Short Bio:
Dr. Rudra Pratap Deb Nath is working as an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Chittagong, Chattogram Bangladesh and the director of BIKE: Big Data, Information, and Knowledge Engineering Lab.
He earned his Ph.D. titles from Aalborg University, Denmark and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain with the prestigious Erasmus Mundus Scholarship under the consortium of IT4BI-DC: Information Technology for Business Intelligence Doctoral College. His Ph.D. thesis title is "Aspects of Semantic ETL", where they proposed and developed an ontology-based semantic ETL tool that integrates semantic and non-semantic data into a semantic data warehouse and enables OLAP queries on it. He did his Master of Engineering in Toyohashi University of Technology Japan with the prestigious MEXT scholarship.
Nature: As a person, he is disciplined, professional, honest, humble, and friendly.
Hobby and Interest: Self Exploration and Realization, Singing, Instrument Playing, Dancing (Mostly Latin American styles: Salsa, Bachata, Zouk, Kizomba, Cha cha cha, and contemporary), Karate, and Cooking.
*** I am open for research collaboration. Please write to me if you are interested.
Dr. Rudra Pratap Deb Nath
H-Index: 13Latest News:
August 2025: Our ATF proposal under the HEAT project has been selected for Budget Reconciliation
July 2025: Our ATF proposal under the HEAT project has been selected for presentation
July 2025: Dr. Rudra Pratap Deb Nath received CU Best Research Article Award-2024 by Research and Publication Cell.
May 2025 (Fellowship): Our BIKE member Tonmoy Chandro Das and Tithi Rani Das received ICT fellowship. Congratulations!!
February 2025 (Fellowship): Our BIKE member Tithi Rani Das received National Science and Technology (NST) Fellowship. Congratulations!!
January 2025 (Paper): Our paper (CovKG: A Covid-19 Knowledge Graph for Enabling Multidimensional Analytics on Covid-19 Epidemiological Data considering Spatiotemporal,Environmental, Health, and Socioeconomic Aspects) has been accepted for publication in International Journal of Information Management- Data Insights (Q1,cite score 19.2, Top 1% by SCOPUS).
January 2025 (Fellowship): Our BIKE member Nesarul Hoque got an extension of his ICT doctoral fellowship by ICT ministry.
January 2025 (Student): Nesarul Hoque joined the lab as a PhD student. Welcome to the group.
November 2024 (Paper): 4 out of 4 papers have been accepted in 27th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT) 2024. Congratulations to co-authors: Nuzat Tasnim Turna, Tonmoy Das, Fahim Faisal, Amrit Bhattacharjee. The papers are
August 2024 (Paper): Our paper (Sentiment Analysis of Danish Health Care Industries' Financial Text) has been accepted for publication in International journal of Data Mining, Modelling and Management (Scopus and Web of Science indexed, Impact factor: 0.4).
June 2024 (Paper): Our paper (Knowledge Graph Generation and Enabling Multidimensional Analytics on Bangladesh Agricultural Data) has been accepted for publication in IEEE Access. (Imapct factor 3.9, Journal ranked 9 in Engineering & Computer Science Categories and 24 in General Categories according to Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=top_venues&hl=en&vq=eng)
June 2024 (Student): 1 master and 5 bachelor stduents join the lab.
May 2024 (Project Fund): "Semantic Integration and Knowledge Graph Exploration over Bangladesh open Data" received a research grant from Research and Publication cell, CU.
May 2024(Award): Our paper (SETLonDEMAND: Towards an On Demand ETL Approach for Semantic Data Warehouses ) received best Student paper award in ICEEICT 2024.
April 2024(Paper): One paper (SETLonDEMAND: Towards an On Demand ETL Approach for Semantic Data Warehouses ) accepted in ICEEICT2024.
December 2023(Paper): Two papers (1) Covid-19 Knowledge Graph Generation and Enabling Analysis across Healthcare, Socioeconomic, and Environmental Dimensions 2) Predictive Modeling for Heart Rate: A Comparative Analysis of LSTM, XGBoost, and LightGBM ) published in ICCIT2023
September 2023 (Award): Shafkat Raihan successfully finished his masters defense. Congratulations!!
August 2023 (Job): Tonmoy Das joined as a Research Assistant in BIKE.
April 2023 (Student): 8 bachelor students has been joined in BIKE
January 2023 (Fellowship): Avishek Das received ICT fellowship
December 2022 (Student): Avishek Das joined as a master's thesis student in BIKE
December 2022 (Student): Two lab members (Forhad Kasem Tipu and Arman) successfully presented their project proposals in front of the jury
September 2022 (Fund): Data analytics over Covid-19 data project receives a research grant from Research and Publication Cell, CU
January 2022 (Paper): 'High-level ETL for Semantic Data Warehouses' are published in Semantic Web Journal (Impact factor: 3.12, Best journal in Web category according to Google scholar) [link]
Research Domains:
Dr. Nath's research covers Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Linked Data, Business Intelligence, Semantic Web, Semantic Integration and ETL, Knowledge Graph Exploration, Data Science and Engineering, and Affective Computing.
He has several publications in Q1/A* journal/conferences like Information Systems, TheWebConf (previously known as WWW), Semantic Web Journal, IJIM-Data Insights, IEEE Access, DOLAP (co-located with CIKM), etc.
Projects:
Semantic integration on BD agriculture and education, Graph exploration on tourism data, Analytics over Covid-19 data, Open data for sustainability Assessment, EXTBI, IT4BI,
Short Biography:
2021- till date: Associate Professor in Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh
2014-2021: Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh (most of the time was on study leave)
2020-2021: PostDoc in Department of Planning, Aalborg University, Denmark
2014-2020: PhD Employee in Computer Science Department at Aalborg University, Denmark (Erasmus Mundus Scholarship)
2018-2020: Research Assistant in Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University, Denmark
2016-2017: Visiting Researcher in Department of Service and Information System Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain
2013-2014: Lecturer in Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh
2010-2012: Master of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering Department, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan (MEXT Scholarship)
2010-2010: Lecturer in Computer Science (BBA section), Cantonment Public College, Bangladesh
2004-2009: B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh