Publications

2026

1. IST

   Can We Trust the Source? A Systematic Review of Watermarking and Attribution for AI-Generated Code

   Istiaq Ahmed Fahad and Mridha Md Nafis Fuad

   Information and Software Technology, Elsevier,, 2026

   Journal

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   @article{fahad2026trust,
     title = {Can We Trust the Source? A Systematic Review of Watermarking and Attribution for AI-Generated Code},
     author = {Fahad, Istiaq Ahmed and Fuad, Mridha Md Nafis},
     journal = {Information and Software Technology, Elsevier,},
     year = {2026},
     volume = {108157},
     doi = {10.1016/j.infsof.2026.108157},
     note = {Journal}
   }

2. ENASE

   PromptMark: A Prompt-Guided Iterative-Feedback Framework for Source Code Watermarking

   Istiaq Ahmed Fahad, Mridha Md Nafis Fuad, and Kazi Sakib

   In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering (ENASE),, 2026

   Conference Proceedings

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   @inproceedings{fahad2026promptmark,
     title = {PromptMark: A Prompt-Guided Iterative-Feedback Framework for Source Code Watermarking},
     author = {Fahad, Istiaq Ahmed and Fuad, Mridha Md Nafis and Sakib, Kazi},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering (ENASE),},
     year = {2026},
     note = {Conference Proceedings}
   }

3. IEEE Access

   CHARD: Characteristic-aware hierarchical detection for Bangladesh road scenes

   Mahmudul Hasan, Istiaq Ahmed Fahad, M. F. Arefin, and 1 more author

   IEEE Access, 2026

   Accepted for publication, Journal

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   @article{hasan2026chard,
     title = {CHARD: Characteristic-aware hierarchical detection for Bangladesh road scenes},
     author = {Hasan, Mahmudul and Fahad, Istiaq Ahmed and Arefin, M. F. and Khan, M. M.},
     journal = {IEEE Access},
     year = {2026},
     note = {Accepted for publication, Journal}
   }

4. arXiv

   Mitigating LLM Sycophancy in Code Smell Detection Using Evidence-Guided Reasoning Prompts

   Istiaq Ahmed Fahad, Kamruzzaman Asif, and M. N. A. Tawhid

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.10411, 2026

   Preprint

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   @article{fahad2026sycophancy,
     title = {Mitigating LLM Sycophancy in Code Smell Detection Using Evidence-Guided Reasoning Prompts},
     author = {Fahad, Istiaq Ahmed and Asif, Kamruzzaman and Tawhid, M. N. A.},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.10411},
     year = {2026},
     note = {Preprint}
   }

2025

1. arXiv

   BanglaFake: Constructing and Evaluating a Specialized Bengali Deepfake Audio Dataset

   Istiaq Ahmed Fahad, Kamruzzaman Asif, and Sifat Sikder

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.10885, 2025

   Preprint

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   @article{fahad2025banglafake,
     title = {BanglaFake: Constructing and Evaluating a Specialized Bengali Deepfake Audio Dataset},
     author = {Fahad, Istiaq Ahmed and Asif, Kamruzzaman and Sikder, Sifat},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.10885},
     year = {2025},
     note = {Preprint}
   }

2. arXiv

   Automatic vehicle detection using DETR: A transformer-based approach for navigating treacherous roads

   Istiaq Ahmed Fahad, Abdullah Ibne Hanif Arean, Nazmus Sakib Ahmed, and 1 more author

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.17843, 2025

   Preprint

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   @article{fahad2025vehicle,
     title = {Automatic vehicle detection using DETR: A transformer-based approach for navigating treacherous roads},
     author = {Fahad, Istiaq Ahmed and Arean, Abdullah Ibne Hanif and Ahmed, Nazmus Sakib and Hasan, Mahmudul},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.17843},
     year = {2025},
     note = {Preprint}
   }