Professor Dr. Md Geaur Rahman's Home Page

Dr. Md Geaur Rahman is a Data Scientist, a Professor of Data Science and Machine Learning at the Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU), Bangladesh and a Research Associate & Academic at the Charles Sturt University (CSU), Australia.

Professor Rahman was a Director of the Postgraduate Diploma in Information and Communication Technology (PGD in ICT) Programme at BAU. Before that he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Université de Strasbourg, France.

He received a PhD in Computer Science (Specialization: Data Science and Machine Learning) from the School of Computing and Mathematics, CSU, Australia. He completed B.Sc. (Hons.) and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh, and secured first class first position in the entire class in both degrees.

He has more than 17 years teaching experiences at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels (having local and international students come from multiethnic backgrounds) at CSU (Australia) and BAU (Bangladesh) where he taught a wide a range subjects, including programming, data mining, data science, web and mobile development, networking, and DBMS.

His research activities have concentrated on the areas of data science, machine learning, ensemble learning, deep learning, data pre-processing, data mining, transfer learning, incremental learning, and their diverse applications. So far, he has published more than 34 peer reviewed journal articles and conference papers in top quality journals [such as IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (CORE A*), Patter Recognition (CORE A*), Knowledge and Information Systems, and Expert Systems with Applications] and conferences [such as IJCNN (CORE A), AusDM (CORE B), and ADMA (CORE B)].

He received a number of awards, including Global Research Impact Recognition Award 2020, Best Presentation Award, Writing Up Award 2014, Best Researcher Award, and Best Paper Award. Moreover, in his undergraduate study he was awarded a Gold Medal for securing the highest mark among the students of the entire Science faculty. Furthermore, he received several research grants and industry supports from different organizations.

He has supervised several postgraduate research students as principal supervisor and co-supervisor. Moreover, he is serving as a reviewer/editor/PC member of several journals and conferences, including PR, KBS, ESWA, JIPS, ACI, CCC, and AusDM. Recently, he has been invited as an "Invited Speaker" from the Robotics & AI Research Conference (RoboAICon2023), 23 March 2023 to 25 March 2023, Rome, Italy.

Potential PhD students are welcome to contact Dr. Rahman via email at grahman@csu.edu.au to discuss possibilities of any scholarships.

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Research

Research Experience

• Research Associate
  
  
  - February 2019 to Present
  - Charles Sturt University, Australia
  
  
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  
  
  - March 2015 to December 2015, ICube Laboratory, University of Strasbourg, France.
  - Research project: Versatile models for relational data and unsupervised learning
  - It was a European project (collaborate internationally among the University of Strasbourg, France, the University of Valencia, Spain, and the University of Bristol, UK)
  
  
• PhD
  
  
  - March 2011 to September 2015, School of Computing and Mathematics, Charles Sturt University, Australia.
  - Research topic: Data cleansing for data quality improvement in data mining
  
  
• Research for M.Sc.
  
  
  - July 2001 to June 2002, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Rajshahi University, Bangladesh
  - Research topic: An Approach to Design and Development of a Bangla Programming Environment with its Compiler
  
  
• Research for B.Sc.
  
  
  - July 1997 to June 2001, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Rajshahi University, Bangladesh
  - Research topic: An Approach to Develop a Signature Identification System Using Neural Network Computing Technique
  
  

Research Interest

• Data cleansing and preprocessing
• Missing and corrupt value analysis
• Incremental/online learning
• Transfer learning / Domain adaptation
• Outlier analysis
• Data discretization
• Data mining and knowledge discovery
• Machine learning
• Pattern recognition
• Big data analytics
• Bioinformatics
• Neural networks
• and so on.

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Professional Memberships:

• Associate Member, Bangladesh Computer Society (BCS)
• Student Member, IEEE

Reviewer and Member Technical Committee:

• Reviewer of Pattern Recognition (PR): 2013-Present.
• Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation: 2021-Present.
• Reviewer of Knowledge Based Systems (KBS): June’13-Present.
• Reviewer of Expert Systems with Applications (ESWA): July’14-Present.
• Reviewer of Journal of Information Processing Systems (JIPS): July’14-Present.
• Reviewer of Applied Computing and Informatics, 2014.
• Reviewer of Computer Communication and Collaboration, 2014.
• PC member and Reviewer of AusDM’14.
• Reviewer of AusDM’13.
• Editorial board member of the International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology: June’13-Present.
• PC member of DaEng’13

Selected Publications

Please feel free to contact me if you are interested to have a look at any of these published papers.

PhD Thesis:

1. Rahman, M. G. (2015): Data cleansing for data quality improvement in data mining, Phd thesis in Computer Science, School of Computing and Mathematics, Charles Sturt University, Australia.
   
   PhD thesis available

Reports:

2. Birch, P., Islam, M.Z., Rahman, M. G., and Sicard, L. (2021): Crime and Disorder Audit 2009-2019, Wagga Wagga: Final Report. 31 March 2021, Charles Sturt University. 58 p. Commisioning/Funding Body: NSW Police Force.
3. Birch, P., Islam, M.Z., Rahman, M. G., and Sicard, L. (2021): Crime and Disorder Audit 2009-2019, Wagga Wagga: Preliminary Report. 29 January 2021, Charles Sturt University. 35 p. Commisioning/Funding Body: NSW Police Force.

Refereed Journal Articles:

4. Rahman, M. G. and Islam, M. Z. (2022): A Framework for Supervised Heterogeneous Transfer Learning using Dynamic Distribution Adaptation and Manifold Regularization. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, Accepted on 29 September 2022. DOI: 10.1109/TSC.2022.3213238 (SJR Rank Q1, CORE2020 A*, 2022 Impact Factor 11.019).
5. Rahman, M. G. and Islam, M. Z. (2022): Adaptive Decision Forest: An Incremental Machine Learning Framework. Pattern Recognition, 122, 108345. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2021.108345 (SJR Rank Q1, CORE2020 A*, 2022 Impact Factor 8.518).
6. Rahman, M. G. (2018): Reframing in Clustering: An Introductory Survey. International Journal of Computer, 30 (1), 34-42. Available Here
7. Rahman, M. G., Ferdaus, M. Z. and Uddin, M. N. (2018): OLAP-based Decision Support System for Business Data Analysis. International Journal of Computer Applications, 18, 1-7.Available Here
8. Rahman, M. G. and Islam, M. Z. (2016): Discretization of Continuous Attributes Through Low Frequency Numerical Values and Attribute Interdependency. Expert Systems with Applications, 45, 410-423. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2015.10.005 (SJR Rank Q1, CORE2020 B, 2022 Impact Factor 8.665).
9. Rahman, M. G. and Islam, M. Z. (2016): Missing Value Imputation using a Fuzzy Clustering based EM Approach. Knowledge and Information Systems, 46(2), 389-422, Springer London. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10115-015-0822-y (SJR Rank Q1, CORE2020 B, 2022 Impact Factor 2.822).
10. Rahman, M. G. and Islam, M. Z. (2014): FIMUS: A Framework for Imputing Missing Values Using Co-Appearance, Correlation and Similarity Analysis, Knowledge-Based Systems, 56, 311 - 327, ISSN 0950-7051, DOI information: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2013.12.005. Available at ELSEVIER (SJR Rank Q1, CORE2020 B, Impact Factor 8.139).
11. Rahman, M. G. and Islam, M. Z. (2013): Missing Value Imputation Using Decision Trees and Decision Forests by Splitting and Merging Records: Two Novel Techniques. Knowledge-Based Systems, Vol. 53, pp. 51 - 65, ISSN 0950-7051, DOI information: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2013.08.023. Available at ELSEVIER (SJR Rank Q1, CORE2020 B, Impact Factor 8.139).
12. Rahman, M. G., Siddique, A. R. S. A., Das, S., Hossain, A. K. M. A. and Molla, M. K. I. (2010): Developing an agent-mediated E-commerce environment for the mobile shopper. Asian Journal of Information Technology, 9: 85-90. Available at Medwell
13. Rahman, M. G., Das, S., Siddique, A. R. S. A. and Molla, M. K. I. (2010): A web-based face recognition system using mobile agent technology. Asian Journal of Information Technology, 9: 91-97. Available at Medwell
14. Rahman, M. G., Uddin, M. N., Sarkar, M. S. and Shah, M. A. S. (2009): Developing a Scanned Text Image to Text File Conversion System Using Artificial Neural Network. International Journal of Engineering and Technology, 6(2), 488-493. Available at G-Science
15. Uddin, M. N., Rahman, M. G., Sarkar, M. S., Mahmud, M. G. and Siddique, A. R. S. A. (2009): Towards A Strategy for Implementing e-Governance in the Agriculture Sector in Bangladesh. International Journal of Engineering and Technology, 6(4), 623-629.
16. Rahman, M. G., Uddin, M. N., Sarkar, M. S. and Siddique, A. R. S. A. (2009): An Approach to Implement an Intelligent Software Agent as a Personal Communication Assistant on the Internet. International Journal of Engineering and Technology, 6(4), 596-601. Available at G-Science
17. Uddin, M. N., Rahman, M. G., Sarkar, M. S., and Shah, M. A. S. (2009): An Approach of Developing a Hospital Management System Using Natural Language Technology. International Journal of Engineering and Technology, 6(2), 501-507.
18. Billah, M. M., Islam, M. P. and Rahman, M. G. (2007): Identification of rice diseases using artificial neural network. Bangladesh Society for Agricultural Science and Technology, 4, 197-201.
19. Rahman, M. G., Hossain, M. A., Siddique, A. R. S. A. and Molla, M. K. I. (2006): Gender Identification System from Facial Image Using Artificial Neural Network. Journal of Agricultural Machinery and Bioresources Engineering, 4, 7-11.
20. Rahman, M. G., Hossain, A. K. M. A. and Molla, M. K. I. (2006): Design and Development of a Bangla Programming Environment with its Compiler. Bangladesh Journal of Progressive Science and Technology, 4, 65-72.
21. Rahman, M. G., Ferdaus, M. Z., Hossain, M. A. and Alim, M. A. (2004): Developing a Programming Language Using Bangla Character Set. Journal of Science, Part-B, Rajshahi University Studies, Rajshahi, Bangladesh, 32, 51-62.

Refereed Conference Proceedings:

22. Blackmore, C., Ray, O., Kull, M., Rahman, M. G., Flach, P. and Lachiche, N.(2015). Reframing of Classification and Regression Tasks for Predicting the Effects of Compiler Settings on Multiple Embedded Systems, In the 2nd ECML-PKDD Workshop (LMCE), Porto, Portugal, 7-11 September 2015.
23. Rahman, M. G.(2015). A Survey on Reframing in Clustering, In the 2nd ECML-PKDD Workshop (LMCE), Porto, Portugal, 7-11 September 2015.
24. Islam, M. Z., Mamun, Q., and Rahman, M. G. (2014). Data Cleansing During Data Collection from Wireless Sensor Networks, In Proc. of the 12th Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2014), Brisbane, Australia, 27-28 November, 2014. (CORE Rank B).
25. Rahman, M. G. and Islam, M. Z. (2014): iDMI: A Novel Technique for Missing Value Imputation using a Decision Tree and Expectation-Maximization Algorithm, In Proc. of the 16th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT'13), Khulna, Bangladesh, 8-10 March 2014, pp. 496-501. (CORE Rank C).
26. Rahman, M. G. and Islam, M. Z. (2013): A Novel Framework Using Two Layers of Missing Value Imputation, In Proc. of the 11th Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 13), Canberra, Australia, 13-15 November 2013. (CORE Rank B). Received Best Paper Award
27. Rahman, M. G. and Islam, M. Z. (2013): kDMI: A Novel Method for Missing Values Imputation Using Two Levels Horizontal Partitioning in a Data set, In Proc. of the 9th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications(ADMA 13), Hangzhou, China, 14-16 December 2013, pp. 250-263. Available at Springer Link (CORE Rank B).
28. Rahman, M. G. and Islam, M. Z. (2013): Data Quality Improvement by Imputation of Missing Values, In Proc. of the 2013 International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 16 - 18 June, 2013, pp. 82-88, ISBN: 978-979-3812-20-5.
29. Rahman, M. G. and Islam, M. Z. (2013): Imputation of Missing Values by Selecting the Best k-NN Records from a Leaf of a Decision Tree, In 2013 SCM HDR Symposium, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia, 11-12 October 2013, pp. 50-51 (short paper).
30. Rahman, M. G., Islam, M. Z., Bossomaier, T., and Gao, J. (2012): CAIRAD: A co-appearance based analysis for Incorrect Records and Attribute-values Detection, in proc. of the IEEE 2012 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN’12), Brisbane, Australia: 1-10, doi:10.1109/IJCNN.2012.6252669. Available at IEEE Explore (CORE Rank A).
31. Rahman, M. G. and Islam, M. Z. (2011): A Decision Tree-based Missing Value Imputation Technique for Data Pre-processing , In Proc. of the Ninth Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 11), Ballarat, Australia. December 01 - December 02, 2011, CRPIT, 121. Vamplew, P., Stranieri, A., Ong, K.-L., Christen, P. and Kennedy, P. J. Eds., ACS, pp. 41-50. Available at CRPIT (CORE Rank B).
32. Rahman, M. G., Molla, M. K. I., Siddique, A. R. S. A. and Debnath, R. C. (2005): Developing A Decision Support System Using On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP), In proc. of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT’05), Islamic University of Technology (IUT), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 28-30 December, 2005, vol no 8, pp. 293-298 (CORE Rank C).
33. Rahman, M. G., Hossain, A. K. M. A., Hossain, M. A. and Debnath, R. C. (2004): A Web-Based Signature Verification System Using Mobile Agent Technology , In proc. of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT’04), BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 26-28 December, 2004, vol no 7, pp. 241-246 (CORE Rank C).
34. Rahman, M. G., Ferdaus, M. Z., Hossain, A. K. M. A., Molla, M. K. I. and Chisty, K. J. A. (2004): Developing A Mobility-Based Framework for Adaptive Clustering in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks, In proc. of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT’04), BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 26-28 December, 2004, vol no 7, pp. 251-256 (CORE Rank C).
35. Uddin, M. N., Rahman, M. G., Hossain, A. K. M. A., Pramanik, S. and Debnath, R. C. (2004): A New Approach of Developing a Hospital Management System Using Natural Language Technology (English Query), In proc. of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT’04), BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 26-28 December, 2004, vol no 7, pp. 274-279, (CORE Rank C).
36. Rahman, M. G., Hossain, M. A., Das, D. and Molla, M. K. I. (2003): Gender Identification System From Facial Image Using Artificial Neural Network, In proc. of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT’04), Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 19-21 December, 2003, vol no 6, pp. 717-721 (CORE Rank C).
37. Hossain, A. K. M. A., Rahman, M. G. and Debnath, R. C. (2003): Comparative Study of Signature Verification System Using Supervised (BPNN) and Unsupervised (HMM) Models, In proc. of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT’03), Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 19-21 December, 2003, vol no 6, pp. 732-737 (CORE Rank C).

Scholarships, Achievements and Awards:

• Invited Speaker at the Robotics & AI Research Conference (RoboAICon2023), 23 March 2023 to 25 March 2023, Rome, Italy


• Best Researcher Award received from the 2022 Global Conferences on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics


• Global Research Impact Recognition Award 2020 received from the Bangladesh Agricultural University Research System (BAURES), Bangladesh


• Best Presentation Award (2014) at the Research Higher Degree Symposium 2014 in Charles Sturt University, Australia


• Writing Up Award (2014) received recently at the Charles Sturt University in order to publish a book based on my PhD thesis.


• Best Paper Award (2013) at the 11th Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 13), Canberra, Australia.


• IEEE WCCI Travel Grant (2012) awarded by the IEEE for attending and presenting my paper at the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN’12), Brisbane, Australia.


• Strategic Research Centre Scholarship (2011) awarded by the Centre for Research into Complex Systems (CRiCS), CSU, Australia for pursuing my PhD study.


• Gold Medal (2010) awarded for securing the highest mark among the students of the entire science faculty in the undergraduate studies, 2001, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh.


• Prize (2010) awarded for securing First class First position in the undergraduate studies, 2001, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh.


• Prize (2010) awarded for securing First class First position in the Master of Science and Engineering exam, 2002, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh.


• University Merit Scholarship (2003) awarded for the excellent academic result in the undergraduate studies, 2001, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh.


• Certificate (2003) awarded for the excellent performance in the Academic, Science and Software Exhibition of Golden Jubilee Ceremony, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh.


• 16^th place winner of the 26th ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, Asia Regional competition 2001, BUET, Dhaka, November 10, 2001.


• 2^nd place winner of the Inter Department Programming Contest hosted by the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh, May 10, 2001.


• Medal (2000) awarded from the CHESS event in the Indoor Games Competition, Syed Ameer Ali Hall, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh.


• Junior School Scholarship (1991) awarded by the Government of Bangladesh.


• Primary School Scholarship (1988) awarded by the Government of Bangladesh.

Latest News

1. Invited Speaker at the Robotics & AI Research Conference (RoboAICon2023), 23 March 2023 to 25 March 2023, Rome, Italy


2. Best Researcher Award received from the 2022 Global Conferences on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics


3. Global Research Impact Recognition Award 2020 received from the Bangladesh Agricultural University Research System (BAURES), Bangladesh

Global Research Impact Recognition Award 2020

My wife is receiving the award (on behalf of me) from Vice-Chancellor, BAU.

4. Attended at the Reframer Meeting, University of Bristol, UK, June, 2015:

Research team of Reframe, 2015

University of Bristol, UK, 2015.

5. Attended at the Research Higher Degree (RHD) Symposium, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia, October 20-21, 2014:

Data Mining research group at the RHD SCM Symposiumm, 2014

Photo session, with my PhD fellows, after wining the Best Presentation Award 2014.

6. Attended at the 11th Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 13), Canberra, Australia, November 13-15, 2013:

My talk on our Missing Value Imputation technique at AusDM 2013

I am receiving the Best Paper Award for our paper (with Zahid Islam) at AusDM 2013

7. My short presentations (with Dr. Zahid Islam) on our papers SiMI and FIMUS that are published in Knowledge-Based Systems(ISI Web of Knowledge Rank Q1, the 6^th best (out of 115) journal in the category of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Impact Factor 8.665):

Our short presentation on the paper SiMI

Our short presentation on the paper FIMUS

8. Attended at the IEEE 2012 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN’12), Brisbane, Australia, June 10-16, 2012:

My talk on our Corrupt Data Detection technique at IJCNN 2012

With other PhD students at IJCNN 2012

9. Attended at the Ninth Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 11), Ballarat, Australia, December 1-2, 2011:

My talk on our Missing Value Imputation technique at AusDM 2011

With my PhD supervisor (2nd from the right) and other PhD students at AusDM 2011

10. Attended at the 2013 International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology (CSIT-2013), Yogyakarta, Indonesia, June 16 - 18, 2013:

With other participants

With other presenters

11. Attended at the RHD SCM Symposium, Wagga Wagga, Australia, October 10-11, 2013:

Presenting my paper at the RHD SCM Symposiumm, 2013

With other participants at RHD SCM Symposium dinner, 2013

12. Attended at the RHD SCM Symposium, Bathurst, Australia, November 26-27, 2012:

At the venue of RHD SCM Symposium, 2012

With other participants at RHD SCM Symposium dinner, 2012

13. Attended at the RHD SCM Symposium, Wagga Wagga, Australia, November 17-18, 2011:

Presenting my paper at the RHD SCM Symposium, 2011

With other participants at RHD SCM Symposium dinner, 2011

14. Attended at the SCM seminar, Bathurst, Australia:

With A/Prof Ljiljana Brankovic of Newcastle University, September, 2012

With Prof Vladimir Estivill-Castro of Griffith University, May, 2013

15. Attended at 6th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT’03), Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, December 19-21, 2003:

With Prof. Mohammad A. Karim, 2003

With other participants, 2003