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Dr. Khan is currently an Associate Professor in the Computer Science department at the University of Texas at Dallas where he has taught and conducted research since September 2000. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Southern California in August of 2000, and December of 1996 respectively. He obtained his B.Sc. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh in November of 1993 with First class Honors (2nd position). He was a recipient of Chancellor Awards from the President of Bangladesh.
Professor Latifur Khan is currently supported by grants from NASA, the National Science Foundation (NSF), Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Raytheon, NGA, IARPA, Nokia Research Center , Alcatel , and the SUN academic equipment grant program . He is one of the principal investigators at the CyberSecurity and Emergency Preparedness Institute at UTD. There he is involved with finding solutions to deal with the rapidly growing Homeland Security problems in cyber crime, information assurance, and emergency preparedness . In addition, Dr. Khan is the director of the state-of-the-art DBL@UTD , UTD Database Laboratory, which is the primary center of research related to data mining, semantic web and image/video annotation at University of Texas-Dallas.
Dr. Khan's research areas cover data mining, multimedia information management, semantic web and database systems with the primary focus on first three research disciplines. He has served as a committee member in numerous prestigious conferences, symposiums and workshops including the ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining and SIAM International Conference on Data Mining(SDM) . Professor Khan has also chaired and co-chaired several international conferences and workshops including IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) 2009 Conference, ACM 6th International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining (MDM/KDD2005) . He has co-authored numerous book chapters including the entry in Encyclopedia of Data Warehousing and Mining . Dr. Latifur Khan has published over 110 papers in prestigious journals and conferences. He has been invited to conduct tutorial sessions in prominent conferences ( "Matching Words and Pictures - Problems, Applications, and Progress" ).
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