Research

My areas of interest are Data Algorithmics, Distributed Computation, and Network Science.

Research Projects

Ongoing

• Sep 2024 - Sep 2027. DGFFDS: Decentralised Greener Fairer Food Distribution System, sponsored by CSIR as Principal Investigator (PI).

• Jan 2024 - Jan 2026. Real-time two-way translator for speech and hearing impaired, sponsored by JKSTIC as Principal Investigator (PI).

• Jan 2024 - Jan 2026. Tackling Climate Change with Artificial Intelligence: Use case for Jammu and Kashmir, sponsored by JKSTIC as Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI).

• Jan 2024 - Jan 2026. Developing a Software Tool for Automatic Detection of Plastic Waste Deposits in Dal Lake of Kashmir using Aerial Image Analysis, sponsored by JKSTIC as Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI).

Completed

• Sep 2024 - Sep 2025. Evaluating the Cybersecurity Preparedness of Indian Organizations and its Influence on their Performance: A Case Study of MSMEs in J&K UT, sponsored by ICSSR as Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI).

Publications

Forthcoming

• John Augustine, Antonio Cruciani, Iqra Altaf Gillani. Highly Dynamic and Fully Distributed Data Structures. In Proc. of 39th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2025), Aug 2025. (Accepted) Full version

2025

• Aaqib Zahoor, Iqra Altaf Gillani, Janibul Bashir. A Review of Temporal Networks: Operations and Applications. The Review of Socionetwork Strategies, May 2025. doi.org/10.1007/s12626-025-00187-5 

• Aqsa Ashraf Makhdomi, Iqra Altaf Gillani. Collaborative Fair Route Planning in Decentralized Platforms: A Game Theoretic Perspective. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, July 2025. doi/10.1109/TITS.2025.3581701

• Rabia Bhat, Iqra Altaf Gillani. Demand Prediction in Online Food Delivery Platforms Using Graph Neural Networks.  In Proc. of ACM India Joint International Conference on Data Science and Management of Data (CODS-COMAD 2024), pp. 323-325, June 2025. doi/10.1145/3703323.3703703 

• Aqsa Ashraf Makhdomi, Iqra Altaf Gillani. Decentralized Ridesharing: Overcoming Scalability Issues with Layer 2 Solution. In Proc. of the 26th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN 2025), pp. 319-324, January 2025. doi.org/10.1145/3700838.370368 

2024

• Aqsa Ashraf Makhdomi, Iqra Altaf Gillani. A Greedy Approach for Increased Vehicle Utilization in Ridesharing Platforms. Expert Systems with Applications, Vol. 255, Part C, July 2024. doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2024.124670

•  Aqsa Ashraf Makhdomi, Iqra Altaf Gillani. Fair and Efficient Ridesharing: A Dynamic Programming-based Relocation Approach. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, June 2024. doi.org/10.1145/3675403

• Tajamul Ashraf, Fuzayil Mir, Iqra Altaf Gillani. TransFed: A way to epitomize Transformer-based Focal Modulation using Federated Learning. In Proc. of IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV 2024), pp. 554-563, January 2024. doi: 10.1109/WACV57701.2024.00061

• Aaqib Zahoor, Iqra Altaf Gillani, Janibul Bashir. TBCELF: Temporal Budget-Aware Influence Maximization. In Proc. of ACM India Joint International Conference on Data Science and Management of Data (CODS-COMAD 2024), January 2024. doi/abs/10.1145/3632410.3632485

• Aqsa Ashraf Makhdomi, Iqra Altaf Gillani. Fair and efficient route recommendation system for ridesharing platforms. In Proc. of ACM India Joint International Conference on Data Science and Management of Data (CODS-COMAD 2024), January 2024. doi/abs/10.1145/3632410.3632480

2023

• Aqsa Ashraf Makhdomi, Iqra Altaf Gillani. Towards a Greener and Fairer Transportation System: A Survey of Route Recommendation Techniques. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, December 2023. doi/10.1145/3627825 

•  Aqsa Ashraf Makhdomi, Iqra Altaf Gillani. GNN-based Passenger Request Prediction. Transportation Letters: the International Journal of Transportation Research, December 2023. doi.org/10.1080/19427867.2023.2283949

2022

• Sheikh Afaan Farooq, Wajid Ali, Iqra Altaf Gillani. Depression Prediction: A Clinical Questionnaire and Machine Learning Based Approach. In Proc. of 2022 International Conference on Futuristic Technologies (INCOFT 2022), pp. 1-9, November 2022.doi.org/10.1109/INCOFT55651.2022.10094365 

• Amitabha Bagchi, Iqra Altaf Gillani, Pooja Vyavahare. A Stochastic Process on a Network with Connections to Laplacian Systems of Equations. Advances in Applied Probability. 1-25, January 2022. doi.org/10.1017/apr.2021.27. Full version: arXiv:1701.05296 [cs.NI].

• Munaza Farooq, Aqsa Ashraf Makhdomi, Iqra Altaf Gillani. Crowd Sourcing and Blockchain-Based Incentive Mechanism to Combat Fake News. Combating Fake News with Computational Intelligence Techniques. Springer, Cham, Vol. 1001, 299-325, January 2022. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90087-8_15

2021

• Munaza Farooq, Aqsa Ashraf Makhdomi, Iqra Altaf Gillani. Blockchain-based Incentive Mechanism to Combat Fake News. In Proc. of 2021 International Conference on Advances in Cyber Security (ACeS 2021),  August 2021. doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8059-5_5

• Iqra Altaf Gillani, Amitabha Bagchi. A Queueing Network-Based Distributed Laplacian Solver. Algorithmica. 83:2859–2894, June 2021. doi:10.1007/s00453-021-00845-4. Full access journal version. 

• Iqra Altaf Gillani, Pooja Vyavahare, Amitabha Bagchi. Lower bounds for in-network computation of arbitrary functions. Distributed Computing. 34:181-193, April 2021. doi:10.1007/s00446-021-00394-7. Full access journal version. Older arXiv version: arXiv:1702.03741 [cs.DC].

• Kartik Sharma, Iqra Altaf Gillani, Sourav Medya, Sayan Ranu, Amitabha Bagchi. Balance Maximization in Signed Networks via Edge Deletions. In Proc. of the 14th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2021), pp. 752-760, March 2021. doi:10.1145/3437963.3441778. Full version: arXiv:2010.10991 [cs.SI].

• Iqra Altaf Gillani, Amitabha Bagchi. A Queueing Network-Based Distributed Laplacian Solver for Directed Graphs. Information Processing Letters. 166:106040, February 2021. doi:10.1016/j.ipl.2020.106040.

• Iqra Altaf Gillani, Amitabha Bagchi, Sayan Ranu. A Group-to-Group Version of Random Walk Betweenness Centrality. In Proc. of ACM India Joint International Conference on Data Science and Management of Data (CODS-COMAD 2021), pp. 127-135, January 2021. doi:10.1145/3430984.3431020.

2020

• Iqra Altaf Gillani, Amitabha Bagchi. A Queueing Network-Based Distributed Laplacian Solver. In Proc. of the 32nd ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA 2020), pp. 535-537, July 2020.   doi:10.1145/3350755.3400251. Full version: arXiv:1905.04989 [cs.DC].

2019

• Zilmarij Iqbal, Rahila Rahim, Iqra Altaf Gillani. Light-weight, Real-time Internet Traffic Classification. In Proc. of 2019 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS 2019), pp. 1-6,  December 2019. doi:10.1109/ANTS47819.2019.9118059.