Grants

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

1. Grant Amount: AUD 25,500 (Category 2-4)

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)

2. Grant Amount: AUD 14,000 (Category 2-4)

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

 
1. Grant Amount: AUD 10,000

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)

2. Grant Amount: AUD 10,000

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)

3. Grant Amount: AUD 10,000

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)

4. Grant Amount: AUD 10,000

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)

5. Grant Amount: AUD 10,000

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)

6. Grant Amount: AUD 10,000

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) 

7. Grant Amount: AUD 10,000

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)