Northeastern University Electrical and Computer Engineering Khoury College of Computer Sciences

Research

Publications

Full publication list: Google Scholar.

New Papers and Accepted Manuscripts

Goodness Is All You Need: Forward-Only Long-Horizon Time-Series Forecasting

Russell, K.; Nafa, F.

25th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), Special Session 2: Neurocognitive-Inspired Machine Learning for Adaptive, Robust, and Secure Intelligence, 2026

Accepted

CACT-Net: A Country-Conditioned Hybrid Neural Architecture for Multi-Horizon Forecasting of Climate-Induced Natural Disasters

Nafa, F. et al.

25th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), Main Conference Track, 2026

Accepted

Rank Is Not the Bottleneck: Data Scale, Not Adapter Capacity, Drives Faithful Summarization in LoRA-Tuned LLMs

Nafa, F.

Women in Machine Learning Workshop at NeurIPS (WiML), 2026

Accepted

CostFit: Cost-Aware Agent Design for Hybrid Database and API Question Answering

Nafa, F. et al.

NeurIPS 2026 BiAlign Workshop, 2026

Accepted

Reason, Evaluate, and Test: Developing Software Engineering Skills with AI Agents

Nafa, F. et al.

Joint Conference of the 25th International Conference on Web-Based Learning and the 11th International Symposium on Emerging Technologies for Education (ICWL-SETE), 2026

Accepted

Conference and Journal Publications

Impact of Solar Farm Expansion on Forest Cover in Massachusetts: An Analysis Using Artificial Intelligence and Remote Sensing

Farina, N.; Young, S. S.; Nafa, F.; Waddington, G.

The Professional Geographer, 77(3), 257–268, 2025

Advancing Early Detection of Breast Cancer: A User-Friendly Convolutional Neural Network Automation System

Dequit, A.; Nafa, F.

BioMedInformatics, 4(2), 992–1005, 2024

Improving Educational Outcomes: Developing and Assessing Grading System (ProGrader) for Programming Courses

Nafa, F.; Sreeramareddy, L.; Mallapuram, S.; Moulema, P.

HCI International, 322–342, 2023

HPV Health Communication Using BERT Summarization

Bitar, H.; Nafa, F.

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022

Machine-Learning Graphical User Interface for Alzheimer’s Disease Detection

Nafa, F.; Rodriguez-Argueta, E.

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022