[09/11/2025] Paper submitted to AAAI 2026 Conference, titled "Synthetic Data in Education: Empirical Insights from Traditional Resampling and Deep Generative Models". 

[09/11/2025] Paper Accepted, The 24th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), 2025. (Acceptance Rate: 20%)

[09/05/2025] Paper Accepted IEEE 5th Cyber Awareness and Research Symposium 2025 ( CARS'25 ).

U.S. Patent submitted, titled "SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING ANOMALIES IN VIDEOS". (U.S. Patent Application Docket No. FIU.563)

Paper accepted in HT ’25: The 36th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, titled "Toxicity in State Sponsored Information Operations".

Dr. Ahmed received DSU CyberAg grant as Co-PI of amount $175,000 🏆 .

Paper accepted on 13th International Symposium on Digital Forensics and Security titled "Advancing DevSecOps in SMEs: Challenges and Best Practices for Secure CI/CD Pipelines".

[2/2025] Paper accepted to The PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA' 25), 2025.

[2/2025] Poster Presentation: 𝐂𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐊𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫 𝐌𝐚𝐦𝐮𝐧 𝐀𝐡𝐦𝐞𝐝, "AI Super Resolution for Structural Damage Detection from Low-Quality Sources", SDSU Data Science Symposium 2025.🏅(3rd place award).  Link

[2/2025] Poster Presentation: 𝐓𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐰𝐚 𝐀𝐦𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐤𝐮𝐟𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐊𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫 𝐌𝐚𝐦𝐮𝐧 𝐀𝐡𝐦𝐞𝐝, "Generative AI for Synthetic Data Creation: Building Mastery-Focused Educational Datasets", SDSU Data Science Symposium 2025.  Link

[2/2025] Poster Presentation: 𝐍𝐧𝐚𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐤𝐚 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐈𝐠𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐊𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫 𝐌𝐚𝐦𝐮𝐧 𝐀𝐡𝐦𝐞𝐝, "Machine Learning and SHAP Interpretability for Chronic Disease Understanding", SDSU Data Science Symposium 2025. Link

[2/2025] Poster Presentation: 𝐌𝐮𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐝 𝐁𝐡𝐮𝐭𝐭𝐚, 𝐊𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫 𝐌𝐚𝐦𝐮𝐧 𝐀𝐡𝐦𝐞𝐝, 𝐀𝐛𝐢𝐝 𝐌𝐞𝐡𝐦𝐨𝐨𝐝, 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐟 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐡, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐉𝐢𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐞 𝐊𝐚𝐚𝐛𝐢, "Enhancing Crop Yield Through Efficient Anomaly Detection Using Transfer Learning and Multispectral Satellite Imagery", SDSU Data Science Symposium 2025.  Link

[1/2025] Travel grant received from SDSU Data Science Symposium'25. 

[1/2025] Serving as a Guest Editor of a Journal Special Issue "Role of Artificial intelligence in Natural Language Processing".

[10/2024] Master's student Khanh Nguyen received Graduate Research Initiative Award (GRI) award. 🏅