Publications, projects & code

Research


My research focuses on accessibility, human-computer interaction, computer science education, and generative AI. I design and evaluate accessible technologies, study barriers experienced by people with disabilities, and examine how AI can support accessibility. My work combines system development, user studies, co-design, and systematic literature reviews.

Peer-reviewed publications

  • 2026

    Understanding Design and Accessibility Issues in Block-Based Programming for People with Disabilities: A Literature Review

    Universal Access in the Information Society (Springer), vol. 25, no. 3, p. 94

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    @article{mollik2026understanding,
      author = {Mollik, Rubel Hassan and Aljedaani, Wajdi and Ludi, Stephanie},
      title = {Understanding Design and Accessibility Issues in Block-Based Programming for People with Disabilities: A Literature Review},
      journal = {Universal Access in the Information Society},
      volume = {25},
      articleno = {94},
      year = {2026},
      doi = {10.1007/s10209-026-01351-6}
    }
  • 2026

    Designing and Evaluating an AI-Powered Figma Plugin for Accessibility Education

    28th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2026)

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    @inproceedings{aljedaani2026figma,
      author = {Aljedaani, Wajdi and Parthasarathy, P. D. and Mollik, Rubel Hassan and Badamalolu, Ajith Kumar},
      title = {Designing and Evaluating an AI-Powered Figma Plugin for Accessibility Education},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the 28th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility},
      year = {2026}
    }
  • 2026

    Enhancing AI Learning through Algorithm Visualization with Pseudocode Tracing: An Experience Report

    The 2nd ACM Virtual Global Computing Education Conference (SIGCSE Virtual 2026)

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    @inproceedings{aljedaani2026visualization,
      author = {Aljedaani, Wajdi and Parthasarathy, P. D. and Aljohani, Ahmed and Mollik, Rubel Hassan and Tomjack, Alex Michael},
      title = {Enhancing AI Learning through Algorithm Visualization with Pseudocode Tracing: An Experience Report},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Virtual Global Computing Education Conference},
      year = {2026},
      doi = {10.1145/3795867.3830987}
    }
  • 2026

    An Extension-Based Accessibility Framework for Making Blockly Accessible to Blind and Low-Vision Users

    1st International Workshop on User Interface and Experience for Software Engineering (UISE 2026), co-located with ICSE 2026

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    @inproceedings{mollik2026extension,
      author = {Mollik, Rubel Hassan and Kosuri, Vamsi Krishna and Djalali, Hans and Ludi, Stephanie and Mountapmbeme, Aboubakar},
      title = {An Extension-Based Accessibility Framework for Making Blockly Accessible to Blind and Low-Vision Users},
      booktitle = {1st International Workshop on User Interface and Experience for Software Engineering},
      year = {2026},
      doi = {10.1145/3786169.3788398}
    }
  • 2026

    Large Language Models for Web Accessibility: A Systematic Literature Review

    23rd International Web for All Conference (Web4All 2026)

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    @inproceedings{aljedaani2026llm,
      author = {Aljedaani, Wajdi and Mollik, Rubel Hassan},
      title = {Large Language Models for Web Accessibility: A Systematic Literature Review},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the 23rd International Web for All Conference},
      year = {2026},
      doi = {10.1145/3800424.3800452}
    }
  • 2025

    Challenges and Barriers Faced by Blind and Visually Impaired Users on Social Media: A Systematic Literature Review

    Universal Access in the Information Society (Springer), pp. 1-30

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    @article{aljedaani2025social,
      author = {Aljedaani, Wajdi and Mollik, Rubel Hassan and Saad, Eysha and Eler, Marcelo M. and Alghamdi, Asmaa Mansour},
      title = {Challenges and Barriers Faced by Blind and Visually Impaired Users on Social Media: A Systematic Literature Review},
      journal = {Universal Access in the Information Society},
      volume = {24},
      pages = {3359-3388},
      year = {2025},
      doi = {10.1007/s10209-025-01241-3}
    }
  • 2025

    RCEGen: A Generative Approach for Automated Root Cause Analysis Using Large Language Models (LLMs)

    Software (MDPI), vol. 4, no. 4, p. 29

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    @article{mollik2025rcegen,
      author = {Mollik, Rubel Hassan and Datta, Arup and Mollah, Anamul Haque and Aljedaani, Wajdi},
      title = {RCEGen: A Generative Approach for Automated Root Cause Analysis Using Large Language Models (LLMs)},
      journal = {Software},
      volume = {4},
      number = {4},
      articleno = {29},
      year = {2025},
      doi = {10.3390/software4040029}
    }
  • 2025

    Bug Triaging Based on Transformer Models Utilizing Commit Messages

    International Conference on Information Technology - New Generations (Springer), pp. 354-366

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    @inproceedings{arnob2025triaging,
      author = {Arnob, F. R. and Mollik, Rubel Hassan and Goyal, P. and Bryce, R.},
      title = {Bug Triaging Based on Transformer Models Utilizing Commit Messages},
      booktitle = {Information Technology - New Generations},
      pages = {354-366},
      publisher = {Springer},
      year = {2025},
      doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-89063-5_30}
    }
  • Projects

    • Research

      Accessible Blockly

      An Extension-Based Accessibility Framework (EAF) that adds keyboard interaction and screen reader support to block-based editors built on Google Blockly, including Scratch, Microsoft MakeCode, and Code.org, without modifying the upstream library.

    • Tool

      Developer Productivity Analytics

      A dashboard that pulls from GitHub, Bitbucket, and JIRA to give a software team aggregated insight into individual contribution and progress over time.

    • Project

      Gender Prediction from Bengali Names

      A supervised-learning API predicting gender from Bangladeshi names, built for an undergraduate data mining course. 74% accuracy.

    • Framework

      Larubel

      A PHP MVC framework written from scratch during an undergraduate web technology course, with routing, request and response handling, configurable views, an ORM, and validation.

    Open source

    WebOfTrust - KERI

    KERI (Key Event Receipt Infrastructure) is a fully decentralised identity system. Keripy is its Python reference implementation. I have contributed pull requests covering configurable logging, KERIA API enhancements, cryptographic utility refactoring for nonce and signer generation, and performance work on escrow processing. I also started KAPI and maintained it until August 2024.

    Elsewhere

    The complete and current publication list, with citation counts, lives on Google Scholar. My full academic record is on the CV page.