Raza Ul Mustafa is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Loyola University New Orleans. Before this, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Large Language Models (LLMs) at American University in Washington, DC. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Campinas, where he collaborated with the Innovation Center at Ericsson S.A., the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), Science Foundation Ireland, and INRIA France. His research interests include NLP in Hate Speech, Large Language Models (LLMs), Machine/Deep Learning, and mapping Multimedia Quality of Service (QoS) to Quality of Experience (QoE). He has authored over 25 publications in top-tier conferences and journals, and his research work is reproducible.
Before joining academia, Mustafa made significant contributions to the tech industry as a full-stack developer for over six years. His hands-on industry experience enhances his teaching and provides students with valuable industry perspectives. Mustafa's passion for teaching and real-world experience inspire and empower students to excel in their academic pursuits and beyond.
Recent Publications
- Raza Ul Mustafa et al., Can GPT-4 Detect Subcategories of Hatred? 2024 IEEE Conference on Digital Platforms and Societal Harms in Washington, DC, 14-15 October 2024.
- Raza Ul Mustafa et al., Coded Term Discovery for Online Hate Speech Detection, 11th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA 2024)
- Raza Ul Mustafa et al., YouTube goes 5G: QoE Benchmarking and ML-based Stall Prediction, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2024
- Raza Ul Mustafa et al., EFFECTOR: DASH QoE and QoS evaluation framework for EnCrypTed videO tRaffic, NOMS IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, 2023
- A supervised machine learning approach for DASH video QoE prediction in 5G networks, Proceedings of the 16th ACM symposium on QoS and security for wireless and mobile networks, 2020.
Classes Taught
Intro to C++ Programming