Shahidul Islam

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About Me

I am currently pursuing a PhD in Public Health at Adelaide University. I serve as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at the University of Asia Pacific and have been on study leave since February 2026 to undertake my doctoral research.

I joined UAP as a Lecturer in January 2022 and was later promoted to Assistant Professor. Prior to this, I worked as a Lecturer cum Computer Programmer at Villa College from August 2019 to December 2021.

I obtained both my Bachelor of Science in Engineering (B.Sc. Engg.) and Master of Science in Engineering (M.Sc. Engg.) in Computer Science and Engineering from Khulna University in 2019 and 2021, respectively. During my postgraduate studies, I worked as a Research Assistant in the CSE Discipline at KU.

I have published numerous research articles in international conferences and journals, including those published by Elsevier, Springer, and IEEE. My research interests focus on Bioinformatics, Machine Learning, and their applications in healthcare and public health.

Research & Publications

Research Interests

Bioinformatics, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Healthcare AI, Optimization.

Total Publications

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Journal Articles

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Book Chapter

  1. Islam, Md. Shahidul, Md. Rafiqul Islam, Durjoy Mistry (2025). Deep Learning for Predicting Essential Proteins Using Topological Features and Gene Ontology, Neural Computing and Applications (1-16). Read Here
  2. Islam, Md Rafiqul, Md Shahidul Islam, Pritam Khan Boni, Aldrin Saurov Sarker, and Md Asif Anam. "Solving the maximum cut problem using Harris Hawk Optimization algorithm." PloS one 19, no. 12 (2024): e0315842. Read Here
  3. Md. Shahidul Islam, Jayonto Dutta Plabon, Md. Mountasir Rahaman, Moshiur Rahman Tonmoy, Dr. Aloke Kumar Saha and Dr. Shah Murtaza Rashid Al Masud. Privacy-preserving Kidney stone detection from X-ray image using federated learning. (2024)
  4. Islam, Md Rafiqul, Md Shahidul Islam , and Saikat Majumder. "Breast Cancer Prediction: A Fusion of Genetic Algorithm, Chemical Reaction Optimization, and Machine Learning Techniques." Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing 2024, no. 1 (2024): 7221343. Read Here
  5. Islam, Md Shahidul, Md Rafiqul Islam, and ABM Shawkat Ali. "Protein complex prediction in large protein–protein interaction network." Informatics in Medicine Unlocked 30 (2022): 100947. Read Here
  6. Islam, Md Shahidul, and Md Rafiqul Islam. "A hybrid framework based on genetic algorithm and simulated annealing for RNA structure prediction with pseudoknots." Journal of King Saud University-Computer and Information Sciences (2020). Read Here
  7. Islam, Md Rafiqul, Md Shahidul Islam, and Nazmus Sakeef. "RNA secondary structure prediction with pseudoknots using chemical reaction optimization algorithm." IEEE/ACM transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics 18, no. 3 (2019): 1195-1207. Read Here
  8. Islam, Md Shahidul, and Sarfaraz Newaz. "Detection of Safe Angle for Water Vehicles due to Vulnerable Swing." In 2019 1st International Conference on Advances in Science, Engineering and Robotics Technology (ICASERT), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2019. Read Here

Resume

Working Experience

Assistant Professor (On Leave)

July 2023 - Present

University of Asia Pacific, Dhaka - 1205, Bangladesh

  • Teaching undergraduate courses.
  • Supervising undergraduate final year design projects and theses.
  • Serving as Admission Coordinator and Convener of the CSE Sports Club.

Assistant Proctor

February 2025 - January 2026

University of Asia Pacific, Dhaka - 1205, Bangladesh

  • Provided counselling and academic support to students
  • Handled conflict resolution and emergency/crisis situations

Lecturer

January 2022 - July 2023

University of Asia Pacific, Dhaka - 1205, Bangladesh

  • Taught undergraduate courses.
  • Supervised undergraduate final year design projects and theses.
  • Served as Convener of the CSE Sports Club and Sub-Editor of the CSE Undergraduate Prospectus (2022–2023).

Lecturer cum Computer Programmer

August 2019 - December 2021

Villa College, Malé, Maldives

  • Taught undergraduate courses.
  • Conducted academic research to support curriculum and institutional development.
  • Led the design, development, and implementation of educational software solutions.
  • Served as Technical Coordinator for the International Conference on Social Research and Innovation 2021 at the International Research Institute, Villa College.
  • Acted as Technical Coordinator for university Convocations and overseeing IT infrastructure.

Education

PhD in Public Health

Feb 2026 - August 2029

Adelaide University, Adelaide, Australia

Master of Science (Engg.)

January 2019 - January 2021

Khulna University, Khulna - 9208, Bangladesh

With Computer Science and Engineering major, I studied Research Methodologies, Neural Networks, Machine Learning, and Bioinformatics Algorithms.

Thesis Title: Protein complex prediction in large protein-protein interaction network. Read Here

Bachelor of Science (Engg.)

January 2015 - January 2019

Khulna University, Khulna - 9208, Bangladesh

Thesis Title: RNA secondary structure prediction with pseudoknots using chemical reaction optimization algorithm. Read Here

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Courses

  • CSE 103 - Structured Programming
  • CSE 207 - Algorithms
  • CSE 405 - Operating Systems
  • CSE 427 - Machine Learning
  • CSE 100 / CSE 108 - Competitive Programming
  • CSE 102 - Introduction to Computer Science & Programming Methodology Lab
  • CSE 104 - Structured Programming Lab
  • CSE 208 - Algorithms Lab
  • CSE 310 - OOP II: Visual and Web Programming Lab
  • CSE 406 - Operating Systems Lab
  • CSE 410 - Software Development
  • CSE 448 - Computer Networking Sessional

Contact

Cell:

(+880) 9696486703

Location:

SAHMRI 74/A, 870 North Terrace
Adelaide SA 5000