Prof. Md. Asraful Alam
Prof. Md. Asraful Alam Professor, Department of Statistics and Data Science

PROFILE

SHORT BIOGRAPHY

Prof. Md. Asraful Alam is currently working as a Professor of Statistics at Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka-1342, Bangladesh. He was 1st class 1st both in B.Sc. (Honors) and M.Sc. (Thesis) in Statistics from Jahangirnagar University in the years 2004 and 2005, respectively. He was also awarded MPhil degree from the Department of Statistics of the same University in 2017.

Prof. Asraf started his teaching career as a Lecturer in Statistics at the faculty of Business Studies of ASA University, Bangladesh in 2008. Then he joined as a Lecturer in Statistics at the faculty of Business Administration of American International University, Bangladesh in 2009.

 In the year 2010, he joined at the Department of Statistics, Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur as a Lecturer in Statistics. Before joining Jahangirnagar University as an Assistant Professor in 2014, he served at the Department of Statistics, Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur as a Lecturer and an Assistant Professor from 2010 to 2014.

Prof. Asraf has about 15 years of teaching and research experience in different fields of Statistics like Regression Analysis, Econometrics, Multivariate Analysis, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Sampling Techniques, Actuarial Statistics, Probability Distributions, Statistical Inference, etc.

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RESEARCH INTEREST

Regression Analysis, Econometrics, Multivariate Analysis, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Sampling Techniques, Statistical Inference, etc.

JOURNAL PAPER

Nahid Salma, Sadia Rahman Lira, Md. Asraful Alam, Shohel Mahmud, Performance evaluation of different seasonal adjustment techniques, International Journal of Statistics and Applied Mathematics, 8, 1, pp.40-45, 2023.
Nishith Kumar, Md. Najibul Hasan, Md. Mamunar Rashid, Shethika Paul & Md. Asraful Alam, Blockwise Robust Singular Value Decomposition for MRI Brain Image Denoising, International Journal for Multidisciplinary Research (IJFMR), 5, 1, 2023.
Indrani Sarker, Nahid Salma, Sumaiya Shafayet Supti, Sauda Mubarak, Farhana Afrin Duti, Md. Asraful Alam & Mizanur Rahman Zihad, Working Women’s Mental Health Status Of Bangladesh During COVID-19 Pandemic: An Online Based Survey, Research & Reviews: Journal of Statistics, 11, 3, 2022.
Mahade Hasan, Md. Asraful Alam & Rokeya Begum, Prospects and practices of forensic accounting to address the financial crimes: insight from an emerging economy, The Bangladesh Accountant, 2022.
Md. Moyazzem Hossain, Md. Asraful Alam & Monirul Hasan Masum, Prevalence of anxiety, depression, and stress among students of Jahangirnagar University in Bangladesh, Health science Reports, 5, 2, 2022.
Mohammad Alamgir Kabir & Md. Asraful Alam, An alternative approach for characterizing cigarettes smoking among Bangladesh, Jahangirnagar University Journal of Science, 41, 1, pp.11-30, 2018.
Md. Habibur Rahman, Farhana Afrin Duty & Md. Asraful Alam, Fitting of probability distribution on the pre-monsoon precipitation of different locations in Bangladesh, Research & Reviews: Journal of Statistics, 6, 3, pp.34-47, 2017.
Md. Asraful Alam, Md. Siddikur Rahman & Md. Shahajada Mia, Selection of appropriate artificial neural network model for predicting monthly exchange rate (Taka per US dollar), Research and Reviews: Journal of Statistics, 6, 2, pp.30-34, 2017.
Md. Asraful Alam, Farhana Afrin Duty & Ajit Kumar Majumder, Comparison of constrained and unconstrained stochastic frontier production function in terms of efficiency of the estimates and powers of the tests-a Monte-Carlo simulation approach, Jahangirnagar University Journal of Statistical Studies, 34, pp.59-68, 2017.
Md. Moyazzem Hossain, Md. Asraful Alam & Md. Kamal Uddin, Application of stochastic frontier production function on small banana growers of Kushtia district in Bangladesh, Journal of Statistics Applications & Probability, 4, 2, pp.337-342, 2015.
Alam, M.A., Rois, R. & Majumder, A.K., Measuring the factors of examination performance-a stochastic frontier production function: case study on Jahangirnagar University, ASA University Review, 5, 9, 2011.
Alam, M.A. & Shahjaman, M., Socio-demographic factors associated with cigarette smoking: a case study among the students of Begum Rokeya University, International Journal of Social Development & Information System, 2, 1, pp.26-30, 2011.

Teaching

Course Code Course Title Semester/Year
Sampling Techniques Stat 303 2021
Regression Analysis Stat 203 2021

Academic Info

Institute: Department of Statistics , Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka-1342, Bangladesh
Period: 2017

Awarded MPhil degree

Institute: Department of Statistics , Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka-1342, Bangladesh
Period: 2005

M.Sc. (Thesis) in Statistics

1st class 1st 

Institute: Department of Statistics , Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka-1342, Bangladesh
Period: 2004

B.Sc. (Honors) in Statistics 

1st class 1st

Experience

Organization: Department of Statistics, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka-1342, Bangladesh
Position: Professor
Period: From 26 June 2023 till now
Organization: Department of Statistics, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka-1342, Bangladesh
Position: Associate Professor
Period: From 30 November 2017 to 25 June 2023
Organization: Department of Statistics, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka-1342, Bangladesh
Position: Assistant Professor
Period: From 15 September 2014 to 29 November 2017
Organization: Department of Statistics, Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur
Position: Assistant Professor
Period: From 17 December 2011 to 14 September 2014
Organization: Department of Statistics, Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur
Position: Lecturer
Period: From 2 January 2010 to 16 December 2011
Organization: Faculty of Business Administration, American International University, Bangladesh
Position: Lecturer
Period: From 01 October 2009 to 31 December 2009
Organization: Faculty of Business Studies, ASA University, Bangladesh
Position: Lecturer
Period: From 09 September 2008 to 30 September 2009

Contact

Prof. Md. Asraful Alam

Professor
Department of Statistics and Data Science
Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka-1342, Bangladesh.
Cell Phone: +8801712211286
Email: asraf@juniv.edu , asraf_jub@yahoo.com, ashrafjub@gmail.com