Research Papers (Published):

• Alam, M. I., & Mahmud, A. (2026). Prevalence and determinants of inadequate supervision of under five children in Bangladesh. Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies, 1–12. DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1080/17450128.2026.2652935

• Mahmud, A., & Rayhan, M. I. (2025). Weather Forecasting Using Recurrent Neural Networks and Vector Autoregressive Model: A Comprehensive Analysis of Time Series Data from Rohingya Camps and Control Areas. Dhaka University Journal of Science, 73(2), 93–99.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.3329/dujs.v73i2.82766.

Research Papers (Preprint/Under Review/Working):

• Mahmud, A., & Hasan, S. J. (2025, November 1). A deep learning approach to forecasting mobile banking subscribers and transactions: Evidence from Bangladesh. SSRN. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5724563 

Projects:

• "Determinants of the Pollution-Productivity Relationship: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh" with the professors of the University of California, San Diego, and Tufts University.

• "Replication survey on reporting harassment, Bangladesh Garments Whistleblowing-Escrow Endline," with the professors of Columbia Business School, University of Washington, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and Princeton University.

• "Increasing Adoption of High-Quality Lithium Batteries for Electric Three-Wheelers in Bangladesh," with the professors of Georgetown University and Stanford University.

• "Skill for Growth: Human Capital Deficits, Labor Market Frictions," with the professors of the University of Minnesota and the University of California, San Diego, and the economist of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.

• "Facilitate Adoption of Modern Machinery" with Swisscontact.

• "Shariah Objectives of Islamic Banking in Bangladesh" with a PhD student. 

Contributions:

• "surveyprint," a Stata package: Exports SurveyCTO questionnaires into print-ready Excel files with English and Bengali labels. 

To install this package, use "net install surveyprint, from("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/armanmahmud1/surveyprint/main/") replace."

• "odkrepeatmerge," a Stata package: Automates merging of ODK repeat group data into a clean, analysis-ready format matching the original survey layout. 

To install this package, use "net install odkrepeatmerge, from("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/armanmahmud1/odkrepeatmerge/main/") replace"

• Contribute to the arcedfold package: Enhanced v4 with Stata dialog box integration (original by Mehrab Ali, ARCED Foundation). 

Explore this package: https://github.com/ARCED-Foundation/arcedfold/tree/V4 

• "sctofiles," a Stata package: Renames SurveyCTO media files using respondent ID, survey date, or question label for organized file management. 

To install this package, use "net install sctofiles, from("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/armanmahmud1/sctofiles/main/") replace"

• "basicstat," a Stata package: Generates summary Excel files with frequency tables for string variables and descriptive statistics for numeric variables. 

To install this package, use "net install basicstat, from("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/armanmahmud1/basicstat/main/") replace"

• "sendemail," a Stata package: Extends the pr0078 and tknz packages with a dialog box interface for composing and sending emails directly from Stata. You can explore the original sendemails package here. 

To install this package, use "net install sendemail, from("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/armanmahmud1/sendemail/main/") replace"

• "autochart," an R package: Automatically selects and renders the appropriate plot type based on input column data types using ggplot2. 

To install this package, use "devtools::install_github("armanmahmud1/autochart")"

• Enumerator Dashboard by ARCED: Core team member in developing Bangladesh’s first centralized enumerator analytics platform, tracking study volume, categories, affiliated organizations, and KPIs