Team

Designation: Director, Apurba Technologies Limited

Fuad Rahman, Ph.D.

Lab Designation: Advisor

Research Interest: .

Number of Publications: 1

Fuad Rahman, Ph.D., is an academician and entrepreneur, known for founding Apurba Technologies, a company specializing in machine learning applications. He also holds the position of Adjunct Professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at the University of Arizona, which focuses on interdisciplinary research at the intersection of computer vision, medicine, and engineering. This position is aimed to enhance the exchange of information and ideas between academia and industry, facilitating research collaborations, and developing funding opportunities. Apurba Technologies is very active in the computerization of Bangla - the seventh most popular language by a number of speakers but unfortunately a low-resource language because of a lack of research and commercial solutions in this language. Apurba is currently building the first-ever commercial Bangla OCR and a screen reader system for computer and mobile platforms that will produce output speeches in Bangla language under a contract from the Information and Communication Technology Division of the Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications, and Information Technology of the Government of Bangladesh. Fuad has published widely in scientific journals. His published body of work comprises over 100 technical peer-reviewed articles in the scientific literature including 6 book chapters and 30 journal papers. He has worked on the editorial boards of technical journals, acted as a referee to many journals, and worked as a technical committee member at many international conferences.