PREMIER UNIVERSITY
Department of Computer Science And Engineering
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PREMIER UNIVERSITY
Department of Computer Science And Engineering
Profile
Department of Computer Science And Engineering
Md. Ataur Rahman
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
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I am an NLP/ML enthusiast with a background in Computer Science and Computational Linguistics. In my spare time, I enjoy watching lectures of Freeman Dyson, Richard Feynman and Andrew Ng.
Experience
Feb 2020 – Present
- Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
Premier University, Chittagong (Bangladesh).
July 2015 – Jan 2020
- Lecturer, Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
Premier University, Chittagong (Bangladesh).
Nov 2014 – June 2015
- Software Engineer, Bit Mascot (Pvt.) Ltd, Dhaka (Bangladesh).
Key Responsibility: iOS Application Developer.
Area of Interests
- Theoretical:
Language of Thought, Representational Theories of Consciousness,
Compositional Semantics, Computational Distributional Semantics.
- Practical:
Handwritten Text Recognition, Knowledge Graphs, Data Integration,
Polarity Items & Sentiment Shifters, Machine Learning, Natural
Language Processing.
GitHub: link
Qualification
- Marie Curie Early-Stage Ph.D. Researcher (ongoing) – “Data Engineering for Data Science (DEDS)”
- Home: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) – DTIM Research Group
- Host: Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) – WIT Lab - European Double Degree Masters Program in Language and Communication Technologies (LCT)
- B.Sc. Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering
- M.A. in Computational Linguistics (Research Masters), University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
- M.Sc. in Language Science and Technology, Saarland University, Germany.
- Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Chittagong.
Award & Prizes
- 2021: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Ph.D. Fellowship under Horizon 2020 (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2020) framework - The European Joint Doctorate Program in "Data Engineering for Data Science" (DEDS).
- 2019: 1st position for German and 2nd and 3rd position for Hindi Multiclass Hate Speech classification on “Hate Speech and Offensive Content Identification in Indo-European Languages (HASOC)” Shared Task 2019”.
- 2019: FIRE 2019 Student Grant for the top-performing systems in HASOC Task A and Task B.
- 2017: "Prime Ministers Gold Medal" Bangladesh - For Achieving Highest CGPA among all the Departments in the University of Chittagong for the academic year 2015.
- 2017: ERASMUS+: Erasmus Mundus Scholarship (EMJMD) – by the European Union. European Master’s Program in Language and Communication Technologies (LCT).
- 2014: Awarded and Certified for securing 3rd place in "National awareness and skill-building program for mobile application development 2014" run by the Ministry of ICT Bangladesh.
- 2013: Awarded as "Divisional Champion" in ACM-ICPC (International Collegiate Programming Contest) Asia Regional Dhaka site 2013.
Research
Semantic Scholar: link | Google Scholar: link | Scopus: 57212514987 | ORCID: link
PUBLICATIONS |
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Book Chapters | 2025 | M. A. Rahman, D. Sacharidis, O. Romero, S. Nadal, "Text Data Integration", In Data Engineering for Data Science as a Book Chapter (under publication process). |
2022 | M. A. Rahman, N. Tabassum, M. Paul, R. Pal, M. K. Islam, “BN-HTRd: A Benchmark Dataset for Document Level Offline Bangla Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) and Line Segmentation”, In International Conference on Big Data, IoT and Machine Learning (BIM 2021) and as a Book Chapter on Computer Vision and Image Analysis for Industry 4.0 (Taylor and Francis), ISBN: 9781032164168. | |
2020 | M. A. Rahman, Y. A. Akter, “Multi-lingual Author Profiling: Predicting Gender and Age from Tweets!”, In Chen JZ., Tavares J., Shakya S., Iliyasu A. (eds) Image Processing and Capsule Networks. ICIPCN 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1200. Springer, Cham (ISBN: 978-3-030-51859-2). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51859-2_46
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Journals | 2020 | Y. A. Akter, M. A. Rahman, M.O. Rahman, “Quantitative Analysis of Mouza Map to Estimate Land Area using Zooming and Canny Edge Detection”, TELKOMNIKA (Telecommunication Computing Electronics and Control - ISSN 1693-6930), Vol 18, No 6: December 2020: 3293-3302. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12928/telkomnika.v18i6.16179 |
2020 | Hossain, T. B., Y. A. Akter, and M. A. Rahman. “Voice Mail Application for Visually Impaired Persons”. Recent Research in Science and Technology, Vol. 12, no. 1, Jan. 2020, pp. 15-18. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25081/rrst.2020.12.6086
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Conferences | 2024 | M. A. Rahman, S. Nadal, O. Romero and D. Sacharidis, "Mitigating Data Sparsity in Integrated Data through Text Conceptualization" 2024 IEEE 40th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Utrecht, Netherlands, 2024, pp. 3490-3504, doi: 10.1109/ICDE60146.2024.00269. |
2024 | R. Tasnim, M. Chowdhury and M. A. Rahman, "BN-AuthProf: Benchmarking Machine Learning for Bangla Author Profiling on Social Media Texts", 2024 27th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, 2024, pp. 792-797, doi: 10.1109/ICCIT64611.2024.11022087. | |
2023 | S. M. Jubaer, N. Tabassum, M. A. Rahman, M. K. Islam, “BN-DRISHTI: Bangla Document Recognition through Instance-level Segmentation of Handwritten Text Images”, ICDAR 2023 (WML), San José, California, USA, August 25, 2023. | |
2021 | M. A. Rahman, P. Chakraborty, “Opinion Mining: Is Feature Engineering Still Relevant?”, In International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Sustainable Development (ICICT4SD), 27-28 February 2021, BUP, Dhaka, Bangladesh. | |
2019 | D. Ruiter, M. A. Rahman, D. Klakow, “LSV-UdS Participation at HASOC 2019: The Problem of Defining Hate”, on 11th meeting of Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE) as part of the CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 2517, 2019, Pages 263-270 (ISSN: 16130073). | |
2019 | M. A. Rahman, Y. A. Akter, “Topic Classification from text using Decision Tree, K-NN and Multinomial Naïve Bayes”, In International Conference on Advances in Science, Engineering and Robotics Technology (ICASERT), EWU, Dhaka, Bangladesh. | |
2019 | Y. A. Akter, M. A. Rahman, “Extracting RDF Triples from Raw Text” In International Conference on Advances in Science, Engineering and Robotics Technology (ICASERT), EWU, Dhaka, Bangladesh. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/icasert.2019.8934694 | |
2019 | R. Sadia, M. A. Rahman, M. H. Seddiqui, “N-gram Statistical Stemmer for Bangla Corpus”, In Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Natural Sciences and Technology (ICNST’19) | |
2019 | M. A. Rahman, M. H. Seddiqui, “Comparison of Classical Machine Learning Approaches on Bangla Textual Emotion Analysis”, 21st IEEE International Conference of Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), 21-23 December 2018, UIU, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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Datasets | 2024 | M. A. Rahman, “Disease_A-Z”, Hugging Face, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.57967/hf/2409 |
2024 | R. Tasnim, M. Chowdhury, M. A. Rahman, “BN-AuthProf (Bangla Author Profiling Dataset)”, | |
2021 | M. A. Rahman; Paul, Mitu; Tabassum, Nazifa; Pal, Riya; Das, Bipon; Tasnim, Raisa; Gony, Osman; Noor, Fatin; Jubaer, Sheikh Mohammad; Chowdhury, Mehanaz; Akter, Yeasmin Ara; Islam, Mohammad Khairul (2021), “BN-HTRd: A Benchmark Dataset for Document Level Offline Bangla Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR)”, Mendeley Data, V1, doi: 10.17632/743k6dm543.1 | |
2020 | M. A. Rahman; Seddiqui, Md. Hanif (2020), “BanglaEmotion: A Benchmark Dataset for Bangla Textual Emotion Analysis”, Mendeley Data, V1, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17632/24xd7w7dhp.1 | |
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