Dr. Rabab Abdelfattah
Assistant Professor
Bio
Dr. Rabab Abdelfattah (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree from the University of South Carolina, USA. She is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing Sciences and Computer Engineering at the University of Southern Mississippi, where she directs the Artificial Intelligence & Multimodal Systems (AIMS) Lab and serves as Coordinator for the Computing Research Association's Undergraduate Research to PhD (CRA UR2PhD) program. Her research focuses on computer vision, vision-language models, and multimodal learning, with real-world applications, as well as the reliability of evaluation in LLM agents and retrieval-augmented systems. She actively mentors students and holds leadership roles in IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE).
AIMS Lab Website: https://aimsresearchlab.com/
- PHD - University of South Carolina-Columbia (2023)
- MS - Fayoum University (2012)
- BS - Fayoum University (2004)
CE 410: Internet of Things (IOT)
CE 230: Computer Systems
CE 210: Digital Logic
CE 492: Spec Topics In CE
COS 781: Topics In Comp Sci
CSC 695: Directed Study
CSC 697: Independent Study
CSC 699: Project
- BOL-LPP: A Bayesian-Optimized LSTM Model For Day-Ahead Load Price Forecasting in the ERCOT Market, IEEE open Journal of the computer science, 2025, 10.1109/OJCS.2025.3580107
- From Classical Pipelines to Promptable Foundation Models: A Cross-Domain Survey of Thin-Object Segmentation for Power Lines, Cracks, and Retinal Vessels, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2026
- Bayesian Optimization-Aided Hybrid Deep Learning Model for Lightweight UAV-Based Smoke Detection, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2025, 10.1109/JIOT.2025.3578445
- G2NetPL: Generic Game-Theoretic Network for Partial-Label Image Classification, In Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC 2022), 2022
- Ttpla: An aerial-image dataset for detection and segmentation of transmission towers and power lines, Proceedings of the Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), 2020
- IEEE Senior Member