Research

Research Interests

• Trustworthy & Explainable AI — Explainable AI (XAI), trust and fairness in AI systems, blockchain-based and cross-domain recommender systems, authorship verification and stylometry.
• Wireless Networks & 6G — 5G/6G communications, NOMA, IRS-assisted communications, Internet of Things (IoT), resource management in wireless networks.
• Security, Privacy & Blockchain — Physical layer security, trust and reputation management, federated learning with privacy guarantees, cloud forensics, decentralized systems.
• Speech & Affective Computing — Speaker identification, speech emotion recognition, overlapping speech detection, multimodal audio-visual processing.
• Healthcare AI & Medical Imaging — AI-driven clinical decision support, cardiovascular risk prediction, medical image analysis.
• Mobile Crowdsensing — Task allocation, location privacy, crowdsensing frameworks.

Selected Recent Publications

• Nawfal Abbassi, Loubna Mekouar, and Youssef Iraqi, "Federated Matrix Factorization under Local Differential Privacy via Directional Noise." IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P), 2026.
• Yassin Terraf and Youssef Iraqi, "CAT-Net: A Channel and Self-Attention TCN for Robust Frame-Level Overlapping Speech Detection." IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 2026. DOI
• Imane Akdim, Loubna Mekouar, and Youssef Iraqi, "Trust in Recommender Systems: A Survey." Expert Systems with Applications, Vol. 298, 2026. DOI
• Abderrafi Abdeddine, Youssef Iraqi, and Loubna Mekouar, "An Efficient Task Allocation in Mobile Crowdsensing Environments." IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Vol. 22, No. 3, 2025. DOI
• Abderrafi Abdeddine, Loubna Mekouar, and Youssef Iraqi, "Mobile Crowdsensing Model: A Survey." Journal of Systems Architecture, Feb 2025.
• Ammar Battah, Youssef Iraqi, and Ernesto Damiani, "A Trust and Reputation System for IoT Service Interactions." IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Vol. 19, No. 3, 2022. DOI

Full publication list on Google Scholar. Code and datasets for recent papers at the MANARA Lab GitHub organization.

US Patents

• Arafat Al-Dweik, Youssef Iraqi, and Ashfaq Ahmed, Dropped-Packets Repair and Recovery for Delay-Tolerant Wireless Systems Using Retroactive Interference Cancellation, US 12,381,829, August 5, 2025.
• Arafat Al-Dweik and Youssef Iraqi, OFDM Communication System with Enhanced Channel Estimation and Data Detection Techniques, US 10,484,226 B2, November 19, 2019.
• Arafat Al-Dweik, Youssef Iraqi, and Mohammed Al-Mualla, Digital Communications Receiver Using Partial Knowledge of the Channel State Information. Continuation Patent. US 9,954,699, April 24, 2018.
• Arafat Al-Dweik, Youssef Iraqi, and Mohamed Al-Mualla, Digital Communications Receiver Using Partial Knowledge of the Channel State Information, US 9,509,538 B1, November 29, 2016.
• Harish Bhaskar, Youssef Iraqi, and Sultan Al Sharif, Human Eye Controlled Computer Mouse Interface, US 9,075,453 B2, July 7, 2015.