Istiaq Ahmed

Istiaq Ahmed, Faiza Omar Arpita, Md Asif Bin Khaled, Ashraful Islam, M Ashraful Amin

Can Small LLMs Replace Fine-Tuned BERT for Bangla Natural Language Inference?

2026 Third International Conference on Innovations in Cybersecurity and Data Science (ICICDS), pp. 853-859, 2026

• small language models
• Bengali language
• natural language inference
• fine-tuned BERT
• multilingual language models

Istiaq Ahmed, Faiza Omar Arpita, Ashraful Islam, Rashedur Rahman, M Ashraful Amin

Comparative Analysis of Digital Food Ecosystems in Bangladesh: Commercial Platforms versus F-Commerce

Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1-8, 2026

• food justice
• food sovereignty
• local agriculture
• women entrepreneurs
• food delivery apps
• culinary heritage
• class hierarchy
• Food security
• community food systems
• Bangladesh

• SDG 2Zero Hunger
• SDG 10Reduced Inequalities
• SDG 5Gender Equality

Syed Niaz Mohtasim, Faiza Omar Arpita, Istiaq Ahmed, Ashraful Islam, M. Ashraful Amin, Beenish Moalla Chaudhry

mHealth apps for maternal mental well-being among pregnant and postpartum women: a systematic review

mHealth 12, pp. 23-23, 2026

• mood tracking
• maternal mental health
• cognitive behavioral therapy
• perinatal mental health
• postpartum depression
• mental health screening
• perinatal care
• mobile health apps
• prenatal stress
• prenatal anxiety

• SDG 3Good Health and Well-being
• SDG 5Gender Equality

Sinthia Chowdhury, Deawan Rakin Ahamed Remal, Istiaq Ahmed, Faiza Omar Arpita, Ashraful Islam, M Ashraful Amin

Early Stage Design of a Culturally Tailored Menopausal Mental Health Support Mobile Application for Bangladeshi Women

2026 7th International Conference on Mobile Computing and Sustainable Informatics (ICMCSI), pp. 1926-1933, 2026

• Anxiety
• menopause
• mobile health
• low-fidelity prototypes
• Bangladeshi women
• women's well-being
• rural women
• needs assessment
• depression

• SDG 3Good Health and Well-being
• SDG 5Gender Equality
• SDG 10Reduced Inequalities

Istiaq Ahmed, Faiza Omar Arpita, Deawan Rakin Ahamed Remal, Sinthia Chowdhury, Ashraful Islam, M Ashraful Amin

Evaluating cultural and technical barriers in gestational diabetes and gestational weight gain mhealth applications for lmic with user-centered analysis

2026 7th International Conference on Mobile Computing and Sustainable Informatics (ICMCSI), pp. 807-814, 2026

• gestational weight gain
• trauma-informed design
• gestational diabetes mellitus
• mobile health apps
• offline-first architecture
• low- and middle-income countries
• Usability
• Heuristic evaluation
• self-management support
• data integration

• SDG 3Good Health and Well-being
• SDG 5Gender Equality
• SDG 10Reduced Inequalities

Faiza Omar Arpita, Istiaq Ahmed, Joye Banik, Ashraful Islam, M Ashraful Amin

Co-Designing a Culturally Tailored mHealth App for Gestational Diabetes and Excessive Gestational Weight Gain Management in Bangladesh

International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, pp. 28-48, 2026

In: Human-Centered Design, Operation and Evaluation of Mobile Communications

• excessive gestational weight gain
• participatory co-design
• offline-first architecture
• gestational diabetes mellitus
• trauma-informed design
• low- and middle-income countries
• usability evaluation
• mobile health apps
• Bangladesh
• food database

• SDG 3Good Health and Well-being
• SDG 5Gender Equality

Sayed Rakinur Rahman, Amanta Suraiya, Md Turan Rafsan, Istiaq Ahmed, Ashraful Islam, M Ashraful Amin

Design and Evaluation of Traffic Kontho: A User-Centered Mobile App for Citizen-Reported Traffic Violations in Bangladesh

International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, pp. 411-428, 2026

In: Human-Centered Design, Operation and Evaluation of Mobile Communications

• mobile application design
• usability evaluation
• citizen participation
• anonymous reporting
• System usability scale
• road safety
• traffic management
• community participation
• Bangladesh

• SDG 11Sustainable Cities and Communities
• SDG 16Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Istiaq Ahmed, Faiza Omar Arpita, Ashraful Islam, Saadia Binte Alam, Moinul Islam Zaber, M Ashraful Amin

A Privacy-by-Design Framework for Digital Phenotyping: On-Device AI for Accurate Behavioral Research Without Compromising User Trust

International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, pp. 319-336, 2026

In: Human-Centered Design, Operation and Evaluation of Mobile Communications

• on-device AI
• digital phenotyping
• privacy by design
• participant recruitment and retention
• edge AI
• Federated learning
• self-report questionnaire
• data anonymization
• user trust
• recall bias

SM A Sayed Al Banna, Istiaq Ahmed, Ashraful Islam, Rashedur Rahman, Faiza Omar Arpita, Saadia Binte Alam

Adaptive Denoising Filter Selection for Preprocessing Low-Light Images via Feature-Based Machine Learning Noise Classification System

2025 IEEE 23rd Student Conference on Research and Development (SCOReD), pp. 1-6, 2025

• periodic noise
• shot noise
• quantization noise
• salt and pepper noise
• low-light images
• image denoising
• gray level co-occurrence matrix
• textural properties
• noise classification
• BSDS500

Sabrina Masum Meem, Mohammed Tahmid Hossain, Sami Rashid, Ashraful Islam, Rashedur Rahman, Istiaq Ahmed, Asif Mahmud, Saadia Binte Alam, M Ashraful Amin

Resolution, Compression, and GAN-Enhanced Evaluation of YOLO Models on the Poribohon-BD Vehicle Dataset

2025 IEEE 23rd Student Conference on Research and Development (SCOReD), pp. 1-6, 2025

• YOLOv12
• YOLOv10
• Real-ESRGAN
• intelligent transportation systems
• YOLOv8
• resource-constrained environments
• vehicle detection
• Image resolution
• JPEG compression

• SDG 11Sustainable Cities and Communities