Md. Mustafizur Rahman (মোঃ মোস্তাফিজুর রহমান )

Assistant Professor

Research Area:

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Graphics, Visualization and Human Computer Interaction
Systems and Networking

Research Interest:

Information Retrieval, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing

Academic Background:

2016 to 2021 (Expected): PhD. in Information Science
University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin).
2016 : Masters in Computer Science
University of Virginia (UVa).
2013: M.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering,
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET).
2011: B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering,
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET).
2005: H.S.C. Notre Dame College, Dhaka
2003: S.S.C. Adarsha School, Narayangonj

Selected Publications:

Journal Papers:

1.	Kezban Dilek Onal, Ye Zhang, Ismail Sengor Altingovde, Md. Mustafizur Rahman, Pinar Karagoz, Alex Braylan, Brandon Dang, Heng-Lu Chang, Henna Kim, Quinten McNamara, Aaron Angert, Edward Banner, Vivek Khetan, Tyler McDonnell, An Thanh Nguyen, Dan Xu, , Neural Information Retrieval: At the End of the Early Years, Information Retrieval, 2017. [paper link]
2.	Md. Mustafizur Rahman, Md. Monirul Islam, Kazuyuki Murase, Xin Yao, Layered Ensemble Architecture for Time Series Forecasting, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), 46, 270--283, 2016.
3.	Abdus Salam Azad, Md. Kamrul Hasan, M. Arif Imtiazur Rahman, Md. Mustafizur Rahman, Nashid Shahriar, Exploring the Behavior and Changing Trends of Rainfall and Temperature Using Statistical Computing Techniques, Computational Intelligence Techniques in Earth and Environmental Sciences, DOI 10.1007/978-94-0, pages: 53-78, 2014.
4.	Md. Mustafizur Rahman, S. M. Ferdous, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Anika Anwar, Speech Development of Autistic Children by Interactive Computer Games, Interactive Technology and Smart Education (ITSE), Emerald, 2011.
5.	Md. Mustafizur Rahman, Mucahid Kutlu, Tamer Elsayed, Matthew Lease, Efficient Test Collection Construction via Active Learning, the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIS&T), (under revision), 0000.

Conference Papers:

1.	Md. Mustafizur Rahman, Mucahid Kutlu, Matthew Lease, Constructing Test Collections using Multi-armed Bandits and Active Learning, the 28th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2019), 2019.
2.	Malay Bhattacharyya, Yoshihiko Suhara, Md. Mustafizur Rahman, Markus Krause, Possible Confounds in Word-based Semantic Similarity Test Data, 20th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW), 2017.
3.	S M Ferdous, Md. Mustafizur Rahman, Mahmuda Naznin, Finding Network Connectivity Failure in a Wireless Sensor Network, IFIP/IEEE Wireless Days, 2016. [paper link]
4.	Md. Mustafizur Rahman, Hongning Wang, Hidden Topic Sentiment Model, 25th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2016), 2016.
5.	Sajedul Karim Talukder, M. I. I. Sakib, Md. Mustafizur Rahman, Model for E-Government in Bangladesh: A Unique ID Based Approach, International Conference on Informatics, Electronics & Vision (ICIEV), 2014.
6.	Sajedul Karim Talukder, M. I. I. Sakib, Md. Mustafizur Rahman, Digital Land Management System: A new initiative for Bangladesh, International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Information & Communication Technology (ICEEICT), 2014.
7.	S. K. K. Santu, Md. Mustafizur Rahman, Md. Monirul Islam, Kazuyuki Murase, Towards better generalization in Pittsburgh Learning Classifier Systems, IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (CEC 2014), 2014.
8.	Md. Mustafizur Rahman, S. K. K. Santu, Md. Monirul Islam, Kazuyuki Murase, Forecasting Time Series - A Layered Ensemble Architecture, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2014), 2014.
9.	K.M.A. Solaiman, Md. Mustafizur Rahman, Nashid Shahriar, AVRA Bangladesh collection, analysis & visualization of road accident data in Bangladesh, International Conference on Informatics, Electronics & Vision (ICIEV), 1-6, 2013.
10.	Raihanul Islam, Md. Mustafizur Rahman, Asif Salekin, A Novel Clustering-Based Ensemble Classification Model for Block Learning, The 2nd The International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM 2013), 2013.
11.	Azad Abdus Salam, Md. Kamrul Hasan, M.Arif Imtiazur Rahman, Md. Mustafizur Rahman, Nashid Shahriar, Changing trends of climate in Bangladesh and a noble procedure of distribution of rainfall by clustering, International Conference on Statistical Data Mining for Bioinformatics Health Agriculture and Environment, 2012.
12.	S.M. Ferdous, Anindya Das, M. Sohel Rahman, Md. Mustafizur Rahman, An Ant Colony Optimization approach to solve the Minimum String Cover Problem, 1st IEEE/OSA/IAPR International Conference on Informatics, Electronics and Vision, 741-746, 2012.
13.	Asif Salekin, Md. Mustafizur Rahman, Raihanul Islam, Composite Pattern Matching in Time Series, The 15th International Conference on Computer & Information Technology (ICCIT 2012), 2012.
14.	Asif Salekin, Md. Mustafizur Rahman, Pattern Matching In Time Series Using Combination Of Neural Network And Rule Based Approach, The 7th International Conference on Electrical & Computer Engineering (ICECE 2012), 2012.
15.	Nashid Shahriar, Mahfuza Sharmin, Reaz Ahmed, Md. Mustafizur Rahman, Raouf Boutaba, Bertrand Mathieu, Diurnal Availability for Peer-to-Peer Systems, IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (IEEE CCNC), 619 - 623, 2012.
16.	Ali S. Sabbir, Khosru Md. Salim, Md. Mustafizur Rahman, Md. Hasanuzzaman Bhuiyan, Hasan Shahid Ferdous, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Birth Record Communicator: A Pathway to Automated Health Data Acquisition System, WISH, 2011.
17.	Arshia Zernab Hassan, Bushra Tasnim Zahed, Fatema Tuz Zohora, Johra Muhammad Moosa, Tasmiha Salam, Md. Mustafizur Rahman, Socializing Autistic Children with Interactive Computer Games, IEEE Newsletter on Learning Technologies, 2011.
18.	Arshia Zernab Hassan, Bushra Tasnim Zahed, Fatema Tuz Zohora, Johra Muhammad Moosa, Tasmiha Salam, Md. Mustafizur Rahman, Developing the Concept of Money by Interactive Computer Games for Autistic Children, IEEE Symposium on Multimedia, 2011.
19.	Anika Anwar, Md. Mustafizur Rahman, S. M. Ferdous, Samiul Alam Anik, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, A Computer Game based Approach for Increasing Fluency in the Speech of the Autistic Children, IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, 2011.
20.	Mirfat Akter Sharmin, Md. Mizanur Rahman, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Md. Mustafizur Rahman, S. M. Ferdous, Teaching intelligible speech to the Autistic children by interactive computer games, ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 2011.
21.	Md. Mustafizur Rahman, S. M. Ferdous, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Increasing intelligibility in the speech of the autistic children by an interactive computer game, IEEE Symposium on Multimedia, 383-387, 2010.