Biography

Hussain (Md. Abu) Nyeem received a B.Sc. degree in electronics and communication engineering (ECE) from the Khulna University of Engineering & Technology (KUET), Bangladesh in 2007 and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia, in 2014 with high distinction and nomination for the QUT best Ph.D. thesis award.

Dr. Nyeem is an Associate Professor at the Military Institute of Science and Technology (MIST), Bangladesh. Before joining MIST in 2015, he held positions of Assistant Professor and Lecturer at KUET, Bangladesh; Sessional Academic and Doctoral Research Fellow at QUT, Australia; Guest Lecturer at Khulna University and Bangladesh University of Professionals; and Exchange Research Scholar at the University of Fukui, Japan in his fifteen years of profession.

Research interest of Dr. Nyeem broadly revolves around image processing and its applications. Mainly, his work concentrates on the processing of the spatial and frequency domain image-features, including their extraction and classification, and also on the biomedical image segmentation and analysis. Development of the intelligent and efficient methods for detection of road-lane, vehicle licence-plate, lip-movement, and representation of objects like the segmented region-of-interest (RoI) with polygonal decimation of contours have been endeavoured. Besides, new visual information protection techniques, including several data hiding schemes and their multimedia applications, are the outcome of his recent work. Multidisciplinary research collaboration has also extended the scope of his work to the computational analysis and visual representation of extensive environmental (i.e., water, soil, air and food-plants) data for heavy-metals’ assessment. He has further interest in developing the intelligent, bio-inspired and vision-based decision support system.

Dr. Nyeem has been leading the Visual Information Processing research-group at MIST since 2015 and has supervised eight masters (four ongoing) and more than twenty-five honours (final-year) projects and theses. His research projects have been funded by national universities and international postgraduate and exchange research programs. He has published a total of 43 peer-reviewed articles since 2012 in reputable journals, book series and proceedings. His recent (in the last five years) research endeavour has been recognized in the leading international conferences (including the 21st IEEE ICCIT 2018 and IEEE Region 10 Symposium 2020) with five best-paper and one best-presentation awards.

Dr. Nyeem is currently an Academic Editor of PLOS ONE, Senior Member of the IEEE and Fellow of the Institute of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB). He has been actively contributing to the national academic and research initiatives. He chaired technical sessions and was on the technical program committee of more than 15 international conferences, including the recent IC4IR’21, ICEEICT’21, and IEEE ICTP’21. Likewise, he also intermittently reviews articles of the leading journals, including IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, IEEE Access, and IET Image Processing, and received the Elsevier outstanding reviewer (Optik) award in 2018.