Secured a total of $39,500 in Category 2-4 research income from external sources (25,500 in 2019 and 14,000 in 2021) and have been awarded $80,000 in eight internal (CDS) research grants of $10,000 each in 2020 to 2024. Moreover, collaborated with Professor Richi Nayak at QUT on several research consultancy projects in the area of text mining and machine learning. For PhD research, received the QUTPRA Scholarship for living cost ($86,285 Approx.) and the QUT HDR Tuition Fee Scholarship for tuition fee by Queensland University of Technology, Australia.
Besides, applied for the following grants.
• Discovery Early Career Researcher Award 2023 (Not awarded)
• Medical Research Future Fund (2021 Early to Mid-Career Researchers Grant) (Not awarded)
List of successful external grants
Funding body: Energy Queensland Limited 2019-2019
Project Title: Design and develop machine learning models of propensity to pay for Energy Queensland customers
Project duration: 21 May 2019 to 31 December 2019
Personnel and collaborators: Professor Richi Nayak (PI), Dr Md Abul Bashar (RA)
Funding body: Pallava Technologies India Pvt Ltd 2020-2021
Project Title: iShield.AI: Machine Learning to Identify Race, Gender and Age Bias
Project duration: 28 December 2020 to 28 February 2021
Personnel and collaborators: Professor Richi Nayak (PI), Dr Md Abul Bashar (RA)
List of successful internal grants
Funding body: QUT CDS First Byte Scheme (Round 2) 2020-2021
Project Title: Concurrent Domain Adaptation for Online Abuse Detection
Project duration: 3 January 2021 to 31 July 2021
Personnel and collaborators: Dr Md Abul Bashar (CI1), Dr Samuel Cunningham-Nelson (CI2), Komol Md Mostafizur Rahman (RA), Assoc. Prof. Richi Nayak (Mentor)
Funding body: QUT CDS First Byte Scheme 2020-2021
Project Title: Deep Matrix Factorization-based Misogynistic Tweets Detection
Project duration: 3 January 2021 to 31 July 2021
Personnel and collaborators: Dr Khanh Luong (CI1), Dr Thiru Balasubramaniam (CI2), Dr Md Abul Bashar (CI3), Assoc. Prof. Richi Nayak (Mentor)
Funding body: QUT CDS First Byte Scheme 2021-2021
Project Title: A Deep Matrix Factorization for Multi-class Abusive Tweet Detection
Project duration: 1 June 2021 to 30 November 2021
Personnel and collaborators: Dr Khanh Luong (CI1), Dr Md Abul Bashar (CI2), Dr Thiru Balasubramaniam (CI3), Assoc. Prof. Richi Nayak (Mentor)
Funding body: QUT CDS Second Byte Scheme 2022-2023
Project Title: Uncertainty-based multi-stage meta-fusion for multi-modal classification
Project duration: 3 January 2023 to 31 July 2023
Personnel and collaborators: Dr Md Abul Bashar (CI1), Associate Prof Leila Cuttle (CI2), Duoyi Zhang (RA), Professor Richi Nayak (Mentor)
Funding body: QUT CDS Second Byte Scheme 2023-2024
Project Title: Semi-supervised Named Entity Recognition (NER) for Cybersecurity with Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) and Reinforcement Learning
Project duration: 3 January 2024 to 31 July 2024
Personnel and collaborators: Dr Md Abul Bashar (CI1), Dr Mahinthan Chandramohan (CI2), Yue [Joy] Wang (RA), Professor Richi Nayak (Mentor)
Funding body: QUT CDS First Byte Scheme 2023-2024
Project Title: Uncertainty-guided Multi-modal Topic modeling
Project duration: 3 January 2024 to 31 July 2024
Personnel and collaborators: Dr Wathsala Mohotti (CI1), Dr Md Abul Bashar (CI2), Duoyi Zhang (RA), Professor Richi Nayak (Mentor)
Funding body: QUT CDS Second Byte Scheme 2024-2025
Project Title: Deep Learning for Understanding the Effectiveness of Corporate Disclosure and Impact on Stakeholder Response
Project duration: 3 January 2025 to 31 July 2025
Personnel and collaborators: Dr Md Abul Bashar (CI1), Dr. Husain Akareem (CI2), Deepak Uniyal (RA), Professor Richi Nayak (Mentor)