Dr. Mohammad Saifur Rahman (ডঃ মোহাম্মদ সাইফুর রহমান)

Associate Professor

Research Area:

Research Interest:

Bioinformatics, Health Informatics, Algorithms, Applied Machine Learning

Academic Background:

Ph.D in Computer Science and Engineering (2018) from BUET
M.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering (2014) from BUET
B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering (2004) from BUET

Selected Publications:

Journal Papers:

1.	A K M Mehedi Hasan, Ajmain Yasar Ahmed, Sazan Mahbub, M Saifur Rahman, Shamsuzzoha Bayzid, SAINT-Angle: self-attention augmented inception-inside-inception network and transfer learning improve protein backbone torsion angle prediction, Bioinformatics Advances, 3, 2023. [paper link]
2.	Muhammad Ali Nayeem, Md. Shamsuzzoha Bayzid, Naser Anjum Samudro, Mohammad Saifur Rahman, and M. Sohel Rahman,, PASTA with many application-aware optimization criteria for alignment based phylogeny inference, Computational Biology and Chemistry, To appear, 2022.
3.	Zzaman Rashed Uz and Nowreen Sara and Khan Irtesam Mahmud and Islam Md and Ibtehaz Nabil and Rahman M Saifur and Zahid Anwar and Farzana Dilruba and Sharmin Afroza and Rahman M Sohel and others, A Machine Learning-based Approach for Groundwater Mapping, Natural Resources Research, 31, 281--299, 2021.
4.	Mahbub Mahim and Wahab Zahin and Reaz Rezwana and Rahman M Saifur and Bayzid Md Shamsuzzoha, wQFM: highly accurate genome-scale species tree estimation from weighted quartets, Bioinformatics, 37, 3734-3743, 2021. [paper link]
5.	Akon, Mujtahid and Akon, Muntashir and Kabir, Mohimenul and Rahman, M Saifur and Rahman, M Sohel, ADACT: a tool for analysing dissimilarity among nucleotide and protein sequences using minimal and relative absent words, Bioinformatics, 37, 1468–1470, 2021. [paper link]
6.	Anjum Naser and Nabil Raian Latif and Rafi Rakibul Islam and Bayzid Shamsuzzoha and Rahman M. Saifur, CD-MAWS: An Alignment-free Phylogeny Estimation Method Using Cosine Distance on Minimal Absent Word Sets, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Online, 2021. [paper link]
7.	Hoque Iram Tazim and Ibtehaz Nabil and Chakravarty Saumitra and Rahman M Saifur and Rahman M Sohel, A contour property based approach to segment nuclei in cervical cytology images, BMC Medical Imaging, 21, 1--12, 2021. [paper link]
8.	Alam Md Zahangir, Masud Mohammad M, Rahman M Saifur, Cheratta Muhsin, Nayeem Muhammad Ali and Rahman M Sohel, Feature-ranking-based ensemble classifiers for survivability prediction of intensive care unit patients using lab test data, Informatics in Medicine Unlocked, 22, 100495, 2021. [paper link]
9.	Ali Haisam Muhammad Rafid, Md. Toufikuzzaman, Mohammad Saifur Rahman, M. Sohel Rahman, CRISPRpred(SEQ): A Sequence-Based Method for sgRNA On Target Activity Prediction Using Traditional Machine Learning, BMC Bioinformatics, 21, 2020. [paper link]
10.	Mostofa Rafid Uddin, Sazan Mahbub, Mohammad Saifur Rahman, Md. Shamsuzzoha Bayzid, SAINT: Self-Attention Augmented Inception-Inside-Inception Network Improves Protein Secondary Structure Prediction, Bioinformatics, 2020. [paper link]
11.	Khan Junaed Younus and Khondaker Md Tawkat Islam and Hoque Iram Tazim and Al-Absi Hamada RH and Rahman Mohammad Saifur and Guler Reto and Alam Tanvir and Rahman M Sohel, Toward Preparing a Knowledge Base to Explore Potential Drugs and Biomedical Entities Related to COVID-19: Automated Computational Approach, JMIR medical informatics, 8, e21648, 2020.
12.	Farhana Shahid, Wasifur Rahman, Anika Binte Islam, Nipi Paul, Nabila Khan, Mohammad Saifur Rahman, Md Munirul Haque, A. B. M. Alim Al Islam, Two Tell-tale Perspectives of PTSD: Neurobiological Abnormalities and Bayesian Regulatory Network of the Underlying Disorder in a Refugee Context, Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), 3, 2019. [paper link]
13.	Nabil Ibtehaz, Mohammad Saifur Rahman, M. Sohel Rahman, VFPred: A fusion of signal processing and machine learning techniques in detecting ventricular fibrillation from ECG signals, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 49, 349-359, 2019. [paper link]
14.	Mohammad Saifur Rahman, Md. khaledur Rahman, Sanjay Saha, M. Kaykobad, M. Sohel Rahman, Antigenic: An improved prediction model of protective antigens, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 94, 28-41, 2019. [paper link]
15.	Md Zahangir Alam, Mohammad Saifur Rahman, M. Sohel Rahman, A Random Forest based predictor for medical data classification using feature ranking, Informatics in Medicine Unlocked, 15, 100180, 2019. [paper link]
16.	Mohammad Saifur Rahman, Swakkhar Shatabda, Sanjay Saha, M. Kaykobad, M. Sohel Rahman, DPP-PseAAC: A DNA-binding protein prediction model using Chou's general PseAAC, Journal of Theoretical Biology, 452, 22-34, 2018. [paper link]
17.	Mohammad Saifur Rahman, Md. Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, Tahmid Hasan, M. Sohel Rahman, M. Kaykobad, Using Adaptive Heartbeat Rate on Long-Lived TCP Connections, IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORKING, 26, 203-216, 2018. [paper link]
18.	Mohammad Saifur Rahman, Md. Khaledur Rahman, M. Kaykobad, M. Sohel Rahman, isGPT: An optimized model to identify sub-Golgi protein types using SVM and Random Forest based feature selection, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 84, 90-100, 2018. [paper link]
19.	Mohammad Saifur Rahman, Ali Alatabbi, Tanver Athar, Maxime Crochemore, M. Sohel Rahman, Absent words and the (dis)similarity analysis of DNA sequences: An Experimental Study, BMC Research Notes, 9, 1-8, 2016. [paper link]
20.	Md. Mahbubul Hasan, A. S. Islam, Mohammad Saifur Rahman, M. Sohel Rahman, Order preserving pattern matching revisited, Pattern Recognition Letters, 55, 15-21, 2015. [paper link]
21.	Asif-ul Haque, Mohammad Saifur Rahman, Mehedi Bakht, M. Kaykobad, Drawing lines by uniform packing, International journal of Computers and Graphics, 30, 207-212, 2006. [paper link]

Conference Papers:

1.	M. A. Nayeem and M. S. Bayzid and S. Chakravarty and M. S. Rahman and M. S. Rahman, A Multi-objective Metaheuristic Approach for Accurate Species Tree Estimation, IEEE 20th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE), 79-84, 2020. [paper link]
2.	Shahid, Farhana and Rahman, Wasifur and Rahman, M Saifur and Purabi, Sharmin Akther and Seddiqa, Ayesha and Mostakim, Moin and Feroz, Farhan and Soron, Tanjir Rashid and Hossain, Fahmida and Khan, Nabila and others, Leveraging Free-Hand Sketches for Potential Screening of PTSD, Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 4, 1--22, 2020. [paper link]
3.	E M Wasifur Rahman Chowdhury, Mohammad Saifur Rahman, A. B. M. Alim Al Islam, M. Sohel Rahman, Salty Secret: Let us secretly salt the secret, 2017 International Conference on Networking, Systems and Security (NSysS), 115-123, 2017. [paper link]
4.	Mohammad Saifur Rahman, Md. Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, M. Sohel Rahman, M. Kaykobad, Using Adaptive Heartbeat rate on Long-lived TCP Connections, 2016 International Conference on Networking Systems and Security (NSysS 2016), 16-24, 2016. [paper link]
5.	Taslim Arefin Khan, Mainuddin Ahmad Jonas, S.M. Hasanur Rashid, Mushfequr Rahman, Mohammad Saifur Rahman, A. B. M. Alim Al Islam, Sign of Life: A System for Escalating Post-Disaster Rescue Missions in Ready-Made Garment Factories, International Conference on Networking Systems and Security (NSysS), 145-150, 2015. [paper link]
6.	Md. Mahbubul Hasan, A. S. Islam, Mohammad Saifur Rahman, M. Sohel Rahman, Order Preserving Prefix Tables, International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE), 111-116, 2014. [paper link]
7.	M. Sohel Rahman, M. Kaykobad, Mohammad Saifur Rahman, A New Sufficient Condition for the Existence of Hamiltonian Paths, 0th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications (CATA), 2005.
8.	Asif-ul Haque, Mohammad Saifur Rahman, Mehedi Bakht, M. Kaykobad, Drawing Lines by Uniform Packing, International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), 186-190, 2004.
9.	M. Kaykobad, Asif-ul Haque , Mohammad Saifur Rahman, M. Sohel Rahman, On Average Length of Cycle in a Complete Graph, International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, 47-49, 2002.