Publications

List of publicstions.

2026

A lightweight CNN and UAV framework for early detection of oak wilt in forest health management
Muttaaki Bismoy, Rahat Rafiq, Lawrence Burns, Heidi Frei
Recent Advances in Robotic Perception for Forestry 2026

A Real-Time Mobile Vision System for Honey Bee Queen Detection and Localization
Quoc Ho, Hoan Lam, Jonathan Engelsma, Rahat Ibn Rafiq
AISSA 2026

Estimating Oak Acorn Abundance from UAV Imagery: Automated Acorn Detection and Counting Using Deep Learning
Ishra Naznin, Rahat Ibn Rafiq
AISSA 2026

2025

Generating Context-Aware Cyberbullying Dialogues: A Structured LLM-Based Dataset
M. S. Islam, S. Sutton, R. I. Rafiq
IEEE CSCloud 2025

Efficient Layout-Aware Document Understanding for Educational Transcripts via Systematic Model Compression
Minh Tran, Quoc Ho and Rahat Ibn Rafiq
ICMLT 2026

Distilled Intelligence at the Edge: An IoT-Driven Deep Learning Architecture for Plant Health Assessment
Malek Garrach and Rahat Ibn Rafiq
ICMLT 2026

2024

A Generative AI Powered Approach to Cyberbullying Detection
M. S. Islam, S. Sutton, R. I. Rafiq
Proceedings of the 2023 8th International Conference on Information System and Data Mining, 2024

Interactive Visualization of BioMedical Data
M. S. Islam, G. Tusch, R. I. Rafiq
Workshop on Big Data and AI for Healthcare @ IEEE Conference on Big Data 2024

Early Detection of Oak Wilt Using Machine Learning and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
M. I. Bismoy, G. Alphenaar, L. Burns, H. Frei, R. I. Rafiq
ICMLC 2025

2023

Comparative analysis of GPT models for detecting cyberbullying in social media platforms
M.S. Islam, R.I. Rafiq
Annual International Conference on Information Management and Big Data, 2023

Visualizing software test requirements using NLP and HITL approach
S.M. Azizul Hakim, R.I. Rafiq, M. Lingg
Annual International Conference on Information Management and Big Data, 2023

Predicting course performance on a massive open online course platform: A natural language processing approach
G. Alphenaar, R.I. Rafiq
Annual International Conference on Information Management and Big Data, 2023

What makes a good course and professor: Through the lens of RateMyProfessor website
K. Dahal, R.I. Rafiq
Proceedings of the 2023 7th International Conference on Information System and Data Mining, 2023

2022

YouBrush: Leveraging edge-based machine learning in oral care
E. Echeverri, G. Going, R.I. Rafiq, J. Engelsma, V. Vasudevan
International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services, 2022

A preliminary analysis of Twitter’s LGBTQ+ discussions
A.N. Khan, R.I. Rafiq
Annual International Conference on Information Management and Big Data, 2022

2021

Identifying Differentiating Factors for Cyberbullying in Vine and Instagram.
R.I. Rafiq, H. Hosseinmardi, R. Han, Q. Lv, S. Mishra
Annual International Conference on Information Management and Big Data, 2021

2020

Bullyalert: A mobile application for adaptive cyberbullying detection
R.I. Rafiq, R. Han, Q. Lv, S. Mishra
International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services, 2020

2013-2018

Scalable and timely detection of cyberbullying in online social networks
R.I. Rafiq, H. Hosseinmardi, R. Han, Q. Lv, S. Mishra
Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 2018

Leveraging BLE and social trust to enable mobile in situ collaborations
K. Alanezi, R.I. Rafiq, L. Chen, S. Mishra
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication, 2017

Prediction of cyberbullying incidents in a media-based social network
H. Hosseinmardi, R.I. Rafiq, R. Han, Q. Lv, S. Mishra
2016 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), 2016

Analysis and detection of labeled cyberbullying instances in Vine, a video-based social network
R.I. Rafiq, H. Hosseinmardi, S.A. Mattson, R. Han, Q. Lv, S. Mishra
Social Network Analysis and Mining, 2016

Investigating factors influencing the latency of cyberbullying detection
R.I. Rafiq, H. Hosseinmardi, R. Han, Q. Lv, S. Mishra
arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.05419, 2016

Detection of cyberbullying incidents on the Instagram social network
H. Hosseinmardi, S.A. Mattson, R.I. Rafiq, R. Han, Q. Lv, S. Mishra
arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.03909, 2015

Analyzing labeled cyberbullying incidents on the Instagram social network
H. Hosseinmardi, S.A. Mattson, R. Ibn Rafiq, R. Han, Q. Lv, S. Mishra
Social Informatics: 7th International Conference, SocInfo 2015, Beijing, 2015

Careful what you share in six seconds: Detecting cyberbullying instances in Vine
R.I. Rafiq, H. Hosseinmardi, R. Han, Q. Lv, S. Mishra, S.A. Mattson
Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), 2015

Analyzing factors impacting revining on the Vine social network
H. Hosseinmardi, R.I. Rafiq, S.A. Mattson, R. Han, Q. Lv, S. Mishra
Social Informatics: 7th International Conference, SocInfo 2015, Beijing, 2015

Poster: Detection of cyberbullying in a mobile social network: Systems issues
H. Hosseinmardi, S.A. Mattson, R. Rafiq, R. Han, Q. Lv, S. Mishra
Proceedings of the 13th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, 2015

A comparison of common users across Instagram and Ask.fm to better understand cyberbullying
H. Hosseinmardi, S. Li, Z. Yang, Q. Lv, R.I. Rafiq, R. Han, S. Mishra
2014 IEEE Fourth International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing, 2014

Multi-modal fusion for flasher detection in a mobile video chat application
L. Tian, R. Rafiq, S. Li, D. Chu, R. Han, Q. Lv, S. Mishra
11th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services, 2014