Faculty Members Ongoing Researches
- Data Science,
- Artificial Intelligence,
- Bioinformatics,
- Machine Learning,
- Big Data and Cloud Computing
Research Grants:
- University Grants Commission (UGC)- Higher Education Acceleration and Transformation (HEAT) project: Development of Carbon-Based Porous Materials from Waste Resources for Sustainable Energy, Environmental, and Desalination Applications (3.7 crore BDT ~ 301,715 USD) Duty: Project Member [May 2025- May 2028].
- East West University-Center for Research and Training (EWUCRT) Project: Assessing the Reuse Potential of Water Collected from the Air Conditioning Units of East West University: A Pilot Study on Air Condensate Harvesting (25.15 lac BDT ~ 20600 USD) Duty: Principal Investigator [November 2025- April 2027]
Research Interests:
- Bioelectrochemical wastewater treatment and desalination
- Anaerobic digestion
- Waste to resource (energy, valuables) nexus
- Drinking water quality monitoring and treatment
- AI application on environmental remediation
- Life Cycle Analysis (LCA)

- Molecular Biology
- Biotechnology
- Bioinformatics
- Environmental biology
Received Research Grants:
Principal Investigator. Research grant from the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST R&D), Govt. of Bangladesh, in the financial year 2025-2026. Project title: Investigating the Oncogenic Susceptibility Conferred by ERCC1-rs11615 Polymorphism: A Genetic Association Study in Breast and Colorectal Cancer among the Bangladeshi Population.
Principal Investigator. Research grant from the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST R&D), Govt. of Bangladesh, in the financial year 2024-2025. Project title: Comparison of extracellular Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (ePGPR) and intracellular PGPR (iPGPR) from the rhizosphere of Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) on soil fertility and crop productivity.
- Wireless Networks
Wireless Communications and Networks
- Studies on the antioxidant, cytotoxic, antimicrobial, antidiabetic, antinociceptive and anti-inflammatory activities of Bangladeshi medicinal plants.
- Isolation and characterization of bioactive compounds from Bangladeshi medicinal plants which involves various chromatographic methods with advanced spectrophotometric analysis.
- Isolation of endophytic fungi from fresh medicinal plants of Bangladesh followed by their extraction and isolation of various bioactive compounds.
- Evaluation of the role of selected molecules to improve vascular dysfunction in cardiovascular diseases using a combination of in-silico, in vitro, in vivo and biomolecular techniques
- Clinical Pharmacology
- Cancer Pharmacology
- Phytopharmacology
- Drug discovery from natural sources
- Public health
Porous Materials for Environmental Remediation
-Synthesis of porous materials such as Metal-organic fameworks (MOFs), Zeolites, Nickle phosphate molecular sieves.
-Rapid synthesis of porous materials with microwave and ultrasound irradiation.
-Functionalization/modification of MOFs for targeted applications.
Adsorption/separation/Purification
–Adsorptive removal of hazardous materials, including Sulfur Containing Compound (SCC), Nitrogen Containing Compounds (NCC), Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products (PPCPs), Contaminants of Emrrging Concerns (CECs).
-Gas phase adsorption of arometics.
Heterogeneous Catalysis
-Acid catalysis with nano porous materials.
-Conversion of biomass into chemical intermediates via dehydration
-Reduction and photocatlysis of organic pollutants
- Microbiome analysis
- Plastic degrading microbes
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Power Converters
- Electric Vehicle Systems
- Renewable Energy Systems
- Power Supply Design
- Deep Learning based Energy Forecasting
- Deep Learning based Optimization of EMS for Microgrid
- Database Technology
- Data Streams
- Data Provenance
- Semantic Web
- Big Data
- RESEARCH GATE_PROFILE
- Image Processing
- Computer Vision
- Artificial Intelligence
- Computer Networks Security
- Machine Learning
- Deep Learning
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1. Highly porous materials
- Synthesis/Application of porous materials (MOFs, zeolites, carbons, AlPOs)
- MOF- or organic polymer-derived carbons (highly porous, ordered and having various functionalities) adsorption/storage, catalysis and electrical energy storage.
-Rapid/continuous synthesis of porous materials with microwave and ultrasonics
- Functionalization/Modification of MOFs for selective adsorption of hazardous compounds
2. Adsorption/separation
- CO2 capture with porous adsorbents
- Fuel purification (removal of S- and N- containing compounds)
- Water purification (removal of pharmaceuticals, personal care products, pesticides, dyes)
- Adsorption/separation of hydrocarbons
- Adsorption/storage of gases
3. Heterogeneous catalysis
- Acid catalysis with porous materials (dehydration, isomerization, alkylation)
- Conversion of biomass into chemical intermediates with dehydration
4. Electrochemistry
-Supercapacitor
-Sensor
- Emerging transport
- Sustainable mobility
- Travel behaviour
- Transport planning and policy
- Transport and land use
- Urban mobility
Molecular Biology, Cancer Genetics
- Computer Networks
- Wireless Sensor Networks
- Underwater wireless sensor networks
- Underwater communication and signals propagation
- Localization for terrestrial environment (Tracking)
- Underwater localization (Tracking)

