Professor Ashad Kabir holds a PhD in Computer Science from Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. He is an expert in applied artificial intelligence and smartphone technologies. His academic career includes appointments at several esteemed institutions, including Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), Deakin University (Australia), and Swinburne University of Technology (Australia). Professor Ashad Kabir is a distinguished teaching leader and educator with over 18 years of experience across several countries, including Australia, Singapore, France, and South Korea. In Australia, he has taught at Swinburne, Deakin, and currently at Charles Sturt University, where he also serves as the Course Coordinator of the Bachelor of Applied Research (Honours) program. He holds a Graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education and the Harvard Higher Education Teaching Certificate. His excellence in teaching has been recognised through numerous awards, including the Charles Sturt Executives Deans Teaching Award (2022), Charles Sturt Excellence Awards – Highly Commended (2023), Change One Thing Award (2023), and 1st place in the Teaching Excellence Award (2019). He was also a finalist for the Open Learning Global Innovation Award (2023) and has earned a Fellowship from Advance Higher Education (UK) in 2024. The subjects he taught include: Professor Kabir's research is centred on the application of advanced technologies—particularly artificial intelligence and smartphone sensing—to address complex challenges in the domains of health and agriculture. His research interests include He has authored over 130 scholarly articles. His research has achieved substantial international impact, as evidenced by citations in media, patents and government policy documents across countries such as Australia, Canada, and Spain, and has been awarded Editor’s Choice Article for the Year 2022 and Top Downloaded Article in 2022. His scholarly excellence has further been recognised by the Vice-Chancellor’s Research Excellence Award 2022 – Researcher of the Year (Faculty Level), and the Faculty Research Excellence Award in 2021, acknowledging his leadership, innovation, and research impact. Professor Kabir has successfully supervised over 15 PhD and Honours theses to completion. As principal supervisor, he oversaw an HDR research project that improved efficiency and competitiveness in business operations worldwide. This pioneering research was awarded a commendation for the prestigious Vice-Chancellor’s Research Excellence Award 2024 – HDR Thesis of the Year. Potential PhD/Honours students are encouraged to contact Professor Kabir via email at akabir@csu.edu.au. Professor Kabir has been involved in securing over $7.1 million in competitive research funding from various organisations, including the National Industry PhD Program, Soil CRC, Food Agility CRC, Meat & Livestock Australia, and the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry in Australia. He has successfully led and contributed to numerous industry-funded research initiatives, forming strategic partnerships that have yielded high-impact outcomes, engagements and peer-reviewed publications of international significance. His contributions have been recognised with the Vice-Chancellor's Research Excellence Award 2023 in the category of Research Excellence through Partnership. Professor Kabir contributes to the scholarly community as a member of the editorial boards for several reputable journals, including BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, PLOS ONE, Heliyon, and Frontiers in Digital Health. He has delivered keynote addresses at international conferences and has been invited to give talks at leading universities worldwide, including the University of Maryland (USA), Texas A&M University (USA), University of Toronto (Canada), York University (Canada), Athabasca University (Canada), Auckland University of Technology (New Zealand), the University of the South Pacific (Fiji), King Abdulaziz University (Saudi Arabia), and Chandigarh University (India). Professor Kabir is passionate about computer programming. He is keen to develop innovative mobile applications for domains such as elderly/healthcare, emergency management, vehicles, and social well-being. He was a Judge in the IEEEXtreme Programming Competition and IEEE Mobile Applications Development Contest. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of ACM. For more recent activities, please visit https://researchoutput.csu.edu.au/en/persons/akabircsueduau
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Professor Ashad Kabir
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