Publications

A complete, frequently updated list. For citations and bibtex, see Google Scholar. First-author papers in bold context; my name bolded throughout.

Under review / in preparation

2025
2025

Adversarial Calibration Poisoning Collapses Conformal Anomaly Detection: A Robust, Annotation-Free Defense

Sarwan Ali

IEEE TNNLS · submitted

conformal predictionrobustnessunder review
2025

Robust Gradient Descent via Heavy-Ball Momentum with Predictive Extrapolation

Sarwan Ali

AISTATS · submitted · on arXiv

optimizationtheoryunder review
2025

Multi-Trait Polygenic Risk Scores for Alzheimer's Disease Prediction Across Diverse Ethnic Populations

Sarwan Ali, Neetesh Pandey, Giuseppe Tosto

Preprint · in preparation

PRSAlzheimer'smulti-ancestry
2025

Multimodal AI-Driven Framework for Early Detection and Progression Modeling of Frontotemporal Degeneration Using Genomic, Proteomic, and Digital Biomarkers

Sarwan Ali, Giuseppe Tosto

Preprint · in preparation

multimodalneurodegeneration
2025

Longitudinal Clustering of Cognitive Trajectories in Alzheimer's Disease Progression

Sarwan Ali, Vivek Ruhela, Giuseppe Tosto

Preprint · in preparation

longitudinalAlzheimer's

2025

accepted / published
2025

Nearest Neighbor CCP-Based Molecular Sequence Analysis

Sarwan Ali, Prakash Chourasia, Bipin Koirala, Murray Patterson

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology & Bioinformatics (TCBB) · IF 3.4 · paper

2025

Hist2Vec: A Histogram and Kernel-Based Embedding Method for Molecular Sequence Analysis

Sarwan Ali, Tamkanat E. Ali, Haris Mansoor, Prakash Chourasia, Murray Patterson

Elsevier Expert Systems with Applications · IF 7.5 · paper

2025

Anderson Acceleration For Molecular Sequencing

Sarwan Ali, Prakash Chourasia, Murray Patterson

Springer Neural Computing and Applications (NCAA) · IF 5.1

2025

Hash-Binding: DNA-Protein Binding Prediction Using Hashing-Based Embedding

Sarwan Ali, Tamkanat E. Ali, Murray Patterson

Springer Neural Computing and Applications (NCAA) · IF 5.1 · paper

2025

Explicit Path CGR: Maintaining Sequence Fidelity in Geometric Representations

Sarwan Ali

ACM CIKM · CORE Rank A

2025

Sequence-to-Image Transformation for Sequence Classification Using Rips Complex Construction and Chaos Game Representation

Sarwan Ali

ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC)

2025

Hilbert Curve Based Molecular Sequence Analysis

Sarwan Ali, Tamkanat E. Ali, Imdad Ullah Khan, Murray Patterson

PAKDD · paper

2025

Position Specific Scoring Is All You Need? Revisiting Protein Sequence Classification Tasks

Sarwan Ali

RECOMB-CG · paper

2024

2024

Molecular Sequence Classification Using Efficient Kernel-Based Embedding

Sarwan Ali, Tamkanat E. Ali, Taslim Murad, Haris Mansoor, Murray Patterson

Elsevier Information Sciences · IF 8.1 · paper

2024

Elliptic Geometry-Based Kernel Matrix for Improved Biological Sequence Classification

Sarwan Ali, Madiha Shabbir, Haris Mansoor, Prakash Chourasia, Murray Patterson

Elsevier Knowledge-Based Systems · IF 7.2 · paper

2024

SsAG: Summarization and Sparsification of Attributed Graphs

Sarwan Ali, Muhammad Ahmad, Maham Anwer Beg, Imdadullah Khan, Arif Zaman, Muhammad Asad Khan

ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD) · IF 4.0 · paper

2024

From PDB Files to Protein Features: A Comparative Analysis of PDB Bind and STCRDAB Datasets

Sarwan Ali, Prakash Chourasia, Murray Patterson

Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing (MBEC) · IF 2.6 · paper

2024

CAMP: A Context-Aware Cricket Players Performance Metric

Muhammad Sohaib Ayub, Naimat Ullah, Sarwan Ali, Imdad Ullah Khan, et al.

Journal of the Operational Research Society · IF 3.6 · paper

2024

Gaussian Beltrami-Klein Model for Protein Sequence Classification: A Hyperbolic Approach

Sarwan Ali, Haris Mansoor, Prakash Chourasia, Yasir Ali, Murray Patterson

ISBRA · paper

2024

DeepPWM-BindingNet: Unleashing Binding Prediction with Combined Sequence and PWM Features

Sarwan Ali, Prakash Chourasia, Murray Patterson

ICONIP · paper

2024

Weighted Chaos Game Representation for Molecular Sequence Classification

Taslim Murad*, Sarwan Ali*, Murray Patterson (*equal contribution)

PAKDD

2024

A Universal Non-Parametric Approach for Improved Molecular Sequence Analysis

Sarwan Ali, Tamkanat E. Ali, Prakash Chourasia, Murray Patterson

PAKDD

2023

2023

Benchmarking Machine Learning Robustness in COVID-19 Genome Sequence Classification

Sarwan Ali, Bikram Sahoo, Alexander Zelikovsky, Pin-Yu Chen, Murray Patterson

Nature Scientific Reports · IF 4.9 · paper

flagship
2023

PseAAC Protein Encoding for TCR Protein Sequence Classification

Zahra Tayebi*, Sarwan Ali*, Taslim Murad, Imdadullah Khan, Murray Patterson

Elsevier Computers in Biology and Medicine (CIBM) · IF 7.7 · paper

2023

Spike2CGR: An Efficient Method for Spike Sequence Classification Using Chaos Game Representation

Taslim Murad*, Sarwan Ali*, Imdadullah Khan, Murray Patterson

Springer ML Journal Track @ ECML-PKDD · IF 7.5

2023

Short-Term Load Forecasting Using AMI Data

Haris Mansoor*, Sarwan Ali*, Imdadullah Khan, Naveed Arshad, et al.

IEEE Internet of Things Journal · IF 10.6

2023

Computing Graph Descriptors on Edge Streams

Zohair Hassan, Sarwan Ali, Imdadullah Khan, Mudassir Shabbir, Waseem Abbas

ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD) · paper

2023

Virus2Vec: Viral Sequence Classification Using Machine Learning

Sarwan Ali, Babatunde Bello, Prakash Chourasia, Ria Thazhe Punathil, Pin-Yu Chen, Imdadullah Khan, Murray Patterson

Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning (CHIL) · oral (12% accept)

2023

BioSequence2Vec: Efficient Embedding Generation for Biological Sequences

Sarwan Ali, Usama Sardar, Murray Patterson, Imdadullah Khan

PAKDD · 17% accept · paper

Earlier work

2019 – 2022
2022

Efficient Approximate Kernel Based Spike Sequence Classification

Sarwan Ali, Bikram Sahoo, Muhammad Asad Khan, Alexander Zelikovsky, Imdadullah Khan, Murray Patterson

IEEE/ACM TCBB · IF 3.7

2022

PWM2Vec: An Efficient Embedding Approach for Viral Host Specification from Coronavirus Spike Sequences

Sarwan Ali, Babatunde Bello, Prakash Chourasia, Ria Thazhe Punathil, Yijing Zhou, Murray Patterson

MDPI Biology · IF 5.1

2021

Spike2Vec: An Efficient and Scalable Embedding Approach for COVID-19 Spike Sequences

Sarwan Ali, Murray Patterson

IEEE BigData · 19.6% accept · paper

2021

Simpler and Faster Development of Tumor Phylogeny Pipelines

Sarwan Ali, Simone Ciccolella, Lorenzo Lucarella, Gianluca Della Vedova, Murray Patterson

Journal of Computational Biology · paper

2020

Predicting Attributes of Nodes Using Network Structure

Sarwan Ali, Muhammad Haroon Shakeel, Imdadullah Khan, Safiullah Faizullah, Muhammad Asad Khan

ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST) · paper

M.S. thesis work, LUMS.

2020

Combinatorial Trace Method for Network Immunization

Muhammad Ahmad, Sarwan Ali, Juvaria Tariq, Imdadullah Khan, Mudassir Shabbir, Arif Zaman

Information Sciences · 22% accept · paper


Selected list above. For the complete record (≈60 conferences + 22 journals + workshops + posters) see Google Scholar or my full CV.