Dr Md Atiqur Rahman Ahad
Associate Professor
, School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering
Md Atiqur Rahman Ahad is an Associate Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, and Champion, Research and Innovation in the Department of Computer Science and Digital Technologies.
Qualifications
- PhD
- Senior Member, IEEE
- Senior Member, OPTICA (formerly OSA)
- Member, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
- Member, IAPR (International Association for Pattern Recognition)
- Professor (former), University of Dhaka
- Specially Appointed Associate Professor (former), Osaka University
- Visiting Professor (former), Brawijaya University
OVERVIEW
Md Atiqur Rahman Ahad, PhD. (Senior Member, IEEE; Senior Member, OPTICA (formerly The OSA)) is an Associate Professor of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, and Champion, Research and Innovation in the Department of Computer Science and Digital Technologies,, University of East London.
He became a Professor at the University of Dhaka (DU) in 2018, and served as a specially appointed Associate Professor at Osaka University from 2018 till 2022.
He works on AI, ML, vision, biometrics & security, IoT, & healthcare. He studied at Kyushu Institute of Technology (for Ph.D.), University of New South Wales (for Masters), and DU (for Masters (1st class, 2nd position) & B.Sc. (Honors) (1st class, 1st position)).
He was awarded the prestigious UGC Gold Medal (handed by the Honorable President of Bangladesh), JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship, and ~45 awards/grants/scholarships.
He published 11 books (more to appear soon), ~200 journals/conference papers & book chapters. Ahad was invited as keynote/invited speakers ~150 times in different conferences/societies/universities.
He is an Editorial Board Member, Scientific Reports, Nature; Associate Editor, Frontiers in Computer Science; Editor, Int. J. of Affective Computing; Editor-in-Chief: Int. J. of Computer Vision & Signal Processing; General Chair, 10th ICIEV, 5th IVPR, 4th ABC; Workshop Chair, 17th IEEE PiCom; Publication Chair, 2018 IEEE SMC; Vice Publication Co-chair & Vice Award Chair, 17th World Congress of IFSA; Guest Editor in Pattern Recognition Letters; J. of Multimedia User Interface; J. of Healthcare Engineering. He is a member of ACM and IAPR.