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Dr. Md. Masud Rana
Assistant Professor
masud.cse@sub.edu.bd
Ph.D. in Bioinformatics (Specialization: Data Science), University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), Beijing, China; B.Sc. & M.Sc. in Statistics (University of Rajshahi)
Dr. Md. Masud Rana is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), School of Science and Technology, State University of Bangladesh (SUB). He earned his Ph.D. in Bioinformatics (Specialization: Data Science) from the National Genomics Data Center, Beijing Institute of Genomics (BIG), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), under the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), Beijing, China. He completed his M.Sc. in Statistics with research specialization in Computational Biology and his B.Sc. in Statistics from the University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh.
Dr. Rana has extensive experience in teaching, research, and applied data science. Prior to joining the SUB, he served as a Teaching and Research Associate at Naif Arab University for Security Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Previously, he worked as a Research Scientist at the China National Center for Bioinformation (CNCB), Beijing, China, and also worked as a Freelance Data Scientist and Developer in Sydney, Australia.
His research interests include Statistical Learning, Big Data Analytics, Deep Learning and Large Language Models (LLMs), Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, Toxicogenomics, Forensic DNA Phenotyping, DNA-Based 3D Facial Recognition, software package development, and scientific computing and programming using R and Python. His work integrates statistical modeling, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and genomic data science to develop advanced computational methods and software solutions for biomedical and forensic applications.
Dr. Rana has published research articles in internationally recognized journals, including Bioinformatics, Frontiers in Genetics, and BioMed Research International, and serves as a reviewer for several international scientific journals. He is a Life Member of the Bangladesh Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Association.
Journal Articles:
- Amer, S. A.#, Rana, M. M.#, & Liu, F. (2026). Selection-Driven Codon Usage in Agamid Mitochondrial Genomes: Climatic and Biogeographic Implications. Biol. Bull. (In Press)
- Rahman, M. M., Hasan, M. M. H., Islam, M. A., Rana, M. M., Shakoor, M. A., Hossain, M. S. (2026). Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders Among Civil Servants Attending Healthcare Facilities in Bangladesh. WORK. (In Press)
- Rana, M. M., Mollah, M. N. H., Albujja, M. H., Hadi, S. S., & Liu, F. (2025). ToxAssay: a hierarchical model-driven tool for advanced toxicogenomics biomarker discovery. Bioinformatics, 41(10). https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btaf561
- Hossen, M. A., Reza, M. S., Rana, M. M., Hossen, M. B., Shoaib, M., Mollah, M. N. H., & Han, C. (2024). Identification of most representative hub-genes for diagnosis, prognosis, and therapies of hepatocellular carcinoma. Chin Clin Oncol, 13(3), 32. https://doi.org/10.21037/cco-23-151
- Hasan, M. N., Rana, M. M., Begum, A. A., Rahman, M., & Mollah, M. N. H. (2018). Robust Co-clustering to Discover Toxicogenomic Biomarkers and Their Regulatory Doses of Chemical Compounds Using Logistic Probabilistic Hidden Variable Model. Front Genet, 9, 516. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2018.00516
- Rana, M. M., Hasan, M. N., Ahmed, M. S., & Mollah, M. N. H. (2018). A novel computational approach for toxicogenomics biomarker discovery in drug development pipeline. J Bio-Sci., 25(0), 57-66. https://doi.org/10.3329/jbs.v25i0.37499
- Ahmed, M. S., Kamruzzaman, M., Rana, M. M., Akond, Z., & Mollah, M. N. H. (2018). In silico analyses of human collagen protein function prediction. J Bio-Sci., 24(0), 55-65. https://doi.org/10.3329/jbs.v24i0.37487
- Ahmed, M. S., Shahjaman, M., Rana, M. M., & Mollah, M. N. H. (2017). Robustification of Naïve Bayes Classifier and Its Application for Microarray Gene Expression Data Analysis. Biomed Res Int, 2017, 3020627. https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/3020627
Conference Articles:
- Rana, M. M., & Mollah, M. N. H. (2024) Conditional copula model for multi-trait analysis of genome-wide association studies. International Conference on “The Role of Statistics and Data Science in 4IR”, Department of Statistic, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh. pp:121-124.
- Rana, M. M., Hasan, M. N., Ahmed, M. S., & Mollah, M. N. H. (2017) Toxicogenomics biomarker detection for liver toxicity using multilevel hierarchical modeling. International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biostatistics for Agriculture, Health and Environment, Department of Statistic, University of Rajshahi & BBCBA, Bangladesh. pp:77-82.
- Hasan, M. N., Rana, M. M., Begum, A. A., Rahman, M., & Mollah, M. N. H. (2017). Toxicogenomic biomarkers clustering using probabilistic hidden semantic analysis. International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biostatistics for Agriculture, Health and Environment, Department of Statistic, University of Rajshahi & BBCBA, Bangladesh. pp:93-98.
- Rana, M. M., Singha, A. C., Ahmed, M. S., & Mollah, M. N. H. (2015) Identification of the toxicogenomic biomarker using the multistage hierarchical ANOVA approach. J. Drug. Metab. Toxicol., 6, 71.
- Ahmed, M. S., Singha, A. C., Rana, M. M., & Mollah, N. M. H. (2015) Bayesian approach for prediction of interface and non-interface residues from protein sequence. International Conference on Materials, Electronics & Information Engineering, ICMEIE-2015, ISBN 978-984-33-894-4.
- Awarded the CAS–TWAS President’s Fellowship for Doctoral Candidates, Chinese Academy of Sciences, with total funding support of 384,000 CNY, 2017.
- Awarded First Place in the Statistical Computing Competition on C++, HEQEP Sub-Project (CP-509), Department of Statistics, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh, 2013.
- Awarded Third Place in the Poster Presentation Competition at the International Conference on Biological Sciences: Food, Health, and Environmental Perspectives, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh, 2015.
- Invited Instructor, Introduction to R for Statistical Computing and Data Analysis, Training Workshop, Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (CVASU), Bangladesh, 2018.
- Invited Lecturer and Trainer, Introduction to Computational Toxicogenomics, 2nd National Workshop on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, jointly organized by CVASU and the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Bangladesh, 2016.
