Publications | Sharif Noor Zisad

Publications

Peer-reviewed work spanning AI security, privacy, medical devices, public safety, and sustainable computing.

Patent
Provisional Patent 2025
SmartWall: An Infrastructure for Sensory and Computation-capable Buildings using Sustainable and Low-cost Smart Materials

UAB Intellectual Property Disclosure, 2025. Embeds IoT sensors and computing capability directly into building materials to enable smart, sustainable architectural infrastructure with minimal added cost.

Posters
AI in Nephrology Conference 2026
CRRT-MAPPER: A Scalable Machine-Driven Pipeline to Integrate Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy Machine Data with Electronic Health Records

Poster presentation at AI in Nephrology Conference 2026 showcasing the CRRT-MAPPER which match CRRT machine log data with the corresponding patient health records at scale

IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference 2026
IPBAC: Interaction Provenance-Based Access Control for Secure and Privacy-Aware Systems

Poster presentation IEEE ICCC illustrating The integration of fuzzy logic with interaction provenance by enabling dynamic, context-aware access decisions based on uncertainty, historical interactions, and behavioral evidence, while ensuring improved security, flexibility, and traceability.

Peer-Reviewed Publications
2026
IEEE CARS 2026 2026
Trust propagation and structural containment in Multi-agent LLM pipelines

A proposed structural authorization layer, utilizing signed tokens and a policy oracle, prevents multi-agent LLM systems from executing unauthorized actions, even when upstream validation fails.

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IEEE CARS 2026 2026
PDFxRay: A RAG-Enhanced LLM Framework for Explainable Malicious PDF Detection in Healthcare

PDFxRay is a RAG-enhanced LLM framework that secures hospital networks by analyzing malicious healthcare PDFs, identifying threat patterns, and providing actionable, explainable risk assessments.

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IEEE Wf-PST 2026 2026
TwinGuard: Digital Twin based Threat Simulation in Hospital Employee Pre-Onboarding for Public Safety

TwinGuard simulates hospital employee access privileges using digital twins, evaluating graph-based attack paths and risk scores to block cyber threats and protect medical networks before new accounts are activated.

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IEEE COMPSAC 2026 2026
LabOrchestrator: An AI Framework for End-to-End Security in Medical Research Environments

LabOrchestrator is an AI-driven framework that unifies automated threat modeling, explainable access control, and continuous compliance monitoring to provide adaptive, end-to-end cybersecurity for medical research environments.

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IEEE ICC 2026 2026
ComplianceGPT: LLM driven Context-Aware Agent for Automated Medical Data Privacy Compliance

ComplianceGPT is an LLM-based, context-aware agent that automatically detects medical data privacy risks, explains regulatory violations, and provides actionable de-identification guidance to support healthcare compliance.

IEEE CCNC 2026 2026
LLMAC: A Global and Explainable Access Control Framework with Large Language Model

LLMAC unifies traditional access control models using Large Language Models to deliver highly accurate, context-aware, and explainable access decisions for complex, dynamic organizational environments.

IEEE CCNC 2026 2026
IPBAC: Interaction Provenance-Based Access Control for Secure and Privacy-Aware Systems

IPBAC integrates fuzzy logic with interaction provenance by enabling dynamic, context-aware access decisions based on uncertainty, historical interactions, and behavioral evidence, while ensuring improved security, flexibility, and traceability.

2025
IEEE WF-PST 2025 2025 Best Paper Award
Trustworthy and Efficient P2P Updates in Drones and Autonomous Aircrafts to ensure Public Safety

A secure peer-to-peer firmware update protocol for drones and autonomous aerial vehicles, preventing malicious update injection without a centralized authority while balancing real-world bandwidth and latency constraints.

IEEE WF-PST 2025 2025
SmartWall: An Infrastructure for Sensory and Computation-Capable Buildings Using Sustainable and Low-Cost Smart Materials

SmartWall is an intelligent, low-cost IoT-enabled building component that provides real-time structural and environmental monitoring to enhance public safety, resilience, and sustainability in smart cities.

IEEE WF-PST 2025 2025
Comparative Analysis of Transformer Models in Disaster Tweet Classification for Public Safety

This study demonstrates that transformer-based models significantly outperform traditional machine learning methods in classifying disaster-related tweets, enabling more accurate and context-aware public safety monitoring.

IEEE WF-PST 2025 2025
ThreatGPT: An Agentic AI Framework for Enhancing Public Safety through Threat Modeling

An agentic LLM pipeline automating STRIDE-style threat modeling for public-safety infrastructure — identifying attack surfaces, generating threat scenarios, and recommending mitigations.

2024
IEEE SoutheastCon 2024 2024
Towards a Security Analysis of Radiological Medical Devices using the MITRE ATT&CK Framework

Maps realistic adversarial attack paths against network-connected radiological devices (MRI, CT, X-ray) using MITRE ATT&CK, identifying critical vulnerabilities and proposing mitigations aligned with healthcare security standards.

IEEE ICBC 2024 2024
Blockchain Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection and Segmentation Using ML

This research introduces a graph-based machine learning approach for accurate and efficient detection of vulnerabilities in Ethereum smart contracts.

2023
IEEE ECCE 2023 2023
Sustainability of Machine Learning Models: An Energy Consumption Centric Evaluation

Benchmarks energy consumption across diverse ML architectures during training and inference, introducing a sustainability metric to guide eco-conscious model selection without sacrificing predictive accuracy.

2021
Springer Brain Informatics 2021 2021
A Belief Rule Base Approach to Support Comparison of Digital Speech Signal Features for Parkinson's Disease Diagnosis

Uses belief rule base reasoning to compare and rank acoustic features from speech signals for Parkinson's diagnosis, improving diagnostic confidence by modeling the inherent uncertainty in neurological symptom expression.

Algorithms (MDPI) 2021 2021
An Integrated Deep Learning and Belief Rule-Based Expert System for Visual Sentiment Analysis under Uncertainty

Combines CNN feature extraction with a belief rule-based expert system to classify visual sentiment from images under uncertain labeling, outperforming standalone deep learning on ambiguous datasets.

Algorithms (MDPI) 2021 2021
An Integrated Neural Network and SEIR Model to Predict Covid-19

Fuses an epidemiological SEIR model with a neural network to predict COVID-19 trajectories, capturing both disease dynamics and data-driven nonlinear patterns for higher forecast accuracy than either approach alone.

2020
Springer Brain Informatics 2020 2020
Speech Emotion Recognition in Neurological Disorders using Convolutional Neural Network

Applies CNN-based spectral feature learning to classify emotional states from speech of patients with neurological disorders, outperforming traditional handcrafted feature pipelines on pathological speech data.