Md. Sifat Ar Salan
Md. Sifat Ar Salan Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Data Science

PROFILE

SHORT BIOGRAPHY

Md. Sifat Ar Salan has completed a 4-year BSc honours program and master's degree in Statistics from Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh. He secured the first position in order of merit in the BSc and MSc programs. He also secured his second MSc program in Statistics with Dean's List Award from the University of Southampton, UK in 2021 under the Commonwealth Masters Scholarship 2020. 

RESEARCH INTEREST

Statistical Modeling, Machine Learning, Big Data

All Publications

My Publications

  1. M. S. A. Salan, A. Ali, R. Amin, A. Sultana, M. A. B. Siddik, and M. A. Kabir, “Exploring the nexus of industrial production and energy consumption on co2 emissions in bangladesh through ardl bounds testing insights,” Scientific Reports, vol. 15, no. 14443, 2025.
    DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-14443 
  2. S.-E. Barket, M. R. Karim, and M. S. A. Salan, “Bayesian spatiotemporal disease mapping of covid-19 cases in bangladesh,” PloS one, vol. 20, no. 2, e0316621, 2025.
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0316621
  3. M. S. A. Salan, A. Ali, R. Amin, et al., “Evaluation of the impact of selected financial indicators on foreign direct investment in bangladesh: A nonlinear modeling approach,” The Scientific World Journal, vol. 2025, no. 1, p. 4406958, 2025.
    DOI: 10.1155/2025/4406958
  4. A. Sultana, A. Ali, M. S. A. Salan, M. A. Kabir, and M. M. Hossain, “Modeling spatial and temporal variability in educational development index of bangladesh using socio-economic, and demographic data, 2001–2021: A bayesian approach,” PloS one, vol. 20, no. 3, e0317030, 2025.
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0317030
  5. Ali, A. Sultana, M. A. B. Siddik, M. A. Kabir, and M. S. A. Salan, “Applications of hierarchical classification techniques for classifying anxiety among undergraduate admission candidates in bangladesh,” 2024.
  6. R. Amin, M. S. A. Salan, and M. M. Hossain, “Measuring the impact of responsible factors on co2 emission using generalized additive model (gam),” Heliyon, vol. 10, no. 4, 2024.
    DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e25416
  7. U. Honey, S. A. B. Saleh, M. S. A. Salan, M. A. Kabir, and A. Ali, “Exploring the relationship between blood platelet and other components utilizing count regression: A cross-sectional study in bangladesh,” Health Science Reports, vol. 7, no. 8, e70007, 2024.
    DOI: 10.1002/hsr2.70007
  8. M. A. Islam, D. J. Moloy, and M. S. A. Salan, “Developing a mixture decision tree (mdt) algorithm with k-means clustering to improve classification accuracy,” Journal of Statistics and Management Systems, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 733–749, 2024.
    DOI: 10.47974/JSMS-863
  9. M. Rahman, M. H. Chowdhury, M. S. A. Salan, and A. Ahmed, “Status of antenatal care utilization and child birth at health-facilitated places in bangladesh,” Jahangirnagar University Journal of Statistical Studies, vol. 37, no. 2023, pp. 57–67, 2024.
  10. H. Sumon, M. S. A. Salan, M. A. Kabir, A. K. Majumder, and M. M. Hossain, “Determining the influential factors of postnatal care in bangladesh using multilevel logistic regression,” PloS one, vol. 19, no. 11, e0313424, 2024.
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0313424
  11. M. S. A. Salan, M. Naznin, B. Pandit, et al., “Relationships between total reserve and financial indicators of bangladesh: Application of generalized additive model,” PloS one, vol. 18, no. 4, e0284179, 2023.
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0284179
  12. H. Sumon, M. Hossain, M. S. A. Salan, M. A. Kabir, and A. K. Majumder, “Determinants of coexisting forms of undernutrition among under-five children: Evidence from the bangladesh demographic and health surveys,” Food Science & Nutrition, vol. 11, no. 9, pp. 5258–5269, 2023.
    DOI: 10.1002/fsn3.3484
  13. R. M. Uday, S. Salman, M. R. Karim, M. S. A. Salan, M. Islam, and M. Shahriar, “Assessing the barriers to lean manufacturing adoption in the furniture industry of bangladesh: A fuzzy-dematel study,” International Journal of Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, no. ahead-of-print, 2023.
  14. M. S. A. Salan, M. M. Hossain, I. H. Sumon, M. M. Rahman, M. A. Kabir, and A. K. Majumder, “Measuring the impact of climate change on potato production in bangladesh using bayesian hierarchical spatial-temporal modeling,” PloS one, vol. 17, no. 11, e0277933, 2022.
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0277933
  15. M. M. Rahman, D. J. Moloy, and M. S. A. Salan, “Evaluating the approaches of small area estimation using poverty mapping data,” Journal of Statistical and Econometric Methods, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 1–21, 2021.
  16. M. T. Rahman, R. T. Khan, M. R. Khandaker, M. Sellathurai, and M. S. A. Salan, “An automated contact tracing approach for controlling covid-19 spread based on geolocation data from mobile cellular networks,” Ieee Access, vol. 8, pp. 213 554–213 565, 2020.
    DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3040198
  17. A. Ahmed and M. S. A. Salan, “Forecasting gdp of bangladesh using time series analysis,” International Journal of Mathematics and Statistics Invention (IJMSI), vol. 1, 2019.
  18. D. J. Moloy, A. KHAN, M. Salan, and M. Chowdhury, “Factors associated with women’s decision-making in bangladesh,” Bulletin of Mathematics and Statistics. Research, vol. 7, no. 4, p. 4, 2019.
  19. G. K. Paul, M. K. Nesa, S. K. Mondal, M. S. A. Salan, and F. N. Mim, “Application of proportional odds model in identifying contributing factor of under-five child malnutrition in bangladesh: A case study in tangail district,” Journal of Health Research and Reviews (In Developing Countries), vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 128–134, 2018.
  20. M. S. A. Salan, “Detecting factors influencing the academic performance of the university students of bangladesh,” International Journal of Statistics and Applied Mathematics, vol. 3, no. 6, pp. 22–27, 2018.
  21. M. T. Rahman, M. S. A. Salan, T. F. Shuva, and R. T. Khan, “Efficient sensor-cloud communication using data classification and compression,” International Journal of Information Technology and Computer Science (IJITCS), vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 9–17, 2017.

Teaching

Course Code Course Title Semester/Year
STAT 204 Demography 2nd Year
PMASDS19 Big Data 3rd Semester under Weekend Program
PMASDS21 Machine Learning 2nd Semester under Weekend Program
PMASDS18 Data Mining 3rd Semester under Weekend \program
STAT 406 Epidemiology and Biostatistics 4th Year
STAT 502 Advanced Classical and Bayesian Inference Masters

Academic Info

Institute: University of Southampton, UK
Period: 2020-2021

Completed my 2nd master's with distinction (78%) and received Dean's List award under Commonwealth Scholarship 2020.

Institute: Department of Statistics, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka
Period: 2010 - 2016

Completed my BSc and M.S. degree at the Department of Statistics securing 1st position in both with 3.80 and 3.98 respectively. 

Institute: Police Line School and College Rangpur.
Period: 2007-2009

Completed my higher secondary certificate with GPA 4.95 out of 5.00.

Institute: Nripendra Narayan Govt. High School, Debiganj, Panchagarh
Period: 2003-2007

Completed my secondary school certificate with GPA of 5.00 out of 5.00 from Rajshahi Board.

Experience

Organization: Primeasia University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Position: Lecturer
Period: February 2017 - April 2017
Organization: Daffodil International University, Bangladesh
Position: Lecturer
Period: May 2017 - November 2017
Organization: Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Tangail, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Position: Lecturer
Period: November 2017 - November 2019
Organization: Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Tangail, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Position: Assistant Professor
Period: November 2019 - November 2022
Organization: Jahangirnagar University
Position: Assistant Professor
Period: November 2022 - till now

Contact

Md. Sifat Ar Salan

Assistant Professor
Department of Statistics and Data Science
Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka-1342, Bangladesh.
Cell Phone: +8801710358382
Email: sifat@juniv.edu