Dr. Shafin Rahman [SfR1]

Associate Professor

Ph.D. in Engineering and Computer Science, The Australian National University, Australia

M.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Manitoba, Canada

B. Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)

Office: SAC 921
Office hours:

Monday, 8.00 am. – 1.00 pm.

Wednesday, 8.00 am. – 1.00 pm.

Phone: +88 02 55668200 Ext – 6187
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Google Scholar URL: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Pe8C-SUAAAAJ
Scopus Profile: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=55435301000

Biography

Dr. Shafin Rahman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North South University, where he leads the Machine Intelligence Lab (MILab) and is a member of Apurba-NSU R&D Lab. A specialist in Computer Vision, Machine Learning, and AI, Dr. Rahman bridges the gap between high-level theoretical research and robust industrial applications.

His academic journey is marked by excellence, including a Ph.D. from the Australian National University (ANU), where his pioneering work on Zero-shot Learning earned the university-wide Best Ph.D. thesis award (J.G. Crawford Prizes) and an M.Sc. from the University of Manitoba, Canada. He holds an undergraduate degree from BUET. Before his tenure in academia, Dr. Rahman served as a Senior Software Engineer at Samsung R&D Institute, Bangladesh, a role that continues to inform his practical approach to solving complex engineering problems. Today, he is a prolific researcher (regularly publishing in conferences like CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, EMNLP, ICDM, and journals like TIP, TMM, TNNLS, TMLR, TAI, IJCV, etc.) and a respected reviewer for top-tier venues, dedicated to mentoring the next generation of engineers and advancing the global landscape of machine intelligence.

Research Areas

Research Interests

Computer vision and Machine Learning

Teaching

Academic Awards & Recognitions

  • WACV 2023 Best Applications Paper Award. IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) is a premier international computer vision event.
  • DICTA 2022 Runner-Up APRS/IAPR best paper award. DICTA is the premier conference of the Australian Pattern Recognition Society (APRS)
  • J. G. Crawford Prize from the Australian National University (ANU), 2021. This award recognizes the highest level of academic excellence across all disciplines
  • Paul Dudley White International Scholar Award from The American Heart Association to recognize the Highest abstract from Bangladesh at the Scientific Sessions
  • International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) travel award, 2019.

Research Projects & Grants

  • Investigator, Robust Extraction and Classification of Fingerprints using Camera Photos, Funding body: Research and Innovation Centers (RICs), EDGE Project, ICT Division, Bangladesh, 2024-2025.
  • Principal Investigator, ChatGPT-guided Semantics for Zero-shot Learning, Funding body: NSU Conference Travel & Research Grants, 2023-2024
  • Principal Investigator, Classification of Spontaneous and Posed Smile from Video Data, Funding body: NSU Conference Travel & Research Grants, 2021-2022.
  • Principal Investigator, Deep Learning Solution for Novel Object Detection Using Limited Training Data, Funding body: NSU Conference Travel & Research Grants, 2020-2021.
  • Co Principal Investigator, রোবো-থেরাপিস্ট : স্ট্রোক-পরবর্তী পুনর্বাসন চিকিৎসাকল্পে কৃত্রিম বুদ্ধিমত্তাসম্পন্ন রোবট উদ্ভাবন,
    Funding body: ICT Innovation Fund, ICT Division, Funding amount: 8,00,000 BDT. In collaboration with the Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Dhaka, 2020-2021.
  • Co Principal Investigator, অটিজম বৈশিষ্ট্যসম্পন্ন শিশু সনাক্তকরণে নিউরাল নেটওয়ার্ক ভিত্তিক স্বয়ংক্রিয় ব্যবস্থা উদ্ভাবন,
    Funding body: ICT Innovation Fund, ICT Division, Funding amount: 10,00,000 BDT. In collaboration with the Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Dhaka, 2019-2020.