Fazlul Hasan Siddiqui, PhD
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, DUET, Gazipur
Fazlul Hasan Siddiqui is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Dhaka University of Engineering & Technology (DUET), Gazipur, Bangladesh. He is also serving as the Chairman of ICT Cell, DUET at present. Previously he served as the Head in the same department for two years, and as the ICT Advisor of DUET for three years. He received his doctorate in Automated Planning in the filed of Artificial Intelligence from The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia in 2016. His doctorate dissertation has been named as an honorable mention for the prestigious ICAPS (International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling) Best Dissertation Award for 2017. Earlier he received his M.Sc. in Computer Science & Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2007, and his B.Sc. in Computer Science & IT from Islamic University of Technology, Gazipur, Bangladesh in 2002. His key publications include Multi-layered Attentional Peephole Convolutional LSTM for Abstractive Text Summarization (ETRI Journal), Continuing Plan Quality Optimisation (JAIR, 2015), and Exploiting Block Deordering for Improving Planners Efficiency (IJCAI, 2004). His current research interests include Automated Planning and Deep Learning in the filed of Artificial Intelligence.
| Mobile: | 01957964549 |
| Email: | [email protected] |
| Office: | 0249274034-53, Ext. 3217 |
| Address: | Flat 6A, Plot 486, Road 7, Avenue 3, DOHS, Mirpur, Dhaka 1216, Mirpur-12, Dhaka |
| Field of interest: | Automated Planning and Scheduling, Machine Learning, Conversational AI, Sentiment Analysis, Big Data Analytics |
| Field of specialization: | Automated Planning and Scheduling |
Degrees Obtained (Starting from Recent Degrees):
| # | Degree | Institute | Year | Discipline & Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PhD | Australian National University, Canberra, Australia | 2016 | Computer Science & Engineering (Field: Automated Planning in Artificial Intelligence) |
| 2 | M.Sc. in Eng. | Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh | 2007 | Computer Science and Engineering (Field: Distributed Data Warehouse Management) |
| 3 | B.Sc. in Eng. | Islamic University of Technology, Gazipur, Bangladesh | 2002 | Computer Science and Engineering |
| 4 | HSC | Jhenidah Cadet College, Jhenidah, Bangladesh | 1998 | Science |
| 5 | SSC | Jhenidah Cadet College, Jhenidah, Bangladesh | 1996 | Science |
Employment Record (Starting from Present Position):
| # | Designation | Institute | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Professor | Dhaka University of Engineering & Technology, Gazipur | 2017-04-19 : Continue |
| 2 | Associate Professor | Dhaka University of Engineering & Technology, Gazipur | 2016-03-23 : 2017-12-04 |
| 3 | Assistant Professor | Dhaka University of Engineering & Technology, Gazipur | 2006-11-30 : 2016-03-22 |
| 4 | Lecturer | Dhaka University of Engineering & Technology, Gazipur | 2003-04-23 : 2006-11-29 |
Other Related Experience (Indutry, Institution, etc.):
| # | Designation | Institute | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adjunct Faculty | Islamic University of Technology, Boardbazar, Gazipur, Bangladesh | 2004-01-01 : Continue |
| 2 | Adjunct Faculty | Bangladesh University of Professionals, Mirpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh | 2016-01-01 : Continue |
| 3 | Adjunct Faculty | Military Institute of Science & Technology, Mirpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh | 2017-01-01 : 2017-12-31 |
| 4 | Guest Faculty | BRAC University, Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh | 2017-01-01 : 2018-12-31 |
| 5 | Adjunct Professor | Independent University Bangladesh | 2022-01-01 : Continue |
Additional Charges:
| # | Designation | Faculty/ Department/ Institute/ Office | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Head | CSE | 2019-09-28 : 2021-09-27 |
| 2 | Chairman | ICT Cell | 2018-04-08 : Continue |
| 3 | Member | CASR | 2019-06-10 : 2022-06-09 |
| 4 | Director | Computer Center | 2023-03-23 : Continue |
Consultancy and Sponsored Research Activities:
| # | Title | Organization | Role | Fund | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Predicting Yield and Evapotranspiration of Rice in Bangladesh Perspective: A Hybrid Machine Learning Model | DUET (Vice-Chancellor Research Fund) | Project Director | 320000 | 2023-2024 |
| 2 | Smart Complaint Management | DUET (UGC Funded) | Project Director | 265000 | 2021-2022 |
| 3 | Facial Recognition-based Smart Attendance System | DUET (UGC Funded) | Associate Director | 260000 | 2021-2022 |
| 4 | DUET Inventory Management System | DUET (Fund Proposed) | Project Director | Tk. 1500000 | 2021-Ongoing |
| 5 | Automated Workflow Management of Advance Study and Research in Educational Institutes | DUET (Funded by UGC) | Project Director | Tk. 300000 | 2020-2021 |
| 6 | DUET Alumni Management System | DUET, Gazipur | Project Director | N/A | 2020-2021 |
| 7 | DUET OBE-based Dynamic Profile Management System | DUET, Gazipur | Project Director | N/A | 2020-2021 |
| 8 | Web-based Requisition, Billing, and Location Tracking of DUET Vehicles | DUET (Funded by UGC) | Project Director | Tk. 200000 | 2018-2019 |
| 9 | QR Code-based Admission Scripts Evaluation System | DUET, Gazipur | Project Director | Tk. 200000 | 2018-2019 |
| 10 | A Constraint Programming-based Solution to University Timetabling Problem | DUET (Funded by UGC) | Assoc. Project Director | Tk. 200000 | 2018-2019 |
| 11 | DUET Journal Management Platform | DUET (Funded by UGC) | Project Director | Tk. 200000 | 2017-2018 |
| 12 | DUET Gateway Mobile Application | DUET, Gazipur | Project Director | N/A | 2016-2017 |
| 13 | E-Learning and Activity Automation Of Academic Departments | DUET (Funded by UGC) | Project Director | Tk. 200000 | 2016-2017 |
| 14 | Automated Payroll Management System | DUET (Funded by UGC) | Project Director | Tk. 200000 | 2016-2017 |
| 15 | DUET Undergraduate and Postgraduate Registration System | DUET, Gazipur | Project Director | N/A | 2016-2017 |
| 16 | Online Admission Processing System | DUET, Gazipur | Project Director | Tk. 30000 | 2011-2012 |
| 17 | Online Library Management System | DUET, Gazipur | Project Director | Tk. 30000 | 2011-2012 |
Publications (Journal):
| # | Year | Title | Authors | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2024 | Revisiting block deordering in finite-domain state variable planning | Sabah Binte Noor and Fazlul Hasan SIddiqui | AI Communications, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-21 |
| 2 | 2023 | Epileptic seizure detection from electroencephalogram (EEG) signals using linear graph convolutional network and DenseNet based hybrid framework | Ferdaus Anam Jibon, Mahadi Hasan Miraz, Mayeen Uddin Khandaker, Mostafa Rashdan, Mohammad Salman, Alif Tasbir, and Fazlul Hasan Siddiqui | Journal of Radiation Research and Applied Sciences |
| 3 | 2023 | Emergency Resource Storage Facility Location Problem Considering Domino Effect after a Disaster | Hasina Tabassum Chowdhury, Shuva Ghosh, Shaim Mahamud, Fazlul Hasan Siddiqui, Sabah Binte Noor | Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management |
| 4 | 2021 | Video captioning with stacked attention and semantic hard pull | Md. Mushfiqur Rahman, Thasin Abedin, Khondokar S. S. Prottoy, Ayana Moshruba, Fazlul Hasan Siddiqui | PeerJ Computer Science 7:e664 |
| 5 | 2020 | Multi-layered Attentional Peephole Convolutional LSTM for Abstractive Text Summarization | Md. Motiur Rahman and Fazlul Hasan Siddiqui | ETRI Journal, Vol. 42, Issue 3 |
| 6 | 2019 | Hospital Dietary Control Using Automated Planning | Nusrat Jahan Tithi, Anika Tasnim Rodela, Farhin Farha, and Fazlul Hasan Siddiqui | DUET Journal, Vol 5, Issue 2 |
| 7 | 2019 | A Time Saving MVC-based Automated Journal Management System for Academia and Industry | Fazlul Hasan Siddiqui, Md. Mostafizer Rahman and Md. Motiur Rahman | DUET Journal, Vol 5, Issue 2 |
| 8 | 2019 | An Optimized Abstractive Text Summarization Model Using Peephole Convolutional LSTM | Md. Motiur Rahman and Fazlul Hasan Siddiqui | Journal of Symmetry, Vol. 11, Issue 10 |
| 9 | 2018 | NLP-Based Automatic Answer Script Evaluation | Md. Motiur Rahman and Fazlul Hasan Siddiqui | DUET Journal, Vol. 4, Issue 1 |
| 10 | 2018 | N-Queen Problem Revisited – A Variant of Cooperative Particle Swarm Optimization-based Solving Approach | Md. Mostafijur Rahman, Md. Baker Hossen, Md. Asrafullah and Fazlul Hasan Siddiqui | International Journal of Computer Science Trend and Technology, Vol 6, Issue 4 |
| 11 | 2017 | Automated Intelligent Storytelling | Md. Rabiul Alam, Manik Chandra Sarker, Md. Sajadur Rahman and Fazlul Hasan Siddiqui | DUET Journal, Vol. 3, Issue 1 |
| 12 | 2015 | Continuing Plan Quality Optimisation | Fazlul Hasan Siddiqui and Patrik Haslum | Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), Vol. 54 |
| 13 | 2012 | Dynamic Web Service Discovery Model Based on Artificial Neural Network with QoS Support | Shamim Ahmed, Momotaz Begum, Fazlul Hasan Siddiqui and Mohammod Abul Kashem | International Journal of Scientific and Engineering Research, Vol. 3, Issue 3 |
| 14 | 2007 | DMBVA – A Compression-based Distributed Data Warehouse Management in a Parallel Environment | Fazlul Hasan Siddiqui and A.S.M.L. Haque | Malaysian Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 20, Issue 1 |
Publications (Conference):
| # | Year | Title | Authors | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2023 | Face Recognition-Based Mass Attendance Using YOLOv5 and ArcFace | Omar Faruque, Fazlul Hasan SIddiqui, and Sabah Binte Noor | International Conference on Machine Intelligence and Emerging Technologies, MIET 2022 |
| 2 | 2022 | An Improved CNN-Based Feature Extraction Algorithm for Identifying Pneumonia from Chest X-Ray Images | Susmita Kar, Fazlul Hasan Siddiqui and Nasim Akhtar | International Conference on Intelligent Computing & Optimization |
| 3 | 2022 | Plan Deordering with Conditional Effects | Sabah Binte Noor and Fazlul Hasan Siddiqui | Intelligent Systems Conference (IntelliSys) 2022 |
| 4 | 2022 | Bangla Speech-based Person Identification using LSTM Networks | Rahad Khan, Saddam Hossain, Akbor Hossain, Fazlul Hasan Siddiqui, and Sabah Binte Noor | International Conference on Machine Intelligence and Emerging Technologies (MIET 2022) |
| 5 | 2022 | Machine Learning Classification Algorithms for Predicting Depression Among University Students in Bangladesh | Uwasila Binte Munir, M. Shamim Kaiser, Uwaise Ibna Islam and Fazlul Hasan Siddiqui | Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Trends in Computational and Cognitive Engineering pp 69–80; Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 348 |
| 6 | 2021 | An Automated Planning Approach for Scheduling Air Conditioning Operation using PDDL+ | Amina Shaikh Miah, Fazlul Hasan Siddiqui, and Md. Waliur Rahman Miah | International Conference on Big Data, IoT and Machine Learning (BIM 2021) |
| 7 | 2020 | Automated Large-scale Class Scheduling in MiniZinc | Md. Mushfiqur Rahman, Sabah Binte Noor and Fazlul Hasan Siddiqui | 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Technologies for Industry 4.0 (STI) |
| 8 | 2020 | Low-Cost REAL-TIME Tracking using GPS, A-GPS, and GNSS over TCP/IP | Punam Chowdhury, Latifur Rahman, Saba Binte Noor andFazlul Hasan Siddiqui | 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Technologies for Industry 4.0 (STI) | Poster Paper |
| 9 | 2015 | Exploiting Block Deordering for Improving Planners Efficiency | Fazlul Hasan Siddiqui and Patrik Haslum | 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) |
| 10 | 2013 | Plan Quality Optimisation via Block Decomposition | Fazlul Hasan Siddiqui and Patrik Haslum | 23rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) |
| 11 | 2013 | Local Search in the Space of Valid Plans | Fazlul Hasan Siddiqui and Patrik Haslum | 23rd International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS) |
| 12 | 2012 | Block-structured Plan Deordering | Fazlul Hasan Siddiqui and Patrik Haslum | 25th Australasian Joint Conference on AI |
| 13 | 2006 | Parallel Virtual Data Cube Construction from a Distributed Compressed Data Warehouse | Fazlul Hasan Siddiqui and A.S.M.L. Haque | Proceedings of the International Conference on ICT for the Muslim World |
| 14 | 2005 | A Proposed Architecture for Efficient, Implementation of Large-scale Hopfield Neural Network using CDMA Communication Technology | M.M. Mahbubul Syeed and Fazlul Hasan Siddiqui | 8th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, pp. 580-584 |
| 15 | 2004 | An Enhanced System for Face Recognition Using Hidden Markov Models and Wavelets | Fazlul Hasna Siddiqui, M.M. Mahbubul Syeed and Md Shafiqul Islam | 7th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, pp. 575-579 |
| 16 | 2004 | A Combinational Approach of Neural and Fuzzy Logic to Recognize Handwritten Bengali Character | MM Mahbubul Syeed, Fazlul Hasan Siddiqui, Kaniz Fatema | 7th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, pp. 521-525 |
| 17 | 2002 | Bengali Character Recognition Using Bidirectional Associative Memories (BAM) Neural Network | MM Mahbubul Syeed, Fazlul Hasan Siddiqui, Abu Saleh Abdullah Al-Mamun, Syed Khairuzzaman Tanbeer and M Abdul Mottalib | 5th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), pp. 247-251 |
Fellowship / Membership of Scientific and Professional Societies:
| # | Type | Organization | Membership Code |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Member | Institue of Engineers Bangladesh (IEB) | M-21013 |
| 2 | Member | IEEE | 98818738 |
Honors and Awards:
| # | Title | Event | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An honorable mention for the best dissertation award | 27th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, taken place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at Carnegie Mellon University | 2017 |
| 2 | PhD scholarship for four years | National ICT Australia (NICTA) | 2012 |
| 3 | PhD supplementary scholarship for four years | National ICT Australia (NICTA) | 2012 |
| 4 | Tuition fee exemption scholarship for four years | Australian National University (ANU) | 2012 |
| 5 | Position in top 10 in B.Sc. Engineering | Islamic University of Technology | 2002 |
| 6 | OIC scholarship for four years during the B.Sc. study | Islamic University of Technology (IUT), Boardbazaar, Gazipur | 1999 |
| 7 | Position in the combined merit list from Jessore board | HSC examination | 1998 |
| 8 | Government scholarship for toppers | HSC examination | 1998 |
| 9 | Government scholarship for toppers | SSC examination | 1996 |
Guided Ph. D./ M.Sc. / M.Engg. Students:
| # | Programme | Awarded Students | Running Students |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | B.Sc. | 80 | 12 |
| 2 | M.Sc. | 3 | 8 |
| Student Details: Md. Motiur Rahman (15204008) -- Awarded, 2020, Amina Shaikh (16204010) -- Awarded, 2021, Susmita Kar (15204001) -- Awarded, 2023; Mahfuza Akter (16204027) Nasir Uddin (17204007) Md. Abdullah (16204022) Md Sobuj Talukder (16204030) Solaiman Ahmed (16204037) Litan Islam (19204023) Tisha Mondal (19204006) | |||
| 3 | PhD | 0 | 2 |
| Student Details: Sabah Binte Noor (17104006) Ferdaus Anam Jibon (18104003) | |||
List of Conferences, Short-term Course etc. Organized or Participated):
| # | Event | Organizer | Role | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Sustainable Development (ICICT4SD) | Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP) | TPC Member & Reviewer | 2021 |
| 2 | International Conference on Cyber Security and Computer Science (ICONCS) | Daffodil International University (DIU) | Reviewer | 2020 |
| 3 | International Conference on Computing Advancements | American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB) | Reviewer | 2020 |
| 4 | International Conference on Sustainable Technologies for Industry 4.0 (STI) | Green University Bangladesh (GUB) | TPC Member & Reviewer | 2020 |
| 5 | International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence (IJCCI) | University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB), Jahangirnagar University (JU), Bangladesh; South Asian University (SAU), India | Reviewer | 2019 |
| 6 | International Conference on Electrical, Computer, and Telecommunication Engineering | Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology (RUET), Bangladesh | Reviewer | 2019 |
| 7 | DUET CSE Fest | Department of CSE, DUET, Gazipur | Convener | 2019 |
| 8 | International Conference on Innovation in Engineering and Technology (ICIET) | Dhaka University, Bangladesh | Reviewer | 2018 |
| 9 | The National Conference for Postgraduate Research (NCON-PGR) | University of Postgraduate Studies, Universiti Malaysia Pahang | Reviewer | 2018 |
Course Conducted:
| # | Programme | Course No | Course Title | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | B.Sc. | CSE-4623 | Artificial Intelligence | 2016-Ongoing |
| 2 | B.Sc. | CSE-2521 | Data Structure | 2003-Ongoing |
| 3 | B.Sc. | CSE-3110 | Internet Programming Sessional | 2004-2011 |
| 4 | B.Sc. | CSE-4619 | Machine Learning | 2016-Ongoing |
| 5 | B.Sc. | CSE-4629 | Pattern Recognition | 2016-2018 |
| 6 | B.Sc. | CSE-3114 | Software & Hardware Project | 2016-2019 |
| 7 | M.Sc. | CSE-6109 | Automated Planning and Heuristic Search | 2018-Ongoing |
| 8 | M.Sc. | CSE-6202 | Data Mining and Warehousing | 2016-2018 |