Annual performance archive

Research, Scholarly, and Creative Works: July 1, 2025 - June 30, 2026

37cataloged works and outputs
29downloaded local PDFs
8organized sections
2book entries in reporting scope

Journal

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"I see models being a whole other thing": an empirical study of pre-trained model naming conventions and a tool for enhancing naming consistency

Wenxin Jiang, Mingyu Kim, Chingwo Cheung, Heesoo Kim, George K. Thiruvathukal, James C. Davis

2025-08-16 online; 2025-12 print. DOI: 10.1007/s10664-025-10711-4.

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Using a Convolutional Neural Network to Predict Physician Likert Score Assignments to Synthetic Medical Images

J. Luce, A. Yunker, A. Keeler, H. Nguyen, J. Dingillo, S.A.A. Gros, A.M. Block, N.H. Darwish, M. Bhandari, H. Kang, S. Beer, R. Kettimuthu, G.K. Thiruvathukal, J.C. Roeske

2025-09. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2025.06.3444.

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Exact dynamics and Bloch oscillations in a non-Hermitian zigzag Glauber-Fock lattice

G.S. Fahara-Ojeda, L.A. Tapia-Alarcon, B.M. Villegas-Martinez, G.K. Thiruvathukal, A. Francisco Neto, S. Gesing, T. Battelle, V. Stankovski, I.A. Bocanegra-Garay, A. Venegas-Gomez, J.J. Escobedo-Alatorre, R.A. Beltran-Vargas

2025-10. DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2025.130811.

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The Digital Scholar: Artificial Intelligence in Social Work Research

Abha Rai, Kristen E. Ravi, Jonathan B. Singer, Alix Sanchez-Gomez, George K. Thiruvathukal, Erik Pautsch

2026-03-03. DOI: 10.1177/10443894251407365.

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Development of a Culturally Responsive Intervention for Stronger Communities

Abha Rai, Mary Lehman Held, Maria Vidal de Haymes, Ali Tarokh, Shakila Fro, Farzana Farzam, Elisa Levya Cea, Alix Sanchez Gomez, Maddie Juarez, George K. Thiruvathukal, Paula Tallman

2026-03-14. DOI: 10.1177/10443894251332666.

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Three-dimensional shape cues affect human and artificial recognition systems differently

Mikayla Cutler, Luke Baumel, Joseph Tocco, William Friebel, George K. Thiruvathukal, Nicholas Baker

2026-05-29. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0338885.

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SysLLMatic: Large language models are software system optimizers

Huiyun Peng, Arjun Gupte, Ryan Hasler, Nicholas John Eliopoulos, Chien-Chou Ho, Rishi Mantri, Leo Deng, Konstantin Laufer, George K. Thiruvathukal, James C. Davis

2026 journal article. DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2026.112929.

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Conference

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PARAVIRT: Userland Containers for Mobile Systems

Isaac Ahlgren, Yasin N. Silva, Eric Chan-Tin, George K. Thiruvathukal, Kyu In Lee, Neil Klingensmith

2025-07-21. DOI: 10.1109/MobileCloud66020.2025.00015.

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Not-so-Secret Authentication: The SyncBleed Attacks and Defenses for Zero-Involvement Authentication Systems

Isaac Ahlgren, Rushikesh Shirsat, Omar Achkar, George K Thiruvathukal, Kyu In Lee, Neil Klingensmith

2025-08-04. DOI: 10.1109/CSR64739.2025.11130070.

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Analyzing Adversarial Strategies and Countermeasures for Cyberbullying Detection

Maddie Juarez, Eldor Abdukhamidov, Manuel Sandoval, Mujtaba Nazari, Deborah Hall, George K. Thiruvathukal, Tamer Abuhmed, Yasin N. Silva, Mohammed Abuhamad

2025-10-08. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-07715-8_9.

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LadderSym: A Multimodal Interleaved Transformer for Music Practice Error Detection

Benjamin Shiue-Hal Chou, Purvish Jajal, Nick John Eliopoulos, James C. Davis, George K. Thiruvathukal, Kristen Yeon-Ji Yun, Yung-Hsiang Lu

ICLR 2026; arXiv 2025-09-16. OpenReview: cizuvfyQXs.

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AdaPerceiver: Transformers with Adaptive Width, Depth, and Tokens

Purvish Jajal, Nick John Eliopoulos, Benjamin Shiue-Hal Chou, George K. Thiruvathukal, Yung-Hsiang Lu, James C. Davis

CVPR 2026; arXiv 2025-11-22. arXiv: 2511.18105.

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Inference-Time Alignment of Diffusion Models via Evolutionary Algorithms

Purvish Jajal, Nick John Eliopoulos, Benjamin Shiue-Hal Chou, George K. Thiruvathukal, James C. Davis, Yung-Hsiang Lu

CVPR 2026; arXiv 2025-05-30. arXiv: 2506.00299.

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Can LLMs Write Correct TLA+ Specifications? Evaluating Natural-Language-to-TLA+ Generation

Arslan Bisharat, Brian Ortiz, Eric Spencer, Khushboo Bhadauria, TaiNing Wang, George K. Thiruvathukal, Konstantin Laufer, Mohammed Abuhamad

ICSOFT 2026; arXiv 2026-06-04. arXiv: 2606.05792.

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TLA-Prover: Verifiable TLA+ Specification Synthesis via Preference-Optimized Low-Rank Adaptation

Eric Spencer, Arslan Bisharat, Brian Ortiz, Khushboo Bhadauria, Mujtaba Nazari, TaiNing Wang, George K. Thiruvathukal, Konstantin Laufer, Mohammed Abuhamad

ICSOFT 2026; arXiv 2026-06-04. arXiv: 2606.06133.

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Workshop

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An Interactive Agentic HPC Tutor for Lesson Planning, Teaching, and Assessment

Erik Pautsch, Mengjiao Han, Joseph A. Insley, Janet Knowles, Victor A. Mateevitsi, Silvio Rizzi, George K. Thiruvathukal

SC Workshops / EduHPC 2025. DOI: 10.1145/3731599.3767386.

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Process-based Indicators of Vulnerability Re-Introducing Code Changes: An Exploratory Case Study

Samiha Shimmi, Nicholas M. Synovic, Mona Rahimi, George K. Thiruvathukal

SVM 2026 / ICSE workshop, 2026-04-12. DOI: 10.1145/3786165.3788438.

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arXiv / Preprint / Working Paper

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2024 NSF CSSI-Cybertraining-SCIPE PI Meeting August 12 to 13, 2024, Charlotte, NC

Abani Patra, Mary Thomas, Elias Bou-Harb, Jeffrey Carver, Yuebin Guo, Ratnesh Kumar, Julien Langou, Guoyu Lu, Vivak Patel, Marianna Safronova, Isla Simpson, Dhruva Chakravorty, Jane Combs, Hantao Cui, Sushil Prasad, Adnan Rajib, Susan Rathbun, Erik Saule, Isla Simpson, Alan Sussman, Shaowen Wang, Sarina Zhe Zhang, Ben Brown, Varun Chandola, Daniel Crawford, Ian Foster, Dave Hart, Mike Heroux, Mary Ann Leung, Benjamin Lynch, Dan Negrut, D. K. Panda, Manish Parashar, Melissa Kline Struhl, George K. Thiruvathukal

2025-07-05. arXiv: 2507.04171.

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AgentHub: A Registry for Discoverable, Verifiable, and Reproducible AI Agents

Erik Pautsch, Tanmay Singla, Parv Kumar, Wenxin Jiang, Huiyun Peng, Behnaz Hassanshahi, Konstantin Laufer, George K. Thiruvathukal, James C. Davis

2025-10-03. arXiv: 2510.03495.

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Operationalizing Research Software for Supply Chain Security

Kelechi G. Kalu, Soham Rattan, Taylor R. Schorlemmer, George K. Thiruvathukal, Jeffrey C. Carver, James C. Davis

2026-01-28. arXiv: 2601.20980.

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An Empirical Investigation of Pre-Trained Deep Learning Model Reuse in the Scientific Process

Nicholas M. Synovic, Karolina Ryzka, Alessandra V. Vellucci Solari, Kenny Lyons, James C. Davis, George K. Thiruvathukal

2026-03-13. arXiv: 2603.13584.

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Beyond Local Code Optimization: Multi-Agent Reasoning for Software System Optimization

Huiyun Peng, Parth Vinod Patil, Antonio Zhong Qiu, George K. Thiruvathukal, James C. Davis

2026-03-16. arXiv: 2603.14703.

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HeyFriend Helper: A Conversational AI Web-App for Resource Access Among Low-Income Chicago Residents

Maddie Juarez, Abha Rai, Kristen E. Ravi, Margaret C. Delaney, Danny Olweean, Eric Klingensmith, Swarnali Banerjee, Neil Klingensmith, George K. Thiruvathukal

2026-03-26. arXiv: 2603.25800.

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Evaluation of Winning Solutions of 2025 Low Power Computer Vision Challenge

Zihao Ye, Yung-Hsiang Lu, Xiao Hu, Shuai Zhang, Taotao Jing, Xin Li, Zhen Yao, Bo Lang, Zhihao Zheng, Seungmin Oh, Hankyul Kang, Seunghun Kang, Jongbin Ryu, Kexin Chen, Yuan Qi, George K Thiruvathukal, Mooi Choo Chuah

2026-04-21. arXiv: 2604.19054.

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Now's the Time: Computer Science Must Evolve to Emphasize Software and Systems Engineering with Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Chandra N. Sekharan, George K. Thiruvathukal

2026-04-29. arXiv: 2604.27230.

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Books

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Introduction to Statistics in Criminal Justice and Criminology: A Practical Approach to Calculating, Using, and Interpreting Data

Arthur J. Lurigio, Michael Perry, Nathan M. Lutz, George K. Thiruvathukal

2026; bookseller date 2026-05-04. ISBN: 9781118559239. Wiley.

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Recursion: Mathematics and Python

Yung-Hsiang Lu, George K. Thiruvathukal

eBook date 2026-08-20. ISBN: 9781032993183. CRC Press.

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Other Scholarly Output

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2030 Technology Megatrends

IEEE Future Directions 2030 Technology Megatrends Committee, including George Thiruvathukal

2026 IEEE Future Directions report. Landing page: IEEE 2030 Technology Megatrends.

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Open-Source Lecture Materials for Teaching

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Introduction to Computer Science in Python: Principles and Practice

George K. Thiruvathukal, lead editor and author; additional contributors listed on the course site.

Open-source lecture materials for Loyola's first-year majors course, COMP 170. Course site build dated 2026-06-18. Site: introcs-python.cs.luc.edu.

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Introduction to Operating Systems: Principles and Practice

George K. Thiruvathukal

Open-source lecture materials for COMP 310 Operating Systems at Loyola. Course site update dated 2026-05-28. Site: os.cs.luc.edu.

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Distributed Systems

George K. Thiruvathukal

Open-source lecture materials for COMP 339 Distributed Systems at Loyola. Course site update dated 2023-05-18. Site: ds.cs.luc.edu.

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Software / Applications

2 items

Sources used for the archive include Google Scholar, ORCID, Crossref, arXiv, Loyola eCommons, publisher pages, Figshare, OpenReview, IEEE Future Directions, teaching sites, and book-publisher/bookstore records.

Books include only reporting-scope book entries, including finalized forthcoming books directly relevant to this review cycle. Open-source lecture materials for teaching, software/application, and other non-publication impact items are included when they have a public landing page or citable record.