Dr. Abd Rahman is an Associate Professor of Data Science at Department of Physics, Universiti Putra Malaysia and he is also holding the post of Deputy Director of University’s Research Management Center. He gained BSc in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, United States. He also obtained an MSc degree in Sensor and Instrumentation from Universiti Putra Malaysia. He is the first person that was awarded with a joint (co-tutelle) PhD degree between University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, and Universiti Putra Malaysia.

During his PhD studies, he worked on developing new algorithms for multi-floor indoor localization system and proposing new approach in indoor localization system based on WLAN.  He has also joined Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs (now Nokia Bell Labs), Dublin, Ireland as a post-graduate research intern to carried out research and working with research team on co-localization and tracking algorithm for WLAN networks. He has also served as an invited researcher in Bell Labs Antwerp, Belgium to apply the localization system for Bell-Labs Future-X day.

In 2019, he has been attached to the Indian Institute Technology Kanpur, India, as a Postdoctoral Fellow working on peer-to-peer networks. He has also served multiple positions in Ministry of Education and Higher education, Malaysia such as technical committee for Smart Data Project and technical workforce for Big Data Project between 2019 to 2021. He is also a Fellow of CEO@Faculty at the Ministry of Higher Education where he has been placed in National Instruments Penang, Malaysia in 2018. He is also the Member of prestigious Malaysian Young Scientist Network since 2023.

He is currently the Head of Computational Intelligence Research Group in UPM. His current research interest is within the field of machine learning and artificial intelligence where he has published more than 40 high impact articles in the area. His other research interests include signal processing, pattern recognition/matching/prediction, machine learning algorithms, electromagnetics-related computation and modelling and RF and microwave-based sensor system.