Md. Ashraf Uddin PhD, Federation University Australia. Assistant Professor, , Dhaka Email: [email protected] / [email protected] Mobile: 01725959134, +8801557780237 Research Profile: https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=ub1j2jYAAAAJ&hl=en

CURRICULUMN VITAE Date of Birth : October 10, 1986 Place of Birth :

SYNOPSIS

• PhD in Information Technology, Federation University Australia with total 10 publications in the field of Blockchain, eHealth and cybersecurity. Oral presentation on Blockchain and eHealth in the international conference in Australia, Spain, Vietnam, and Sri Lanka. • Research Priority Scholarship Award from Federation University, and Travel Award Grant to present Blockchain research paper in Australian Computer Science Week 2019(Sydney), 2020(Melbourne). • Six years of research experience with total 30 peer reviewed publications in the field of wireless sensor network, data science and artificial intelligence. • Collaborated with a group of over 20 peoples with outcome of peer review articles • Lectured in computer science and engineering over 8 years to over 1500 students in four universities as a permanent faculty and another four universities as a casual staff. • Supervised more than 20 undergraduate research candidates for 6 years while teaching at different universities.

EDUCATION

2021 PhD, Federation University Australia

Major : Cybersecurity (Information Technology)

Research Title : A Patient Agent Managed Customized Blockchain Based Framework for IoT

Supervisors : Dr. Andrew Stranieri, A/Prof, Dr. Iqbal Gondal, Professor and Dr. Venki Balasubramanian, Federation University Australia

Outcomes : I published four blockchain related articles in top journals of reputed publishers including IEEE, Elsevier, SAGE and six papers in CORE ranked international conferences. o 1st Article was published in IEEE Access with impact factor 4.098(Q1 journal), 2nd Article was published in the Internet of Things Journal, Elsevier(Q1 journal), 3rd Article was published in the Electronics Journal, MDPI with impact factor 2.4(Q1 journal, 2018) and 4th Article will be published in Health Informatics Journal with impact factor 2.93, SAGE publisher (Q2 journal), 5th article was published in Blockchain Research and Application Journal, Elsevier. o Five conference papers were published by IEEE conferences (Ranked by CORE, Australia) and One conference was published by ACM publisher.

2010 (Held in 2012) Master of Science (MS) , Major : Computer Science & Engineering,

Result and Duration : 3.56(4), 1.5 years

Thesis Title : A Priority Metric based Ad hoc Routing Protocol for Underwater Sensor Network. Advisor : Dr. Md. Mamun-or-Rashid, Professor, University of Dhaka. Outcomes : I managed to publish three articles in the leading journals including Journal of Sensors (Impact factor: 2.07). After finishing master’s degree, I published more than 12 articles while teaching at different universities for six years. 2008 (Held in 2010) Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) , University of Dhaka

Major : Computer Science & Engineering Duration and Result : 4 years, First class 11th position among 56 students

SELECTED JOURNALS

Research Profile Link: https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=ub1j2jYAAAAJ&hl=en

1. Md Ashraf Uddin, Andrew Stranieri, Iqbal Gondal, Venki Balasubramanian, The adoption of Blockchain in IoT: Challenges and Solutions, Blockchain Research and Application, Elsevier, 2021. 2. Md Ashraf Uddin, Andrew Stranieri, Iqbal Gondal, Venki Balasubramanian, Rapid Health Data Repository Allocation using Predictive Machine Learning, Health Informatics Journal, SAGE publisher, 2020(Impact factor: 2.93), [Scopus Indexed, Q2]

3. Md Ashraf Uddin, Andrew Stranieri, Iqbal Gondal, Venki Balasubramanian, Blockchain Leveraged Decentralized IoT eHealth Framework, Internet of Things (2020), Elsevier. 4. Md Ashraf Uddin, Andrew Stranieri, Iqbal Gondal, Venki Balasubramanian, “ A Lightweight Blockchain Based Framework for Underwater IoT”, Electronics 2019, 8, 1552 (Impact Factor: 2.4) [Scopus Indexed, Q2] 5. Md. Ashraf Uddin, Andrew Stranieri, Iqbal Gondal, Venki Balasubramanian "Continuous Patient Monitoring with a Patient Centric Agent: A Block Architecture", IEEE Access, vol. 6, pp. 32 700–32 726, 2018. (Impact Factor: 4.098)[Scopus Indexed, Q1]. 6. Md Ashraf Uddin, Andrew Stranieri, Iqbal Gondal and Venki Balasubramanian, A Patient Agent to Manage Blockchains for Remote Patient Monitoring. Studies in health technology and informatics, 2018. 254: p. 105-115.[Scopus Indexed, Q3 SJR=0.3] 7. Md Shafiur Rahman, Sajal Halder, Md Ashraf Uddin, Uzzal Kumar Acharjee, An efficient hybrid system for anomaly detection in social networks, Cybersecurity(2021), Springer [Scopus Indexed]. 8. Md. Ashraf Uddin, Mamun-or-Rashid, “Link Expiration Time-Aware Routing Protocol for UWSNs,” Journal of Sensors, vol. 2013, Article ID 625274, 9 pages, 2013. doi:10.1155/2013/625274( Impact Factor 2.057)[Scopus Indexed]. 9. Md Ashraf Uddin, Md Manowarul Islam; Mamun-or-Rashid, Energy Efficient Fitness Based Routing Protocol for Underwater Sensor Network, International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Applications; Hong Kong Vol. 5, Iss. 6, (May 2013): 61- 69.DOI:10.5815/ijisa.2013.06.08[Scopus Indexed(2016-2018), SJR=0.24, Q3 (2019)] CONFERENCE PAPERS

10. Md Ashraf Uddin, Andrew Stranieri, Iqbal Gondal and Venki Balasubramanian, Dynamically Recommending Repositories for Health Data: a Machine Learning Model, 13th Australasian Workshop on Health Informatics and Knowledge Management 2020, ACM 11. Md Ashraf Uddin, Andrew Stranieri, Iqbal Gondal and Venki Balausbramanian, Blockchain Leveraged Task Migration in Body Area Sensor Networks, The 25th Asia- Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC), IEEE, Vietnam, 2019(CORE Ranked). 12. Md Ashraf Uddin, Andrew Stranieri, Iqbal Gondal and Venki Balasubramanian, A Decentralized Patient Agent Controlled Blockchain for Remote Patient Monitoring, 2019 International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), IEEE, Spain(CORE Ranked). 13. Md Ashraf Uddin, Andrew Stranieri, Iqbal Gondal and Venki Balasubramanian, Dynamically Recommending Repositories for Health Data: a Machine Learning Model, 13th Australasian Workshop on Health Informatics and Knowledge Management 2020, ACM. 14. Md Ashraf Uddin, Andrew Stranieri, Iqbal Gondal and Venki Balasubramanian, An Efficient Selective Miner Consensus Protocol in Blockchain Oriented IoT Smart Monitoring, IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, Feb 13-15, 2019, Melbourne, Australia. 15. Md Ashraf Uddin, Mahmudul Hasan, Sajal Halder, CRICRATE: A Cricket Match Conduction and Player Evaluation Framework, Emerging Technologies in Data Mining and Information Security, Springer, pp. 491-500, 2019. 16. Md Anwar Hussen Wadud, TM Amir-Ul-Haque Bhuiyan, Md Ashraf Uddin, Md Motiur Rahman, A Patient Centric Agent Assisted Private Blockchain on Hyperledger Fabric for Managing Remote Patient Monitoring, 2020 11th International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (ICECE),2021, IEEE. 17. Md Amirul Islam and Sajal Halder and Md Ashraf Uddin, An Efficient Sentiment Mining Approach on Social Media Networks, Emerging Technologies in Data Mining and Information Security, pp. 451--461, 2019, Springer. 18. Md Amirul Islam, Sajal Halder and Md Ashraf Uddin, Periodic Activity Monitoring Using Radio Frequency Tag Arrays, 2018 International Conference on Innovation in Engineering and Technology (ICIET), pp.1-5, 2018, IEEE

19. Md Ashraf Uddin, Arnisha Akter, Shamima Parvez, Andrew Stranieri, " Efficient Route Selection in AODV", ICCIT 2017, 20-22 December, 2017 20. Md Shafiur Rahman, Md Ashraf Uddin, Leema Rani Dey, Sajal Halder, Manowarul Islam, "Link Prediction by Correlation in Social Network", ICCIT 2017, 20-22 December, 2017 21. Md. Ashraf Uddin, Arnisha Akter, Md. Manowarul Islam, “Fuzzy Based Weight to Mine Frequent Patterns from Human Interaction in Meeting using Directed Acyclic Graph”, 19th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, 18~20 December, cosponsored by IEEE.

22. Arnisha Akhter, Md. Ashraf Uddin, M. A. I. Abir and M. M. Islam, "Noise aware level based routing protocol for underwater sensor networks," 2016 International Workshop on Computational Intelligence (IWCI), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2016, pp. 169-174, doi: 10.1109/IWCI.2016.7860360. 23. Md. Anawarul Abir, Arnisha Akter, Md. Ashraf Uddin, Manowarul Islam, “Design of Parity Preserving Sequential Circuit”,13~14 May, ICIEV16 cosponsored by IEEE, doi: 10.1109/ICIEV.2016.7760153 . PRESENTATION EXPERIENCE

I have presented my research works to different conferences, workshops, and seminar at different venues (selective presentation title and venue).

• Presentation Title: Continuous Patient Monitoring with a Patient Centric Agent: Blockchain Architecture. Venue: HDR conferences, Federation University Australia, July 2018

• Presentation Title: A Patient Agent to Manage Blockchains for Remote Patient Monitoring. Venue: Global Telehealth, Sri Lanka, October 2018

• Presentation Title: Blockchain Basics. Venue: Jagannath University, Bangladesh, December 2018

• Presentation Title: A Blockchain Based Internet of Things Architecture. Venue: Australian Computer Science Week, Macquarie University, Australia, February 2019

• Presentation Title: A Blockchain Leveraged Decentralized eHealth Framework. Venue: HDR conferences, Federation University, July 2019

• Presentation Title: The Adoption of Blockchain in eHealth and IoT. Venue: Jagannath University, Bangladesh, December 2019

• Presentation Title: Dynamically Recommending Health Repositories for Health Data Storage. Venue: Australian Computer Science Week, Swinburne University, February 2020

OTHERS RESEARCH ENGAGEMENT

• I reviewed several articles for the following conferences and Journal: Journal of Healthcare Engineering, Hindawi publishing, Applied Computing and Informatics, Elsevier, Journal of Supercomputing, Springer, Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems(IOS Press), Internet of Things ( IEEE), ICCIT 2018, TrustCom 2019, ICIT 2019 • IEEE student branch committee member, Federation University Australia

TEACHIN EXPERIENCE • I conducted several guest lectures for the courses titled “Mobile Security and Privacy”, “Information Security”, tutorial for “Information Security” and “Communications and Technology” at Federation University, Australia. Further, I completed a course titled “EAAPP3102: Advanced Understanding of Western Academic Culture” as a student at Federation University, Australia. • I had been tutoring in Melbourne Institute of Technology (MIT) since July 2019 and conducted two cybersecurity courses titled “Digital Forensic (Teaching evaluation score: 4.72 in scale of 5)” and “Network Cybersecurity and Analytics (Teaching evaluation score: 4.58 in scale of 5)”. In Semester T1, 2020. • I had also been serving as a casual faculty member at East West University, and Southeast University, Dhaka from 2015 to 2016. • Major Conducted Courses: Structured Programming, Object Oriented Programming, Algorithm Design and Analysis, Data Structure, Data Mining and Machine Learning, Compiler Design and Analysis, Cloud Computing, Distributed Database Management System, Computer Networking, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Graphics, Operating System, Software Engineering, Computer Fundamentals (Taught at East West University).

28th April 2016 to Post: Assistant Professor present Department: Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering Employer: Jagannath University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Responsibilities: Conducting class lectures, preparing lectures for students, evaluating exam papers, supervising research/project work of the students etc.

22nd June 2014 to 28th Post: Lecturer April 2016. Department: Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering Employer: Jagannath University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

24th April 2014 to Post: Lecturer 21st June’2014 Department: Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering. Employer: University of , Bangladesh.

15th July 2012 to Post: Lecturer 23rd April 2014 Department: Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering. Employer: Mawlana Bhashani Science & Technology University, Tangail-1902, Bangladesh.

TECHNICAL SKILL

• Programming Skill: Java, C++, C, PHP, Shell scripting, Android • Networking Skill: Socket Programming, CCNA • Database Skill: Oracle, MySQL, Access • Other Skill: Microcontroller Design and programming with C Language, Compiler Tools (FLEX, YACC/BISON, ANTLR).

PROJECT EXPERIENCE

• Web Based Hall Management System for Shaidullah Hall, Dhaka University • Inventory Management System for CSE department, Dhaka University • Implementation of Notepad in Java • Implementation of a Simple Painter with Assembly Language • Implementation of digital diary in C/C++ • (Hardware Project) Remote Jammer • (Hardware Project) Control the water level of a tank

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Blockchain in Healthcare, Security and Privacy in Patient Monitoring, and IoT

STANDARIZED TEST SCORES

• IELTS 6.5/9 January 2017 • EAP (English and Academic Preparation), Grade: HD, Australia July 2017

ACADEMIC AWARDS

• Primary Government Scholarship Year: 1996 • Higher Secondary Certificate Exam (HSC) Board Scholarship Year: 2004 • Scholarship for B.Sc. (Hon’s) in CSE result from Department of CSE, University of Dhaka. Year: 2010 • Research Priority Scholarship-Research Service, School of Science, Engineering and Technology, Federation University, Australia. Year: February 2017

• 2018 HDR Research Conference, 3rd prize (Best Oral Presentation), Federation University Australia. Year: July 2018

• Travel and Research Presentation Award Grant from CORE, Computing Research & Education, Australia Year: February 2019, 2020

REFERENCES

Dr. Andrew Stranieri Associate Professor, School of Science, Engineering and Technology Federation University, Australia Email: [email protected] Tel: +61 0411147195

Dr. Iqbal Gondal Professor, School of Science, Engineering and Technology Federation University Australia E-mail: [email protected] Tel: +610402911670

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Md. Ashraf Uddin