Sk. Arif Ahmed, Ph.D.

Senior Researcher, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway;
Senior Member, IEEE
Former Assistant Professor, School of Computer Science and Engineering, XIM University, Bhubaneswar, India;
Former Postdoc, Dept. of Physics and Technology, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway;
Assistant Professor at Haldia Institute of Technology, India
Email: skarifahmed [at] gmail [dot] com




Selected Publications


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ACM Computing Survey, 2026

VisionAidQA: Advancing Visual Question Answering for the Visually Impaired

Ratnabali Pal, Samarjit Kar, Dilip K. Prasad, Arif Ahmed Sekh

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World Scintific, 2025

Gender and Diversity Policy in AI

Arif Ahmed Sekh, DIlip K. Prasad

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IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshops, 2025

Explain with Confidence: Fusing Saliency Maps for Faithful and Interpretable Weakly-Supervised Model

Ayush Somani, Arif Ahmed Sekh, Dilip K. Prasad

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International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2025

Haphazard Inputs as Images in Online Learning

Rohit Agarwal, Aryan Dessai, Arif Ahmed Sekh, Krishna Agarwal, Alexander Horsch, Dilip K. Prasad

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Nature Scintific Reports, 2025

AI-driven analysis by identifyingrisk factors of VL relapse in HIV co-infected patients

Kumar, Abhishek, Sanchita Mondal, Debnarayan Khatua, Debashree Guha, Budhaditya Mukherjee, Arista Lahiri, Dilip K. Prasad, and Arif Ahmed Sekh

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International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2025

Customizable and Programmable Deep Learning

Ratnabali Pal, Samarjit Kar, and Arif Ahmed Sekh

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Nature Communications Biology, 2024

Single-cell phenotypic profiling and backtracing exposes and predicts clinically relevant subpopulations in isogenic Staphylococcus aureus communities

Jonathan Hira, Bhupender Singh, Tirthankar Halder, Anel Mahmutovic, Clement Ajayi, Arif Ahmed Sekh, Kristin Hegstad, Mona Johannessen, Christian S Lentz

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ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALIP), 2024

Ensemble Classifier for Hindi Hostile Content Detection

Angana Chakraborty, Subhankar Joardar, Arif Ahmed Sekh

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International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing (CVIP), 2023

Is Grad-CAM Explainable in Medical Images?

Subhashis Suara, Aayush Jha, Pratik Sinha & Arif Ahmed Sekh

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Expert Systems with Applications, 2022

Person re-identification in indoor videos by information fusion using Graph Convolutional Networks

Komal Soni, Debi Prosad Dogra, Arif Ahmed Sekh, Samarjit Kar, Heeseung Choi, Ig-Jae Kim

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Nature Machine Intelligence, 2021

Physics-based machine learning for subcellular segmentation in living cells

Arif Ahmed Sekh, Ida S. Opstad, Gustav Godtliebsen, Åsa Birna Birgisdottir, Balpreet Singh Ahluwalia, Krishna Agarwal & Dilip K. Prasad

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IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2020

Learning Nanoscale Motion Patterns of Vesicles in Living Cells

Arif Ahmed Sekh, Ida Sundvor Opstad, Asa Birna Birgisdottir, Truls Myrmel, Balpreet Singh Ahluwalia, Krishna Agarwal, Dilip K. Prasad;

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