CCSB@PVAMU / papers

2026

21 papers

AI-driven tree placement options for heat mitigation in residential yards

Tianchen Huang et al., Building and Environment, 2026 | | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2026.115301

Enhancing DeepIRT through counterfactual item-invariance regularization and joint learning

Christian Onyeke et al., Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2026 | | https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2026.1939804

REACH-AI 2026: Community-Informed Evaluation and Benchmarking of Culturally Competent Generative AI

Jamila Smith-Loud et al., Proceedings of the 35th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2026 | | https://doi.org/10.1145/3799682.3839293

Multimodal Machine Learning with Cell-Specific Regulatory Features for Single-Cell DNA Methylation Prediction

Yeluri & Kim, 20th International Conference on Data and Text Mining in Biomedical Informatics (DTMBIO), 2026

Image enhancement: A necessity for effective underwater object detection?

Lujun Zhai et al., Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2026 | | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2026.115599

Seed size influences the germination outcome of manure phytotoxicity bioassays

Kebrom et al., Waste Management Bulletin, Sept. 2026, vol. 4 - 2026| | https://10.1016/j.wmb.2026.100363

Training Perspectives from the NIH T32 Artificial Intelligence for Precision Nutrition Programs

Mehta et al., The Journal of Nutrition, August 22. 2026, 101796

Recent Advances in Deep Learning-Based Drug-Target Binding Affinity Prediction

Khan & Shuvo, arXiv:2608.13797, 2026

Review of Image Enhancement Techniques and FPGA-Based Hardware Implementations

Samuel O. Aboagye et al., Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers, 2026 | | https://doi.org/10.1142/s0218126626502518

UA-ChatDev: Uncertainty-Aware Multi-Agent Collaboration for Reliable Software Development

Ogunsusi et al., arXiv:2607.02186, 2026

A Generalizable Low-Precision Softmax Approximation for Small-FPGA Deployment of Vision Transformers

Samuel Aboagye et al., Electronics, 2026 | | https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics15091774

DA-CycleGAN: Degradation-Adaptive Unpaired Super-Resolution for Historical Image Restoration

Zhai et al., Journal of Imaging, vol. 12, no. 4, 155, 2026 | | https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging12040155

Exploring Interpretable Deep Knowledge Tracing Through Integrating SHAP with LLMs

Uchechukwu Melody Okechukwu et al., 2026 7th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Control (AIRC), 2026 | | https://doi.org/10.1109/airc69745.2026.11631408

A Systematic Study of Depth-Aware Text-to-Image Generation for Underwater Object Detection

Zhai et al., 2026 IEEE SoutheastCon, 2026 | | https://doi.org/10.1109/SoutheastCon63549.2026.11476080

AI-Enhanced Integrated STEM Education: Exploring Uncertainty-aware LLM-based Learning Path Recommendation

Nasrin et al., 2026 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC), 2026

Bioenergy sorghum stems respond to mechanical stimulation with tissue-specific modifications in hormone homeostasis and anatomical traits

Li et al., Front. Plant Sci., 12 March 2026, vol. 17 | | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2026.1769393

IntelliTradeAI: A Tri-Signal Fusion Framework for Explainable AI-Powered Financial Market Prediction

Danario Edgar et al., IEEE SoutheastCon 2026, 2026 | | https://doi.org/10.1109/southeastcon63549.2026.11476323

LLM-based Text-to-SQL: A Case Study of Geospatial Information Retrieval

Temitayo Olamilekan Ogunsusi et al., 2026 IEEE 20th International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC), 2026 | | https://doi.org/10.1109/icsc67292.2026.00075

An Empirical Study on Underwater Image Enhancement for Robust Instance Segmentation

Lujun Zhai et al., Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2026 | | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-22202-2_37

Vegetation Health Prediction Using RGB Images From UAV With Deep Learning

Masud Rana et al., IEEE Access, 2026 | | https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2026.3685190

A Comprehensive Review of Design and Implementation of Hardware Accelerators

Akanimo Etokebe et al., IEEE Access, 2026 | | https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2026.3676247

2025

11 papers

Integrating Ensemble Learning with Item Response Theory to Improve the Interpretability of Student Learning Outcome Tracing

Onyeke et al., Applied Sciences, vol. 15, no. 23, 12594, 2025 | | https://doi.org/10.3390/app152312594.

Integrating Non-Parametric Attention and Prompt Refinement to Enhance LLM-Based Text-to-SQL Without External Knowledge

Sarker et al., 2025 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW), pp. 440-449, 2025 | | https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDMW69685.2025.00056.

Urban Synthetic Data for Whom? Shifting the Focus from Objects to People

Ye et al., Journal of Planning Education and Research, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 565-575, 2025 | | https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X251383141.

Enhancing Learning Path Recommendation via Multi-task Learning

Nasrin et al., 2025 Artificial Intelligence x Humanities, Education, and Art (AIxHEART), pp. 85-91, 2025 | | https://doi.org/10.1109/AIxHEART65685.2025.00021.

Integrating Semi-Supervised Learning and Ensemble Deep Learning for Low-resource Deep Knowledge Tracing

Dong et al., 2025 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), pp. 1-7, 2025 | | https://doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN64981.2025.11228301.

Improving Student Learning Outcome Tracing at HBCUs Using Tabular Generative AI and Deep Knowledge Tracing

Kuo et al., IEEE Access, vol. 13, pp. 82407-82420, 2025 | | https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3568171.

Text Generator and Text Discriminator for NIST GenAI T2T Challenge

Sarker et al., 2025 6th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Control (AIRC), pp. 222-228, 2025 | | https://doi.org/10.1109/AIRC64931.2025.11077532.

Tracing Student Learning Outcome at Historically Black Colleges and Universities via Deep Knowledge Tracing

Kuo et al., IEEE Access, vol. 13, pp. 61340-61349, 2025 | | https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3557316.

Data augmentation via diffusion model to enhance AI fairness

Blow et al., Front. Artif. Intell. 18 March 2025, vol. 8 - 2025| | https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2025.1530397.

Reversal of inflammatory reprogramming by vasodilator agents in pulmonary hypertension

Kirillova et al., ERJ Open Research, Jan 2025, vol. 11, no. 1, 00486-2024 | | https://doi.org/10.1183/23120541.00486-2024.

EquiRank: Improved protein-protein interface quality estimation using protein language-model-informed equivariant graph neural networks

Shuvo & Bhattacharya, Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, vol. 27, pp. 160-170, 2025 | | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csbj.2024.12.015.

2024

7 papers

Data Reliability Enhanced Prediction for Recommendation System: A Case Study on Named Entity Recognition

Prianka Banik et al., 2024 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), 2024 | | https://doi.org/10.1109/bigdata62323.2024.10825809

Shade signals activate distinct molecular mechanisms that induce dormancy and inhibit flowering in vegetative axillary buds of sorghum

Kebrom, Plant Direct. 2024:8:e626

Comprehensive Validation on Reweighting Samples for Bias Mitigation via AIF360

Christina Hastings Blow et al., Applied Sciences, 2024 | | https://doi.org/10.3390/app14093826

Characterizing Variants of Undetermined Significance in the BRCA Repair Pathway

Victoria Mgbemena, Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2024 | | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbc.2024.106782

Unsupervised Ensemble Semantic Segmentation for Foreground-Background Separation on Satellite Image

Jaelen Tarry et al., 2024 IEEE 18th International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC), 2024 | | https://doi.org/10.1109/icsc59802.2024.00040

Effective Screening and Face Mask Detection for COVID Spread Mitigation Using Deep Learning and Edge Devices

Xishuang Dong et al., Internet of Things - New Insights, IntechOpen, 2024 | | https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.113176

Allele-specific control of rodent and human lncRNA KMT2E-AS1 promotes hypoxic endothelial pathology in pulmonary hypertension

Tai et. al., Science Translational Medicine 16:729, Article 2029 (2024)

2023

8 papers

Genomic Fabrics of the Excretory System’s Functional Pathways Remodeled in Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma

Dumitru Andrei Iacobas et al., Current Issues in Molecular Biology, 2023 | | https://doi.org/10.3390/cimb45120594

Semi-supervised Single-Shot Object Detection for Table Detection in Scanned Documents

Bello et. al., FTC 2023, pp. 430-441

Medical Data Augmentation via ChatGPT: A Case Study on Medication Identification and Medication Event Classification

Sarker et. al., IEEE-EMBS BHI 2023

Systematic Comparative Analysis of Pre-trained Large Language Models on Contextualized Medication Event Extraction

Abdul-Quddoos et. al., IEEE-EMBS BHI 2023

Oestrogen treatment restores dentate gyrus development in premature newborns by IGF1 regulation

Deep R. Sharma et al., Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, 2023 | | https://doi.org/10.1111/jcmm.17816

Identification of Lineage-specific Transcriptional Factor-defined Molecular Subtypes in Small Cell Bladder Cancer

Feng and Matoso, European Urology (2023) (in press)

Metabolic Deregulation in Pulmonary Hypertension

Rajamma Mathew et al., Current Issues in Molecular Biology, 2023 | | https://doi.org/10.3390/cimb45060309

Molecules at Play in Cancer

Dumitru Andrei Iacobas, Current Issues in Molecular Biology, 2023 | | https://doi.org/10.3390/cimb45030140

2022

8 papers

Semi-supervised bidirectional RNN for misinformation detection

Dong and Qian, Machine Learning with Applications (2022) 100428

Calibrated bagging deep learning for image semantic segmentation: A case study on COVID-19 chest X-ray image

Nwosu et al., PLoS One. 2022; 17(11):e0276250

Activation of apoplastic sugar at the transition stage may be essential for axillary bud outgrowth in the grasses

Kebrom and Doust., Front. Plant Sci., 26 October 2022, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.1023581

Performance Evaluation of Data Augmentation for Object Detection in XView Dataset

Olamofe, 2022 IDSTA 26-33, DOI:10.1109/IDSTA55301.2022.9923040

Integrating Human-in-the-loop into Swarm Learning for Decentralized Fake News Detection

Dong et. al., 2022 IDSTA 46-53, DOI:10.1109/IDSTA55301.2022.9923043

An Exosome-based Transcriptomic Signature for Noninvasive, Early Detection of Patients With Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma: A Multicenter Cohort Study

Nakamura et al., Gastroenterology. 2022, (in-press) https://doi.org/10.1053/j.gastro.2022.06.090

Semi-supervised Deep Learning for Cell Type Identification from Single-Cell Transcriptomic Data

Dong et al., IEEE/ACM Trans Comput Biol Bioinform. 2022 May 10

Personalized 3-Gene Panel for Prostate Cancer Target Therapy

Iacobas and Iacobas, Curr. Issues Mol. Biol. 2022, 44(1), 360-382; https://doi.org/10.3390/cimb44010027

2021

13 papers

Efficient Privacy Preserving Edge Computing Framework for Image Classification

Fagbohungbe et al., arXiv:2005.04563v2

Computational repurposing of therapeutic small molecules from cancer to pulmonary hypertension

Negi et al., Sci. Adv. 2021; 7:eabh3794

PPAR-γ activation enhances myelination and neurological recovery in premature rabbits with intraventricular hemorrhage

Krishna et al., PNAS Sept 7, 2021;118(36) e2103084118; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2103084118

Semi-supervised Learning for COVID-19 Image Classification via ResNet

Nwosu et al., EAI Endorsed Trans. Bioeng. and Bioinfo. (accepted)

RNA sequencing of whole blood reveals early alterations in immune cells and gene expression in Parkinson’s disease

Craig et al., Nat Aging 1, 734-747 (2021)

TWEAKing the Hippocampus: The Effects of TWEAK on the Genomic Fabric of the Hippocampus in a Neuropsychiatric Lupus Mouse Model

Iacobas et al., Genes 2021 July 29;12(8):1172

Robust Face Mask Detection using Deep Learning on IoT Devices

Reza et al., IEEE ICC Workshops 2021, pp. 1-6

A Personalized Genomics Approach of the Prostate Cancer

Iacobas et al., Cells 2021 Jun 30;10(7):1644

Frataxin deficiency promotes endothelial senescence in pulmonary hypertension

Culley et al., J Clin Invest. 2021 Apr 27;136459

Retinal Genomic Fabric Remodeling after Optic Nerve Injury

Victorino et al., Genes 2021, 12(3), 403

Matrix Stiffening Induces a Pathogenic QKI-miR-7-SRSF1 Signaling Axis in Pulmonary Arterial Endothelial Cells

Woodcock et al., Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2021 Feb 10

Remodeling of Neurotransmission, Chemokine, and PI3K-AKT Signaling Genomic Fabrics in Neuropsychiatric Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Iacobas et al., Genes 2021, 12(2):251

Transcriptomic uniqueness and commonality of the ion channels and transporters in the four heart chambers

Iacobas et al., Sci Rep. 2021, 11(1):2743

2020

16 papers

Data Driven Network Monitoring and Intrusion Detection using Machine Learning

Williams et al., SNAMS 2020, pp. 1-7.

Genomic Fabric Remodeling in Metastatic Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma (ccRCC): A New Paradigm and Proposal for a Personalized Gene Therapy Approach

Iacobas et al., Cancers 2020, 12, 3678

Inference Performance Comparison of Convolutional Neural Networks on Edge Devices

Rezq et al., Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 372, pp 323-335 (2020).

Two-Path Deep Semisupervised Learning for Timely Fake News Detection

Dong et al., IEEE Trans. Compu. Soc. Systems 7(6), pp.1386-1398

SCUBE1 Controls BMPR2-Relevant Pulmonary Endothelial Function: Implications for Diagnostic Marker Development in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Sun et al., JACC Basic Transl Sci. 2020

Identification of Phytotoxic Levels of Copper and Nickel in Commercial Organic Soil Amendments Recycled from Poultry Farms and Municipal Wastes

Kebrom et al., Bull Environ Contam Toxicol 2020

Ensemble Deep Learning on Time-Series Representation of Tweets for Rumor Detection in Social Media

Kotteti et al., Appl, Sci. 2020, 10(21), 7541

A team science approach to discover novel targets for infantile spasms (IS)

The CURE Infantile Spasms Consortium, CURE Staff et al., Epilepsia Open 2020

Effective covid-19 screening using chest radiography images via deep learning

Victor et al., MCNA 2020, 126-130 (2020)

Biomarkers, Master Regulators and Genomic Fabric Remodeling in a Case of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma

Iacobas, Genes 2020, 11, 1030

Powerful quantifiers for cancer transcriptomics

Iacobas, World Journal of Clinical Oncology 2020; 11(8):0-0

Shade signals alter the expression of circadian clock genes in newly‐formed bioenergy sorghum internodes

Kebrom et al. Plant Direct 2020; 4:e00235

Trypanosoma cruzi Promotes Transcriptomic Remodeling of the JAK/STAT Signaling and Cell Cycle Pathways in Myoblasts

Ninimura et al. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2020; 10:255

Cellular Environment Remodels the Genomic Fabrics of Functional Pathways in Astrocytes

Iacobas et al. Genes 2020; 11:520

Extracellular microRNAs in blood differentiate between ischaemic and haemorrhagic stroke subtypes

Kalani et al. J. of Extracelluar Vescicles, 2020; 9:1, 1713540

Pulmonary Hypertension Remodels the Genomic Fabrics of Major Functional Pathways

Matthew et al. Genes 2020; 11:126

2019

10 papers

Multiscale, multimodal analysis of tumor heterogeneity in IDH1 mutant vs wild-type diffuse gliomas

Berens et al. PLoS ONE 2019; 14(12):e0219724.

Recurrent Neural Network Based Feature Selection for High Dimensional and Low Sample Size Micro-array Data

Chwodhury et al. Dec 2019. BigData'19 KDDBHI

Probing glioblastoma and its microenvironment using single-nucleus and single-cell sequencing

Peng et al. Nov 2019. BIBM'19 Single Cell-omics - Challenges and Opportunities

Commentary on The Gene Master Regulators GMR Approach Provides Legitimate Targets for Personalized, Time-Sensitive Cancer Gene Therapy

Iacobas, J. Cancer Immunology 2019; 1(1):31-33.

Coordinated Activity of Transcriptional Networks Responding to the Pattern of Action Potential Firing in Neurons

Iacobas et al. 26 September 2019. Genes 10(10):754.

The Gene Master Regulators (GMR) Approach Provides Legitimate Targets for Personalized, Time-Sensitive Cancer Gene Therapy

Iacobas et al. 25 July 2019. Genes 10(8):560.

Deep learning for named entity recognition on Chinese electronic medical records: Combining deep transfer learning with multitask bi-directional LSTM RNN

Dong et al. 2 May 2019. PLoS One 2;14(5):e0216046.

Leveraging Spatial Variation in Tumor Purity for Improved Somatic Variant Calling of Archival Tumor Only Samples

Halperin et al. 20 March 2019. Front. Oncol. 9:119.

Evaluation of phytotoxicity of three organic amendments to collard greens using the seed germination bioassay

Kebrom et al. February 2019. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 26(6):5454-5462.

Systems Analysis of the Human Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Lung Transcriptome

Stearman et al. 2019. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2019 Jun;60(6):637-649

2018

11 papers

Expression of Genes Encoding for Xenobiotic Metabolism after Exposure to Dialkylnitrosamines in the Chicken Egg Genotoxicity Alternative Model

Kobets et al. 2018. Toxicol Sci. 2018 Nov 1;166(1):82-96

Regeneration of Neurotransmission Transcriptome in a Model of Epileptic Encephalopathy after Antiinflammatory Treatment

Iacobas and Velisek. 2018. Neural Regen Res. 2018 Oct;13(10):1715-1718

Estrogen Protects Neurotransmission Transcriptome During Status Epilepticus

Iacobas et al. 2018. Front Neurosci. 2018 Jun 20;12:332

A multitask bi-directional RNN model for named entity recognition on electronic medical records

Chowdhury et al. 2018. International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine (ICIBM 2018); June 10-12, 2018; Los Angeles, CA.

ACTH and PMX53 recover synaptic transcriptome alterations in a rat model of infantile spasms

Iacobas et al. 2018. Sci Rep. 2018 Apr 10;8(1):5722.

Phenotype Classification Using Moment Features of Single-Cell Data

Sima et al. 2018. Cancer Inform.

GPU-accelerated differential dependency network analysis

Speyer et al. 2018. Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing (PDP 2018), Mar 21-23, 2018.

Gene master regulators of papillary and anaplastic thyroid cancers

Iacobas et al. 2018. Oncotarget. 9(2):2410–2424.

Differential Response of Glioma Stem Cells to Arsenic Trioxide Therapy Is Regulated by MNK1 and mRNA Translation

Bell et al. 2018. Mol Cancer Res. 2018 Jan;16(1):32-46.

Functional genomic fabrics are remodeled in a mouse model of Chagasic cardiomyopathy and restored following cell therapy

Iacobas et al. 2018. Microbes Infect. 2018 Mar;20(3):185-195

Sequential Therapeutic Response Modeling for Tumor Treatment Using Computational Hybrid Control Systems Approach

Oduola et al. 2018. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 65(4):866-74.

2017

4 papers

Closed loop control of blood glucose level with neural network predictor for diabetic patients

Bamgbose et al. 2017. IEEE HealthCom; Oct. 12-15, 2017; Dalian, China.

Review of stochastic hybrid systems with applications in biological systems modeling and analysis

Li et al. 2017. EURASIP J Bioinform Syst Biol. 2017 Dec;2017(1):8

Time-Based Switching Control of Genetic Regulatory Networks: Toward Sequential Drug Intake for Cancer Therapy

Oduola et al. 2017. Cancer Inform. 2017;16:1176935117706888.

Contextualization of drug-mediator relations using evidence networks

Tran et al. 2017. BMC Bioinformatics. 2017; 18(Suppl 7):252.