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10 May, 2025: Our two papers accepted at IEEE International Conference on LLM-Aided Design (LAD), June, 2025. Congratulations all the co-authors!
7 May, 2025: Our paper titled "Survey on Backdoor Attacks on Deep Learning: Current Trends, Categorization, Applications, Research Challenges, and Future Prospects" is accepted at IEEE Access, 2025. Congratulations to all the coauthors!
1 May, 2025: Our paper titled "Interactive Tools Substantially Assist LM Agents in Finding Security Vulnerabilities" is accepted at International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025. Congratulations to all the coauthors!
15 April, 2025: Our LAMINATE project (with Dr. Osama Abdullah and Prof. Bas Rokers from the Science department and collaborates from CCAD and Yas Clinic), has been selected as a runner-up for the Innovation Awards at Abu Dhabi Global Healthcare Week.
8 April, 2025: Our paper titled "CapsBeam: Accelerating Capsule Network based Beamformer for Ultrasound Non-Steered Plane Wave Imaging on Field Programmable Gate Array" is accepted at IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems (TVLSI), 2025. Congratulations to all the coauthors!
8 April, 2025: Our paper titled "LPCR: Information-Theory Based Low-Power Code Reordering for Serial Links in Network-on-Chip" is accepted at IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 2025. Congratulations to all the coauthors!
1 April, 2025: 12 papers from our eBRAIN Lab have been accepted at the The International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) at the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI), July 2025. Congratulations all the co-authors!
14 March, 2025: Congratulations to the following recipients of the "eBRAIN Research Award" 2024 for their exceptional contributions, professional growth and tremendous success in the year 2024! The Best Researcher Award – Senior Researcher Category is given to the eBRAIN Lab's Quantum Computing Team, i.e., Dr. Nouhaila Innan, Dr. Alberto Marchisio, and Dr. Muhammad Kashif. The Best Researcher Award – Student Researcher Category is given to the eBRAIN Lab's Cognitive Arm Team, i.e., Abdul Basit, Saim Rehman, Maha Nawaz, Mathew Ponon, and Azaz-ur-Rehman Nasir.
14 March, 2025: Congratulations to the eBRAIN Lab's "Rising Star Researcher" Award recipients: Dr. Rachmad V.W. Putra, Minghao Shao, Haider Asif and Emman Sychiuco, for their valuable contributions and exceptional potential for scientific growth!
28 February, 2025: Our QC team (Dr. Nouhaila, Dr. Kashif, Dr. Alberto, Emman, Prof. Dr. Shafique) won the QInnovision Challenge Award for developing an innovative quantum solution to the THALES problem in Urban Aerial Mobility. Congratulations to all team members!
28 February, 2025: Dr. Nouhaila Innan was named a Femtum Leap Award Finalist, recognizing her achievement in a highly competitive selection process.
24 February, 2025: Our paper titled "Designing Robust Quantum Neural Networks via Optimized Circuit Metrics" is accepted at Advanced Quantum Technologies, 2025. Congratulations to all the coauthors!
15 February, 2025: Five papers from our eBRAIN Lab have been accepted at the 62nd IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), June.2025. Congratulations all the co-authors!
15 February, 2025: Researchers from eBRAIN Lab presented three Projects on Advanced AI Techniques with Multimodal LLMs and MRI Segmentation for Brain Health at the AI Revolution in Healthcare Summit (AIRH) 2025. This work is done in collaboration with Dr. Osama Abdullah from the Center for Brain and Health at NYUAD, and Dr. Tanmoy Maiti, Dr. Florian Roser and Dr. Shivam Mittal from the Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi. Posters are available at https://ebrain4everyone.com/airh-posters.
16-17 December, 2024: NYU Serendipity 2024: AI faculty meetup from different NYU campuses (NYC, AD, SH).
13 December, 2024: Our paper titled "A Methodology to Study the Impact of Spiking Neural Network Parameters considering Event-Based Automotive Data" ranked as a finalist for the Best Paper Award at (ICARCV 2024). Congratulations all the co-authors!
9 December, 2024: Special Session titled, "NeuroCAS: Neuromorphic Computing for Intelligent Autonomous Systems" is accepted at International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) 2025. Please join us on 30th June - 5th July, 2025 in Rome, Italy.
11 November, 2024: Our paper titled "The Dilemma of Random Parameter Initialization and Barren Plateaus in Variational Quantum Algorithms" is accepted at IEEE International Conference on Rebooting Computing (ICRC) 2024. Congratulations all the co-authors!
14 November, 2024: Our our ARIAH-AI project (with Dr. Osama Abdullah and Prof. Bas Rokers from the Science department and collaborates from CCAD and Yas Clinic), won the DOH Health Challenge Award.
12 November, 2024: Dr. Muhammad Abdullah Hanif won the City of Vienna’s award for outstanding dissertations in 2024. On January 15, 2025, Jasmin Gründling-Riener, TU Wien Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs, and Daniel Löcker from the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs presented the Dissertation Award 2024 of the City of Vienna at TU Wien. Muhammad Abdullah Hanif won the Award, endowed with 1000 Euros, for his thesis “Robust and Energy Efficient Deep Learning Systems; he was supervised by Muhammad Shafique. Link: https://informatics.tuwien.ac.at/news/2818
11 November, 2024: Our paper titled "Defending against Adversarial Patches using Dimensionality Reduction" has been selected to appear in the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 2024 Showcase on Kudos. Congratulations all the co-authors!
1 November, 2024: Our paper titled "SpiKernel: A Kernel Size Exploration Methodology for Improving Accuracy of the Embedded Spiking Neural Network Systems" is accepted at IEEE Embedded Systems Letters (ESL 2024). Congratulations all the co-authors!
27 October, 2024: Our paper titled "A Methodology to Study the Impact of Spiking Neural Network Parameters considering Event-Based Automotive Data" is nominated for the Best Paper Award at (ICARCV 2024). Congratulations all the co-authors!
11 October, 2024: Our paper titled "Federated Learning with Quantum Computing and Fully Homomorphic Encryption: A Novel Computing Paradigm Shift in Privacy-Preserving ML" is accepted at ML with New Compute Paradigms (MLNCP) Workshop at NeurIPS 2024. Congratulations all the co-authors!
10 October, 2024: Our paper titled "AQ-PINNs: Attention-Enhanced Quantum Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Carbon-Efficient Climate Modeling" is accepted at CCAI's Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning Workshop at NeurIPS 2024. Congratulations all the co-authors!
9 October, 2024: Our paper titled "Survey of different Large Language Model Architectures: Trends, Benchmarks, and Challenges" is accepted at IEEE Access 2024. Congratulations all the co-authors!
6 October, 2024: Quantum Federated Learning for Fraud Detection Challenge organized by eBRAIN Lab and CQTS at Quantum Innovation Summit 2025. Learn More: https://aqora.io/competitions/quantum-fraud-qinnovision
1 October, 2024: Dr. Nouhaila Innan gave an online talk at the Quantum Fall Fest, organized by IBM Quantum and hosted by Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) Chennai, titled "Collaborative Quantum Federated Learning for Secure and Efficient Model Training."
30 September, 2024: Our paper titled "NYU CTF Dataset: A Scalable Open-Source Benchmark Dataset for Evaluating LLMs in Offensive Security" is accepted at 38th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2024). Congratulations all the co-authors!
25 September, 2024: Our paper titled "Advancing Healthcare in Low-Resource Environments Through an Optimization and Deployment Framework for Medical Multimodal Large Language Models" is accepted at IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI), 2024. Congratulations all the co-authors!
13 September, 2024: Generative AI Coding Competition at eBRAIN Lab (Senior Category) Winners Announced. Learn More: https://ebrain4everyone.com/generative-ai-workshop/
29 August, 2024: Generative AI Workshop and Coding Competition Organized at eBRAIN Lab. Learn More: https://ebrain4everyone.com/generative-ai-workshop/
26 August, 2024: Our two papers accepted at 19th International Symposium on Visual Computing, (ISVC) 2024, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA, October 21-23, 2024. Congratulations all the co-authors!
25 August, 2024: Our six papers accepted at 18th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV), December 12-15, 2024. Congratulations all the co-authors!
16 August, 2024: Our paper titled "A Two-Level Thermal Cycling-aware Task Mapping Technique for Reliability Management in Manycore Systems" is accepted at IEEE Access 2024. Congratulations all the co-authors!
16 July, 2024: Our paper titled "PO-QA: A Framework for Portfolio Optimization using Quantum Algorithms" is accepted at IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), IEEE Quantum Week 2024. Congratulations all the co-authors!
04 July, 2024: Dr. Alberto Marchisio has been recognized with the 2023 International Neural Network Society Doctoral Dissertation Award runner-up at the World Congress of Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2024) for his PhD thesis entitled "Cross-Layer Optimizations for Energy Efficiency and Robustness of Advanced Machine Learning Architectures"
01 July, 2024: Our three papers accepted at International Conference on Emergent and Quantum Technologies (ICEQT), at the World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, & Applied Computing (CSCE), 2024. Congratulations all the co-authors!
30 June, 2024: Our two papers accepted at IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 24 Conference. Congratulations all the co-authors!
26 June, 2024: Our Workshop on "Embodied Neuromorphic AI for Robotic Perception and Control" is accepted in IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2024. Please join us on 14th October, 2024 in ADNEC, Abu Dhabi. https://sites.google.com/view/iros-2024-workshop/home
26 June, 2024: Our Tutorial on "ML in Autonomous Systems and Mobile Robots: Security and Privacy Issues for ML (SPIML)" is accepted in IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2024. Please join us on 15th October, 2024 in ADNEC, Abu Dhabi. https://wp.nyu.edu/spiml/
15 June, 2024: Our two papers accepted at IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2024 Conference and five papers accepted in ICIP workshops (SPVis, AI4IPoT, BID). Congratulations all the co-authors!
14 June, 2024: Our paper titled SNN4Agents is accepted in Frontiers in Robotics and AI (FROBT) - Section Robot Vision and Artificial Perception. Congratulations all the co-authors!
14 May, 2024: Our paper titled AdvQuNN: A Methodology for Analyzing the Adversarial Robustness of Quanvolutional
Neural Networks has been accepted in IEEE International Conference on Quantum Software (QSW), 2024. Congratulations all the co-authors!
28 April, 2024: Dr. Alberto Marchisio and his team won the 1st Place & Audience Award at the 12th Annual NYUAD
International Hackathon for Social Good in the Arab World, which focuses on Quantum Computing (QC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) supporting Quantum Computing (QC). The project, QGasBusters, protects critical infrastructure by instantly detecting pipeline anomalies, and optimally allocating emergency resources using Quantum Sensing & Machine Learning. Link: https://sites.nyuad.nyu.edu/hackathon/
22 April, 2024: Dr. Alberto Marchisio presented at the Compound Insights podcast of the CFA Society New York. The
episode is titled "Why Quantum Computing Is the Next Big Thing". Link: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cfa-society-new-york_cfany-podcasting-membershipbenefits-activity-7198002972436381697-3Byq
15 March, 2024: Our workshop on "Security and Privacy of Machine Learning Systems (SPVis)" is accepted in IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2024). Please join us on 28th October, 2024 in ADNEC, Abu Dhabi. https://wp.nyu.edu/spvis_workshop_icip2024/
15 March, 2024: Our six papers accepted at The International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) at the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI), Yokohama, 2024. Congratulations all the co-authors!
5 March, 2024: Prof. Shafique has been awarded "2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Chip Technology."
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