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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 been teaching and conducting 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, Tektronix, and the SUN academic equipment grant program. 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, IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), and SIAM International Conference on Data Mining(SDM).
Dr. Latifur Khan has published over 160 papers in 40 journals, in peer reviewed conference proceedings, and in three books. For example, he has published papers in premier journals such as VLDB (3 papers), Journal of Web Semantics, Elsevier (Impact factor 3.412), IEEE TDKE (2 papers), IEEE TDSC, IEEE TSMC (2 papers), Bioinformatics Journal (Impact factor 4.926), AI Research, and several other leading journals; in prestigious conferences such as IEEE ICDM, ACM Multimedia, AAAI, IJCAI, ACM WWW, ACM GIS, ICWC, IEEE ICSC, IEEE Cloud, INFOCOM and leading conferences ECML/PKDD, PAKDD, ICTAI, ACM SACMAT. In addition, Dr. Khan has published a book based on his students' theses and has a second book in print. He has a patent pending.
As of today, eleven Ph.D. students have graduated under Dr. Khan's supervision and one of them ( Dr. Feng Luo ) is currently working as an assistant professor in the Computer Science department at Clemson University, USA. Other PhD graduates work in various academic institutions and corporations such as Raytheon (Research), Microsoft and Amazon. He also collaborates actively with researchers from MIT, UIUC, UMBC, UMN, Purdue and IBM TJ Watson Research Center.
Dr. Khan is a Senior Member of ACM and IEEE. He has chaired several conferences and serves (or has served) as associate editor on multiple editorial boards including IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) journal. He has been invited to give keynote/invited talk at 22th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence ICTAI 2010 (special Track "Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery from Sensors and Streams" ), Arras, France; Third International Workshop on Semantic Aspects in Data Mining (SADM'10) in conjuntion with ICDM 2010, Sydney, Australia; SUTC 2010: 2010 IEEE International Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous, and Trustworthy Computing, Newport Beach, California; and 9th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), 2006. In addition, he has conducted tutorial sessions in prominent conferences such as ACM WWW 2005, MIS2005, DASFAA 2007, and WI 2008 ( "Matching Words and Pictures - Problems, Applications, and Progress" ) and PAKDD 2011 ( "Data Stream Mining Challenges and Techniques",).
Dr. Latifur Khan's Resume: PDF Format
Publication listing from DBLP
Dr. Latifur Khan's Google Entry
Dr. Latifur Khan's Books fromAmazon: Design and Implementation of Data Mining Tools and Multimedia Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
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