Faculty Profile

Dr. Kanis Fatama Ferdushi

Associate Professor

Contact Information

  • Office Address: Department of Statistics, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet-3114, Bangladesh
  • Phone: +8801818824338
  • Email: kanis-sta@sust.edu, kanisusm@gmail.com

Education

  • Phd, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Pulau Penang
  • MSc, Department of Statistics, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet
  • BSC, Department of Statistics, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, SYlhet

Research Interests

  • Climate Change and Adaptation, Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, Food Productivity, Agricultural Economics
  • Bio-statistics, Epidemiology

Active Research Project

  • 1. COMPARE KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE, PERCEPTION AND MEASURES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE COVID-19 AMONG HIGH GROWTH ECONOMICALLY DEVELOPED AND LOW GROWTH ECONOMICALLY DEVELOPING COUNTRIES” (10th July 2020-10th July’22) Funded by TWAS research grant program at Department of Statistics, Shahjalal University and Science and Technology
  • 2. IMPACT OF COVID 19 ON FOOD SECURITY AND ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY OF VULNERABLE AGRICULTURAL HOUSEHOLDS IN RURAL AREAS OF BANGLADESH (July 2020-2021) funded by SUST Research Center

Previous Research Project

  • 1. MODELLING MULTIDIMENSIONAL ELDERLY DISEASE OUTCOMES USING CLASSICAL AND BAYESIAN APPROACHES
  • 2. Evaluating capacity for CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION IN FOOD PRODUCTIVITY THROUGH LOCAL KNOWLEDGE IN THE NORTH EASTERN REGION OF BANGLADESH
  • 3. EVALUATION OF AGRICULTURAL FARM’S EFFICIENCY AND ADAPTATION THROUGH LOCAL KNOWLEDGE IN RURAL AREAS OF FLOOD PRONE AND COASTAL BANGLADESH

Journal Publications

  • 1. Factors associated with Coronary Heart Disease among elderly in Sylhet region in Bangladesh: A study based on different communities
  • 2. The measures of efficiency of power generation plants in Sylhet of Bangladesh
  • 3. The measures of technical efficiency of Transplanted Aman rice farms in Bangladesh
  • 4. Production Risk with Feasible Generalized Least Square, 2020 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 1641 012109
  • 5. Perceptions, Knowledge and Adaptation About Climate Change: A Study on Farmers of Haor Areas After a Flash Flood in Bangladesh.
  • 6. Self-Assessed Health Status among Ethnic Elderly of Tea Garden Workers in Bangladesh. Aging International
  • 7. Agricultural challenges and adaptation for changing climate: A study on early flash flood-prone areas in Bangladesh

Conference

  • 1. Ferdushi, K. F., Islam, S., Rahman, A. 2018: Strategies and Barriers towards Climate Change: Challenges in agricultural sector in Bangladesh. International conference on recent advances in Mathematical and physical sciences, Jahangirnagar University, 27-19 January.
  • 2. Rahman, A. and Bhuiya, R. & Ferdushi, K. F., 2018: Elderly health status in Sylhet. A cross sectional study, International conference on social research and sustainable development. Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, 4-6 January
  • 3. Ferdushi, K. F., Kamil, A. A., Mustafa, A., & Baten, M. A., Influence of Environmental Effects on Rice Production in Bangladesh. ICESS 2013: International Conference on Economics and Statistical Sciences, Tokyo, Japan. 2013.
  • 4. Ferdushi, K. F., Kamil, A. A., Mustafa, A., & Baten, M. A.,. Environmental Augmented Stochastic Production Model focused on Rice Crop of Bangladesh. 2012. Colloquium, Distance Education, USM.
  • 5. Ferdushi, K. F., Kamil, A. A., Mustafa, A., & Baten, M. A., A Stochastic Frontier Approach for Production Risk Estimation of Rice crops with Noise and Inefficiency. 2nd Annual International Conference on Operations Research and Statistics, Bali, Indonesia. 2012.
  • 6. Ferdushi, K. F., Kamil, A. A., Mustafa, A., & Baten, M. A., Measurement of Risk Efficiency on the Field of Rice Cultivation in Bangladesh: A Data Envelopment Framework. International Conference on Financial Management and Economics, Singapore,2012. www.ipedr.com/vol43/035-ICFME2012-X00032.pdf.

Teaching

  • Sampling Technique II, Time Series

Awards & Recognition

  • 2011-2013 Graduate Assistant
  • 2011-2014 Post Graduate Research Grant Scheme (RM 19,250)
  • TRAVEL GRANTS AWARDED: 2012 Indonesia to attend conference
  • 2012 Singapore to attend conference
  • 2013 Japan to attend conference

Graduate Supervision

  • 1. Supervising Thesis Title: Impact of Covid 19 On Food Security And Economic Efficiency of Vulnerable Agricultural Households in Rural Areas of Bangladesh
  • 2. Supervised Thesis Title: Efficiency and Forecasting of DSE Bank stocks: A study of DSE bank stocks of Bangladesh
  • 3. Co-supervised Thesis Title: Measuring the technical efficiency of rice growing farmers in Bangladesh using Stochstic Frontier Analysis and Data Envelopment Analysis, 2015, SUST, Sylhet.
  • 4. Co-supervised Thesis Title: Technical efficiency of power generation sector in Sylhet: A stochastic and data envelopment analysis, 2015, Department of Statistics, SUST, Sylhet.