Basel Barakat

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Publications and research outputs

Article

Empirical evaluation of public hatespeech datasets Jaf, Sardar and Barakat, Basel. 2025. Empirical evaluation of public hatespeech datasets. IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, 6(11), pp. 3056-3069. ISSN 2691-4581
Beyond Traditional Classifiers: Evaluating Large Language Models for Robust Hate Speech Detection Barakat, Basel and Jaf, Sardar. 2025. Beyond Traditional Classifiers: Evaluating Large Language Models for Robust Hate Speech Detection. Computation, 13(8), 196. ISSN 2079-3197
Coupled thermo-electrical dispatch strategy with AI forecasting for optimal sizing of grid-connected hybrid renewable energy systems Kahwash, F.; Barakat, Basel and Maheri, A.. 2023. Coupled thermo-electrical dispatch strategy with AI forecasting for optimal sizing of grid-connected hybrid renewable energy systems. Energy Conversion and Management, 293, 117460. ISSN 0196-8904

Book Section

Phonemes: An Explanatory Study Applied to Identify a Speaker Kinkiri, Saritha; Barakat, Basel and Keates, Simeon. 2020. Phonemes: An Explanatory Study Applied to Identify a Speaker. In: Arup Bhattacharjee; Samir Kr. Borgohain; Badal Soni; Gyanendra Verma and Xiao-Zhi Gao, eds. Machine Learning, Image Processing, Network Security and Data Sciences. Singapore: Springer, pp. 58-68. ISBN 9789811563171

Conference or Workshop Item

Exploring the Application of Transfer Learning in Malware Detection by Fine-tuning Pre-Trained Models on Binary Classification to New Datasets on Multi-class Classification Ajayi, Bamidele; Barakat, Basel; McGarry, Ken and Abukeshek, Mays. 2024. 'Exploring the Application of Transfer Learning in Malware Detection by Fine-tuning Pre-Trained Models on Binary Classification to New Datasets on Multi-class Classification'. In: 29th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC). Sunderland, United Kingdom 28 - 30 August 2024.
Acoustic Emotion Analysis for Novel Detection of Alzheimer's Dementia Sviderski, Marek; Barakat, Basel and Allen, Becky. 2024. 'Acoustic Emotion Analysis for Novel Detection of Alzheimer's Dementia'. In: 2024 29th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC). Sunderland, United Kingdom 28 -30 August 2024.
Multi-Task Learning with Acoustic Features for Alzheimer's Disease Detection Sviderski, Marek; Barakat, Basel; Allen, Becky and MacFarlane, Kate. 2024. 'Multi-Task Learning with Acoustic Features for Alzheimer's Disease Detection'. In: 2024 29th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC). Sunderland, United Kingdom 28 - 30 August 2024.

Privacy-Enhanced One-to-Many Biometric System Using Smart Contracts: A New Framework Wells, Alec; Dajnowski, Norbert; Usman, Aminu Bello; Murray, John and Barakat, Basel. 2024. 'Privacy-Enhanced One-to-Many Biometric System Using Smart Contracts: A New Framework'. In: 2024 29th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC). Sunderland, United Kingdom 28 - 30 August 2024.
Elevating Cybersecurity for Smart Grid Systems—A Container-Based Approach Enhanced by Machine Learning Abukeshek, Mays; Barakat, Basel and Ajayi, Bamidele. 2024. 'Elevating Cybersecurity for Smart Grid Systems—A Container-Based Approach Enhanced by Machine Learning'. In: 2024 29th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC). Sunderland, United Kingdom 28 - 30 August 2024.
Assessment of Inertial Measurement Units for Estimating Kinematic Data in Gait Analysis Hassan, Mohamed; Barakat, Basel; Ibrahim, Mona Mohamed; Kamel, Ahmed M. and Abukeshek, Mays. 2024. 'Assessment of Inertial Measurement Units for Estimating Kinematic Data in Gait Analysis'. In: 2024 29th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC). Sunderland, United Kingdom 28 - 30 August 2024.
Enhancing Transfer Learning Reliability via Block-wise Fine-tuning Barakat, Basel and Huang, Qiang. 2024. 'Enhancing Transfer Learning Reliability via Block-wise Fine-tuning'. In: 2023 International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA). Jacksonville, FL, United States 15 - 17 December 2023.
Plagiarism in AI empowered world Steponenaite, Aiste and Barakat, Basel. 2023. 'Plagiarism in AI empowered world'. In: 25th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII 2023). Copenhagen, Denmark 23 - 28 July 2023.
Integrating Machine Learning with Augmented Reality for Accessible Assistive Technologies Barakat, Basel; Hall, Lynne and Keates, Simeon. 2022. 'Integrating Machine Learning with Augmented Reality for Accessible Assistive Technologies'. In: 16th International Conference, UAHCI 2022, Held as Part of the 24th HCI International Conference, HCII 2022. Virtual Event 26 June - 1 July 2022.
AI-Based Fall Detection Using Contactless Sensing Taha, Ahmad; Taha, Mohammad M.A.; Barakat, Basel; Taylor, William; Abbasi, Qammer H. and Ali Imran, Muhammad. 2021. 'AI-Based Fall Detection Using Contactless Sensing'. In: 2021 IEEE Sensors. Sydney, Australia 31 October - 3 November 2021.
Assistive Technology for the Visually Impaired: Optimizing Frame Rate (Freshness) to Improve the Performance of Real-Time Objects Detection Application Barakat, Basel; Steponenaite, Aiste; Lall, Gurprit S.; Arshad, Kamran; Wassell, Ian J. and Keates, Simeon. 2020. 'Assistive Technology for the Visually Impaired: Optimizing Frame Rate (Freshness) to Improve the Performance of Real-Time Objects Detection Application'. In: 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII 2020). Copenhagen, Denmark 19 - 24 July 2020.
How to Measure the Average and Peak Age of Information in Real Networks? Barakat, Basel; Yassine, Hachem; Keates, Simeon; Wassell, Ian and Arshad, Kamran. 2019. 'How to Measure the Average and Peak Age of Information in Real Networks?'. In: European Wireless 2019; 25th European Wireless Conference. Aarhus, Denmark 2 - 4 May 2029.
Adaptive Status Arrivals Policy (ASAP) Delivering Fresh Information (Minimise Peak Age) in Real World Scenarios Barakat, Basel; Keates, Simeon; Wassell, Ian and Arshad, Kamran. 2019. 'Adaptive Status Arrivals Policy (ASAP) Delivering Fresh Information (Minimise Peak Age) in Real World Scenarios'. In: 21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII 2019). Orlando, FL, United States 26 - 31 July 2019.
Deriving machine to machine (M2M) traffic model from communication model Barakat, Basel; Keates, Simeon; Arshad, Kamran and Wassell, Ian J. 2019. 'Deriving machine to machine (M2M) traffic model from communication model'. In: 2018 Fifth International Symposium on Innovation in Information and Communication Technology (ISIICT). Amman, Jordan 31 October - 1 November 2018.
Generalized proportional fair (GPF) scheduler for LTE-A Aramide, Samuel O.; Barakat, Basel; Wang, Yi; Keates, Simeon and Arshad, Kamran. 2017. 'Generalized proportional fair (GPF) scheduler for LTE-A'. In: 2017 9th Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CEEC). Colchester, United Kingdom 27 - 29 September 2017.
Coverage and capacity Self-Optimisation in LTE-Advanced using Active Antenna Systems Sharsheer, Mohammad; Barakat, Basel and Arshad, Kamran. 2016. 'Coverage and capacity Self-Optimisation in LTE-Advanced using Active Antenna Systems'. In: 2016 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference. Doha, Qatar 3 - 6 April 2026.
Energy efficient scheduling in LTE-advanced for Machine Type Communication Barakat, Basel and Arshad, Kamran. 2015. 'Energy efficient scheduling in LTE-advanced for Machine Type Communication'. In: 2015 International Conference and Workshop on Computing and Communication (IEMCON). Vancouver, BC, Canada 15 - 17 October 2015.
An adaptive hybrid scheduling algorithm for LTE-Advanced Barakat, Basel and Arshad, Kamran. 2015. 'An adaptive hybrid scheduling algorithm for LTE-Advanced'. In: 2015 22nd International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT). Sydney, Australia 27 - 29 April 2015.
Energy efficient carrier aggregation for LTE-Advanced Barakat, Basel and Arshad, Kamran. 2015. 'Energy efficient carrier aggregation for LTE-Advanced'. In: 2015 IEEE 8th GCC Conference & Exhibition. Muscat, Oman 1 - 4 February 2015.

Other

Improving Reliability of Fine-tuning with Block-wise Optimisation Barakat, Basel and Huang, Qiang. 2023. Improving Reliability of Fine-tuning with Block-wise Optimisation. arXiv, New York.