sarefin@cuet.ac.bd

Reviewer :
i. KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (ISSN: 1976-7277).
ii. International Journal of Computer Science & Information Technology (ISSN: 0975 – 3826)
iii. Computer Science and Engineering Research Journal (ISSN: 1990-4010).
iv. International Conference on Electrical & Electronic Engineering (ICEEE 2015), to be held during 4-6 November, 2015 at RUET.
v. International Conference on Computer and Information Engineering (ICCIE 2015), to be held during 16-17 November at RUET
vi. 2nd International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Information Communication Technology (ICEEICT 2015).
vii. 9th International Forum on Strategic Technology (IFOST 2014) organized by CUET, Bangladesh.
viii. National Conference on Electrical & Communication Engineering and Renewable Energy (ECERE 2014) organized by Dept. of EEE, CUET.
ix. National Conference on Intelligent Computing and Information Technology (2013) organized by Dept. of CSE, CUET, Bangladesh

Thesis Supervision Records :
a. PhD supervision ongoing 4 students
b. Maters supervision: completed 01, ongoing: 10
c. Undergraduate thesis / project supervision: More than 90 students in total

Expeience :
CUET, Chittagong Lecturer from 30-06-2003 to 28-01-2007
CUET, Chittagong Asst. Professor from 29-01-2007 to 30-03-2014
CUET, Chittagong Assoc. Professor from 31-03-2014 to 01-07-2015
CUET, Chittagong Professor from 02-07-2015 to date

Membership of Various Bodies :
• Member, Academic Council, CUET
• Member, Academic Council, Bangladesh Army International University of Science and Technology (BAIUST), Comilla
• Member, Planning Committee, Dept. of CSE, CUET
• Chairman, Academic Committee for Post Graduate Studies, Dept. of CSE, CUET
• Chairman, Undergraduate Examination Committee, Dept. of CSE, CUET
• Chairman, Planning Committee, Dept. of CSE, CUET
• Member, Undergraduate Examination Committee, Dept. of CSE, RUET
• Member, Undergraduate Examination Committee, CSE Discipline, KU
• Member, Undergraduate Examination Committee, Dept. of ICE, NSTU
• Member, Postgraduate Examination Committee, Dept. of CSE, CU
• Member, Undergraduate Examination Committee, Dept. of CSE, CU
• Member, Undergraduate Examination Committee, Dept. of CSE, PSTU
• Member, Undergraduate Admission Committee, Session: 2017-2018
• Member, Pre-feasibility Study Team, Establishment of CUET IT Business Incubator Project
• Member, Jongibad Birodhi Monitoring Cell, CUET
• Fellow, Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh
• Fellow, Bangladesh Computer Society
• Member, IEEE
• Member, ACM

Chair/ Co-Chair / Technical Committee Member :
• Chair, Technical program Committee (TPC), International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Communication Engineering (ECCE 2017) to held on February 16-18, 2017 at Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
• Organizing Co-chair, ECCE 2019 to be held on Feb. 7-9, 2019
• Member, TPC, IJCCI 2018 to be held at DIU, Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Member, Technical Program Committee, International Conference on Networking, Systems and Security (NSysS 2017)
• Member, Technical Program Committee, International Conference on Innovations in Science, Engineering and Technology 2016 (ICISET 2016)
• Chair, Registration Committee, IFOST 2014 organized by CUET, Bangladesh
• Chair, Registration Committee, National Conference on Intelligent Computing and Information Technology (2013) organized by Dept. of CSE, CUET, Bangladesh
• Session Chair, ICISET 2018
• Session Chair, 9th International Forum on Strategic Technology (IFOST 2014) organized by CUET, Bangladesh
• Session Co-Chair, National Conference on Intelligent Computing and Information Technology (2013) organized by Dept. of CSE, CUET, Bangladesh

Invited Talks :
• Topic: Career Development Symposium for CSE Students, Organized by Dept. of CSE, Feni University, Bangladesh, 2018
• Topic: Bangla NLP Research at CUET: Past, Present and Future, organized by Dept. of CSE, SUST, 2018
• Topic: Vision 2021: The Way Forward. At the Seminar of Digital Innovation Fair, Organized by DC Office, Chittagong, 2016.
• Topic: Cyber Security and Privacy Related Issues. At the Seminar about the Awareness on the Laws of Cyber Security and Information Technology, Organized by Dept. of CSE, CUET, 2015
• Topic: Information Filtering and Skyline Queries, At the Seminar of CSE FEST, Organized by Dept. of CSE, CUET, 2014.

Grants :
• Research grant for the project Designing an Empirical Framework to Interact with Humans, Period: 2014-2015
• MEXT scholarship for pursuing Doctor of Engineering Degree, Japan Government, Period: October 1, 2010-Sepetember 30, 2013
• Research grant from UGC for the project Developing a Framework for the Translation of Bangla Documents (Phase 1), Year: 2009
• Travel Grants from Hiroshima University for presenting papers at different conferences in Japan and other countries during the period of January 2011 and September 2013.

Country Visited :
Japan, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, South Korea, Egypt, Bhutan, Thailand, Saudi Arabia