Computer Science & Engineering

    Faculty Profile

    Dr Mohammad Reza Selim

    Professor

    Contact Information:

    • Office Address: Room: 319, Dept. of CSE, Dr. M.A. Wazed Miah IICT Building, SUST
    • Phone: /672, 88-01972357830
    • Email: selim@sust.edu

    Education:

    • Ph.D.(2008) in Information and Computer Sciences, Saitama University, Saitama, Japan
    • M.Sc.(1996) in Electronics and Computer Science, Shahjalal University of Science and Tech., Sylhet, Bangladesh
    • M.Sc.(1995) in Electronics and Computer Science, Shahjalal University of Science and Tech., Sylhet, Bangladesh

    Research Interests:

    • Machine Translation
    • Natural Language Processing
    • Programming languages in Parallel Computing
    • Distributed P2P Systems
    • Reliability of Publish/Subscribe Systems

    Previous Research Project

    1. Development of Multi-Platform Speech and Language Processing Software for Bangla (Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project (HEQEP)), CP No: 3888); Implementation Period: 2015-2018; Financed by: University Grants Commission of Bangladesh, Window 4 Innovation Fund

    Awards & Recognition:

    • Dhaka Education Board Scholarship, Bangladesh
    • Merit Scholarship, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology
    • Monbukagakusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan) Scholarship
    • Post doctoral Fellowship, University of Malaya, Malaysia

    Journal Publications

    1. Kibria, S., Samin, A. M., Kobir, M. H., Rahman, M. S., Selim, M. R., & Iqbal, M. Z. (2022). Bangladeshi Bangla Speech Corpus for Automatic Speech Recognition Research. Speech Communication 136, 84–97.
    2. Sultana, S., Iqbal, M. Z., Selim, M. R., Rashid, M. M., & Rahman, M. S. (2021). Bangla Speech Emotion Recognition and Cross-Lingual Study Using Deep CNN and BLSTM Networks. IEEE Access, 10, 564-578.
    3. Ahmad, A., Selim, M.R., Iqbal, M.Z., & Rahman, M.S. (2021), SUST TTS Corpus: A phonetically-balanced corpus for Bangla text-to-speech synthesis, Acoustical Science and Technology, 42(6), 326-332.
    4. Sultana, S., Rahman, M. S., Selim, M. R., & Iqbal, M. Z. (2021). SUST Bangla Emotional Speech Corpus (SUBESCO): An audio-only emotional speech corpus for Bangla. Plos one, 16(4).
    5. Kibria, S., Rahman, M. S., Selim, M. R., & Iqbal, M. Z., “Acoustic Analysis of the Speakers’ Variability for Regional Accent-Affected Pronunciation in Bangladeshi Bangla: A Study on Sylheti Accent,” IEEE Access, 8, 35200-35221, 2020.
    6. Akter M., Rahman M. S, Iqbal M. Z. and Selim M. R. “SuVashantor: English to Bangla Machine Translation Systems,” Journal of Computer Science, 1128-1138, 2020
    7. Ahmad A., Selim M.R., Iqbal M.Z. and Rahman M.S.,‘‘An Encoder- Decoder Based Grapheme-to-Phoneme Converter for Bangla Speech Synthesis,’’ Acoustical Science and Technology, Vol. 40, No. 6, pp. 374-381, 2019.
    8. Md. Abdullah Al Mumin, Mezanul Hoque Chy, Md. Ashrafuzzaman Mollah and Mohammad Reza Selim, English to Bangla Statistical Machine Translation using Neural Probabilistic Language Model, Computer Science and Engineering Research Journal, Vol. 11, 2018, ISSN:1990-4010
    9. Mohammad Reza Selim, Extended Bangla Keyboard, SUST Journal of Science and Technology, Vol. 21, No. 1, 2014
    10. Md. Abdullah Al Mumin, Abu Awal Md. Shoeb, Mohammad Reza Selim and Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, SUMono: A Representative Modern Bengali Corpus, SUST Journal of Science and Technology, Vol. 21, No. 1, 2014
    11. Mohammad Reza Selim, Mohammed Ziaur Rahman, Carrying on the legacy of imperative languages in the future parallel computing era, Parallel Computing (Publisher Elsevier, JCR 5 year impact factor 1.39). Volume 40, Issues 34, March 2014, Pages 1-33
    12. MD. Abdul Awal Ansary, Mohammad Reza Selim, Muhammad Zafar Iqbal, Overcoming the Language Divide between English and Bengali through EBTran System, Journal of Emerging Trends in Computing and Information Sciences, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2013
    13. Md. Abdullah Al Mumin, Abu Awal Md. Shoeb, Mohammad Reza Selim and Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, SUPara: A Balanced English-Bengali Parallel Corpus, SUST Studies, Vol. 16, No. 1, 2012
    14. Mohammad Reza Selim and Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, Transformational Generative Grammar for Various Types of Bengali Sentences, SUST Studies, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2010
    15. Mohammad Reza Selim, Mahbubur Rub Talha and Sabir Ismail, Mapping Bangla Unicode Text to Keyboard Layout Specific Keystrokes, SUST Studies, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2010
    16. Mohammad Reza Selim, Yuichi Goto, and Jingde Cheng: A Low Cost and Resilient Message Queuing Middleware, International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security, Vol. 8, No. 8, pp. 225-237, August, 2008
    17. Mohammad Reza Selim, Sabir Ismail and Mohammad Abdullah Al-Mumin, Improving Efficiency of Bijoy Keyboard Layout by Repositioning Characters, accepted for publication in SUST Journal of Science and Technology

    Conference Proceedings

    1. S. Kibria, M. Shahidur Rahman, M. Reza Selim and M. Zafar Iqbal, Acoustic Analysis of Accent-Specific Pronunciation Effect on Bangladeshi Bangla: A Study on Sylheti Accent, 2018 International Conference on Bangla Speech and Language Processing (ICBSLP), Sylhet, 2018, pp. 1-4.
    2. A. Ahmad, M. Raihan Hussain, M. Reza Selim, M. Zafar Iqbal and M. Shahidur Rahman, A Sequence-to-Sequence Pronunciation Model for Bangla Speech Synthesis, 2018 International Conference on Bangla Speech and Language Processing (ICBSLP), Sylhet, 2018, pp. 1-4.
    3. M. Akter, M. Shahidur Rahman, M. Zafar Iqbal and M. Reza Selim, A Review of Statistical and Neural Network Based Hybrid Machine Translators, 2018 International Conference on Bangla Speech and Language Processing (ICBSLP), Sylhet, 2018, pp. 1-6.
    4. T. Zahan, M. Zafar Iqbal, M. Reza Selim and M. Shahidur Rahman, Connected Component Analysis Based Two Zone Approach for Bangla Character Segmentation, 2018 International Conference on Bangla Speech and Language Processing (ICBSLP), Sylhet, 2018, pp. 1-4.
    5. Raihan Ahmed, Mehedi Al Hasan and Dr. Mohammad Reza Selim, Aligning Sentences in English-Bengali Corpora, Proceedings of International Conference on Computer, Communication, Chemical, Material and Electronic Engineering (IC4ME2), Rajshahi, 8-9 February, 2018, pp. 1-5.
    6. Youcheng Chen, Mohammad Reza Selim, Yuichi Goto, Jingde Cheng, An Improvement of REM: A Replication Oriented Event-Based Middleware, In IEEE Proc. of International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, Fukuoka, Japan, pp. 641-646, March, 2009
    7. Mohammad Reza Selim, Yuichi Goto, and Jingde Cheng: Ensuring Reliability and Availability of Soft System Bus, Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Conference on Secure System Integration and Reliability Improvement (SSIRI ‘08), Yokohama, Japan, pp. 52-59, July, 2008
    8. Masami Someya, Mohammad Reza Selim, Yuichi Goto, and Jingde Cheng: A Comparison between Soft System Bus and Enterprise Service Bus from the Viewpoint of Dynamic Reconfiguration, Proceedings of the 2007 IPSJ SIGSE Winter Workshop, Naha, Japan, IPSJ Symposium Series, Vol. 2007, No. 2, pp. 77-78, January, 2007 (in Japanese)
    9. K. H. S. Sabaragamu Koralalage, Mohammed Reza Selim, J. Miura, Y. Goto, J. Cheng, POP method: an approach to enhance the security and privacy of RFID systems used in product lifecycle with an anonymous ownership transferring mechanism. Proceedings of the 2007 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Seoul, Korea, pp 270-275, 2007
    10. Mohammad Reza Selim, Takumi Endo, Yuichi Goto, and Jingde Cheng: Distributed Hash Table Based Design of Soft System Buses, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Vol. 304, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Scalable Information Systems, Suzhou, China, Article No. 78, June, 2007
    11. Mohammad Reza Selim, Yuichi Goto, and Jingde Cheng: A Replication Oriented Approach to Event Based Middleware Over Structured Peer to Peer Networks, Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Middleware for Pervasive and Ad-Hoc Computing, A Workshop of ACM/IFIP/USENIX 8th International Middleware Conference, Newport Beach, USA, ACM Press, pp. 61-66, November, 2007
    12. Md. Abdullah Al-Mumin, Mohammad Iftekhar Ahmed, Mohammad Alauddin Bhuiyan, Mohammad Reza Selim and Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, An Implementation of Machine Translation between Bangla and English, Proceedings of International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, NSU, Dhaka, pp. 290-293, January, 2001
    13. Mohammad Reza Selim and Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, Extracting Semantic Information of Bengali Natural Language Sentences from Syntax Tree, Proceedings of International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, NSU, Dhaka, pp. 140-144, January, 2001
    14. Mohammad Reza Selim and Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, Syntax Analysis of Phrases and Different Types of Sentences in Bangla, Proceedings of International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, SUST, Sylhet, Bangladesh, pp. 175-186, December, 1999
    15. Mohammad Reza Selim, Takumi Endo, Yuichi Goto, and Jingde Cheng: A Comparative Study between Soft System Bus and Traditional Middlewares, in R. Meersman, Z. Tari, P. Herrero et al. (Eds.),

    Graduate Supervision

    1. 2 Ph.D. students