Research Interests

Cybersecurity and Blockchain Machine Learning and Health Informatics Pervasive Computing and Human Computer Interaction Edge and Cloud Computing Systems

Research Profiles

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Journal Publications

J18. Omar M. Bawazeer, Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, Omer S. Alkhnbashi, and Mohammad Hammoudeh, “A description language for enhancing transparency and interoperability in blockchain smart contracts”, in Springer Cluster Computing - The Journal of Networks Software Tools and Applications, Cluster Computing 28, 659 (2025).

J17. Rana Alrawashdeh, Sultan Almuhammadi, Mahmood Niazi, Mufti Mahmud and Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, “Secure edge-guided adaptive image steganography using HED-based attention maps and CNN”, in Scientific Reports 15, 42984 (2025).
J16. Fariya Tabassum, M. Imran Azim, Md. Rashidul Islam, M.A. Rahman, Liaqat Ali, Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, and M.J. Hossan, “Energy data security and pricing model in local energy markets using artificial intelligence” in Elsevier Applied Energy 401 (2025) 126737.
J15. Md Sabir Hossain, Md Mahfuzur Rahman, and Mufti Mahmud, “Towards Secure and Efficient Human Fall Detection: Sensor-Visual Fusion via Gramian Angular Field with Federated CNN”, in CMES Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences, 145 (2025).
J14. Rana Al-Rawashdeh, Md Mahfuzur Rahman, and Mahmood Niazi, “Robust Image Steganography Approach Based on Edge Detection Combined With CNN Algorithm”, in IEEE Access (2025).
J13. Md Saidur Rahman Kohinoor, Fahad Ahmed Ruhan, Md. Istiaqque Khalique, Tajwar Elahi Choudhury, Sultan Al Muhammamdi, and Md Mahfuzur Rahman, "A Mobile Regression Framework With Context-Aware Sensing for Real-Time WBGT Forecasting and Heatstroke Risk Assessment." in IEEE Access 13 (2025): 193032-193048.
J12. Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, “Blockchain-Assisted QoS-Aware Routing for Software-Defined Wide Area Network”, in Electronics 2025, 14(10), 1949.
J11. Farag Azzedin, Turki Alhazmi, Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, “Toward Trustworthy Digital Twinning: Taxonomy, Analysis, and Open Challenges”, in Electronics 2025; 14(23):4732.
J10. K. Akther, M. S. R. Kohinoor, B. S. Priya, M. J. Rahaman, Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, M. Shafiullah, “Multi-Faceted Approach to Cardiovascular Risk Assessment by Utilizing Predictive Machine Learning and Clinical Data in a Unified Web Platform”, in IEEE Access 2024, vol. 12, pp. 120454-120473.
J9. I. Ahmed, B. B. Routh, M. S. R. Kohinoor, S. Sakib, M. M. Rahman, F. Azzedin, “Multi-Model Attentional Fusion Ensemble for Accurate Skin Cancer Classification”, in IEEE Access 2024.
J8. Hind Baageel, Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, “Leveraging Sharding-based Hybrid Consensus for Blockchain”, in CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua 2024, 81(1), 1215-1233.
J7. Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, Md. Solaiman Chowdhury, Mohammad Shorfuzzaman, Lutful Karim, Md Shafiullah, Farag Azzedin, “Enhancing Septic Shock Detection through Interpretable Machine Learning”, in CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences 2024, 141(3), 2501-2525
J6. M Rahman, S Chowdhury, M Shorfuzzaman, MK Hossain, M Hammoudeh, "Peer-to-Peer Power Energy Trading in Blockchain Using Efficient Machine Learning Model", Sustainability 15 (18), 13640
J5. IA Alfi, MM Rahman, M Shorfuzzaman, A Nazir, "A Non-Invasive Interpretable Diagnosis of Melanoma Skin Cancer Using Deep Learning and Ensemble Stacking of Machine Learning Models", Diagnostics 12 (3), 726
J4. F Azzedin, H Suwad, MM Rahman, "An Asset-Based Approach to Mitigate Zero-Day Ransomware Attacks", CMC-Computers Materials & Continua 73 (2), 3003-3020
J3. Md. Mahfuzur Rahman and Peter Graham, “Compatibility-based Static VM Placement to Minimize Interference”, in Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA), Volume 84, Pages 68-81, 2017
J2. Mahfuzur Rahman and Peter Graham, “Responsive and Efficient Resource Provisioning for Multimedia Application”, in Elsevier Journal of Computers and Electrical Engineering, Volume 53 Issues C, Pages 458-468, 2016
J1. Mahfuzur Rahman, Mohammad Shorfuzzaman, and Mehedi Masud, “Characterizing End-to-End Delay Performance of Randomized TCP Using an Analytical Model”, in International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications (IJACSA), 7(3), 2016

Book Chapters

Md. Mahfuzur Rahman and Mohammad Abdul Matin, “Cognition Radio Enabled IoT", in Towards Cognitive IoT Networks, Springer International Publishing, Pages 19-31, 2020

Md. Mahfuzur Rahman and Mohammad Abdul Matin, “QoS Aware Spectrum Selection for IoT”, in Towards Cognitive IoT Networks, Springer International Publishing, Pages 55-65, 2020

Conference Publications

C20. Md. Sabir Hossain and Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, “Human Fall Detection in Poor Lighting Conditions Using CNN-Based Model”, in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health, ICT4AWE 2025, p. 414-420 7, Porto, Portugal.

C19. Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, “Enhancing Older Adults’ Well-Being Through QoS-Aware Edge-Cloud eHealth Applications” in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health, ICT4AWE 2025, p. 443-450 8, Porto, Portugal.

C18. Md. Sabir Hossain, Mufti Mahmud, and Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, “Interpretable Human Action Recognition: A CNN-GRU Approach with Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping Insights” in Proceedings of the 4th Muslims in ML Workshop co-located with ICML 2025 (International Conference on Machine Learning), Vancouver, Canada.

C17. Heba Aljabrine and Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, “Towards Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Cloud Computing” In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 12th International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT '25). ACM, New York, NY, USA.

C16. Nehad Alnahari, Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, and Omer S. Alkhnbashi, “Analyzing Topics and Sentiments of Arabic Twitter Discourse on COVID Evidence from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates”, in Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Applied Intelligence and Informatics (AII 2025), Washington DC, USA.

C15. Hamdan Ahmed, Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, and Raed Katib, “Phishing URL Detection via QR Code Transformation Using CNN”, in Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Applied Intelligence and Informatics (AII 2025), Washington DC, USA.

C14. Md. Saidur Rahman Kohinoor, Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, Mohammad Shorfuzzaman, Farag Azzedin, “A Hybrid GCN–BERT Model for Read-Level Viral Classification with Potential Threat Detection”, in Proceedings of the 8th Asia Conference on Cognitive Engineering and Intelligent Interaction, (CEII 2025), Hong Kong.

C13. Md. Saidur Rahman Kohinoor, Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, Mohammad Shorfuzzaman, “Context-Aware Genomic Language Models for Accurate Viral and Bacterial Sequence Identification”, in Proceedings of the 8th Asia Conference on Cognitive Engineering and Intelligent Interaction, (CEII 2025), Hong Kong.

C12. Md. Siyamul Islam, Noushath Shaffi, Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, Mufti Mahmud, “An Explainable Hybrid Multimodal Model for Alzheimer's Disease Detection” in Proceedings of the 5th Muslims in ML Workshop co-located with NeurIPS 2025, San-Diego, CA, USA.

C11. Md Solaiman Chowdhury, Jenifar Rahman, Md Mahfuzur Rahman. “Interference-Aware VM Placement in Cloud”, in Proceedings of IEEE 43rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2023), Hong Kong, China, IEEE, pages 1045-1046.

C10. Hrazi, M. M., Althagafi, A. M., Aljuhani, A. T., Rahman, J., Rahman, M. M., & Shorfuzzaman, M. Sentiment Analysis of Tweets from Airlines in the Gulf Region Using Machine Learning. In 2021 International Conference of Women in Data Science at Taif University (WiDSTaif 2021) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.

C9. Alfi, I. A., Ahmed, M. S., Rumman, F. Z., Hossain, Z., Shorfuzzaman, M., & Rahman, M. M., COVIDAroundUs: Social distancing made easier. In 2021 International Conference of Women in Data Science at Taif University (WiDSTaif 2021) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.

C8. Farhan Israk Yen and Md Mahfuzur Rahman, "Efficient Image Compression for Cloud System" In Proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Technologies for Industry 4.0 (STI, IEEE 2019).

C7. Md. Solaiman Chowdhury, Md Abu Osman, and Md Mahfuzur Rahman, "Preference-Aware Public Transport Matching", In Proceedings of the International Conference on Innovation in Engineering and Technology (ICIET, IEEE 2018).

C6. Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, Ruppa Thulasiram, and Peter Graham, “Differential Time-shared Virtual Machine Multiplexing for Handling QoS variation in Clouds”, In Proceedings of the 1st International ACM Workshop on Cloud-based Multimedia Applications and Services for E-Health (CBMAS-EH, ACM 2012)
C5. Md. Mahfuzur Rahman and Peter Graham, “Hybrid Resource Provisioning for Clouds”, in Proceedings of High Performance Computing Symposium (HPCS 2012)
C4. Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, Sean Gustafson, Pourang Irani and Sriram Subramanian, “Tilt Techniques: Investigating the Dexterity of Wrist-based Input”, In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACM CHI '09), 1943-1952 [Obtained Nomination for the best paper award and current citation more than 140]
C3. Nabeel Hassan, Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, Pourang Irani and Peter Graham, “Chucking: A One-handed Document Sharing Technique”, In Proceedings of the 12th IFIP International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT '09), 264-278
C2. Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, Pourang Irani and Peter Graham, “Natural Gesture-Based Techniques for sharing Documents from a Private to a Public Display” in Proceedings of the Workshop on designing multi-touch interaction techniques for coupled Public and Private Displays (PPD 2008)
C1. Abdur Razzaque, Mahfuzur Rahman, “An Efficient Disconnected Operation Protocol in Storage Area Network (SAN) Distributed File System” published in Proceedings of the International Conference of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering (ICCMSE 2004), 448-452

Thesis

PhD: Improved Virtual Machine (VM) based Resource Provisioning in Cloud Computing [pdf] MSc: Fully Automated Quality of Service (QoS) Aware Service Composition [pdf]

Awards & Scholarships

TRTech Research Assistantship University of Manitoba Graduate Fellowship Manitoba Provincial Graduate Scholarships ACM Multimedia Conference/SIGMM Travel Grants OIC Undergraduate Scholarships

Anonymous Review

IEEE Systems Journal Journal - Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks Special issue: Ambient Assisted Living (AAL): Sensors, Architectures and Applications International Workshop on Emerging Multimedia Applications for Smart Cities ACM MM Workshop on Cloud-Based Multimedia Applications and Services for E-Health