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most citedSecurity, Privacy and Safety Risk Assessment for Virtual Reality Learning Environment Applications

52 citations · 194 across the 34 of their papers we have counts for

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37 papers

cs.HC2025★ 4 cited

PILAR: Personalizing Augmented Reality Interactions with LLM-based Human-Centric and Trustworthy Explanations for Daily Use Cases

Ripan Kumar Kundu, Istiak Ahmed, Khaza Anuarul Hoque

Artificial intelligence (AI)-driven augmented reality (AR) systems are becoming increasingly integrated into daily life, and with this growth comes a greater need for explainabilit…

cs.CR2025★ 2 cited

Adversarial VR: An Open-Source Testbed for Evaluating Adversarial Robustness of VR Cybersickness Detection and Mitigation

Istiak Ahmed, Ripan Kumar Kundu, Khaza Anuarul Hoque

Deep learning (DL)-based automated cybersickness detection methods, along with adaptive mitigation techniques, can enhance user comfort and interaction. However, recent studies sho…

cs.AI2025

TOGGLE: Temporal Logic-Guided Large Language Model Compression for Edge

Khurram Khalil, Khaza Anuarul Hoque

Large Language Models (LLMs) deliver exceptional performance across natural language tasks but demand substantial computational resources, limiting their deployment on resource-con…

cs.CR2025★ 3 cited

PrivateXR: Defending Privacy Attacks in Extended Reality Through Explainable AI-Guided Differential Privacy

Ripan Kumar Kundu, Istiak Ahmed, Khaza Anuarul Hoque

The convergence of artificial AI and XR technologies (AI XR) promises innovative applications across many domains. However, the sensitive nature of data (e.g., eye-tracking) used i…

cs.CR2025

FlipLLM: Efficient Bit-Flip Attacks on Multimodal LLMs using Reinforcement Learning

Khurram Khalil, Khaza Anuarul Hoque

Generative Artificial Intelligence models, such as Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large Vision Models (VLMs), exhibit state-of-the-art performance but remain vulnerable to hardwa…

cs.AI2025

RIFT: A Scalable Methodology for LLM Accelerator Fault Assessment using Reinforcement Learning

Khurram Khalil, Muhammad Mahad Khaliq, Khaza Anuarul Hoque

The massive scale of modern AI accelerators presents critical challenges to traditional fault assessment methodologies, which face prohibitive computational costs and provide poor…

cs.AI2025

Hyperproperty-Constrained Secure Reinforcement Learning

Ernest Bonnah, Luan Viet Nguyen, Khaza Anuarul Hoque

Hyperproperties for Time Window Temporal Logic (HyperTWTL) is a domain-specific formal specification language known for its effectiveness in compactly representing security, opacit…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

ApproXAI: Energy-Efficient Hardware Acceleration of Explainable AI using Approximate Computing

Ayesha Siddique, Khurram Khalil, Khaza Anuarul Hoque

Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) enhances AI system transparency by framing interpretability as an optimization problem. However, this approach often necessitates numerous…

cs.DC2025

EPSILON: Adaptive Fault Mitigation in Approximate Deep Neural Network using Statistical Signatures

Khurram Khalil, Khaza Anuarul Hoque

The increasing adoption of approximate computing in deep neural network accelerators (AxDNNs) promises significant energy efficiency gains. However, permanent faults in AxDNNs can…

cs.LG2025

Explainable AI-Guided Efficient Approximate DNN Generation for Multi-Pod Systolic Arrays

Ayesha Siddique, Khurram Khalil, Khaza Anuarul Hoque

Approximate deep neural networks (AxDNNs) are promising for enhancing energy efficiency in real-world devices. One of the key contributors behind this enhanced energy efficiency in…

cs.CR2025

Securing Virtual Reality Experiences: Unveiling and Tackling Cybersickness Attacks with Explainable AI

Ripan Kumar Kundu, Matthew Denton, Genova Mongalo +2

The synergy between virtual reality (VR) and artificial intelligence (AI), specifically deep learning (DL)-based cybersickness detection models, has ushered in unprecedented advanc…

cs.HC2024

Mazed and Confused: A Dataset of Cybersickness, Working Memory, Mental Load, Physical Load, and Attention During a Real Walking Task in VR

Jyotirmay Nag Setu, Joshua M Le, Ripan Kumar Kundu +5

Virtual Reality (VR) is quickly establishing itself in various industries, including training, education, medicine, and entertainment, in which users are frequently required to car…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

Formal Verification for Blockchain-based Insurance Claims Processing

Roshan Lal Neupane, Ernest Bonnah, Bishnu Bhusal +3

Insurance claims processing involves multi-domain entities and multi-source data, along with a number of human-agent interactions. Use of Blockchain technology-based platform can s…

cs.LO2023

QTWTL: Quality Aware Time Window Temporal Logic for Performance Monitoring

Ernest Bonnah, Khaza Anuarul Hoque

In various service-oriented applications such as distributed autonomous delivery, healthcare, tourism, transportation, and many others, where service agents need to perform serial…

cs.LO2023★ 3 cited

Model Checking Time Window Temporal Logic for Hyperproperties

Ernest Bonnah, Luan Viet Nguyen, Khaza Anuarul Hoque

Hyperproperties extend trace properties to express properties of sets of traces, and they are increasingly popular in specifying various security and performance-related properties…

cs.HC2023

LiteVR: Interpretable and Lightweight Cybersickness Detection using Explainable AI

Ripan Kumar Kundu, Rifatul Islam, John Quarles +1

Cybersickness is a common ailment associated with virtual reality (VR) user experiences. Several automated methods exist based on machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) to de…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

VR-LENS: Super Learning-based Cybersickness Detection and Explainable AI-Guided Deployment in Virtual Reality

Ripan Kumar Kundu, Osama Yahia Elsaid, Prasad Calyam +1

A plethora of recent research has proposed several automated methods based on machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) to detect cybersickness in Virtual reality (VR). However,…

cs.AR2023★ 20 cited

Exposing Reliability Degradation and Mitigation in Approximate DNNs under Permanent Faults

Ayesha Siddique, Khaza Anuarul Hoque

Approximate computing is known for enhancing deep neural network accelerators' energy efficiency by introducing inexactness with a tolerable accuracy loss. However, small accuracy…

cs.NE2023

Improving Reliability of Spiking Neural Networks through Fault Aware Threshold Voltage Optimization

Ayesha Siddique, Khaza Anuarul Hoque

Spiking neural networks have made breakthroughs in computer vision by lending themselves to neuromorphic hardware. However, the neuromorphic hardware lacks parallelism and hence, l…

cs.CR2023

Security-Aware Approximate Spiking Neural Networks

Syed Tihaam Ahmad, Ayesha Siddique, Khaza Anuarul Hoque

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) and Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are both known for their susceptibility to adversarial attacks. Therefore, researchers in the recent past have extens…

cs.CR2023★ 3 cited

RobustPdM: Designing Robust Predictive Maintenance against Adversarial Attacks

Ayesha Siddique, Ripan Kumar Kundu, Gautam Raj Mode +1

The state-of-the-art predictive maintenance (PdM) techniques have shown great success in reducing maintenance costs and downtime of complicated machines while increasing overall pr…

cs.HC2022

TruVR: Trustworthy Cybersickness Detection using Explainable Machine Learning

Ripan Kumar Kundu, Rifatul Islam, Prasad Calyam +1

Cybersickness can be characterized by nausea, vertigo, headache, eye strain, and other discomforts when using virtual reality (VR) systems. The previously reported machine learning…

cs.CR2021★ 1 cited

Is Approximation Universally Defensive Against Adversarial Attacks in Deep Neural Networks?

Ayesha Siddique, Khaza Anuarul Hoque

Approximate computing is known for its effectiveness in improvising the energy efficiency of deep neural network (DNN) accelerators at the cost of slight accuracy loss. Very recent…

cs.HC2021

Rule-based Adaptations to Control Cybersickness in Social Virtual Reality Learning Environments

Samaikya Valluripally, Vaibhav Akashe, Michael Fisher +3

Social virtual reality learning environments (VRLEs) provide immersive experience to users with increased accessibility to remote learning. Lack of maintaining high-performance and…