Research Contributions

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END8-2014-0536: A method to improve the resolution time of incident ticket processing in Service Desk Operations using Analytics. http://priorart.ip.com/IPCOM/000240525, Feb 2015.

Ali, A. R., Kumar, K., Siddiqui, M. A. and Zahid, M. An Open-source Industry-agnostic Generative AI Platform. In IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Jan’24.

Sokol, O. and Ali, A. R. Substitutability-Driven Retail Assortment Optimization. Submitted for review, Dec’23.

Ali, A. R., Siddiqui, M. A., Algunaibet, R., Ali, H. R.  A Massively Large and Diverse Arabic Corpus for Language Modeling. In Procedia Computer Science, 126(1), pages 9-18, Elsevier, Sep’23.

Ali, A. R. and Budka, M. An Automated Approach for Timely Diagnosis and Prognosis of Corona-virus Disease. In IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), United Kingdom, Jul’21.

Ali, A. R. Multi-Dialect Arabic Speech Recognition. In IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), United Kingdom, Jul’20.

Ali, A. R, Budka, M and Gabrys, B. A Meta-Reinforcement Learning Approach to Optimize Parameters and Hyper-parameters Simultaneously. In Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI): Trends in Artificial Intelligence, Springer, pp 93-106, Aug’19.

Ali, A. R, Budka, M and Gabrys, B. Towards Meta-learning of Deep Architectures for Efficient Domain Adaptation. In Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI): Trends in Artificial Intelligence, Springer, pp 66-79, Aug’19.

Ali, A. R, Gabrys, B and Budka, M. Cross-domain Meta-learning for Time-series Forecasting. In Procedia Computer Science, 126(1), pages 9-18, Elsevier, Sep’18.

Ali, A. R. Cognitive Computing to Optimize IT Services. In IEEE 17th International Conference on Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing (ICCI*CC), vol. 1, pages 54-60, Jul 2018.

Ali, A. R. Real-time Big-Data Warehousing and Analysis Framework. In IEEE 3rd International Conference on Big Data Analysis (ICBDA), Mar’18.

Ali, A. R, Budka, M and Gabrys, B. A Review of Meta-level Learning in the Context of Multi-component, Multi-level Evolving Prediction Systems. INFER - Computational Intelligence Platform for Evolving and Robust Predictive Systems, BU, Jan’15.

Rehman, A and Ali, A. R. Customer Churn Prediction, Segmentation and Fraud Detection in Telecommunication Industry. In Proceedings of the 4th ASE International Conference on Big Data, ASE, Cambridge, MA, Jan’14.

Ali, A. R, and Lin, P. Demand-Driven Asset Reutilization Analytics. In Proceedings of the 2nd ASE BIGDATA/SOCIALCOM/CYBERSECURITY Conference, ASE, Stanford, CA, May’14.

Ali, A. R. Intelligent Call Routing to Optimize Contact Center Throughput. In Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop of Multimedia Data Mining (MDM/KDD), San Diego, CA, ACM, Aug’11.

Ali, A. R, and Hussain, S. Automatic Diacritization for Urdu. In Proceedings of the Conference on Language and Technology (CLT), pages 105-111, Sep’10.

Ali, A. R, and Ijaz, M. Urdu Text Classification. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT), ACM, New York, NY, pages 1-7, Dec’09.

Ali, A. R, and Ijaz, M. English-to-Urdu Transliteration. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Language and Technology (CLT), pages 15-23, Jan’09.

Ali, A. R. Meta-level Learning for the Effective Reduction of Model Search Space. In Ph.D. (CS) Thesis, Faculty of Science and Technology, Bournemouth University, UK, Mar’20.

Ali, A. R. Automatic Urdu Diacritization. In M.S. (CS) Thesis, Department of Computer Science, National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences and Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing, Jul’09.

Sheikh, A. Empowering businesses: IBM partners with ITU on data science. In The Express Tribune, June 20th, 2016.