Faculty Profile

Md Saiful Islam

Assistant Professor

Contact Information

  • Office Address: Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet-3114, Bangladesh
  • Phone: +8801717960979
  • Email: saiful-cse@sust.edu, saif.acm@gmail.com

Biography

Md Saiful Islam is an Assistant Professor (currently on leave) in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, where he has been a faculty member since 2013. He is currently working as a Graduate Research Fellow at the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute in Canada. Previously, he served as the Lab Head and Coordinator of the SUST Natural Language Processing Research Group and SUST ACM Lab. He also mentored and coached the SUST Competitive Programming teams. From 2011 to 2013, he worked as a Software Engineer at Eyeball Networks Inc in Dhaka. He received his B.Sc. in Engineering from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology in 2011. Md Saiful Islam has authored and co-authored over five journals and more than 60 conference papers in the areas of Natural Language Processing, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Data Science, and Social Mining.

Education

  • B.Sc. (Engg.) in Computer Science and Engineering, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet
  • M.Sc(Thesis) in Computing Science, University of Alberta, Canada

Research Interests

  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Human-Computer Interection
  • Machine Learning
  • Data Science and Data Analytics
  • Computer Vision

Active Research Project

  • 1. Sentiment Analysis and Opinion mining in Bangla
  • 2. Question Answering (QA) System
  • 3. Fake news detection
  • 4. Authorship attribution and Stylogenetics
  • 5. Human-Agent Teaming (HAT)

Previous Research Project

  • 1. Bangla Optical Character Recognition
  • 2. Bengali Document Clustering & Categorization
  • 3. Bangla Speech Recognition
  • 4. Opinion Leader Finding through Social Network
  • 5. Bangla Question Answering (QA) System
  • 6. Fake profile detection on Social Network

External Affiliations

  • IEEE
  • IEEE Computer Society
  • ACM

Journal Publications

  • 1. Haque, M. Z., Zaman, S., Saurav, J. R., Haque, S., Islam, Md. Saiful., & Amin, M. R. (2023). B-NER: A Novel Bangla Named Entity Recognition Dataset with Largest Entities and Its Baseline Evaluation. IEEE Access.
  • 2. Khatun, Aisha, Anisur Rahman, Md Saiful Islam, Hemayet Ahmed Chowdhury, and Ayesha Tasnim. "Authorship Attribution in Bangla Literature (AABL) via Transfer Learning using ULMFiT." Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (2020).
  • 3. End-to-End Bengali Speech Recognition using DeepSpeech. Journal of Engineering Research, Innovation and Education, Vol. 1, No. 1, September, 2019
  • 4. Purkaystha, B., Datta, T., & Islam, M. S. (2019). Rating prediction for recommendation: Constructing user profiles and item characteristics using backpropagation. Applied Soft Computing, 75, 310-322.

Conference

  • 1. Hossain, Md Zobaer, Md Ashraful Rahman, Md Saiful Islam, and Sudipta Kar. "BanFakeNews: A Dataset for Detecting Fake News in Bangla." In Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pp. 2862-2871. 2020.
  • 2. Khatun, Aisha, Anisur Rahman, and Md Saiful Islam. "Authorship Attribution in Bangla literature using Character-level CNN." In 2019 22nd International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), pp. 1-5. IEEE, 2019.
  • 3. Chowdhury, Hemayet Ahmed, Md Azizul Haque Imon, Anisur Rahman, Aisha Khatun, and Md Saiful Islam. "A Continuous Space Neural Language Model for Bengali Language." In 2019 22nd International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2019.
  • 4. Sharma, A. S., Mridul, M. A., & Islam, M. S. (2019, September). Automatic detection of satire in bangla documents: A cnn approach based on hybrid feature extraction model. In 2019 International Conference on Bangla Speech and Language Processing (ICBSLP) (pp. 1-5). IEEE.
  • 5. Khatun, Aisha, Anisur Rahman, Hemayet Ahmed Chowdhury, Md Islam, and Ayesha Tasnim. "A Subword Level Language Model for Bangla Language." arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.07613 (2019).
  • 6. Chowdhury, Hemayet Ahmed, Md Azizul Haque Imon, Syed Md Hasnayeen, and Md Saiful Islam. "Authorship Attribution in Bengali Literature using Convolutional Neural Networks with fastText’s word embedding model." In 2019 1st International Conference on Advances in Science, Engineering and Robotics Technology (ICASERT), pp. 1-5. IEEE, 2019.
  • 7. Chowdhury, H. A., Imon, M. A. H., Rahman, A., Khatun, A., & Islam, M. S. (2019, December). A continuous space neural language model for bengali language. In 2019 22nd International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
  • 8. Khatun, A., Rahman, A., & Islam, M. S. (2019, December). Authorship Attribution in Bangla literature using Character-level CNN. In 2019 22nd International conference on computer and information technology (ICCIT) (pp. 1-5). IEEE.
  • 9. Chowdhury, Hemayet Ahmed, Tanvir Alam Nibir, and Md Islam. Sentiment Analysis of Comments on Rohingya Movement with Support Vector Machine. arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.08790 (2018).
  • 10. Nahid, Md Mahadi Hasan, Md Islam, Bishwajit Purkaystha, and Md Saiful Islam. Comprehending Real Numbers: Development of Bengali Real Number Speech Corpus. arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.10136 (2018).
  • 11. Purkaystha, Bishwajit, Tapos Datta, and Md Saiful Islam. "Layered representation of bengali texts in reduced dimension using deep feedforward neural network for categorization." In 2018 21st International Conference of Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), pp. 1-5. IEEE, 2018.
  • 12. Chowdhury, Hemayet Ahmed, Md Azizul Haque Imon, and Md Saiful Islam. "A comparative analysis of word embedding representations in authorship attribution of bengali literature." In 2018 21st International Conference of Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2018.
  • 13. Islam, Md Farhanul, Md Ragib Shaharear, and Md Saiful Islam. "Design and Implementation of 12 Channel Electrocardiogram Device." In 2018 10th International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (ICECE), pp. 441-444. IEEE, 2018.
  • 14. Sharfuddin, Abdullah Aziz, Md Nafis Tihami, and Md Saiful Islam. "A deep recurrent neural network with bilstm model for sentiment classification." In 2018 International Conference on Bangla Speech and Language Processing (ICBSLP), pp. 1-4. IEEE, 2018.
  • 15. Sharma, Arnab Sen, Maruf Ahmed Mridul, Marium-E. Jannat, and Md Saiful Islam. "A Deep CNN Model for Student Learning Pedagogy Detection Data Collection Using OCR." In 2018 International Conference on Bangla Speech and Language Processing (ICBSLP), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2018.
  • 16. Uddin, Md Nazim, Md Saiful Islam, Moudud Ahmad Khan, and Marium-E. Jannat. "A Neural Network Approach for Bangla POS Tagger." In 2018 International Conference on Bangla Speech and Language Processing (ICBSLP), pp. 1-4. IEEE, 2018.
  • 17. Hossain, Md Jakir, Sayed Mahmud Al Amin, and Md Saiful Islam. "Development of robotic voice conversion for RIBO using text-to-speech synthesis." In 2018 4th International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Information & Communication Technology (iCEEiCT), pp. 422-425. IEEE, 2018.
  • 18. Hossain, Md Jakir, Md Abul Kashem, Md Saiful Islam, and E. Marium. "Bangladesh Cricket Squad Prediction Using Statistical Data and Genetic Algorithm." In 2018 4th International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Information & Communication Technology (iCEEiCT), pp. 178-181. IEEE, 2018.
  • 19. Islam, Md Ashikul, Md Minhazul Kabir, Md Saiful Islam, and Ayesha Tasnim. "Authorship Attribution on Bengali Literature using Stylometric Features and Neural Network." In 2018 4th International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Information & Communication Technology (iCEEiCT), pp. 360-363. IEEE, 2018.
  • 20. Chowdhury, Hemayet Ahmed, Md Azizul Haque Imon, and Md Saiful Islam. "Authorship Attribution in Bengali Literature Using fastText's Hierarchical Classifier." In 2018 4th International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Information & Communication Technology (iCEEiCT), pp. 102-106. IEEE, 2018.
  • 21. Islam, Md Saiful, Fazla Elahi Md Jubayer, and Syed Ikhtiar Ahmed. A support vector machine mixed with TF-IDF algorithm to categorize Bengali document. Electrical, Computer and Communication Engineering (ECCE), International Conference on. IEEE, 2017.
  • 22. Locality-sensitive hashing scheme for Bangla news article clustering using bloom filter. Electrical, Computer and Communication Engineering (ECCE), International Conference on. IEEE, 2017.
  • 23. Al-Amin, Md, Md Saiful Islam, and Shapan Das Uzzal. Sentiment analysis of Bengali comments with Word2Vec and sentiment information of words. Electrical, Computer and Communication Engineering (ECCE), International Conference on. IEEE, 2017.
  • 24. Al-Amin, Md, Md Saiful Islam, and Shapan Das Uzzal. A comprehensive study on sentiment of Bengali text. Electrical, Computer and Communication Engineering (ECCE), International Conference on. IEEE, 2017.
  • 25. A Comparative Study on Different Types of Approaches to Bengali document Categorization, International Conference on Engineering, Research, Innovation and Education (ICERIE, 2017) on January 13-15 in SUST, Sylhet
  • 26. A Comprehensive Survey on Bengali Phoneme Recognition, International Conference on Engineering, Research, Innovation and Education (ICERIE, 2017) on January 13-15 in SUST, Sylhet
  • 27. A Statistical Model for Ideal Team Selection for A National Cricket Squad, International Conference on Engineering, Research, Innovation and Education (ICERIE, 2017) on January 13-15 in SUST, Sylhet
  • 28. Bangla Word Clustering Based on Tri-gram, 4-gram and 5-gram Language Model, International Conference on Engineering, Research, Innovation and Education (ICERIE, 2017) on January 13-15 in SUST, Sylhet
  • 29. A Stochastic Decision Tree Model For Predicting The T20 International Cricket Match Result, International Conference on Engineering, Research, Innovation and Education (ICERIE, 2017) on January 13-15 in SUST, Sylhet
  • 30. Predicting the Direction of Stock Market Index Using Hybridization of Data Mining and Artificial Neural Network Technique, International Conference on Engineering, Research, Innovation and Education (ICERIE, 2017) on January 13-15 in SUST, Sylhet
  • 31. Heart Disease Prediction of Type II Diabetic Patients in Bangladesh Using Data Mining Techniques, International Conference on Engineering, Research, Innovation and Education (ICERIE, 2017) on January 13-15 in SUST, Sylhet
  • 32. Pneumonia Prognostication Using Fuzzy Logic, International Conference on Engineering, Research, Innovation and Education (ICERIE, 2017) on January 13-15 in SUST, Sylhet
  • 33. Statistical Analysis on Bangla Newspaper Data to Extract Trending Topic and Visualize Its Change Over Time, International Conference on Engineering, Research, Innovation and Education (ICERIE, 2017) on January 13-15 in SUST, Sylhet
  • 34. Document Decomposition of Bangla Printed Text, International Conference on Engineering, Research, Innovation and Education (ICERIE, 2017) on January 13-15 in SUST, Sylhet
  • 35. Razik, Shuvanon, Evan Hossain, Sabir Ismail, and Md Saiful Islam. SUST-BHND: A database of Bangla handwritten numerals. In Imaging, Vision & Pattern Recognition (icIVPR), 2017 IEEE International Conference on, pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2017.
  • 36. Hossain, M. Tahmid, Md Moshiur Rahman, Sabir Ismail, and Md Saiful Islam. "A stylometric analysis on Bengali literature for authorship attribution." In Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), 2017 20th International Conference of, pp. 1-5. IEEE, 2017.
  • 37. Nirob, Syed Mehedi Hasan, Md Kazi Nayeem, and Md Saiful Islam. "Question classification using support vector machine with hybrid feature extraction method." In Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), 2017 20th International Conference of, pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2017.
  • 38. Ara, Nusrat Mubin, Nishikanto Sarkar Simul, and Md Saiful Islam. "Convolutional neural network approach for vision based student recognition system." In Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), 2017 20th International Conference of, pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2017.
  • 39. Mahmud, Quazi Ishtiaque, Asif Mohaimen, and Md Saiful Islam. "A support vector machine mixed with statistical reasoning approach to predict movie success by analyzing public sentiments." In Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), 2017 20th International Conference of, pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2017.
  • 40. Nahid, Md Mahadi Hasan, Bishwajit Purkaystha, and Md Saiful Islam. "Bengali speech recognition: A double layered LSTM-RNN approach." In Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), 2017 20th International Conference of, pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2017.
  • 41. Purkaystha, Bishwajit, Tapos Datta, and Md Saiful Islam. "Bengali handwritten character recognition using deep convolutional neural network." In Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), 2017 20th International Conference of, pp. 1-5. IEEE, 2017.
  • 42. Purkaystha, Bishwajit, Tapos Datta, and Md Saiful Islam. "Product recommendation: A deep learning factorization method using separate learners." In Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), 2017 20th International Conference of, pp. 1-5. IEEE, 2017.
  • 43. Quadery, Fahim, Abdullah Al Maruf, Tamjid Ahmed, and Md Saiful Islam. "Semi supervised keyword based bengali document categorization." In Electrical Engineering and Information Communication Technology (ICEEICT), 2016 3rd International Conference on, pp. 1-5. IEEE, 2016.
  • 44. Md. Mahadi Hasan Nahid, Md. Ashraful Islam, Md. Saiful Islam, A noble approach for recognizing Bangla real number automatically using CMU Sphinx4, 2016 International Conference on Informatics, Electronics and Vision (ICIEV), vol. 00, no. , pp. 844-849, 2016, doi:10.1109/ICIEV.2016.7760121
  • 45. Ahnaf Farhan Rownak, Md. Fazle Rabby, Sabir Ismail, Md. Saiful Islam, An efficient way for segmentation of Bangla characters in printed document using curved scanning, 2016 International Conference on Informatics, Electronics and Vision (ICIEV), vol. 00, no. , pp. 938-943, 2016, doi:10.1109/ICIEV.2016.7760138
  • 46. Islam, Md Saiful, Md Al-Amin, and Shapan Das Uzzal. Word embedding with hellinger PCA to detect the sentiment of bengali text. Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), 2016 19th International Conference on. IEEE, 2016.
  • 47. Islam Md Saiful, et al. Supervised approach of sentimentality extraction from bengali facebook status. Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), 2016 19th International Conference on. IEEE, 2016.
  • 48. Simul Nishikanto Sarkar, Nusrat Mubin Ara, and Md Saiful Islam. A support vector machine approach for real time vision based human robot interaction. Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), 2016 19th International Conference on. IEEE, 2016.

Teaching

  • Structured Programming Language
  • Data Structure
  • Algorithm Design & Analysis
  • Software Engineering
  • Advanced Database System
  • Introduction to Programming Language
  • Numerical Analysis
  • Introduction to Computer Networking

Awards & Recognition

  • 2006-2010: Education Board Scholarship, Awarded by Ministry of Education, Government of Bangladesh.
  • 2017: IEEE Best Paper Award, Awarded by ICCIT, 2017.
  • 2018: IEEE Best Paper Award, Awarded by ICCIT, 2018.
  • 2019: IEEE Best Paper Award, Awarded by ICBSLP, 2019.
  • 2019: Dr. Md Khairullah Best Paper Award, Awarded by CSE, SUST
  • 2019: ICPC foundation Coach Award, Awarded by ICPC Foundation, USA.
  • 2021: Alberta Gradaute Excellency Award
  • 2021-2022: Alberta Innovate Gradaute Scholarship

Graduate Supervision

  • 1. Undergraduate Supervision: 4 (Current)