Scholarship

Publications

Journal articles, conference papers, and manuscripts from Dr. Rahimi and lab collaborators.

Published and accepted

Recent research

Journal metrics refer to the journals, not individual articles. Years are shown on each badge. Sources: IEEE title lists for 2023 JCR data and 2024 JCR data.

Bibliography

Publication archive

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Journal articles

Murad, S. A., Dahal, A., Rahimi, N. (2026). Multilingual Cyber Threat Detection in Tweets/X Using ML, DL, and LLM: A Comparative Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems.

Fatima, R., ..., Rahimi, N., Khalil, K. (2026). Physical Unclonable Function Based Privacy-Preserving Authentication Scheme for Autonomous Vehicles Using Hardware Acceleration. Sensors 26 (4), 1088.

Subreena, M. A. H., Raquib, M., Murad, S. A., Prity, F. S., Hanif, M., Rahimi, N. (2026). Robust and Real-Time Bangladeshi Currency Recognition: A Dual-Stream MobileNet and EfficientNet Approach. IJNSA.

Rahimi, N., Jones, H. (2025). Cyber Warfare: Strategies, impacts, and future directions in the digital battlefield. Journal of Information Security 16 (2), 252-269.

Rahimi, N., Barati, M., Lee, S. (2025). Evolving Cybersecurity Policy: Addressing Modern Threats and Enhancing Resilience in a Digital Age. Journal of Information Security.

Dahal, A., Murad, S. A., Rahimi, N. (2025). Heuristic comparison of vision transformers against convolutional neural networks for semantic segmentation on remote sensing imagery. IEEE Sensors Journal.

Penchala, S., Rahimi, N. (2025). Maximizing Cyber Resilience through Efficient Vulnerability Prioritization: The WBTS Model. International Journal of Computers and Their Applications 32 (1).

Rajkarnikar, J., Poudel, N., Rahimi, N. (2025). Unsupervised Anomaly Detection in OpenStack Logs via Fine-Tuned RoBERTa Embeddings. Journal of Cybersecurity, Digital Forensics, and Jurisprudence 1, 9-20.

Roy, I., Kaluvakuri, S., Rahimi, N., Gupta, B., Debnath, N. C. (2024). Design of a Hybrid Interest-Based Peer-to-Peer Network Using Residue Class-based Topology and Star Topology. International Journal for Computers & Their Applications 31 (3).

Baluguri, A., Pasumarthy, V., Roy, I., Gupta, B., Rahimi, N. (2024). Optimizing network security via ensemble learning: a nexus with intrusion detection. Journal of Information Security 15 (4), 545-556.

Conference publications & presentations

Pahari, A., Adhikari, A., Olukola, O., Sherif, A., Rahimi, N. (2027 volume; first online 2026). DANTE.v2: A Scenario-Specific Breakdown of an LSTM-Based Approach to Predict Insider Threat on Daily System Logs. Communications in Computer and Information Science.

Dahal, A., Ghimire, A., Murad, S. A., Rahimi, N. (2026). POVQA: Preference-Optimized Video Question Answering with Rationales for Data Efficiency. CVPR Workshop on Multimodal Algorithmic Reasoning, Proceedings Track.

Taylor, D., Barati, M., Rahimi, N. (2026). Securing E-Commerce: A Framework for Risk Management and Compliance. Communications in Computer and Information Science.

Jha, P., Hamid, H., Olukola, O., Dahal, A., Rahimi, N. (2025). Adversarial Machine Learning for Robust Password Strength Estimation. International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering, 289-301.

Dahal, A., Murad, S. A., Rahimi, N. (2025). Embedding Shift Dissection on CLIP: Effects of Augmentations on VLM's Representation Learning. Proceedings of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference, 4814-4818.

Precious-Esue, D., Rajkarnikar, J., Bellrose, B., Upadhyay, K., Rahimi, N. (2025). Ensemble Machine Learning Approach to Phishing Website Detection. International Conference on Computers and Their Applications, 88-97.

Nader, T., Murad, S. A., Rahimi, N. (2025). Human Activity Recognition Using an Ensemble Learning Approach. International Conference on Computers and Their Applications, 98-112.

Poudel, M., Rahimi, N. (2025). Machine Learning-Based AES Key Recovery via Side-Channel Analysis on the ASCAD Dataset. International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering, 334-352.

Rahimi, N., Margapuri, V., Golilarz, N. A. (2025). Software and Data Engineering: 34th International Conference, SEDE 2025, New Orleans, LA, USA, October 20-21, 2025, Proceedings. Springer Nature.

Ferreira, L. D. J., Rahimi, N. (2025). The Fight Against Fake News Leveraging Machine Learning, NLP as Deterring Methods. 2025 IEEE 4th International Conference on Computing and Machine Intelligence.

Book chapters

Rahimi, N. N., Murad, S. A., Lee, S. B. (2024). Entrepreneurship Opportunities in Cybersecurity. Generating Entrepreneurial Ideas With AI (pp. 172--191). IGI Global.

Murad, s. A., Rahimi, N. (2024). Security Challenges in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Quality Assessment and Security in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). CRC press Taylor and Fransis Group.

Rahimi, N., Gudapati, S. S. V. (2023). The Emergence of Blockchain Technology in Healthcare and Insurance Industry. Blockchain Technology Solutions for Secure of IoT-based Health Systems (pp. 167-182). Elsevier Science, Academic Press.

Rahimi, N., Roy, I., Gupta, B., Bhandari, P., Debnath, N. C. (2021). Blockchain technology and its emerging applications. Blockchain Technology for Data Privacy Management (1st ed., pp. 133--157). CRC Press.

Rahimi, N., Gupta, B. (2021). Security Issues, Vulnerabilities, and Defense Mechanisms in Wireless Sensor Networks: State of the Art and Recommendation. Integration of WSNs into Internet of Things (1st ed., pp. 1--15). CRC Press.

Preprints

These manuscripts are shared on arXiv and are listed separately from published and accepted work.

Ghimire, A., Murad, S. A., Rahimi, N. (2026). A Depth-Aware Comparative Study of Euclidean and Hyperbolic Graph Neural Networks on Bitcoin Transaction Systems. arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.16080.

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Raquib, M., Polok, A. P., Biswas, K. N., Azad, R. U., Murad, S. A., Rahimi, N. (2026). A Fusion of context-aware based BanglaBERT and Two-Layer Stacked LSTM Framework for Multi-Label Cyberbullying Detection. arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.22449.

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Olukola, O., Rahimi, N. (2026). AMDS: Attack-Aware Multi-Stage Defense System for Network Intrusion Detection with Two-Stage Adaptive Weight Learning. arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.00859.

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Dahal, A., Abdelfattah, R., Rahimi, N. (2026). Does it Matter Which Gaussians You Pick in 4D Gaussian Streaming? arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.17227.

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Khadka, B., Koirala, P., Neupane, K., Rahimi, N. (2026). Filter-then-Verify: A Multiphase GNN and ModernBERT Framework for Social Engineering Detection in Email Networks. arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.17201.

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Jahan, S., Murad, S. A., Rahimi, N., Golilarz, N. A. (2026). Gamma2Patterns: Deep Cognitive Attention Region Identification and Gamma-Alpha Pattern Analysis. arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.06257.

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Olukola, O., Rahimi, N. (2026). MC-CPO: Mastery-Conditioned Constrained Policy Optimization for Pedagogically Safe Intelligent Tutoring Systems. arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.04251.

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Raquib, M., Polok, A. P., Biswas, K. N., Prity, F. S., Murad, S. A., Rahimi, N. (2026). Multi-Head Attention Based Interaction-Aware Architecture for Bangla Handwritten Character Recognition: Introducing a Primary Dataset. arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.09717.

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Olukola, O., Rahimi, N. (2026). Pedagogical Safety in Educational Reinforcement Learning: Formalizing and Detecting Reward Hacking in AI Tutoring Systems. arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.04237.

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Raquib, M., Akash, M. M., Ahmed, T., Murad, S. A., Prity, F. S., Hossain, M. A., ... (2025). A Unified BERT-CNN-BiLSTM Framework for Simultaneous Headline Classification and Sentiment Analysis of Bangla News. arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.18618.

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