Education
PhD, Dept. of Computer Science, North Dakota State University, USA
MS, Dept. of Computer Science, North Dakota State University, USA
M. Sc. Engg. Dept. of CSE, BUET, January 2, 2000
B. Sc. Engg. Dept. of CSE, BUET, Summer, 1996 (with Honors Marks)
Work Experiences
Head, Dept. of CSE, BUET, (March 12, 2022 to present)
Professor, Dept. of CSE, BUET, (March, 2015 to present)
Associate Professor, Dept. of CSE, BUET (September, 2009 to March, 2015)
Assistant Professor, Dept. of CSE, BUET, (June, 2001 to September, 2009)
Graduate Teaching/Research Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science, North Dakota State University, USA (Fall 2001 to Summer, 2007)
Assistant Professor (Faculty on leave for Higher Studies), Dept. of CSE, BUET (August, 2001 to September, 2007)
Lecturer, Dept. of CSE, BUET, (January, 1997 to June 2001)
Publications (Selected)
Benzir Md Ahmed, Mohammed Eunus Ali, Mohammad Mehedy Masud, Mohammed Raihan Azad, and Mahmuda Naznin, After-Meal Blood Glucose Level Prediction for Type-2 Diabetic Patients, Heliyon, Elsevier, vol. 10, issue 7, (Impact Factor- 4), 2024.
Benzir Md Ahmed, Mohammad Mehedy Masud, Mohammed Eunus Ali, and Mahmuda Naznin, Recent Trends and Techniques of Blood Glucose Level Prediction for Diabetes Control, Smart Health, Elsevier (Impact Factor - 4.9), vol. 32, 2024.
Jamalia Sultana, Mahmuda Naznin, Tanvir R. Faisal, SSDL–An Efficient Automated Semi-supervised Deep Learning Approach for Patient-specific 3D Reconstruction of Proximal Femur from QCT Images, Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing, Springer (Impact Factor-3.2) , January 2024
Jamalia Sultana, Mashiyat Nayeem, Mahmuda Naznin, Tanvir R. Faisal, Semi-Supervised Learning Based Femur Segmentation from QCT Images, in Proc. of IEEE 22nd International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), IEEE, Florida, USA, 2023
Ms. Mina, Dipannoy Das Gupta, Mahmuda Naznin, LBCC: A Load Balanced Collaborative Caching in Content Based Networking, in Proc. of IEEE UEMCON, NY, USA, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1109/UEMCON59035.2023.10316034
Zakia Zaman, Fazle Rafsani, Ishrak R Rahman, Sabidur Rahman, Mahmuda Naznin, DeepVRM: Deep Learning Based Virtual Resource Management for Energy Efficiency, Journal of Network and Systems Management, Springer, vol. 31, issue 4, July, 2023 (Impact Factor- 3.6), https://doi.org/10.1007/S10922-023-09752-1
Jamalia Sultana, Benzir Md Ahmed, Mohammad Mehedy Masud, AK Obidul Huq, Mohammed Eunus Ali, and Mahmuda Naznin, A Study on Food Value Estimation from Images: Taxonomies, Datasets, and Techniques, IEEE Access, 2023 (Impact Factor- 3.476)
Fariha Tabassum Islam, Md. Tareq Mahmood, Mahmuda Naznin, MTUL: A Novel Approach for Multi-Trajectory User Linking, in Proc. of the 9th NSysS, 2022, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh (Acceptance Rate 27%), https://doi.org/10.1145/3569551.3569554
Jamalia Sultana and Mahmuda Naznin, Breaking the Barrier with a Multi-Domain SER, in Proc. of the 46th IEEE COMPSAC, June, Italy, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPSAC54236.2022.00088
Sabidur Rahman, Nilton Seixas, Mahmuda Naznin, Gustavo B. Figueiredo, Automation of Photonic Networks Using Machine Learning: Case Studies and Future Works, IEEE Photonic Technology Letters (Impact Factor- 2.468), vol. 33, issue: 23, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2021.3117482
Nabil Ibtehaz, Mahmuda Naznin, Determining Confused Brain Activity from EEG Sensor Signals, in Proc. of the 8th NSysS, ACM, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, https://doi.org/10.1145/3491371.3491383
Nazia Hossain, Mahmuda Naznin, Emotion Finding from Multilingual-Voice Data, in Proc. of IEEE COMPSAC, Madrid, Spain, 2020 (Best Paper Award) https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPSAC48688.2020.0-214
Taslim Arefin Khan, Suraiya Tairin, Mahmuda Naznin, Zakirul Alam Bhuiya, ABM Alim Al Islam, Advanced Communications in Cyber Physical Systems, Book: Leveraging Big Data Techniques for Cyber-Physical Systems, Springer, 1-60 , 2020 (Book Chapter)
Novia Nurain, B.M.S. Bahar Talukder, Tanzila Choudhury, Suraiya Tairin, Marjan Ferdousi, Mahmuda Naznin, A.B.M. Alim Al Islam, Exploring Network-Level Performances of Wireless Nanonetworks Utilizing Gains of Different Types of Nano-Antennas with Different Material, Wireless Networks, vol. 25, no.5, pp. 2651-2664, Springer, 2019 (Impact Factor- 3), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-019-01977-w
Zakia Zaman, Sabidur Rahman, Mahmuda Naznin, Novel Approaches for VNF Requirement Prediction Using DNN and LSTM, IEEE GLOBECOM, Hawaii, USA, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOBECOM38437.2019.9014320
Sharmin Akhter Purabi, Rayhan Rashed, Md. Mirajul Islam, Md. Nahiyan Uddin, Mahmuda Naznin, ABM Alim Al Islam, As You Are, So Shall You Move Your Head: A System-level Analysis between Head Movements and Corresponding Traits and Emotions, NSysS, ACM, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1145/3362966.3362985
Maiysha Alam, Novia Nurain, Suraiya Tairin, Mahmuda Naznin and A.B.M. Alim Al Islam, Conjugate Congestion Control Based Transport Layer Protocol for Molecular Communication in Body Area Nanonetworks (BANs), in Proc. of NSysS, Dhaka, Bangladesh 2018.
Nazia Hossain, Mahmuda Naznin, EmoVoice: Finding My Mood from My Voice Signal, in Proc. of ACM UbiComp, Singapore, 2018 (short paper)
Md. Saber, Mahmuda Naznin, Relay Time Scheduling in a WSN, in Proc. of IEEE LANMAN, Washington DC, USA, 2018.
Seikh Tahsin Amin, Sharmin Afrose, Suraiya Tairin, Walid Mahmud, and Mahmuda Naznin, Semantic Clustering in Credible Human Sensed Event Detection, in Proc. of DCOSS, ACM, NY, USA, June 2018. (Short paper)
Seikh Kamruzzaman, Mahmuda Naznin, Nawajish Islam, HEM: Hybrid Evolutionary Model for Unknown Event Detection in Social Network, in Proc. of the 20th IEEE WPMC, Bali, Indonesia, December 2017.
Tusher Chakrabarty, Taslim Arefin Khan, Mahmuda Naznin, and A. B. M. Alim Al Islam, What We Breathe As We Commute: From the Perspective of a Developing Country, in Proc. of ACM DEV, ACM, Kenya, November 2016.
Nazia Majadi, Mahmuda Naznin, Toufique Ahmed, Energy Efficient Local Search Based Target Localization in an UWSN, IEEE WiMob, IEEE, NY, USA, October 2016.
Raushan Ara Dilruba, Mahmuda Naznin, Finding Reliable Source for Event Detection Using Evolutionary Method, The Pacific Rim Knowledge Acquisition Workshop (PKAW) in conjunction with The Pacific Rim Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer, Thailand, August 2016.
Md. Shaifur Rahman, Mahmuda Naznin, and Toufique Ahmed, Efficient Routing in a Wireless Sensor Network Using Collaborative Ants in a, In proc. of International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ICSI), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), vol. 9713, pp. 674-685, Springer, Indonesia, June 2016.
S. M. Ferdous,, Mustafizur Rahman, and Mahmuda Naznin, Finding Network Connectivity Failure in a WSN, In Proc. of IFIP/IEEE Wireless Days, IEEE, France, March, 2016.
Rakibul Haque, Mahmuda Naznin and Rifat Shahriyar, Distributed Low Overhead ID in a Wireless Sensor Network, In Proc. of the 17th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN), ACM, Singapore, January 2016.
Mahmuda Naznin and Abu Sayed Chowdhury, ZDG: Zone Based Energy Efficient Data Gathering in a Sensor Network, In Proc. of International Conference on Network Systems and Security (NSsyS), IEEE, Dhaka, Bangladesh, January 2015.
Md. Shaifur Rahman and Mahmuda Naznin, Data Collection by Mobile Data Collector in a Sensor Network, In Proc. of APWeb, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), vol. 7808, pp. 674-685, Springer, Sydney, Australia, April 2013.
Akond Ashfaque-Ur Rahman, Atiqul Islam Mollah, and Mahmuda Naznin, Energy Efficient Multiple Target Tracking Using Target Kinematics, Wireless Sensor Network, 3(8), pp. 263-274, 2011.
Md. Rakibul Haque, Mahmuda Naznin, Monitoring Cost Reduction in Sensor Networks Using Proximity Queries, Journal of Networks, 6(1), pp. 4-11, 2011.
Upto 2010
A. B. M. Alim Al Razi, Md. Humayun Kabir, Chowdhury Sayeed Hyder, and Mahmuda Naznin, Stable Sensor Network (SSN): A Dynamic Clustering Technique for Maximizing Stability in Wireless Sensor Networks, Wireless Sensor Network, 2(7), pp. 538-554, 2010.
A. B. M. Alim Al Razi, Md. Humayun Kabir, Chowdhury Sayeed Hyder, and Mahmuda Naznin, Finding the Optimal Percentage of Cluster Heads from a New and Complete Mathematical Model on LEACH, Wireless Sensor Network, 2(2), pp. 129-140, 2010.
Akond Ashfaque-Ur Rahman, Mahmuda Naznin, and Atiqul Islam Mollah, Energy Efficient Multiple Target Tracking Using Target Kinematics, In Proc. of International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications (SENSORCOMM), IEEE, Italy, July 2010.
Md. Shahiduzzaman Bappi, Mahmuda Naznin and Akond Asfaque-Ur Rahman, Portable and Secure Multimedia Data Transfer in Mobile Phones Using Record Management Store, In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology (ICCSIT), IEEE, China, July 2010.
Md. Rakibul Haque, Md. Atiqul Islam, Md. Ashik Faisal Khan, and Mahmuda Naznin, DPUid: Distributed Algorithm for Proximity-based Unique ID Assignment in Wireless Sensor Networks, In Proc. of International Conference on Interaction Sciences, ACM, Seoul, Korea, November 2009.
Mahmuda Naznin and Kendall E. Nygard, Adaptive Coverage in Heterogeneous Sensor Network, In Proc. of the 19th International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering (CAINE), ISCA, NV, USA, November 2006.
Md. Saidur Rahman, Takao Nishizeki, Mahmuda Naznin, Orthogonal Drawings of Plane Graphs without Bends, Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications, 7(4), pp. 335-362, 2003.
Md. Saidur Rahman, Mahmuda Naznin and Takao Nishizeki, Orthogonal Drawings of Plane Graphs without Bends, International GD Conference, Vienna, Austria, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer, vol. 2265, pp. 392-406, September, 2001.
Graduate Courses Taught (Selected)
Data Mining
Wireless Sensor Network
Network Security
Combinatorial Optimization
Undergraduate Courses Taught (Selected)
Discrete Mathematics
Digital Logic Design
Algorithms
Numerical Method and Analysis
Artificial Intelligence
Graduate Thesis Supervised
Jamalia Sultana, MS, A Deep Learning Based Framework for 3D Femur Construction from QCT Images (Graduate Fellow)
Zakia Zaman, MS, A Novel Approach for Virtual Network Function Requirement Prediction
Farzana Hoque, MS, Handling Long Tail Using Fuzzy Technique for Niche Market Items
Nadia Akbar Tumpa, MS, Mitigating DDoS Attack in NDN
Mina, MS, Collaborative Content Caching in NDN
Aflatul Sagir, MS, Detecting Geo-Financial Solvency Using Socialand Web Media Networks
Md. Ali Hossain MS, Real Time Stress Alert in Sound Polluted Environment
Nazia Hossain, MS, Speaker Identification from Extracted Features from Selective Energized Voice Signal
Rausahn Ara Dilruba, MS, The Study of Finding Reliable Nodes in a Participatory Sensor Network
Md. Shaifur Rahman, MS, Energy Aware Path Planning for a Mobile Data Collector in a Wireless Sensor Network
Nazia Majadi, MS, Energy Aware Target Tracking in an Underwater Sensor Network
Abu Sayed Chowdhury, MS, Energy Aware Zone Based Data Gathering in a Wireless Sensor Networks
Mohammed Saber, MS, Optimal Relay Scheduling in a Heterogeneous Sensor Network
Current Active PhD Students
Md. Benzir Ahmed, (PhD Candidate)
Tanjina Helahy, PhD
Grant
BUET Basic Research Grant 2022-2024
UIU Research Grant, Blood Glucose Prediction from Daily Food Intake and Activities, UIU/IAR/01/2021/SE/11 (PI-Md. Benzir Ahmed (CSE, UIU), Co-PI- Mahmuda Naznin (CSE, BUET), Md. Eunus Ali (CSE, BUET), Mehedy Masud (UAE University), (2021-2023)
Academic Innovation Fund (AIF), World Bank and University Grant Commission, Bangladesh, As PI (Dec. 2013-July 2014), As Co-PI, (March 2012-Nov. 2014), Title - Enhancement of Graduate Studies Facilities for the Department of CSE, BUET (PI-Prof. Md. Saidur Rahman)
Ministry of Science and Information and Communications Technology (ICT), Bangladesh Govt, As Co-PI (2009-2011), Title - Facility Upgradation for Sustainable Research on Graph Drawing and Information Visualization (PI- Prof. Md. Saidur Rahman).
Media Coverage
Featured by The Daily Star (National No.1 Daily Newspaper of Bangladesh), March 8, 2019 (https://www.thedailystar.net/supplements/international-womens-day-2019/news/how-five-stem-women-shattered-the-glass-ceiling-1712161)
Awards/Honors
Best Paper Award, IEEE COMPSAC, Madrid, Spain, 2020
Honored as STEM Scientist, Ada Lovelace Day, Bangladesh 2020
IEEE Communication Society Faculty Travel Award, 2019, 2018
ACM SIGCOMM Faculty Travel Award, 2019, 2017
ACM UbiComp Faculty Travel Award, 2018
ACM MobiSys Faculty Travel Award, 2016
ACM Upsilon Pi Epsilon Scholarship Award, 2007
Travel Award, Dept. of Computer Science, North Dakota State University, USA, 2006
Non-Faculty Travel Award, Research and Technology Park, North Dakota State University, USA, 2006 BUET Merit Scholarship, 4 academic years of B.Sc. Engineering, BUET
President Award, Bangladesh Govt., 6th Merit Position in Girls Group, Higher Secondary School Certificate Examination (Public), 1989
Administrative Leadership (Selected)
Head, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, BUET (March 12, 2022- March 12, 2024)
Executive Committee Member, National Smart Bangladesh Taskforce, Bangladesh Govt. (Since 2023-Present)
Executive Committee Member, National Digital Bangladesh Taskforce, Bangladesh Govt (2022-2023)
Member, Board of Directors, Bangladesh Technical Education Board (2018-Present)
Member, Trustee Board, BUET Alumni Association (From 2013-2018)
Chair, BUET ACM Chapter, 2019-2020
Assistant Provost, Female Dormitory (Chattri Hall), BUET, (November 2012-Fabruary 2016), Responsibility- Review Student Scholarship and Trust Fund Scholarship, Organizing Student Welfare Activities and Events.
Chair, Complaint Committee, BUET (December, 2022- Present)
Professional Services (Selected)
TPC Member, IEEE 23th Conference on Machine Learning and Applications USA, 2024
Reviewer, IEEE INFOCOM Workshop, 2023
Organizing Chair, the NSysS, 2023, 2022
TPC Member, ACM CIKM, 2022
Founding Member, Bangladesh Blockchain Olympiad Committee
Reviewer, ACM Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2019
TPC Co-Chair, the 6th NSysS 2019, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2019
Member, Faculty Scholarship Review Committee, ACM Grace Hopper Celebration, USA, 2018, 2017
Member, Sectoral Committee for Computer Science and Engineering Program, Board of Accreditation for Engineering and Technical Education of Bangladesh (BAETE), 2017, 2016
Member Secretary, Bangladesh Computer Society (BCS), 2012-2014
President, Bangladesh Student Organization (BSO), North Dakota State University, USA, Spring 2007
Membership of Societies
Member, IEEE Women in Communications Engineering (WICE)
Member, IEEE Communications Society
Fellow, Bangladesh Computer Society (BCS)
Member, ACM, IEEE
Life Member, Upsilon Pi Epsilon, ACM Honor Society
Member, Women Architects, Engineers and Planners Association (WAEPA), Bangladesh
Life Member, Holy Cross College Alumni Association
Journal Reviewer
Wireless Networks, Springer, 2016- Present
Peer to Peer Networks and Applications, Springer, 2018-2022
IEEE Transaction on Vehicular Communications, 2022
Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier, 2017
Talk/Seminars/Panelist (Selected)
Keynote Speaker, Health, AI and Challenges, International Symposium on Digital Transformation, Calcutta, India, February, 2024.
Femur Segmentation in QCT Image Using Semi-Supervised Learning, the 22nd IEEE ICMLA, Florida, USA, December 2023.
Keynote Speaker, Women in Tech, UNESCO and Huawei Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh, June 2023.
Determining Confused Brain Activity from EEG Signals, the 8th International Conference on Network, Systems and Security (NSysS), ACM, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, 2021.
Panel Moderator, Cybersecurity: Challenges and Solutions, the 7th NSysS, December 2020.
Invited Speaker, Work-Life Balance as a STEM Woman, Ada Lovelace Celebration, Bangladesh Open Source Network, Dhaka, Bangladesh, January 2020
VNF Requirement Prediction Using DNN and LSTM, IEEE Globecom, Hawaii, USA, December 2019.
Finding My Mood from My Voice Signal, ACM UbiComp, Singapore, October 2018.
Semantic Clustering in Credible Human Sensed Event Detection, DCOSS, New York, USA, June 2018.
Relay Time Scheduling in a WSN, IEEE LANMAN, Washington DC, USA, June 2018.
Simulated Annealing Based Load balancing in NDN, the 7th N2Women and WICE Workshop, IEEE ICC, Kansas City, MO, USA, May 2018.
Low overhead ID for IOT Nodes, the Sixth Annual Workshop of N2Women co-located with ACM SIGCOMM, Los Angeles, USA, August 2017.
Panel Moderator, Road Map for Handling Big Data over Networks: Communications, Security and Challenges, International Conference on Network, Systems and Security (NSysS), IEEE, Dhaka, Bangladesh, January 2
Finding Reliable Source for Event Detection Using Evolutionary Method, PKAW in conjunction with The Pacific Rim Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI), Phuket, Thailand, August 2016.
Finding Network Connectivity Failure in a WSN, IFIP/IEEE Wireless Days, France, March, 2016.
Keynote Speaker, Towards Higher Studies, Research and Academic Career: Challenges and Opportunities, Workshop on Women Empowerment through ICT: Higher Studies, Research and Career (WE-ICT), Dhaka, Bangladesh, June 2014.
Invited Speaker, Women and Girls in ICT: Bangladesh Perspective, Seminar on World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, Bangladesh Telecommunications Regularity Commission (BTRC), Dhaka, Bangladesh, May 2012