SYNTERAResearch Group
Hassan Ahmed

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Hassan Ahmed

Team Lead · Senior Researcher

Pakistan

Affiliation

Department of Computer Science, National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (FAST-NUCES), Chiniot-Faisalabad Campus

Research areas

Research interests

  • Cybersecurity
  • Deep Learning
  • NLP
  • XAI
  • LLMs
  • Computer Vision

Publications

  1. Journal2026

    An extended community of inquiry framework for monitoring and predicting online peer learning participation

    Dokhanchi, M.; Saremi, S.; Shibl, R.; Heidari, M.; Ahmed, H.; Mansoor, D.; … Mirzaei, M.

    Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 18(8), 113–141

  2. Journal2026

    Crisis-induced hybrid learning, cognitive offloading, and generative AI reliance among Pakistani CS undergraduates

    Ahmed, H.; Khan, A.; Fatima, A.; Mateen, A.; Saremi, S.; Shibl, R.; Rajaei, S.; Mirzaei, M.

    Education Innovations: Systems and Future Learning, 1(1), 568–589

  3. Journal2026

    EGenAI-DBR: A design-based framework for responsible generative AI integration in higher education

    Saremi, S.; Mirzaei, M.; Rasti, A.; Nooraei Abadeh, M.; Varposhti, M.; Shibl, R.; Ahmed, H.; Aldakheel, S. K. A.; Mealy, E.; Wang, K.; Humphreys, D.

    Education Innovations: Systems and Future Learning, 1(2)

  4. Preprint2026

    Intrusion detection for the Internet of Medical Things: A cost-aware comparative benchmark of machine learning approaches

    Ahmed, H.; Dermody, G.; Mateen, A.; Saremi, S.; Shibl, R.

    Under review

  5. Journal2026

    Latent-space feature squeezing for adversarially robust intrusion detection on IoT edge devices

    Mirzaei, M.; Saremi, S.; Khan, A.; Ahmed, H.; Rastegari, P.; Nooraei Abadeh, M.; Shibl, R.; …

    International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics, 19(4)

  6. Journal2026

    SELM-CTR: A stacking ensemble deep learning model with SHAP-based analysis for large-scale click-through rate prediction

    Ali, Z.; Ahmed, H.; Khan, A.; Saremi, S.; Shibl, R.; Mirzaei, M.; Rastegari, P.; Wang, M.

    International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics, 19(3)