NLP (Sentiment Analysis and Topic Modeling), Social Networking Analysis,
Explainable AI, Medical Informatics, LLM Systems
Education
PhD in Information and Communication Technology, Inha University, South Korea (Aug 2018)
MS in Information System, Gyeongsang National University, South Korea (Feb 2015)
BS in Computer Science, University of Peshawar, Pakistan (June 2011)
Experience
Associate Professor, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea (March 2025 ~ Present)
Assistant Professor, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea (March 2024 ~ Feb 2025)
Assistant Professor, Sejong University, South Korea (Sept 2019 ~ Feb 2024)
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Inha University, South Korea (Sept 2018 ~ Aug 2019)
Researcher, Inha University, South Korea (Sept 2015 ~ Aug 2018)
Research Assistant, Gyeongsang National University, South Korea (March 2013 ~ Feb 2015)
Lecturer, Swat Polytechnic Institute and College, Pakistan (March 2012 ~ Feb 2013)
Journal Articles
(2026)
MGASDNet: Hierarchical Framework for Enhanced
Aortic Stenosis Diagnosis and Severity Assessment
using Echocardiographic Imaging.
KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS.
2026,
2026
(2026)
HFL-SkinNet: Dermoscopy-Based Secure MultiClass Skin Disease Diagnosis via Hybrid SemiSupervised FL Framework.
JOURNAL OF BIG DATA.
2026,
2026
(2026)
Large Language Models and Multimodal AI for Mental Health: A Systematic Review of Early Diagnosis and Monitoring.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE REVIEW.
2026,
2026
(2026)
MCQsAgent: Towards human-level MCQs generation via collaborative multi-agent AI framework.
EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS.
329,
2026
(2026)
Consumer Data Privacy-Aware Federated Orchestration for Communication, Computing, and Control in 6G Consumer Services.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS.
2026,
2026
(2026)
A Comprehensive Review of Microexpression Recognition, Classification, and Datasets.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SYSTEMS.
2026,
2026
(2026)
Intent-Based Networking With Deep Reinforcement Learning for Detecting Decreased Rank Attacks in Low-Power and Lossy IoT Networks.
IEEE INTERNET OF THINGS JOURNAL.
2025,
2025
(2026)
Large Language Models in NLP: Evolutionary Insights, Architectural Trends, and Open Challenges.
JOURNAL OF BIG DATA.
2026,
2026
(2026)
Lightweight Multimedia Anomaly and Integrity Detection for Consumer IoT Using Knowledge Distillation.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS.
72,
01
(2026)
Semantic-Aware 6G Networking: An Open RAN Vision for AR/VR.
IEEE CONSUMER ELECTRONICS MAGAZINE.
2026,
2026
(2026)
Tri-STANet: An advanced framework integrating dual axis transformer and
morphological encoding for enhanced AS detection.
EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS.
297,
2026
(2025)
Cascade-based Pancreatic Tumor Segmentation via Interactive Enhancement and Fine Localization.
IEEE JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL AND HEALTH INFORMATICS.
2025,
2025
(2025)
Integrating GANs, Contrastive Learning, and Transformers for Robust Medical Image Analysis.
IEEE JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL AND HEALTH INFORMATICS.
2025,
2025
(2025)
MediGuard: Protecting Sensitive Healthcare Data with Privacy-Preserving Language Models.
IEEE JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL AND HEALTH INFORMATICS.
2025,
2025
(2025)
AI-Driven Dynamic Allocation and Management Optimization for EV Charging Stations.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS.
2025,
2025
(2025)
Quantum neural networks for multimodal sentiment, emotion, and sarcasm analysis.
ALEXANDRIA ENGINEERING JOURNAL.
124,
2025
(2025)
Enhanced Diabetic Retinopathy Detection: An Explainable Semi-Supervised Approach Using Contrastive Learning.
IEEE JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL AND HEALTH INFORMATICS.
2025,
2025
(2025)
Quantum-inspired framework for big data analytics: evaluating the impact of movie trailers and its financial returns.
JOURNAL OF BIG DATA.
12,
2025
(2025)
Survey: application and analysis of generative adversarial networks in medical images.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE REVIEW.
58,
2025
Publications
(2025)
Ocean Remote Sensing Based on Radar, Sonar and Optical Techniques.
MDPI-Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute.
Co-author
Honors / Awards
Outstanding Research Award (Dean’s Choice of the Best Researcher during graduate program) at Inha University (Aug 2018)
Outstanding Research Award (Excellence of Journal Publication-2017) among national and international students at Inha University (April 2018)
Conference Paper
(2026)
Adaptive Consent in Crisis AI: A Privacy-Ethics Framework for Continual Da-ta Use in Resilient Communities.
Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium Series.
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
(2026)
MegaTempQA: A Million-Scale Temporal Question-Answer Dataset for Reducing LLM Hallucinations.
The 51th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP).
SPAIN
(2025)
A Comparative Analysis of Artificial Intelligence Methods for Breast Cancer Interpretation.
2025 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN).
ITALY
(2024)
Active RIS-Aided Terahertz Communications with Phase Error and Beam Misalignment.
15th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence (ICTC).
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
