Publications

Key Research Indicators

The faculty members at Kuwait College of Science and Technology (KCST) have demonstrated truly exceptional research productivity during the last period. Their substantial scholarly output, alongside a remarkable 'scholar ratio,' clearly indicates a highly efficient and prolific research environment. This impressive figure highlights that our faculty are not only producing a significant volume of work but are also doing so with notable individual contributions, ensuring a vibrant and impactful research landscape. This commitment to generating high-quality, impactful research, further evidenced by numerous citations and publications in top-tier journals, underscores their dedication to advancing knowledge and their strong engagement in global scientific collaborations.

The table below depicts key research indicators of the published research in scientific journals by our faculty members during the last period, showcasing their exceptional productivity and impact

Counters

Scholarly output	1,070+
Scholar ratio (output/authors)	6.39%
Citations	16,020+
% Publication in Q1-Q2	84.4%
% International Collaboration	87.0%

Source of data: www.scival.com - Date: 10 April 2025

 

 

Selected List of Publications (within the last 2 years)

2025

•    Sreedevi, P., Reddy, P.S., Chamkha, A.J. (2025).  Entropy and heat-transfer analysis of magnetic hybrid nanofluid inside a porous square cavity with thermal radiation. Special Topics and Reviews in Porous Media,16 (2), pp. 59–94.
 

•    Khan, M., Hossni, Y. (2025).  A comparative analysis of LSTM models aided with attention and squeeze and excitation blocks for activity recognition. Scientific Reports,15 (1), Article 3858.

•    Yeganeh, R.S., Omidi, M.J., Zeinali, F., Mili, M.R., Ghavami, M. (2025).  QoS Improvement in Multiuser Cellular-Symbiotic Radio Network Assisted by Active-Star-RIS.  IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, 11.

•    Du, Z., da Fonseca, C.M. (2025). A note on the eigenvalues of a Sylvester–Kac type matrix with off-diagonal biperiodic perturbations.  Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics,461, Article 116429.

•    Shehata, N., Nair, R., Jain, A., Gamal, M., Hassanin, A., Noman, S., Shyha, I., Kruczała, K., Saad, M., Kandas, I. (2025).  Multifaceted enhancement of piezoelectricity and optical fluorescence in electrospun PVDF-ceria nanocomposite. Sci Rep 15, 14073 (1), Article: 14073. 

•    Kumar, K.N., Rao, K.S., Samani, S., Mehbodniya, A., Webber, J.L., Bostani, A. (2025). An Efficient Blockchain Assisted Electronic Health Record (HER) Authentication System. Panamerican Mathematical Journal, 35 (2), pp. 57-71.

•    Da Fonseca, C.M., Glasser, M.L., Kowalenko, V. (2025).  Chebyshev polynomials of the first kind and the univariate Lommel function: Integral representations.  Open Mathematics, 23 (1) Article 20240113.

•    Alrashed, R.M., Hasan, S.M., Al-Mutairi, N.Z., Al-Attar, I (2025).  Analyzing the impacts of discharges from coastal outfalls on water quality of Kuwait Bay via Landsat monitoring. Journal of Engineering Research (Kuwait). 

 

•    Yadav, D.P., Sharma, B., Noonia, A. Mehbodniya, A. (2025). Explainable label guided lightweight network with axial transformer encoder for early detection of oral cancer. Scientific Reports, 15 (1), Article 6391.

•    Balamurugan, R., Chamkha, A.J. (2025). Quadratic convective slip flow of a viscous dissipative Casson C2H6O2—Diamond nanofluid over a stretching sheet. ZAMM Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik, 105 (1), Article e202400767. 

•    Rahi, P., Mehbodniya, A., Webber, J.L., Ahmad, S. (2025), Brain-Computer Interface of an Immersive Virtual Metaverse for Preventive Brain Healthcare and Neurorehabilitation. Applying Metaverse Technologies to Human-Computer Interaction for Healthcare, pp. 161-178. 

 2024

•    Samantaray, S.S., Misra, A., Shaw, S., Nayak, M.K., Nazari, S., Boukhris, I., Chamkha, A.J. (2024). Recent advances on entropy analysis of composite nanofluids-A critical review. Results in Engineering, 22, Article 101980.

•    Silva, B.N., Khan, M., Wijesinghe, R.E., Wijenayake, U. (2024). Meta-heuristic optimization-based cost-efficient demand-side management for sustainable smart communities. Energy and Buildings, 303.

•    Durairaj, D., Venkatasamy, T.K., Mehbodniya, A., Umar, S., Alam, T. (2024). Intrusion detection and mitigation of attacks in microgrid using enhanced deep belief network. Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization and Environmental Effects, 46 (1), pp. 1519-1541.

•    Hussain, S.M., Mishra, M.R., Seth, G.S., Chamkha, A.J. (2024). Dynamics of heat absorbing and radiative hydromagnetic nanofluids through a stretching surface with chemical reaction and viscous dissipation. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part E: Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering, 238 (1), pp. 101-111. 

•    Chowdhury, M.H., Chowdhury, M.E.H., Reaz, M.B.I., Ali, S.H.M., Rakhtala, S.M., Murugappan, M., Mahmud, S., Shuzan, N.I., Bakar, A.A., Bin Shapiai, M.A., Khan, M.S., Khandakar, A. (2024). LGI-rPPG-Net: A shallow encoder-decoder model for rPPG signal estimation from facial video streams. Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 89, Article 105687.

•    Hemalakshmi, G.R., Murugappan, M., Sikkandar, M.Y., Begum, S.S., Prakash, N.B.(2024). Automated retinal disease classification using hybrid transformer model (SViT) using optical coherence tomography images. Neural Computing and Applications, 36 (16), pp. 9171-9188.

•    Singh, R., Rao, G.P., Lenka, T.R., Prasad, S.V.S., Boukortt, N.E.I., Crupi, G., Nguyen, H.P.T.(2024). Design and simulation of T-gate AlN/β-Ga2O3 HEMT for DC, RF and high-power nanoelectronics switching applications. International Journal of Numerical Modelling: Electronic Networks, Devices and Fields, 37 (1), Article e3146.

•    Molana, M., Darougheh, S., Biglar, A., Chamkha, A.J., Zoldak, P. (2024). Machine Learning Approaches for Predicting Ignition Delay in Combustion Processes: A Comprehensive Review. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 63 (6), pp. 2509-2518.

•    Gamal, K., Gamal, M., Okaz, A., Shehata, N., Kandas, I. (2024).  Comprehensive performance analysis of perovskite solar cells based on different crystalline structures of MAPbI3. Optical and Quantum Electronics, 56 (5), pp. 1–22.

•    Le, B., Omran, N., Elnabawy, E., Hassanin, A., Mahmoud, K., Shehata, N., Shyha, I. (2024). Exploring advances in nanofiber-based face masks: a comprehensive review of mechanical, electrostatic, and antimicrobial functionality filtration for the removal of airborne particulate matter and pathogens. Emergent Materials, 7 (3), pp. 765-800.

•    Toro, U.S., Elsayed, M., Elhalawany, B.M., Wu, k. (2024). Performance Analysis of Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces in Ambient Backscattering NOMA Systems. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 73 (2), pp. 2854-2859.

•    Alsabery, A.I., Abosinnee, A.S., Ismael, M.A., Chamkha, A.J., Hashim, I. (2024). Natural convection inside nanofluid superposed wavy porous layers using LTNE model. Waves in Random and Complex Media, 34 (5), pp. 4352-4380.

•    Da Fonseca, C.M., Kızılateş, C., Terzioğlu, N. (2024). A new generalization of min and max matrices and their reciprocals counterparts. Filomat, 38 (2), pp. 421-435.

•    Selvi, R., Maurya, D.K., Shukla, P., Chamkha. A.J. (2024). Analysis of a Reiner-Rivlin liquid sphere enveloped by a permeable layer. Physics of Fluids, 36 (2), Article 023303. 

•    Nair, R., Tripathi, B., Jain, A., Shehata, N. (2024). Vibrational energy harvesting and tactile sensing applications based on PVDF-TPU piezoelectric nanofibers. Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, 35 (12), Article 857.  

•    Jain, V., Rakshe, C.T., Sengar, S.S., Murugappan, M., Fredo, J., Ronickom, A. (2024). Age- and Severity-Specific Deep Learning Models for Autism Spectrum Disorder Classification Using Functional Connectivity Measures. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 49 (5), pp. 6847-6865. 

•    Ali, B., Gregory, M.A., Li, S., Dib, O. (2024). Implementing zero trust security with dual fuzzy methodology for trust-aware authentication and task offloading in Multi-access Edge Computing. Computer Networks, 241, Article 110197.

•    Afridi, M.I., Wakif, A., Qasim, M., Chamkha, A.J. (2024). A generalized differential quadrature approach to the modelling of heat transfer in non-similar flow with nonlinear convection. International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, 155.

•    Al Wael, H., Abdallah, W., Ghura, H., Buallay, A. (2024). Factors influencing artificial intelligence adoption in the accounting profession: the case of public sector in Kuwait. Competitiveness Review, 34 (1), pp. 3-27. 

•    Magdy, G., Hassanin, A.H., Kandas, I, Shehata, N. (2024). PVDF nanostructures characterizations and techniques for enhanced piezoelectric response: A review. Materials Chemistry and Physics, 325, Article 129760.

•    Al-Enzi, A., Almutawaa, D.S., Al-Enezi, D., Allougman, F. (2024). An analysis of the academic effectiveness of hybrid learning: the experiences of faculty and students in Kuwait. Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 16 (2), pp. 328-342.

•    Hemalakshmi, G.R., Murugappan, M., Sikkandar, M.Y., Santhi, D., Prakash, N.B.,Mohanarathinam, M. (2024). PE-Ynet: a novel attention-based multi-task model for pulmonary embolism detection using CT pulmonary angiography (CTPA) scan images. Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine, 47 (3), pp. 863-880.

•    Rajamani, M.P.E., Murugappan, M., Prakash, N.B., Nair, G., Trabelsi, M. (2024). Photovoltaic-Based Dual Output DC–DC Converter Using Gravitational Search Algorithm-Tuned PI and Sliding Mode Controllers. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 49 (12), pp. 16299-16317.

•    Gangadhar, K., Rupa Lavanya, M., Chamkha, A.J. (2024). EMHD flow of second-grade fluid through a heated permeable disk with space dependent heat source. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part E: Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering, 238 (5), pp. 2246-2257. 

•    Baba, A. (2024). Neural networks from biological to artificial and vice versa. BioSystems, 235, Article 105110.

•    Shafie, R., Omidi, M.J., Abbasi, O., Yanikomeroglu, H. (2024). MIMO-NOMA Enabled Sectorized Cylindrical Massive Antenna Array for HAPS With Spatially Correlated Channels. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 23 (10), pp. 15155-15168.

•    Ocak, M., Kurtulmuş, B.E., Arıoğlu, E. (2024). Do Individual Auditors from More Religious Hometowns Enhance Audit Quality? Evidence from an Islamic Country. Journal of Business Ethics, 190 (2), pp. 439-481.

•    Samir, A., Ibrahim, A.S., Ismail, M.H., Elhalawany, B., Elsayed, M. (2024). Outage Performance of RIS-Assisted AmBC-NOMA Cooperative V2I Communications. IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, 5, pp. 4371-4382.

•    Salama, M., Hamed, A., Noman, S., Magdy, G., Shehata, N., Kandas, I. (2024). Boosting piezoelectric properties of PVDF nanofibers via embedded graphene oxide nanosheets. Scientific Reports, 14 (1), Article 16484.  

•    Shafiq, R.R.G., ElHalawany, B.M., Ali, N., Elsherbini, M.M. (2024). A power source for E-devices based on green energy. Energy Harvesting and Systems, 11 (1), Article 20230078. 

•    Sangamesh, Chamkha, A.J., Raghunatha, K.R. (2024). The role of temperature-dependent solubility in the stability of thermohaline convection within a Voigt-fluid layer. Chinese Journal of Physics, 92, pp. 1293-1311. 

•    Alsharah, H., Alsaeedi, A. (2024). Digitalization Leading the Way for a Sustainable Future. Technical and Vocational Education and Training, 39, pp. 259-270. 

•    Martis, J.E., M S, S., Balasubramani, R., Mutawa, A.M.; Murugappan, M. (2024). Novel Hybrid Quantum Architecture-Based Lung Cancer Detection Using Chest Radiograph and Computerized Tomography Images. Bioengineering, 11 (8), Article 799.

•    Alkandari, F., Alsaber, A., Al-Kandari, A., Albouloushi, B., Almutairi, S. (2024). Enhancing the effectiveness of digital transformation on teaching in higher education in Kuwait. Frontiers in Education, 9, Article 1417062. 

•    da Fonseca, C.M. (2024). The Generating Function of a Bi-Periodic Leonardo Sequence. Armenian Journal of Mathematics, 16 (7), pp. 1-8.

•    Jeneessha, P., Balasubramanian, V.K., Murugappan, M. (2024). WBC-KICNet: knowledge-infused convolutional neural network for white blood cell classification. Machine Learning: Science and Technology, 5 (3), Article 035086.

•    Kandas, I., Gamal, M., Omran, N., Noman, S., Magdy, G., Hassanin, A., Shehata, N. (2024). Nonlinear-optical piezoelectric electrospun nanofibers. Materials Research Bulletin, 171, Article 112600.

•    Alothman, B.Y. (2024). Cyber Gamification: Implementing Gamified Adaptive Learning Environments for Effective Cyber Security Teams Education: Enhancing Team Skills and Engagement through Interactive Learning Environments. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, pp. 33-40.

•    Castillo, K., Da Fonseca, C.M., Petronilho, J. (2024). On Chebyshev polynomials and the inertia of certain tridiagonal matrices. Applied Mathematics and Computation, 467, Article 128497.

 

•    Rakshe, C., Kunneth, S., Sundaram, S., Murugappan, M., Fredo, J., Ronickom, A.(2024).Autism spectrum disorder diagnosis using fractal and non-fractal-based functional connectivity analysis and machine learning methods. Neural Computing and Applications, 36 (20), pp. 12565-12585.

•    Hassan, E., Khalil, Y., Ahmad, I. (2024). Learning deep feature fusion for traffic light detection. Journal of Engineering Research (Kuwait), 12 (1), pp. 94–99.

•    Du, Z., da Fonseca, C.M. (2024). Sylvester–Kac matrices with quadratic spectra: A comprehensive note. Ramanujan Journal, 65 (3), pp. 1313-1322.

•    Shanmugapriya, N., Bostani, A., Nabavi, A., Sasikala, D., Elangovan, T., Adilovna, K.S. (2024). Synergizing Remote Sensing, Geospatial Intelligence, Applied Nonlinear Analysis, and AI for Sustainable Environmental Monitoring. Communications on Applied Nonlinear Analysis, 31 (6S), pp. 281-292.

•    Elbehiry, E.A., Fares, A., Elhalawany, B.M., Eldien, H.A.T. (2024). Routing through LEO Satellite Constellation Networks: A DopplerShift Measurement based Coverage window Detection Approach. Communications on Applied Nonlinear Analysis, 31 (8S), pp. 514-530.

•    Kaniyarakkal, S., Edappadikkunnummal, S., Nair, V.S. (2024). Pulsed laser ablation technique prepared gold nanoparticle in zinc tetraphenyl porphyrin for enhanced nonlinear optical response. Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 12939, Article 1293913. 

•    Yadav, D.P., Sharma, B., Webber, J.L., Mehbodniya, A., Chauhan, S. (2024). EDTNet: A spatial aware attention-based transformer for the pulmonary nodule segmentation. PLoS ONE, 19 (11), Article e0311080.  
•    Chitra, P.K.A., Balasubramanian, S.B., Khattab, O., Al-Kadri, M.O. (2024). Label dependency modeling in Multi-Label Naïve Bayes through input space expansion. PeerJ Computer Science, 10, Article e2093.

•    Balipa, M., Murugappan, M., Castalino, A. (2024). Artificial Intelligence based ECG Analysis to Assess Cardiac Health. Proceedings - 2024 3rd International Conference on Sentiment Analysis and Deep Learning, ICSADL 2024, pp. 587-593. 

•    Almutawa, J. (2024). Parameter estimation of multisensor state space models with outlier contamination. 10th 2024 International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies, CoDIT 2024, pp. 2146-2151. 

•    Murugappan, M. (2024). Affective computing applications using artificial intelligence in healthcare: Methods, approaches and challenges in system design. Affective Computing Applications using Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: Methods, approaches and challenges in system design, 1, pp. 197. 

•    Al-Enzi, A., Al-Enezi, D. (2024). The invasion of e-commerce on SMEs: exploring the impact on the brick-and-mortar experience. International Journal of Business Information Systems, 46 (4), pp. 516-534. 

•    Shabaz, M., Nazir, S., Mehbodniya, A., Khan, M.A. (2024). Guest Editorial Consumer-Driven Energy-Efficient WSNs Architecture for Personalization and Contextualization in E-Commerce Systems. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, 70 (4), pp. 6759-6762. 

•    Ghura, H. (2024). Entrepreneurship Policy Design for Emerging Economies: Does the Stage of Development Matter? Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, 540, pp. 49-59. 

•    Ghosh, S., Hassan, E., Singh, A.K., Singh, S. (2024). Deep Learning-Based Multi-Switch Open-Circuit Fault Diagnosis for Active Front-End Rectifiers Using Multi-Sensor Signals. IEEE Sensors Letters.

•    Islam, M.S.B., Sumon, M.S.I., Murugappan, M., Chowdhury, M.E.H.(2024). Unraveling emotions: Harnessing pre-trained convolutional neural networks for electroencephalogram signal analysis. Affective Computing Applications using Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: Methods, approaches and challenges in system design, pp. 107-132. 

•    Zahreddine, Z. (2024). On Foster’s theorem and positive para odd functions. Journal of Interdisciplinary Mathematics, 27 (1), pp. 67-75. 

•    Baba, A., Alothman, B. (2024). Hybrid Underwater Target Tracking with Particle Filters and Deep Learning; Focus on Design Considerations. 8th International Symposium on Innovative Approaches in Smart Technologies, ISAS 2024, pp. 107–132.

•    Baba, A., Alothman, B. (2024). Safeguarding a flying robot, designed to investigate the state of Smart Grid, against cyberattacks. MESA 2024 - 20th International Conference on Mechatronic, Embedded Systems and Applications, Proceedings, Conference: 20th IEEE/ASME International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA 2024), Dates: September 2–4, 2024, Location: Genoa, Italy,  Session: MESA-01-A: AI and Emerging Technologies for MESA, Presentation Date & Time: Monday, September 2, 2024, 10:30–10:50 AM, Publisher: IEEE, ISBN: 9798331516246.

•    Ara, A., Thomas, A. (2024). Exploring the Practitioner Perspective of ChatGPT in Academic Research: A Quantitative Analysis. Proceedings - 2024 7th International Women in Data Science Conference at Prince Sultan University, WiDS-PSU 2024, pp. 16-23.

•    Abdelrahim, S.A., Mandour, O.M., Okaz, A., Shehata, N., Kandas, I. (2024). Investigating optical up-conversion process of erbium-doped ceria nanoparticles in photonic bilayer Bragg structure. Journal of Luminescence, pp. 272.

•    Elbakry, M.S., Hashima, S., ElHalawany, B.M. (2024). Symbol time compression for OFDM spectral efficiency in visible light communication. Journal of Physics: Conference Series,
2850 (1), pp. 12010. 

•    Mokkath, J.H., Nair, R., Muhammed, M.M. (2024). Exploring intermixed magnetic nanoparticles: insights from atomistic spin dynamics simulations. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 26 (8), pp. 7020-7028. 

•    Khan, M. (2024). Safeguarding IoT networks against DDoS attacks using deep learning based zero trust network access. Electronics Letters, 
60 (21).  

•    Anđelić, M., da Fonseca, C.M. (2024). Equitable partitions and spectra of symmetric trees: Revisiting Heilbronner’s composition principle. Discrete Mathematics Letters, 14, pp. 108–117.

•    Shehata, N., Nair, R., Maree, K., Trabelsi, M. (2024). Analysis of Post-Treatment Heating of Stretchable Piezoelectric Electrospun Nanofibers. Key Engineering Materials, 995, pp. 15-20.

•    Yuvaraj, R., Prince, A.A., Murugappan, M. (2024). Automated Recognition of Teacher and Student Activities in the Classroom: A Deep Learning Framework. IEEE Access, 12, pp. 12192159-192171. 

•    Abdallah, W., Harraf, A., Ghura, H., Abrar, M. (2024). Financial literacy and small and medium enterprises performance: the moderating role of financial access. Journal of Financial Reporting and Accounting.

•    Gowri, K., Kavitha, V., Mehbodniya, A., Chowdhury, S. (2024).4G and 5G NR core network architecture. Machine Learning for Mobile Communications, pp. 46-61. 

•    Baba, A., Alothman, B., Shabon, M., Salem, Z. (2024). Design Considerations for Hybrid Underwater Target Tracking: Integrating Particle Filters and Deep Learning for Enhanced Decision. 2024 International Conference on Decision Aid Sciences and Applications, DASA 2024.