β’ JUN 2026π’ I had the pleasure of chairing the session on Efficient and Resource-Constraned AI at the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) Maastricht, Netherlands.Β
β’ JUN 2026 π£Β I had the pleasure of presenting the paper "picoEmergencyNet : Attention-Enhanced Ultra-Small Deep Learning Model for Aerial Image Classification in Emergency Monitoring" at the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) Maastricht, Netherlands.Β
β’ JUN 2026 π£Β I had the pleasure of presenting the paper "Rethinking Compact (<1M) Vision Models: Balancing Accuracy and Speed through Multi-Path Atrous Convolutions" at the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) in Denver, Colorado, USA.Β
β’ MAY 2026 πΒ Paper Accepted at Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR) "NAS Without Priors: A Robust Architecture Search Framework for Unseen-Data"
β’ MAY 2026 πΒ Two Papers Accepted at International Conference on Deep Learning Theory and Applications (DeLTA) "Assessing Cross-Task Consistency for Adversarial Robustness in Visual Perception" & "Infrared as a Fallback: A Multimodal Defense Approach Against Adversarial Attacks on RGB Object Detection"
β’ MAY 2026 π₯Β Recognized as a Gold Reviewer at ICML 2026 for being among the top 25% of reviewers.
β’ APR 2026 πΒ Paper Accepted at IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) "Architecture-Dependent Effectiveness of Imbalance Mitigation in LiDAR Segmentation"
β’ APR 2026 πΒ Paper Accepted at IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems "A Review of Vision-based Vehicle Detection for UAV-based Traffic Monitoring: Experimental Insights and Future Directions"
β’ APR 2026 π§βπ«Β Paper Accepted at International Conference on Unmanned Aerial Systems (ICUAS) "A Topology-Aware Spatiotemporal Handover Framework for Continuous Multi-UAV" - arxiv
β’ APR 2026 π§βπ«Β Paper Accepted at International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) "Loss Landscape Topology Reveals Why Simple Baselines are Competitive at 3D Point Cloud Segmentation Under Class Imbalance"
β’ MAR 2026 π§βπ« Β Two Papers Accepted at International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), "On-device Adversarial Purification via Distilled and Finetuned Denoising Diffusion Implicit Models" & "picoEmergencyNet : Attention-Enhanced Ultra-Small Deep Learning Model for Aerial Image Classification in Emergency Monitoring"
β’ MAR 2026 πΒ Β Paper Accepted at Neurocomputing, "Advancing Efficiency and Accuracy in Aerial Image Classification for Disaster Incidents with SqueezeViT and UAVDisaster36K benchmark".
β’ FEB 2026 π§βπ« Two papers accepted at Computer Vision And Pattern Recognition (CVPR) - Findings "Rethinking Compact (<1M) Vision Models: Balancing Accuracy and Speed through Multi-Path Atrous Convolutions" & "A Single Pixel is All You Need: Weakly Supervised Medical Image Segmentation using Discrete Denoising Diffusion Models"
β’ JAN 2026 π§βπ«Paper Accepted at Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice (TRA), "Distance-Driven Pavement Rating with UAV Imagery".
β’ DEC 2025 π§βπ«Paper Accepted at Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), "Multi-Partner Project: Enhancing Resilience, Efficiency, and Trustworthiness of Edge AI in Safety-Critical Systems (GuardAI)".
β’ OCT 2025 π’ I had the pleasure of moderating a panel on "Artificial Intelligence for Intelligent Transportation Systems: Challenges and Opportunities" at the 2025 IEEE ITSS R8 Chapters Meeting.
β’ OCT 2025π’ The MultiFire20K dataset is now released and can be found on Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/17047113
β’ SEP 2025π₯Our PhD student Shahid Siddiqui and our team have achieved the first place in the Generalization of NAS for 'Never Seen Before (Unseen)' datasets challengeΒ organized as part of AutoML 2025 conference, where it will also be presented (https://www.nascompetition.com/). [AWARD]
β’ JUL 2025π£ I had the pleasure of presenting our ongoing work "Towards Adversarial Purification via Distilled and Finetuned Denoising Diffusion Implicit Models", at the 17th Cyprus Workshop on Signal Processing and Informatics (CWSPI).
β’ JUL 2025π§βπ«Paper Accepted atΒ 6th Conference on Control and Fault-Tolerant Systems, SysTolβ2025 - "AF-DROPS: a Drone-based Fault-tolerant System for Risk Management in Road Construction Sites"
