Abdullah Al Arafat

Abdullah Al Arafat

Assistant Professor, FIU

Note: ‘*’ indicates equal contribution by the authors

Book Chapters

  1. [SETSS 2025] Shengjie Xu, Prateek Ganguli, Tingan Zhu, Arkaprava Gupta, Bineet Ghosh, Kurt Wilson, Abdullah Al Arafat, John Baugh, Zhishan Guo, Benjamin Berg, Parasara Sridhar Duggirala, and Samarjit Chakraborty. Building Safe Autonomous Systems Using Imperfect Components, in Engineering Trustworthy Software Systems, pp. 213–-286, May 2026.

Journal Papers

  1. [TCAD 2024] Abdullah Al Arafat, Kurt Wilson, Kechang Yang, and Zhishan Guo. Dynamic Priority Scheduling of Multi-Threaded ROS 2 Executor with Shared Resources, in IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), pp. 3732--3743, November 2024.
  2. [IoT-J 2022] Abdullah Al Arafat*, Jiang Bian*, Haoyi Xiong, Jing Li, Li Li, Hongyang Chen, Jun Wang, Dejing Dou, and Zhishan Guo. Machine Learning in Real-Time Internet of Things (IoT) Systems: A Survey, in IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J), pp. 8364--8386, June 2022.

Conference Papers

  1. [CVPR 2026] Mohaiminul Al Nahian, Abeer Almalky, Sabbir Ahmed, Abdullah Al Arafat, Mamshad Nayeem Rizve, and Adnan Siraj Rakin. Unleashing Stealthy Backdoor Pandemic by Infecting a Single Diffusion Model, in IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), 2026.
  2. [RTAS 2026] Abdullah Al Arafat, Kurt Wilson, Shareef Ahmed, and Zhishan Guo. Supporting Mixed-Criticality and Mutually Exclusive Callback Groups in Multi-Thread ROS 2, in 32nd IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), 2026.
  3. [DATE 2026] Sabbir Ahmed, Deniz Najafi, Mohaiminul Al Nahian, Navid Khoshavi, Abdullah Al Arafat, Mamshad Nayeem Rizve, Mahdi Nikdast, Adnan Siraj Rakin, and Shaahin Angizi. INSPIRE: In-Sensor Compressed Weight Retrieval for Enhancing ViT Efficiency at Edge, in IEEE/ACM Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), 2026. (Best Paper Award)
  4. [WACV 2026] Sabbir Ahmed*, Mamshad Nayeem Rizve*, Abdullah Al Arafat*, Jacqueline Tiffany Liu, Rahim Hossain, Mohaiminul Al Nahian, and Adnan Siraj Rakin. Unified Alignment Protocol: Making Sense of the Unlabeled Data in New Domains, in IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), pp. 2974-2983, 2026. (Oral Presentation)
  5. [AAAI 2026] Xuntao Lyu, Ching-Chi Lin, Abdullah Al Arafat, Georg von der Brüggen, Jian-Jia Chen, and Zhishan Guo. CertMask: Certifiable Defense Against Adversarial Patches via Theoretically Optimal Mask Coverage, in 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), pp. 7735-7743, 2026.
  6. [RTCSA 2025a] Abdullah Al Arafat, Kurt Wilson, Sudharsan Vaidhun, Bryan C. Ward, and Zhishan Guo. Resilient Scheduling of Real-Time Cyber-Physical Systems against Memory-Corruptions, in 31st IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA), pp. 138-149, 2025.
  7. [RTCSA 2025b] Yixin Li, Zhiling Li, Abdullah Al Arafat, Donald Johnson, Ning Sui, Anil Gehi, and Zhishan Guo. Adaptive Model Selection for Real-Time Heart Disease Detection on Embedded Systems, in 31st IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA), pp. 195-205, 2025.
  8. [CVPR 2025] Sabbir Ahmed*, Abdullah Al Arafat*, Deniz Najafi*, Akhlak Mahmood, Mamshad Nayeem Rizve, Mohaiminul Al Nahian, Ranyang Zhou, Shaahin Angizi, and Adnan Siraj Rakin. DeepCompress-ViT: Rethinking Model Compression to Enhance Efficiency of Vision Transformers at the Edge, in IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), pp. 30147-30156, 2025.
  9. [RTAS 2025] Kurt Wilson, Abdullah Al Arafat, John Baugh, Ruozhou Yu, and Zhishan Guo. Physics-Informed Mixed-Criticality Scheduling for F1Tenth Cars with Preemptable ROS 2 Executors, in 31st IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), pp. 215-227, 2025.
  10. [HSCC 2025] Kurt Wilson*, Abdullah Al Arafat*, John Baugh, Ruozhou Yu, Xue Liu, and Zhishan Guo. Soteria: A Formal Digital-Twin-Enabled Framework for Safety-Assurance of Latency-Aware Safety-Critical Cyber-Physical Systems, in 28th ACM International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC), 2025.
  11. [ICCAD 2025] Abeer Almalky, Sabbir Ahmed, Ranyang Zhou, Mohaiminul Al Nahian, Abdullah Al Arafat, Shaahin Angizi, and Adnan Siraj Rakin. LLWRA: Large Language Models Weight Replacement Attack, in 9th IEEE/IFAC International Conference on Control, Automation and Diagnosis (ICCAD), 2025.
  12. [CCS 2024] Nazmul Karim*, Abdullah Al Arafat*, Adnan Siraj Rakin, Zhishan Guo, and Nazanin Rahnavard. Fisher Information guided Purification against Backdoor Attacks, in 31st ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), pp. 4435–4449, 2024.
  13. [ECCV 2024] Nazmul Karim*, Abdullah Al Arafat*, Umar Khalid, Zhishan Guo, and Nazanin Rahnavard. Augmented Neural Fine-Tuning for Efficient Backdoor Purification, in 18th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), pp. 401–418, 2024.
  14. [EMSOFT 2024] Abdullah Al Arafat, Kurt Wilson, Kechang Yang, and Zhishan Guo. Dynamic Priority Scheduling of Multi-Threaded ROS 2 Executor with Shared Resources, in ACM SIGBED International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT), pp. 3732–3743, 2024.
  15. [RTSS 2023] Zhishan Guo*, Sudharsan Vaidhun*, Abdullah Al Arafat*, Nan Guan, and Kecheng Yang. Stealing Static Slack via WCRT and Sporadic P-Servers in Deadline-Driven Scheduling, in 44th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), pp. 40–52, 2023.
  16. [ICCV 2023] Sabbir Ahmed*, Abdullah Al Arafat*, Mamshad Nayeem Rizve*, Rahim Hossain, Zhishan Guo, and Adnan Siraj Rakin. SSDA: Secure Source-Free Domain Adaptation, in International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), pp. 19180–19190, 2023.
  17. [RTAS 2023] Abdullah Al Arafat, Sudharsan Vaidhun, Liangkai Liu, Kechang Yang, and Zhishan Guo. Compositional Mixed-Criticality Systems with Multiple Executions and Resource-Budgets Model, in 29th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), pp. 67–79, 2023.
  18. [DAC 2022] Abdullah Al Arafat, Sudharsan Vaidhun, Kurt M. Wilson, Jinghao Sun, and Zhishan Guo. Response Time Analysis for Dynamic Priority Scheduling in ROS2, in Proceedings of the 59th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), pp. 301–306, 2022. (Publicity Paper Award)
  19. [VR 2021] Abdullah Al Arafat, Zhishan Guo, and Amro Awad. VR-Spy: A Side-Channel Attack on Virtual Key-Logging in VR Headsets, in IEEE Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR), pp. 564–572, 2021.

Other Publications (Workshops/ Work-in-Progresses)

  1. [MEMOCODE 2024] Kurt Wilson, Abdullah Al Arafat, John Baugh, Ruozhou Yu, and Zhishan Guo. Physics-Aware Mixed-Criticality Systems Design via End-to-End Verification of CPS, in 22nd ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Formal Methods and Models for System Design (MEMOCODE), pp. 98--102, 2024.
  2. [WMC 2022] Abdullah Al Arafat, Sudharsan Vaidhun, Bryan C. Ward, and Zhishan Guo. A Secure Resilient Real-Time Recovery Model, Scheduler, and Analysis, in 10th International Workshop on Mixed Criticality Systems (WMC), @RTSS, pp. 14--19, 2022.

Ph.D. Thesis

Abdullah Al Arafat. Towards Resilient and Secure Real-Time Intelligent Systems, in North Carolina State University Ph.D. Thesis, 2025. (Advisor: Prof. Zhishan Guo) (2026 CSC Outstanding Dissertation Award, NCSU)