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Latifur R. Khan
Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department
University of Texas, Dallas
 
[email protected]
 
Education:
 
Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Southern California (USC), 
August,
2000; Dissertation Title: Ontology-based Information Selection, Major 
GPA:
3.86/4.00; Advisor: Professor Dennis McLeod.
 
M.S., Computer Science, University of Southern California, Dec, 1996.
 
B.Sc., Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of
Engineering and Technology, Nov, 1993, First class with honors (Second
position; overall rank top 1%).
 
Higher Secondary Certificate (equivalent to A level), First class with
honors (ranked 12th out of 81,427 examinees).
 
Secondary School Certificate (equivalent to O level), First class with
honors (ranked 9th out of 1,19,492 examinees).
 
Publications:
Journal Papers:
A Probe-Based Technique to Optimize Join Queries in Distributed 
Internet
Databases, to appear in International Journal of Knowledge and 
Information
Systems (KAIS) by Springer-Verlag (with C. Shahabi and D. McLeod).
 
Under Review:
Performance Analysis of Audio-Based Similarity Queries Using 
Clustering,
Submitted to International Journal of Knowledge and Information Systems
(KAIS) by Springer-Verlag (with M. Alshayeji, N. Jing, C. Shahabi and 
D.
McLeod).
 
An Adaptive Probe-Based Technique to Optimize Join Queries in 
Distributed
Internet Databases, Submitted to International Journal of Database
Management by IASTED (with D. McLeod and C. Shahabi).
 
Effective Ontology-based Information Selection, Submitted to the VLDB
Journal: The International Journal on Very Large Databases, Springer 
(with
D. McLeod and E. Hovy).
 
 
 
Referred Conference Papers:
Audio Structuring and Personalized Retrieval Using Ontologies, to 
appear in
IEEE Advances in Digital Libraries, Library of Congress, Washington, 
DC, May
2000 (with D. McLeod).
 
 
Effective Retrieval of Audio Information from Annotated Text Using
Ontologies, to appear in ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining,
Boston, MA, August 2000 (with D. McLeod).
 
Disambiguation of Annotated Text of Audio using Onologies, to appear in 
ACM
SIGKDD Workshop on Text Mining, Boston, MA, August 2000 (with D. 
McLeod).
 
 
Structuring and Querying Personalized Audio using Ontologies, in 
Proceedings
of ACM Multimedia, Volume 2, Orlando, FL, Nov 1999.
 
 
Run-Time Optimization of Join Queries for Distributed Databases over 
the
Internet, in Proceedings of Communication Networks and Distributed 
Systems
Modeling and Simulation (CNDS), San Francisco, CA, Jan 1999 (with C.
Shahabi, D. McLeod, and V. Shah).
 
 
Selective Placement and Replication Strategies for Storing Audio Clips 
in a
Naval Application, in Proceedings of SPIE, Boston, MA, Nov 1998 (with 
C.
Shahabi).
 
 
Improving the Performance of Audio-Based Similarity Queries with 
Clustering,
in Proceedings of ACM First International Workshop on Multimedia 
Intelligent
Storage and Retrieval Management, Orlando, FL, Nov 1999 (with C. 
Shahabi et.
al.).
 
 
Improving the Precision of Lexicon-to-Ontology Alignment Algorithms, in
Proceedings of AMTA/SIG-IL First Workshop on Interlinguas, San Diego, 
CA,
Oct 1997 (with E. Hovy).
 
 
Ph.D. Dissertation: Ontology-based Information Selection, Department of
Computer Science, University of Southern California, USC, August, 2000.
 
Technical Reports:
Structuring and Querying Personalized Audio Using Ontologies:Ph.D.
Dissertation Proposal, USC-CS-TR-00-720.
 
An Adaptive Probe-Based Technique to Optimize Join Queries in 
Distributed
Internet Databases, USC-CS-TR-00-721 (with D. McLeod and C. Shahabi).
 
Experiences:
Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Texas,
Dallas, since Sept, 2000; Responsibilities: teaching and research.
 
Graduate Research Assistant:
 
Integrated Media Systems Center, USC Sept, 1997--Aug, 2000;
Responsibilities: Research activities included being a member of 
Personal
AudioCast (PAC) project for the achievement of customization goal. 
Active
role in building the framework for the annotation and selection of 
audio.
 
Information Sciences Institute (ISI), USC Sept, 1995-Aug, 1997;
Responsibilities: Research activities included being a member of 
automatic
construction of multilingual WordNet. Active role on extraction of 
words,
parts of speech, roots, domains and synonyms from a dictionary, merging 
with
Alphnet dictionary (developed by University of Maryland, college park).
 
Graduate Teaching Assistant: Computer Science, USC Sept, 1997--May, 
1999;
Responsibilities: Duties included grading quizzes and helping students 
with
SQL assignments in graduate level database course.
 
Lecturer: Computer Science & Engineering, Bangladesh University of
Engineering and Technology, Dec, 1993 undergraduate courses on data
structures, database management systems, algorithms, queuing theory, 
and
software development.
 
 
Selected Software Projects:
 
Tools for segmentation, annotation and selection of audio information 
in
Java.
Performance measurement of join queries for distributed databases over 
the
Internet in Java.
Simulations for FIFO and fair queuing (FQ) with four senders, two 
switches
and two receivers and study their performances with different types of 
data
traffic in C.
A simple file transfer protocol program written in Java.
A conceptual database schema design for a library system using semantic 
data
model and extended entity relationship (EER) model; relational database
design; and verification by SQL queries.
Implementation of different AI search techniques in LISP.
Machine translation from English to Bengali Language for a limited 
grammar
in C.
A case study of COBOL programs and how to convert them into C.
Propose software architecture using life cycle architecture (LCA) for
technical report retrieval system of USC's engineering science library.
 
Graduate Courses:
 
Distributed Multimedia Management
Multimedia Title Development
Database Systems
Computer Communications
Broadband Network Architectures
User Interface Design
Software Engineering
Computer System Architecture
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Analysis of Algorithms
Issue of Programming Language Desgin
Natural Language Processing
Skills:
Systems: Windows95/NT, Unix (Sun Solaris).
 
Languages: Java, C, C++, FORTRAN, Pascal, LISP, Prolog, COBOL, 80X86
Assembly.
 
Activities:
Program Committee Member of ACM 2001 SYMPOSIUM ON APPLIED COMPUTING, 
March
11-14, 2001, Las Vegas, USA.
 
Program Committee Member of International Conference on Computers and
Information Technology, January, 2001 NSU, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
 
Member of Ph.D. Admission Committee, Department of Computer Science,
University of Southern California, from Sept, 1999 to May, 2000.
 
Reviewer of International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems
(IJCIS).
 
Reviewer of IEEE Advances in Digital Libraries, (IEEE ADL), 2000.
 
Reviewer, 25th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases 
(VLDB),
1999.
 
Reviewer, Fifth IFCIS Conference on Cooperative Information Systems, 
CoopIS
1998.
 
Reviewer, DEXA, 1998.
 
Honors and Awards:
National Merit Scholar (Full-tuition scholarship during undergraduate
studies).
 
Dean's List 1989-93 (Always top 1% or 2% in the class under full course
load).
 
Academic Excellency (Chancellor) Award 1984 and 1986 from the president 
of
Bangladesh.
 
Member of ACM, IEEE, SPIE, and Computer Simulation.
 
References:
Available upon request.