Ahmed Al Marouf
Affiliations
Sessional Instructor
Ph.D Candidate
Doctoral Student Graduate Assistant-Teaching
Background
Credentials
Graduate Student Certificates in University Teaching and Learning, Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning, University of Calgary,
Educational Background
Ph.D. (ABD) Computer Science, University of Calgary, Canada,
M.Sc. Engg. Computer Science and Engineering, Islamic University of Technology, Bangladesh, 2019
M.Sc. Engg. Computer Science and Engineering, Islamic University of Technology, Bangladesh, 2014
Biography
Ahmed Al Marouf is currently a Ph.D. Candidate (ABD) working towards developing applied AI methods and frameworks including, Fairness-aware & Interpretable Machine Learning and Deep Learning algorithms to address critical biomarkers in various cancer types. He is also acting as a Sessional Instructor and Graduate Assistant-Teaching at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Calgary, Canada. He is working in the Advanced Database Systems and Applications (ADSA) lab under the supervision of Prof. Reda Alhajj. He received multiple awards and scholarships, including Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship (AGES) - International in 2022, Faculty of Graduate Studies Open Doctoral Scholarship in 2023, University of Calgary Board of Governors Graduate Scholarship in 2024 and Eyes High International Doctoral Scholarship in 2025, etc. He got more than six years of teaching experience at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), Daffodil International University (DIU), Dhaka, Bangladesh, where he acted as the Technical Lead of the Multidisciplinary Action Research (MARS) Lab. He published more than fifty (50) research articles in international conferences and journals including several Q1 and Q2 journals. His research interest lies in Health and Biomedical Informatics, Fairness-aware Machine Leaning, Explainable Artificial Intelligence, Computational Social Systems and Human-Computer Interaction.
Research
Areas of Research
Courses
| Course number | Course title | Semester |
|---|---|---|
| CPSC 471 | Database Management Systems | Fall 2023 |
| CPSC 471 | Database Management Systems | Fall 2024 |
Awards
- Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship (AGES) - International, Alberta Student Aid Competition. 2022
- Faculty of Graduate Studies Doctoral Scholarship, Open Scholarship Competition - Doctoral. 2023
- University of Calgary Board of Governors Graduate Scholarship, Open Scholarship Competition - Doctoral. 2024
- Eyes High International Doctoral Scholarship, Graduate Award Competition. 2025
- International Graduate Tuition Award, Faculty of Graduate Studies Tuition Funding. 2020
Publications
- Extracting Information from Reddit for Emergency Management-A Case Study on British Columbia Wildfire. Arvandi, Alireza, Ahmed Al Marouf, Qiaowang Li, Jon Rokne, and Reda Alhajj. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. (2025)
- XSE-TomatoNet: An explainable AI based tomato leaf disease classification method using EfficientNetB0 with squeeze-and-excitation blocks and multi-scale feature fusion. Assaduzzaman, Md, Prayma Bishshash, Md Asraful Sharker Nirob, Ahmed Al Marouf, Jon G. Rokne, and Reda Alhajj. MethodsX . (2025)
- Enhanced Potato Pest Identification: A Deep learning approach for identifying potato pests. A. Sohel, M. S. Shakil, S. M. T. Siddiquee, A. A. Marouf, J. G. Rokne and R. Alhajj. IEEE Access. (2024)
- Rice Leaf Disease Classification—A Comparative Approach Using Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), Cascading Autoencoder with Attention Residual U-Net (CAAR-U-Net), and MobileNet-V2 Architectures. Dutta, Monoronjon, Md Rashedul Islam Sujan, Mayen Uddin Mojumdar, Narayan Ranjan Chakraborty, Ahmed Al Marouf, Jon G. Rokne, and Reda Alhajj. Technologies . (2024)
- Genomic Biomarker Discovery in Disease Progression and Therapy Response in Bladder Cancer Utilizing Machine Learning. Konstantinos Christos Liosis, Ahmed Al Marouf, Jon G Rokne, Sunita Ghosh, Tarek A Bismar, Reda Alhajj. Cancers . (2023)
- MCNN-LSTM: Combining cnn and lstm to classify multi-class text in imbalanced news data. Khan Md Hasib, Sami Azam, Asif Karim, Ahmed Al Marouf, FM Javed Mehedi Shamrat, Sidratul Montaha, Kheng Cher Yeo, Mirjam Jonkman, Reda Alhajj, Jon G Rokne. IEEE Access. (2023)
- An Efficient Approach to Predict Eye Diseases from Symptoms Using Machine Learning and Ranker-Based Feature Selection Methods. Ahmed Al Marouf, Md Mozaharul Mottalib, Reda Alhajj, Jon Rokne, and Omar Jafarullah. Bioengineering . (2023)
- Detecting and Understanding Sentiment Trends and Emotion Patterns of Twitter Users—A Study on the Demise of a Bollywood Celebrity.. Ahmed Al Marouf, Jon G. Rokne, and Reda Alhajj. Big Data and Cognitive Computing. (2022)
- Leveraging Smartphone Sensors for Detecting Abnormal Gait for Smart Wearable Mobile Technologies. Md. Shahriar Tasjid, Ahmed Al Marouf. International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies. (2021)
- Leveraging Sensor Fusion and Sensor-Body Position for Activity Recognition for Wearable Mobile Technologies. Ashraful Alam, Anik Das, Md. Shahriar Tasjid, Ahmed Al Marouf. International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies . (2021)
- Comparative Analysis of Feature Selection Algorithms for Computational Personality Prediction from Social Media. Ahmed Al Marouf, Md. Kamrul Hasan, Hasan Mahmud. IEEE Transactions of Computational Social Systems. (2020)
More Information
- CPSC 471 - Database Management Systems (Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Winter 2022, Winter 2025)
- CPSC 331 - Data Structures, Algorithms, and Their Analysis (Spring 2024)
- CPSC 559 - Introduction to Distributed Systems (Winter 2024)
- DATA 201 - Thinking with Data (Spring 2022, Spring 2023)
- CPSC 571/671 - Design and Implementation of Database Systems (Winter 2023, Winter 2024)
- CPSC 217 - Introduction to Computer Science for Multidisciplinary Studies I (Spring 2022)
- The President of Bangladeshi Scholars' Association (BSA) at the University of Calgary (October 2023 - September 2024)
- Events Organized: BSA Night 2023 (Freshers Reception of Bangladeshi Graduate Students & Alumni Reunion), BSA Career Talks, Three-minute Thesis Presentations, Sports Competitions (Royal Arbour Bengal Cricket Cup 2024 Powered by BSA), and Community Engagement Symposium 2024 in association with the Department of Community Health Sciences.
- Vice-President Operations of Bangladeshi Scholars' Association (BSA) at the University of Calgary (October 2023 - September 2024)
- Events Organized: Alumni Reunion, Cultural Events, and BBQ with Bangladeshi graduate students.
Journal Reviewer:
- 2025 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Health and Medicine
- IEEE Transactions on Biomedical and Health Informatics
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH)
- Springer Nature Social Network Analysis and Mining
- IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
- ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing
- MDPI - Cancers, Bioengineering, Onco, Technologies
Organizing Volunteer:
- 2020 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, 7-10 December 2020.
Organizing Secretary:
- International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence (IJCACI), 20-21 November 2020.
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