariha Tasmin Jaigirdar.
Voice Controlled Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Gamal Bohouta, Veton Z. Këpuska, and Muntaser Syed. A presentation on voice interaction and control architectures for UAV systems.
Real-time Data Analysis (Sky Eyes Project)
Gamal Bohouta, Veton Z. Këpuska, Muntaser Syed, and Mahmood Alfathe. A proposed cloud-connected drone platform for live image, video, voice, and sensor analysis.
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