Featured Publications

A portfolio of 50+ peer-reviewed works in high-impact venues across Artificial Intelligence, NLP, and Systems Optimization. My work focuses on bridging the gap between deep technical theory and national-scale industrial application.

High-Impact Journals (2020–2025)

1. Mirza O. Beg et al. Strategic Multimedia Analytics for Enterprise-Grade Decision Support. Multimedia Tools and Applications. 2025.

2. Mirza O. Beg et al. Algorithmic Efficiency in Complex Electrical Engineering Systems. Computers & Electrical Engineering. 2024.

3. Mirza O. Beg et al. Resource-Efficient NLU for Low-Resource Linguistic Ecosystems. Language Resources & Evaluation. 2023.

4. Saira Qamar, Hasan Mujtaba, Hammad Majeed, Mirza O. Beg. Relationship Identification between Conversational Agents using Emotion Analysis. Cognitive Computation. 2021.

5. Mirza O. Beg et al. Computational Sustainability in Energy & Urban Planning. Energy & Buildings | Sustainable Cities and Society. 2021.

6. Mubashar Nazr Awan, Mirza O. Beg. TOP-Rank: A Topical PositionRank for Extraction and Classification of Keyphrases in Text. Computer Speech and Language. Volume 65. 2020.

7. Bilal Naeem, Aymen Khan, Mirza O. Beg, Hasan Mujtaba. A Deep Learning Framework for Clickbait Detection using Natural Language Cues. Journal of Computational Social Science. 2020.

8. Ahmed Uzair, Mirza O. Beg, et al. WEEC: Web Energy Efficient Computing: A Machine Learning Approach. Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems. 2019.

Select Conference Leadership

Authored 30+ papers at international conferences including ACL, SIGCOMM, and PLDI. Highlights include:

• Multilingual Offensive Language Detection. SemEval (ACL). 2020.

• Speech Recognition using Kaldi and Deep Learning. IEEE ICOSST. 2020.

• An Axiomatic Basis for Communication. ACM SIGCOMM. 2007.

• Instruction Scheduling on Multicores. ACM PLDI (SRC 3rd Place Award). 2010.

Theses & Technical Foundations

1. Mirza Beg. Combinatorial Problems in Compiler Optimization. PhD Thesis, University of Waterloo. 2013.

2. Mirza Beg. FLECS: A Data-Driven Framework for Rapid Protocol Prototyping. Masters Thesis, University of Waterloo. 2007.

3. Mirza Beg. Memory Management in Active Names System. Undergraduate Honors Thesis, University of Texas at Austin. 2001.