Mr. Ashad Kabir

B.Sc.Engg (CUET, Bangladesh), MS (PNU, South Korea)

PhD Candidate
Centre for Computing and Engineering Software Systems

Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies
Swinburne University of Technology
John Street, Hawthorn
Melbourne, Victoria 3122, Australia

Phone:    +61 3 9214 5276

Fax:        +61 3 9819 0823

Email:     akabir[at]swin.edu.au

Office:    EN 404, Desk 20           

Biography

Ashad Kabir is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Physics Electronics & Communication Engineering at the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh. Currently he is on study leave and pursing PhD in ICT at the Swinburne University of Technology supervised by Prof. Jun Han and Dr. Alan Colman. Prior to starting PhD, he worked as a research assistant at the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA), France.

Mr Kabir received his B.Sc.Engg and MS in computer science from the Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology (CUET), Bangladesh, in 2004 and Pusan National University (PNU), South Korea, in 2009 respectively.

        

Research Interests

• Social Context Modelling and Management

• Knowledge based information processing

• Device Mediated Social Interactions

• Context-aware Adaptive System

• RFID Middleware

      Systems/Applications developed: Context-aware Social Interactions, Social Context Information Middleware, SocioTelematics for Cooperative Convoy, Socially-aware Phone Call

Publications

   Fully referred Conference/Journal papers

1. M. A. Kabir, J. Han, J. Yu, and A. Colman, SCIMS: A Social Context Information Management System for Socially-Aware Applications, 24th International Conference on Advanced Information System Engineering (CAiSE 2012), Gdansk, Poland, June 25-29, 2012, (Accepted) (ERA rank: A)

2. M. A. Kabir, J. Han, A. Colman, Modeling and Coordinating Social Interactions in Pervasive Environments, 16th IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS 2011), Las Vegas, USA, April 27-29, 2011, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 243-252 (pdf) (ERA rank: A)

3. M. A. Kabir, J. Han, W. Ryu, B. Hong. An Approach to Query Decomposition for Reader Level Filtering in RFID Middleware, IEEE 16th International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA), Macau, China, 2010, IEEE Computer Society, pp.124-129 (pdf)(talk) (ERA rank: B)

4. M. A. Kabir, W. Ryu, B. Hong. Reader Level Filtering for Query Processing in an RFID Middleware, Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers, Korea, Vol. 45, No. 3, 2008, pp. 113-122 (pdf)

5. A. Kabir, B. Hong, W. Ryu, S. Ahn. LIT Middleware: Design and Implementation of RFID Middleware based on EPC Network Architecture. In Proceedings of First International Conference of Logistics on Dynamics, Bremen, Germany, August 2007, Springer, pp. 221-229 (pdf)(talk)

6. A. Kabir, G. Hossain, N. Islam. Development of a Smart Bangla Conversation Processor: A New Approach, In proceedings of 2nd National Conference on Computer Processing of Bangla (NCCPB 2005), February 2005, Dhaka, Bangladesh, pp. 299-304.

7. G. Hossain, A. Kabir, N. Islam. Analyzing Bangla Paragraph in Conversation Processor, In proceedings of 6th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT 2003), December 2003,Dhaka, Bangladesh, Vol. 1, pp. 325-330.

   Poster/Demo/Presentation

• M. A. Kabir, Modeling Social Interactions in Pervasive Environments, EII PhD School: Cloud Computing, Service Computing & Social Networks, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Nov 23~27, 2010 (pdf)

   Patent

• B. Hong, W. Ryu, M. A. Kabir. RFID Middleware System and Method for Supporting Reader-Level Filtering, Registration no.10-0988924

   MS Thesis 

• Reader Level Filtering to Support Query Processing over User Memory of RFID Tag

Research Experience

• Research project member, Cooperative Research Centre of Advanced Automotive Technology (AutoCRC), Australia (July 2009 ~ now)

  Project title: C3-517: Adaptive Context-aware Automotive Software Systems

• Research Assistant, INRIA, France (March 2009 ~ Jun 2009)

  Project title: Data Ring - Data Management in Distributed Systems

• Research Assistant, Research Institute of Logistics Information Technology (LIT), South Korea (Sep 2006 ~ July 2008)

  Project title: Design and Implementation of Integrated and High performance Middleware to support diverse logistics devices

  In this project an RFID Middleware has been developed which is compliant with EPCglobal standards and certified by EPCglobal

Awards and Honours

• Cooperative Research Centre for Advanced Automotive Technology (AutoCRC) Scholarship, Jul 2009 ~ now

• International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (IPRS), July 2009 ~ now

• Vice-chancellor Research Scholarship (VCRS), Swinburne University of Technology, Jul 2009 ~ now

• Swinburne ICT faculty top up scholarship, Jul 2009 ~ now

• Research Fellowship, INRIA, France

• National Institute of Informatics scholarship, Tokyo, Japan (not availed)

• Visiting scholar grant, BIBA, University of Bremen, Germany, Aug 2007

• Brain Korea 21 (BK21) Scholarship, Sep 2006 ~ Jul 2008

• Research grant, Research Institute of Logistics Information Technology (LIT)

• Pusan National University, Korea, Tuition waiver scholarship to study master degree, Sep 2006 ~ Aug 2008

• Korean Government IT Scholarship Program (ITSP), (not availed)

• Ajou University (Korea) tuition waiver scholarship to study master degree (not availed)

• All academic Scholarship from CUET, Bangladesh, 1999 ~ 2004

Professional Activities

• PC Member, The Fifth International Workshop on RFID Technology - Concepts, Applications, Challenges (IWRT 2011), Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, September 19-21, 2011

Helpful External Resources

• Some advice on giving a talk courtesy of Olivier Danvy

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