Md. Appel Mahmud Pranto

1. B. Sc. in Engineering
   • Institution: Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP)
   • Department: Information and Communication Engineering (ICE)
   • Duration: 4 years
   • Passing year: 2021
   • Result: : 3.84 (out of 4.00)
   • Merit Position: 
2. M.Sc. in Engineering
   • Institution: Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP)
   • Department: Information and Communication Engineering (ICE)
   • Duration: 2 years
   • Passing year: 2021
   • Result: : : 3.92 (out of 4.00) (Only thesis defense yet to be completed)
   • Merit Position: 

Academic Experience

1. Lecturer, Department of Information and Communication Engineering (ICE)
   • Institution: Bangladesh Army University of Engineering and Technology (BAUET), Natore
   • Duration:  June 2024- Continuing
2. Teaching Assistant
   • Institution: Bangladesh University of Professionals Dhaka, Bangladesh (BUP)
   • Duration: January 2023 – June 2023

Non-Academic Experience

1. Associate (ML & Data Quality Control)
   • Institution: SuperAnnotate AI, Inc.
   • Duration: December 2023 – Jun 2024

Book Chapter

• Pranto MA, Al Asad N, MA Yousuf, MN Uddin, MA Moni. Enhancing Image Forensics with Transformer: A Multi-Head Attention Approach for Robust Metadata Analysis. In Int. Conf. on Trends in Electronics and Health Informatics 2023 Dec 20-21. [Paper Presented]
• Pranto MA, Al Asad N, Palash IA, Islam M, Kaiser M.S. COVID-19 Chest X-Ray Classification with Augmented GAN. In2021 International Conference on 4th Industrial Revolution and Beyond (IC4IR) 2021 Dec 10-11. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2445-39

Journal Articles:

• MGAN-CRCM: A Novel Multiple Generative Adversarial Network and Coarse-Refinement Based Cognizant Method for Image Inpainting, Neural Computing and Applications [Under Review]
• Multi-View Soft Attention Based Model for Lung Cancer Classification, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering [Under Review]
• Khan MT, Prottasha MS, Nasim TA, Al Mehedi A, Pranto MA, Al Asad N. Performance Analysis of Various Machine Learning Classifiers on Reduced Chronic Kidney Disease Dataset.International Journal of Recent Research and Review, Vol. XIII, Issue 4, December 2020

Conference Papers:

• Pranto MA, Al Asad N. A Comprehensive Model to Monitor Mental Health based on Federated Learning and Deep Learning. In2021 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Information, Communication & Systems (SPICSCON) 2021 Dec 03-04. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/SPICSCON54707.2021.9885430
• Al Asad N, Pranto MA, Afreen S, Islam MM. Depression detection by analyzing social media posts of user. In2019 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Information, Communication & Systems (SPICSCON) 2019 Nov 28 (pp. 13-17). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/SPICSCON48833.2019.9065101

• Generative AI
• Natural Language Processing(NLP)
• Computer Vision
• Large Language Model (LLM)
• Deep Learning

• 3rd Best Paper, Int. Conf. on Trends in Electronics and Health Informatics 2023
• 2nd Runner Up, NASA Space Apps Challenge Bangladesh 2021
•  BUP Merit Scholarship, Bangladesh University of Professionals (2018-2021)

1. Participated in a four-day long workshop on “Method of Instructions (MoI)” organized by Bangladesh
Army University of Engineering & Technology (BAUET), Qadirabad, Natore-6431 held on 30 June 2024- 3
July 2024.
2. Participated in a day-long workshop on “Teaching learning in OBE” organized by Bangladesh Army
University of Engineering & Technology (BAUET), Qadirabad, Natore-6431 on 29 June, 2024.
3. Organized seminar on Technical session on Higher Studies in USA and UK in Bangladesh
University of Professionals on Nov 13, 2021
4. Organized seminar on Research Opportunities in Emerging Technologies in Bangladesh University
of Professionals on Sep 11, 2021

• Bangladesh-Japan ICT Engineers Training Program by University of Miyazaki and North South University
  • Duration: 3/4/2023 –21/7/2023

Community & Leadership

• Brand Ambassador, IEEE, November 2021 – Present
• Chairperson, IEEE BUP Student Branch Bangladesh University of Professionals, August 2021 – July 2022
• Team Lead, Volunteer Management, IEEE Conference ICICT4SD 2021, February 2021
• Advisory Panel Member, IEEE Branch Fest 2023 IEEE BUP Student Branch, October 2023