Rakib Hossain Rifat

PhD Student | Researcher | Driving Innovation in ML, DL, FL and Computer Vision


Education

Texas Tech University

Doctor of Philosophy
Computer Science
Funded by DGSA
August 2024 - Present

BRAC University

Masters of Science
Computer Science and Engineering
Result: 4.00/4.00
May 2022 - June 2024

Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology

Bachelor of Science
Computer Science and Engineering
Result: 3.386/4.00
November 2016 - August 2021

Publications

Journals

Enhancing Monkeypox diagnosis and explanation through modified transfer learning, vision transformers, and federated learning

Md Manjurul Ahsan, Tasfiq E. Alam, Mohd Ariful Haque, Md Shahin Ali, Rakib Hossain Rifat, Abdullah Al Nomaan Nafi, Md Maruf Hossain, Md Khairul Islam,
Informatics in Medicine Unlocked, Volume 45, 2024, 101449, ISSN 2352-9148

Physics Guided Neural Networks with Knowledge Graph

Gupta, Kishor Datta, Sunzida Siddique, Roy George, Marufa Kamal, Rakib Hossain Rifat, and Mohd Ariful Haque
Digital 4, no. 4: 846-865.

UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle): Diverse Applications of UAV Datasets in Segmentation, Classification, Detection, and Tracking

Md Mahfuzur Rahman, Sunzida Siddique, Marufa Kamal, Rakib Hossain Rifat, Kishor Datta Gupta
Algorithms 2024, 17, 594

Conference/Workshop

ACSMKRHR at SemEval-2023 Task 10: Explainable Online Sexism Detection(EDOS)

Rakib Hossain Rifat, Abanti Chakraborty Shruti, Marufa Kamal, and Farig Sadeque.
2023In Proceedings of the The 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023), pages 724–732, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics

Privacy-Preserving Knee Osteoarthritis Classification: A Federated Learning Approach with GradCAM Visualization.

Rakib Hossain Rifat, Abanti Chakraborty Shruti, Marufa Kamal and M. G. R. Alam.
2023 26th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT) (pp. 1-6). IEEE

Facial Shape-Based Eyeglass Recommendation Using Convolutional Neural Networks

RH Rifat,S Siddique, LR Das, MA Haque
2023 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), 867-872

Multi-criteria Decision Theoritic Approach for Tour Package Selection using Fuzzy AHP and TOPSIS Methods: A Case Study on Cox's Bazar

M. Kamal, R. H. Rifat, A. Chakraborty Shruti and M. G. Rabiul Alam,
2023 IEEE 8th International Conference for Convergence in Technology (I2CT), Lonavla, India, 2023, pp. 1-7

A Comparative Study on Bengali Speech Sentiment Analysis Based on Audio Data

A. C. Shruti, R. H. Rifat, M. Kamal and M. G. R. Alam
IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp), Jeju, Korea, Republic of, 2023, pp. 219-226

DetectPLD: A Federated CNN Approach for Collaborative Potato Leaf Disease Detection,

M. Kamal, R. H. Rifat, A. C. Shruti, M. A. Haque, K. D. Gupta and R. George
2024 IEEE World AI IoT Congress (AIIoT), Seattle, WA, USA, 2024, pp. 0185-0191

Cyber Security issues in the industrial applications of digital twins

S Siddique, MA Haque, RH Rifat , R George, K Shujaee, KD Gupta
2023 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), 873-878

Challenges and Opportunities of Computational Intelligence in Industrial Control System (ICS)

S Siddique, MA Haque, RH Rifat , LR Das, S Talukder, KD Gupta
2023 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), 1158-1163

A Cross-Domain Exploration of Audio and Textual Data for Multi-Modal Emotion Detection

Mohd Ariful Haque, Roy George, Rakib Hossain Rifat, Md Shihab Uddin, Marufa Kamal, and Kishor Datta Gupta.
In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 375–381

Work Experience

Silicon Orchard Limited

Position : Software Engineer (Machine Learning)
19 May 2023 - 31 September 2024

AB Bank

Position : Trainee Officer
08 September 2022 - 25 May 2023

Polyfins Technology Inc

Position : Machine Learning Engineer
01 September 2021 - 06 September 2022

Professional Activities

  • Reviewed research papers as a Peer Reviewer for Environmental Data Science in 2025
  • Reviewed research papers as a Peer Reviewer for Results in engineering in 2024
  • Reviewed research papers as a Peer Reviewer for The Journal of Network and Computer Applications in 2024
  • Reviewed research papers as a Peer Reviewer for WS02: The 2nd Workshop on Emerging Technologies in Aerial and Space Networks - ETASN in 2025
  • Reviewed research papers as a Peer Reviewer for The International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) in 2024
  • Reviewed research papers as a Peer Reviewer for IEEE Fourth International Conference on Communication, Circuits, and Systems in 2023
  • Reviewed research papers as a Peer Reviewer for IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) in 2023
  • Mentor: DeepLearning.AI TensorFlow Developer Professional Certificate Specialization at DeepLearning.AI on Coursera
  • Mentor: TensorFlow: Data and Deployment Specialization at DeepLearning.AI on Coursera