Arpan Mahara, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Artificial Intelligence

Introduction

Arpan Mahara is an Assistant Professor of Artificial Intelligence. His work advances trustworthy and safe generative AI.

Research Overview

Arpan Mahara’s research focuses on trustworthy and safe generative artificial intelligence. One aspect of his work involves developing AI models with strong algorithmic and mathematical foundations. Another aspect focuses on developing forensic and agentic systems capable of detecting and explaining AI-generated and manipulated content.

Select Publications

Arpan Mahara and Naphtali D. Rishe. “The Dawn of KAN in Image-to-Image (I2I) Translation: Integrating Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks with GANs for Unpaired I2I Translation.” 2025 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI), Santa Clara, CA, USA, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1109/CAI64502.2025.00134.

Arpan Mahara and Naphtali Rishe (2025). “Methods and Trends in Detecting AI-Generated Images: A Comprehensive Review.” Computer Science Review, 60, 100908, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosrev.2026.100908

Arpan Mahara, Liangdong Deng, Naphtali D Rishe. “Terrafly-Forensics: A Dataset for Forensic Detection of Generated Map Images with Quality Assessment of Generative Models.” 2025 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Anchorage, AK, USA, 2025. 10.1109/ICIP55913.2025.11084647

Arpan Mahara, Naphtali D. Rishe and Malek Adjouadi. “Forensic Detection of Generated MRI Imagery Using Autoregressive Modeling and Frequency Analysis” In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, pp. 222-231. 2026

Arpan Mahara, and Naphtali Rishe. “PairFlow: Efficient Flow Matching for Paired Image-to-Image Translation with Perceptual and Structural Fidelity.” In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 9030-9039. 2026.

Arpan Mahara, Md Rezaul Karim Khan, Liangdong Deng, Naphtali Rishe, Wenjia Wang, and Seyed Masoud Sadjadi. “Automated Road Extraction from Satellite Imagery Integrating Dense Depthwise Dilated Separable Spatial Pyramid Pooling with DeepLabV3+.” Applied Sciences, 15(3), Special Issue: CNN and Computer Vision, 2025: 1027. https://doi.org/10.3390/app15031027

Teaching Focus

Arpan Mahara’s teaching focuses on Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, AI Forensics, Ethical AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning.

Additional Research Information

Dr. Mahara has authored more than ten peer-reviewed publications in venues such as the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), the IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence, the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV 2026) Workshops, the CVPR 2026 Workshops, the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), Computer Science Review, and AI in Remote Sensing.

He also co-authored a keynote presentation on robust generative AI for geospatial applications at the Fourth Serbian International Conference on Applied Artificial Intelligence (AAI 2025). He is the first inventor on two pending patent applications involving trustworthy AI and AI forensics.