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Md. Arafatur RahmanAssociate Professor Formar Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
Biography
Md Arafatur Rahman received his Ph.D. degree in Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy in 2013. He has more than 10 years Research and Teaching experience in the domain of Computer and Communications Engineering. Currently, he is an Associate Professor with the Faculty of Computing, University Malaysia Pahang, where he has conducted Undergraduate and Masters Courses and supervised more than 20 B.Sc., 4 M.Sc. and 4 PhD students. He worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with University of Naples Federico II in 2014 and Visiting Researcher with the Sapienza University of Rome in 2016. His research interests include Internet-of-Things (IoT), wireless communication networks, cognitive radio network, 5G, vehicular communication, Big Data, Cloud Computing and Security. He has developed excellent track record of academic leadership as well as management and execution of international ICT projects that are supported by agencies in the Italy, EU and Malaysia. Dr. Rahman has received number of prestigious international research awards, notably the Best Paper Award at ICNS'15 (Italy), IC0902 Grant (France), Italian Government PhD Research Scholarship and IIUM Best Masters Student Award, Best Supervisor Award at UMP, Awards in International Exhibitions including Diamond and Gold in BiS'17 UK, Best of the Best Innovation Award and Most Commercial IT Innovation Award, Malaysia, and Gold and Silver medals in iENA'17 Germany. Dr. Rahman has co-authored of over 80 prestigious IEEE and Elsevier journal (e.g., IEEE TII, IEEE TSC, IEEE COMMAG, Elsevier JNCA, Elsevier FGCS etc.) and conference publications (e.g., IEEE Globecom, IEEE DASC, etc.) and has served as an Advisory Board Member, Editor (Computers, MDPI), Lead Guest Editor (IEEE ACCESS, Computers), Associate Editor (IEEE ACCESS), Organizing Committee, Chair, Publicity Chair, Session Chair, Programme Committee and Member of Technical Programme Committee (TPC) in numerous leading conferences worldwide (e.g., IEEE Globecom, IEEE DASC, IEEE iSCI etc.) and Journals. He is a Fellow of IBM Center of Excellence and Earth Resources & Sustainability Center, Malaysia and a Senior Member of IEEE.