Latifur Khan joined the

University of Texas at Dallas The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD or UT Dallas) is a public research university in Richardson, Texas. It is one of the largest public universities in the Dallas area and the northernmost institution of the University of Texas system. It wa ...

in 2000, where he has been conducting research and teaching as a Professor in the Department of

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Education

Latifur Khan has received his

B.Sc A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for programs that generally last three to five years. The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University of ...

in Computer Science from

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, commonly known by the acronym BUET, is a public technological research university in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Founded in 1876 as the Dacca Survey School, it is the oldest institution for the study ...

in 1993. He has done his

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degree in Computer Science in the

University of Southern California The University of Southern California (USC, SC, or Southern Cal) is a Private university, private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney, it is the oldest private research university in C ...

in 1996. He has also earned his

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in Computer Science from the University of Southern California in 2000.

Career

Latifur Khan is working as a Professor of Computer Science, in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas since 2012. He initially joined the University of Texas at Dallas in 2000 and has held the title of Professor, Associate Professor and Assistant Professor. Khan has primarily done research in the fields of big data management, data mining, multimedia information management and semantic web and has published over 300 papers in 40 journals, in peer reviewed conference proceedings, and in three books.

Awards and honors

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2022 of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) *

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Technical Achievement Award, 2012 *

ACM ACM or A.C.M. may refer to: Aviation * AGM-129 ACM, 1990–2012 USAF cruise missile * Air chief marshal * Air combat manoeuvring or dogfighting * Air cycle machine * Arica Airport (Colombia) (IATA: ACM), in Arica, Amazonas, Colombia Computing * ...

Distinguished Scientist, 2012 *

NSF NSF may stand for: Political organizations *National Socialist Front, a Swedish National Socialist party *NS-Frauenschaft, the women's wing of the former German Nazi party *National Students Federation, a leftist Pakistani students' political gr ...

award for MRI: Development of an Instrument for Assured Cloud Computing, 2012 * IBM Faculty Award (Research), 2016 *

award for Secure and Privacy Preserving Big Data Analytics Curriculum Development, 2017 *

of British Computer Society (BCS) *

of Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK *

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IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), and ACM transaction on Internet Technology (TOIT). These recognitions clearly demonstrate the quality of his work and authoritativeness in data mining area.

Books authored

* Design and Implementation of Data Mining Tools. * Data Mining Tools for Malware Detection. * Big Data Analytics with Applications in Insider Threat Detection. * Analyzing and Securing Social Networks. * Multimedia Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

References

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