2026 Mustaque Ahamad: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	43	7956	7729	3426	3297	192	8267

Overview

Mustaque Ahamad is affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily within Computer Science and Social Sciences, with significant contributions to specialized subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science, Signal Processing, and Surgery.

The scientist's work covers several prominent topics, among which are:

Spam and Phishing Detection
Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
Misinformation and Its Impacts
Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
Bladder and Urothelial Cancer Treatments
Network Security and Intrusion Detection
Healthcare and Environmental Waste Management

Mustaque Ahamad has contributed to numerous publications, with a focus on research related to both technological and societal challenges. Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored include:

"PPE pollution in the terrestrial and aquatic environment of the Chittagong city area associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and concomitant health implications," 2022, Environmental Science and Pollution Research
"Amassing the Covid-19 driven PPE wastes in the dwelling environment of Chittagong Metropolis and associated implications," 2022, Chemosphere
"Reinforcement Learning-based Counter-Misinformation Response Generation: A Case Study of COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation," 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)
"Cross-Platform Multimodal Misinformation: Taxonomy, Characteristics and Detection for Textual Posts and Videos," 2022, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
"Significance of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Expression in the Bladder Urothelial Carcinoma and Its Association with Tumor Grade and Invasiveness," 2021, Iranian journal of pathology

The scientist has published frequently in the following venues:

arXiv (Cornell University): 10 publications
Iranian journal of pathology: 2 publications
Environmental Science and Pollution Research
Chemosphere
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

Collaborations have been an important aspect of Mustaque Ahamad's work. Frequent co-authors include:

Srijan Kumar (5 joint publications)
Nasir Memon (3 joint publications)
Anika Sadaf (3 joint publications)
Roberto Perdisci (3 joint publications)
Md. Jainal Abedin (2 joint publications)

Best Publications

Causal memory: definitions, implementation, and programming

Mustaque Ahamad;Gil Neiger;James E. Burns;Prince Kohli

696
Citations
Securing context-aware applications using environment roles

Michael J. Covington;Wende Long;Srividhya Srinivasan;Anind K. Dev

648
Citations
The grid protocol: a high performance scheme for maintaining replicated data

S.Y. Cheung;M.H. Ammar;M. Ahamad

448
Citations
Incentives in BitTorrent induce free riding

Seung Jun;Mustaque Ahamad

387
Citations
The Clouds distributed operating system

P. Dasgupta;R.J. LeBlanc;M. Ahamad;U. Ramachandran

350
Citations
A context-aware security architecture for emerging applications

M.J. Covington;P. Fogla;Zhiyuan Zhan;M. Ahamad

292
Citations
Generalized Role-Based Access Control for Securing Future Applications

Michael J. Covington;Matthew James Moyer;Mustaque Ahamad

280
Citations
Slow memory: weakening consistency to enhance concurrency in distributed shared memories

P.W. Hutto;M. Ahamad

265
Citations
The power of processor consistency

Mustaque Ahamad;Rida A. Bazzi;Ranjit John;Prince Kohli

199
Citations
Implementing and programming causal distributed shared memory

M. Ahamad;P.W. Hutto;R. John

164
Citations
The Design and Implementation of the Clouds Distributed Operating System.

P. Dasgupta;R. C. Chen;S. Menon;M. P. Pearson

158
Citations
Performance characterization of quorum-consensus algorithms for replicated data

M. Ahamad;M.H. Ammar

152
Citations
The grid protocol: a high performance scheme for maintaining replicated data

S.Y. Cheung;M.H. Ammar;M. Ahamad

145
Citations
One-time cookies: Preventing session hijacking attacks with stateless authentication tokens

Italo Dacosta;Saurabh Chakradeo;Mustaque Ahamad;Patrick Traynor

129
Citations
Timed consistency for shared distributed objects

Francisco J. Torres-Rojas;Mustaque Ahamad;Michel Raynal

121
Citations
The Role of the Crowd in Countering Misinformation: A Case Study of the COVID-19 Infodemic

Nicholas Micallef;Bing He;Srijan Kumar;Mustaque Ahamad

120
Citations
Causal Memory

Mustaque Ahamad;James E. Burns;Phillip W. Hutto;Gil Neiger

115
Citations
Plausible clocks: constant size logical clocks for distributed systems

Francisco J. Torres-Rojas;Mustaque Ahamad

115
Citations
CallRank: Combating SPIT Using Call Duration, Social Networks and Global Reputation

Vijay A. Balasubramaniyan;Mustaque Ahamad;Haesun Park

113
Citations
ExecScent: mining for new C&C domains in live networks with adaptive control protocol templates

Terry Nelms;Roberto Perdisci;Mustaque Ahamad

112
Citations
Efficient implementations of java remote method invocation (RMI)

Vijaykumar Krishnaswamy;Dan Walther;Sumeer Bhola;Ethendranath Bommaiah

100
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Mostafa H. Ammar Georgia Institute of Technology

Michel Raynal Institut de Recherche en Informatique et Systèmes Aléatoires

Patrick Traynor University of Florida

Karsten Schwan Georgia Institute of Technology

Douglas M. Blough Georgia Institute of Technology

Umakishore Ramachandran Georgia Institute of Technology

Roberto Perdisci University of Georgia

Ponnurangam Kumaraguru International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad

Ling Liu Georgia Institute of Technology

John Stasko Georgia Institute of Technology

External Links

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