Publications

2025
Synthetic Social Engineering Scenario Generation Using LLMs for Awareness-Based Attack Resilience
J. Webb*, F. Abri, S. Akther
IEEE Access

2025
Augmenting Missing Sensor Data for Robust Human Activity Recognition
S. K. Gowdaman*, S. Akther
International Journal of UbiComp (IJU)

2021
mTeeth: Identifying Brushing Teeth Surfaces Using Wrist-worn Inertial Sensors
S. Akther, N. Saleheen, M. Saha, V. Shetty, S. Kumar
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT / UbiComp 2021) · Paper

2020
SmokingOpp: Detecting the Smoking “Opportunity” Context Using Mobile Sensors
S. Chatterjee, A. Moreno, S. L. Lizotte, S. Akther, E. Ertin, C. P. Fagundes, C. Lam, J. M. Rehg, N. Wan, D. W. Wetter, S. Kumar
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT / UbiComp 2020)

2019
mORAL: An mHealth Model for Inferring Oral Hygiene Behaviors In-the-Wild Using Wrist-worn Inertial Sensors
S. Akther, N. Saleheen, S. A. Samiei, V. Shetty, E. Ertin, S. Kumar
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT / UbiComp 2019) · Distinguished Paper Award nomination

2018
Mining Non-redundant Closed Flexible Periodic Patterns
S. Akther, M. R. Karim, M. Samiullah, C. F. Ahmed
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence 69, 1–23

2014
An Efficient Approach for Mining Cross-level Closed Itemsets and Minimal Association Rules Using Closed Itemset Lattices
T. Hashem, C. F. Ahmed, M. Samiullah, S. Akther, B. S. Jeong, S. Jeon
Expert Systems with Applications 41(6), 2914–2938

2026
Shift-Aware Operator Selection for Label-Free Test-Time Calibration in Cross-Domain Dataset
M. Deshagouni*, S. Akther
IEEE 12th International Conference on Big Data Computing Service and Applications (BigDataService)

2026
DeepSense++: Robust HAR with Missing Data
S. K. Gowdaman*, S. Akther
IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII), 1033–1038

2026
Sleep Stage Prediction Using Daily Activity Patterns
S. S. Katna*, S. Akther
International Conference on Machine Learning and Soft Computing (ICMLSC), 58–71

2026
SensTrans: An AI Model for Generating Wearable Sensor Time-Series Signals to Improve Human Activity Detection
H. K. Kim*, S. Akther
ICAI, Communications in Computer and Information Science, Springer Nature 

2026
RIASEC GPT Chatbot and Eye Tracking: Conscious vs. Subconscious Vocational Interest Inventory
J. M. Chun*, N. Attar, S. Akther, L. Liu
ICAI, Springer Nature (to appear)

2025
Adaptive Human Intent Recognition in Collaborative Robots Using Wearable AI
R. Tilawat*, N. Saleheen, S. Akther
Conference on AI, Science, Engineering, and Technology (AIxSET), 65–72

2025
Mitigating Learning Bias in Healthcare Datasets
S. J. Kumbhalwar*, S. Akther
Conference on AI, Science, Engineering, and Technology (AIxSET), 156–157

2025
Visualization Driven AI: Ensuring Quality in Wearable Time-Series Sensor Data for Healthcare
S. Akther
IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI), 1502–1510

2025
Complexity-Aware Human Daily Activity Detection Using AI
A. Kukreja*, S. Akther
IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS), 1–8

2025
Temporal Dynamics of Diabetes Prediction: A Sensor-Based Time-Series Investigation
M. Meduri*, S. Akther
3rd International Conference on Data Science and Network Security (ICDSNS)

2025
Deciphering Speech Through Vision: A Deep Learning Lip Reading System
S. R. Ambati*, S. Akther
3rd International Conference on Data Science and Network Security (ICDSNS)

2024
Gesture Recognition Dynamics: Unveiling Video Patterns with Deep Learning
N. R. Agumamidi*, S. Akther
International Conference on Data Science and Network Security (ICDSNS), 1–7

2024
Temporal Analysis of Adversarial Attacks in Federated Learning
R. Mapakshi, S. Akther, M. Stamp
In M. Stamp & M. Jureček (eds.), Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and AI for Cybersecurity, Springer

2023
AI Modeling Approaches for Detecting, Characterizing, and Predicting Brief Daily Behaviors Such as Toothbrushing Using Wrist Trackers
S. Akther
Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Memphis