Publications | Masudur Rahman

I have authored 28 peer-reviewed publications spanning machine learning, robotics, medical imaging, and clinical research, with work published in venues such as ECML-PKDD, NAACL, ICRA, IROS, RO-MAN, MIUA, Military Medicine Journal, and MHSRS (the leading forum for military health research). This includes 11 full conference papers, 5 journal articles, 7 short papers, and 4 workshop papers, with contributions featured in top venues such as NeurIPS and ICLR.

A reverse-chronological list of my publications is provided below. For a categorized version organized by conferences, journals, and short papers, please refer to my CV.

2025

AI-Driven Integrated System for Burn Depth Prediction With Electronic Medical Records: Algorithm Development and Validation

Md Masudur Rahman, Mohamed El Masry, Surya Gnyawali, Yexiang Xue, Gayle Gordillo, and Juan P. Wachs

JMIR Medical Informatics, 2025

Bib

@article{rahman2025burnaid,
  author = {Rahman, Md Masudur and Masry, Mohamed El and Gnyawali, Surya and Xue, Yexiang and Gordillo, Gayle and Wachs, Juan P.},
  title = {AI-Driven Integrated System for Burn Depth Prediction With Electronic Medical Records: Algorithm Development and Validation},
  journal = {JMIR Medical Informatics},
  year = {2025},
  doi = {10.2196/68366},
}

MIUA
Knowledge-Driven Hypothesis Generation for Burn Diagnosis from Ultrasound with Vision- Language Model

Md Masudur Rahman, Mohamed El Masry, Gayle Gordillo, and Juan P. Wachs

In Annual Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis , 2025

Best Paper Bib PDF

Received the Best Paper Award in the Full Paper Poster category at the Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA) 2025, held in Leeds, UK.
@inproceedings{rahman2025knowledge, title = {Knowledge-Driven Hypothesis Generation for Burn Diagnosis from Ultrasound with Vision- Language Model}, author = {Rahman, Md Masudur and Masry, Mohamed El and and Gordillo, Gayle and Wachs, Juan P.}, booktitle = {Annual Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis}, year = {2025}, }

MilMed Journal

A Framework for Advancing Burn Assessment with Artificial Intelligence.

Md Masudur Rahman, Mohamed El Masry, Surya Gnyawali, Yexiang Xue, Gayle Gordillo, and Juan P. Wachs

Military Medicine, 2025

Bib

@article{rahman2025aiframework,
  title = {A Framework for Advancing Burn Assessment with Artificial Intelligence.},
  author = {Rahman, Md Masudur and Masry, Mohamed El and Gnyawali, Surya and Xue, Yexiang and Gordillo, Gayle and Wachs, Juan P.},
  journal = {Military Medicine},
  year = {2025}
}

MHSRS-Abstract

A Chain-of-Thought AI Reasoning Framework for Burn Diagnosis

Md Masudur Rahman, Mohamed El Masry, Gayle Gordillo, and Juan P. Wachs

In Military Health System Research Symposium , 2025

Bib

@inproceedings{rahman2025cot,
  title = {A Chain-of-Thought AI Reasoning Framework for Burn Diagnosis},
  author = {Rahman, Md Masudur and Masry, Mohamed El and Gordillo, Gayle and Wachs, Juan P.},
  booktitle = {Military Health System Research Symposium},
  year = {2025},
}

MIUA-Abstract

A Scalable AI Copilot for High Stake Medical Scenarios

Yupeng Zhuo, Eddie Zhang, Aditya Pachpande, Xiangchen Yu, Krish Iyengar, Nihar Turlapati, Xiyue Chen, Trung Duc Lam, Andrew W. Kirkpatrick, Kyle Couperus, Christopher Colombo, Jessica McKee, Md Masudur Rahman, and Juan P. Wachs

In Annual Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis , 2025

Bib

@inproceedings{zhuo2025scalable,
  title = {A Scalable AI Copilot for High Stake Medical Scenarios},
  author = {Zhuo, Yupeng and Zhang, Eddie and Pachpande, Aditya and Yu, Xiangchen and Iyengar, Krish and Turlapati, Nihar and Chen, Xiyue and Lam, Trung Duc and Kirkpatrick, Andrew W. and Couperus, Kyle and Colombo, Christopher and McKee, Jessica and Rahman, Md Masudur and Wachs, Juan P.},
  booktitle = {Annual Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis},
  year = {2025}
}

2024

NAACL

Natural Language-based State Representation in Deep Reinforcement Learning

Md Masudur Rahman, and Yexiang Xue

In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2024 Appears in NeurIPS 2023 Foundation Models for Decision Making Workshop (FMDM) Workshop , 2024

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@inproceedings{rahman2024natural,
  title = {Natural Language-based State Representation in Deep Reinforcement Learning},
  author = {Rahman, Md Masudur and Xue, Yexiang},
  booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2024},
  pages = {1310--1319},
  year = {2024},
}

MHSRS-Abstract

Advancing Burn Depth Assessment through Ultrasound Imaging with Vision Transformers

Md Masudur Rahman, Mohamed El Masry, Surya Gnyawali, Gayle Gordillo, Yexiang Xue, and Juan P. Wachs

In Military Health System Research Symposium , 2024

Bib

@inproceedings{rahman2024advancing,
  title = {Advancing Burn Depth Assessment through Ultrasound Imaging with Vision Transformers},
  author = {Rahman, Md Masudur and Masry, Mohamed El and Gnyawali, Surya and Gordillo, Gayle and Xue, Yexiang and Wachs, Juan P.},
  booktitle = {Military Health System Research Symposium},
  year = {2024}
}

2023

ICLR-Workshop(RRL)

Accelerating Policy Gradient by Estimating Value Function from Prior Computation in Deep Reinforcement Learning

Md Masudur Rahman, and Yexiang Xue

In Workshop on Reincarnating Reinforcement Learning at ICLR , 2023

Bib PDF

@inproceedings{rahman2023accelerating,
  title = {Accelerating Policy Gradient by Estimating Value Function from Prior Computation in Deep Reinforcement Learning},
  author = {Rahman, Md Masudur and Xue, Yexiang},
  booktitle = {Workshop on Reincarnating Reinforcement Learning at ICLR},
  year = {2023},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=sOgyNWyN6Gu}
}

2022

ECML-PKDD

Bootstrap State Representation using Style Transfer for Better Generalization in Deep Reinforcement Learning

Md Masudur Rahman, and Yexiang Xue

In European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD) , 2022

Bib PDF

@inproceedings{rahman2022bootstrap,
  title = {Bootstrap State Representation using Style Transfer for Better Generalization in Deep Reinforcement Learning},
  author = {Rahman, Md Masudur and Xue, Yexiang},
  booktitle = {European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD)},
  year = {2022},
  url = {https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-26412-2_7},
}

MHSRS-Abstract

ASAP: A Semi-Autonomous Precise robotic framework for remote surgery under delays

Glebys Gonzalez, Balakuntala, Mridul Agarwal, Md Masudur Rahman, Thomas Low, Vaneet Aggarwal, Yexiang Xue, Richard M Voyles, and Juan P. Wachs

In In Military Health System Research Symposium , 2022

Bib

@inproceedings{gonzalez2022asap,
  title = {ASAP: A Semi-Autonomous Precise robotic framework for remote surgery under delays},
  author = {Gonzalez, Glebys and Balakuntala and Agarwal, Mridul and Rahman, Md Masudur and Low, Thomas and Aggarwal, Vaneet and Xue, Yexiang and Voyles, Richard M and Wachs, Juan P.},
  booktitle = {In Military Health System Research Symposium},
  year = {2022}
}

ICMLA

Bootstrap Advantage Estimation for Policy Optimization in Reinforcement Learning

Md Masudur Rahman, and Yexiang Xue

In 21st IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA) , 2022

Bib PDF

@inproceedings{rahman2022bootstrap_icmla,
  title = {Bootstrap Advantage Estimation for Policy Optimization in Reinforcement Learning},
  author = {Rahman, Md Masudur and Xue, Yexiang},
  booktitle = {21st IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA)},
  pages = {234--239},
  year = {2022},
  organization = {IEEE}
}

2021

MHSRS-Abstract

A Semi-autonomous Robotic Framework for Remote Surgery under Delays

Glebys Gonzalez, Balakuntala, Mridul Agarwal, Md Masudur Rahman, Richard M Voyles, Vaneet Aggarwal, Yexiang Xue, and Juan Wachs

In In Military Health System Research Symposium , 2021

Bib

@inproceedings{gonzalez2021a,
  title = {A Semi-autonomous Robotic Framework for Remote Surgery under Delays},
  author = {Gonzalez, Glebys and Balakuntala and Agarwal, Mridul and Rahman, Md Masudur and Voyles, Richard M and Aggarwal, Vaneet and Xue, Yexiang and Wachs, Juan},
  booktitle = {In Military Health System Research Symposium},
  year = {2021}
}

ICRA

Deserts: Delay-tolerant semi-autonomous robot teleoperation for surgery

Glebys Gonzalez, Mridul Agarwal, Mythra V Balakuntala, Md Masudur Rahman, Upinder Kaur, Richard M Voyles, Vaneet Aggarwal, Yexiang Xue, and Juan Wachs

In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) , 2021

Bib PDF

@inproceedings{gonzalez2021deserts,
  title = {Deserts: Delay-tolerant semi-autonomous robot teleoperation for surgery},
  author = {Gonzalez, Glebys and Agarwal, Mridul and Balakuntala, Mythra V and Rahman, Md Masudur and Kaur, Upinder and Voyles, Richard M and Aggarwal, Vaneet and Xue, Yexiang and Wachs, Juan},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  year = {2021},
}

Biomedical Journal

SARTRES: A semi-autonomous robot teleoperation environment for surgery

Md Masudur Rahman*, Mythra V Balakuntala*, Glebys Gonzalez, Mridul Agarwal, Upinder Kaur, Vishnunandan LN Venkatesh, Natalia Sanchez-Tamayo, Yexiang Xue, Richard M Voyles, Vaneet Aggarwal, and Juan Wachs

Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization, 2021

Bib PDF

@article{rahman2021sartres,
  title = {SARTRES: A semi-autonomous robot teleoperation environment for surgery},
  author = {Rahman*, Md Masudur and Balakuntala*, Mythra V and Gonzalez, Glebys and Agarwal, Mridul and Kaur, Upinder and Venkatesh, Vishnunandan LN and Sanchez-Tamayo, Natalia and Xue, Yexiang and Voyles, Richard M and Aggarwal, Vaneet and Wachs, Juan},
  journal = {Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging \& Visualization},
  volume = {9},
  number = {4},
  pages = {376--383},
  year = {2021},
  publisher = {Taylor \& Francis},
}

MilMed Journal

From the dexterous surgical skill to the battlefield—a robotics exploratory study

Glebys T Gonzalez*, Upinder Kaur*, Md Masudur Rahman*, Vishnunandan Venkatesh, Natalia Sanchez, Gregory Hager, Yexiang Xue, Richard Voyles, and Juan Wachs

Military Medicine, 2021

Bib HTML

@article{gonzalez2021dexterous,
  title = {From the dexterous surgical skill to the battlefield—a robotics exploratory study},
  author = {Gonzalez*, Glebys T and Kaur*, Upinder and Rahman*, Md Masudur and Venkatesh, Vishnunandan and Sanchez, Natalia and Hager, Gregory and Xue, Yexiang and Voyles, Richard and Wachs, Juan},
  journal = {Military Medicine},
  url = {https://academic.oup.com/milmed/article/186/Supplement_1/288/6119495},
  volume = {186},
  number = {Supplement\_1},
  pages = {288--294},
  year = {2021},
  publisher = {Oxford University Press US}
}

RO-MAN

Dexterous skill transfer between surgical procedures for teleoperated robotic surgery

Mridul Agarwal, Glebys Gonzalez, Mythra V Balakuntala, Md Masudur Rahman, Vaneet Aggarwal, Richard M Voyles, Yexiang Xue, and Juan Wachs

In 2021 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) , 2021

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@inproceedings{agarwal2021dexterous,
  title = {Dexterous skill transfer between surgical procedures for teleoperated robotic surgery},
  author = {Agarwal, Mridul and Gonzalez, Glebys and Balakuntala, Mythra V and Rahman, Md Masudur and Aggarwal, Vaneet and Voyles, Richard M and Xue, Yexiang and Wachs, Juan},
  booktitle = {2021 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot \& Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)},
  pages = {1236--1242},
  year = {2021},
  organization = {IEEE}
}

RO-MAN

Sequential prediction with logic constraints for surgical robotic activity recognition

Md Masudur Rahman, Richard M Voyles, Juan Wachs, and Yexiang Xue

In 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) , 2021

Bib PDF

@inproceedings{rahman2021sequential,
  title = {Sequential prediction with logic constraints for surgical robotic activity recognition},
  author = {Rahman, Md Masudur and Voyles, Richard M and Wachs, Juan and Xue, Yexiang},
  booktitle = {30th IEEE International Conference on Robot \& Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)},
  pages = {468--475},
  year = {2021},
  organization = {IEEE}
}

2020

MHSRS-Abstract

ASTRO: A Semi-Autonomous Telemedicine Robot for Operative Surgery

Glebys Gonzalez, Md Masudur Rahman, Mridul Agarwal, Mythra Balakuntala, Vishnu Venkatesh, Vaneet Aggarwal, Yexiang Xue, Richard M Voyles, Gregory Hager, MAJ Andrew W Kirkpatrick, MAJ Steve Overholser, and Juan Wachs

In In Military Health System Research Symposium , 2020

Bib

@inproceedings{gonzalez2020astro,
  title = {ASTRO: A Semi-Autonomous Telemedicine Robot for Operative Surgery},
  author = {Gonzalez, Glebys and Rahman, Md Masudur and Agarwal, Mridul and Balakuntala, Mythra and Venkatesh, Vishnu and Aggarwal, Vaneet and Xue, Yexiang and Voyles, Richard M and Hager, Gregory and Kirkpatrick, MAJ Andrew W and Overholser, MAJ Steve and Wachs, Juan},
  booktitle = {In Military Health System Research Symposium},
  year = {2020}
}

2019

IROS

Desk: A robotic activity dataset for dexterous surgical skills transfer to medical robots

Naveen Madapana*, Md Masudur Rahman*, Natalia Sanchez-Tamayo*, Mythra V Balakuntala, Glebys Gonzalez, Jyothsna Padmakumar Bindu, LN Vishnunandan Venkatesh, Xingguang Zhang, Juan Barragan Noguera, Thomas Low, and others

In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) , 2019

Bib PDF

@inproceedings{madapana2019desk,
  title = {Desk: A robotic activity dataset for dexterous surgical skills transfer to medical robots},
  author = {Madapana*, Naveen and Rahman*, Md Masudur and Sanchez-Tamayo*, Natalia and Balakuntala, Mythra V and Gonzalez, Glebys and Bindu, Jyothsna Padmakumar and Venkatesh, LN Vishnunandan and Zhang, Xingguang and Noguera, Juan Barragan and Low, Thomas and others},
  booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
  year = {2019},
}

RO-MAN

Transferring Dexterous Surgical Skill Knowledge between Robots for Semi-autonomous Teleoperation

Md Masudur Rahman*, Natalia Sanchez-Tamayo*, Glebys Gonzalez, Mridul Agarwal, Vaneet Aggarwal, Richard M Voyles, Yexiang Xue, and Juan Wachs

In 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) , 2019

Bib PDF

@inproceedings{rahman2019transferring,
  title = {Transferring Dexterous Surgical Skill Knowledge between Robots for Semi-autonomous Teleoperation},
  author = {Rahman*, Md Masudur and Sanchez-Tamayo*, Natalia and Gonzalez, Glebys and Agarwal, Mridul and Aggarwal, Vaneet and Voyles, Richard M and Xue, Yexiang and Wachs, Juan},
  booktitle = {28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)},
  year = {2019},
}

RLDM-Workshop

Morality in Decision-Making: A Causal Approach

Md Masudur Rahman

In RLDM Workshop on Moral Decision Making , 2019

Bib Video

@inproceedings{rahman2019morality,
  title = {Morality in Decision-Making: A Causal Approach},
  author = {Rahman, Md Masudur},
  booktitle = {RLDM Workshop on Moral Decision Making},
  year = {2019}
}

SCAM

Toward optimal selection of information retrieval models for software engineering tasks

Md Masudur Rahman, Saikat Chakraborty, Gail Kaiser, and Baishakhi Ray

In 2019 19th International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM) , 2019

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@inproceedings{rahman2019toward,
  title = {Toward optimal selection of information retrieval models for software engineering tasks},
  author = {Rahman, Md Masudur and Chakraborty, Saikat and Kaiser, Gail and Ray, Baishakhi},
  booktitle = {2019 19th International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM)},
  pages = {127--138},
  year = {2019},
  organization = {IEEE},
}

2018

MSR

Evaluating how developers use general-purpose web-search for code retrieval

Md Masudur Rahman, Jed Barson, Sydney Paul, Joshua Kayani, Federico Andrés Lois, Sebastián Fernandez Quezada, Christopher Parnin, Kathryn T Stolee, and Baishakhi Ray

In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories , 2018

Bib PDF Code

@inproceedings{rahman2018evaluating,
  title = {Evaluating how developers use general-purpose web-search for code retrieval},
  author = {Rahman, Md Masudur and Barson, Jed and Paul, Sydney and Kayani, Joshua and Lois, Federico Andr{\'e}s and Quezada, Sebasti{\'a}n Fernandez and Parnin, Christopher and Stolee, Kathryn T and Ray, Baishakhi},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories},
  pages = {465--475},
  year = {2018},
  slide = {msr2018-evaluate-code-search-slides.pdf},
  google_scholar_id = {2osOgNQ5qMEC}
}

ICSE-Companion

Which similarity metric to use for software documents? A study on information retrieval based software engineering tasks

Md Masudur Rahman, Saikat Chakraborty, and Baishakhi Ray

In Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceeedings , 2018

Bib PDF Poster

@inproceedings{rahman2018similarity,
  title = {Which similarity metric to use for software documents? A study on information retrieval based software engineering tasks},
  author = {Rahman, Md Masudur and Chakraborty, Saikat and Ray, Baishakhi},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceeedings},
  pages = {335--336},
  year = {2018},
}

IEEE-Access Journal

Recommending github projects for developer onboarding

Chao Liu, Dan Yang, Xiaohong Zhang, Baishakhi Ray, and Md Masudur Rahman

IEEE Access, 2018

Bib HTML PDF

@article{liu2018recommending,
  title = {Recommending github projects for developer onboarding},
  author = {Liu, Chao and Yang, Dan and Zhang, Xiaohong and Ray, Baishakhi and Rahman, Md Masudur},
  journal = {IEEE Access},
  volume = {6},
  pages = {52082--52094},
  year = {2018},
  publisher = {IEEE},
}

2016

FSE-Workshop

Finding Similar Projects in GitHub using Word2Vec and WMD

Md Masudur Rahman

In NL+SE at the 24nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering , 2016

Bib Slides

@inproceedings{rahman2016finding,
  title = {Finding Similar Projects in GitHub using Word2Vec and WMD},
  author = {Rahman, Md Masudur},
  booktitle = {NL+SE  at the 24nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering},
  year = {2016}
}

SIGIR

Topic model based privacy protection in personalized web search

Wasi Uddin Ahmad, Md Masudur Rahman, and Hongning Wang

In Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2016

Bib PDF Code

@inproceedings{ahmad2016topic,
  title = {Topic model based privacy protection in personalized web search},
  author = {Ahmad, Wasi Uddin and Rahman, Md Masudur and Wang, Hongning},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval},
  pages = {1025--1028},
  year = {2016},
}