
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
- 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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.
- 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 - 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 - 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 - 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.
- 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 - 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 - 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 - 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.
- 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 - 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.
- 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 - 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 |
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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
Period: 2020-2021
Completed my 2nd master's with distinction (78%) and received Dean's List award under Commonwealth Scholarship 2020.
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.
Period: 2007-2009
Completed my higher secondary certificate with GPA 4.95 out of 5.00.
Period: 2003-2007
Completed my secondary school certificate with GPA of 5.00 out of 5.00 from Rajshahi Board.
Experience
Position: Lecturer
Period: February 2017 - April 2017
Position: Lecturer
Period: May 2017 - November 2017
Position: Lecturer
Period: November 2017 - November 2019
Position: Assistant Professor
Period: November 2019 - November 2022
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