Portrait of Mohammad Rifat Ahmmad Rashid

Mohammad Rifat Ahmmad Rashid, Ph.D.


Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
East West University
Aftabnagar, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh

Currently, I am serving as an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at East West University (EWU), Bangladesh. Before joining EWU, I worked as a researcher at the LINKS Foundation in the Pervasive Technologies Research Area, within the IoT Service Management Unit. Previously, I received my Ph.D. in Computer and Control Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Turin, and my Master's in Computer Engineering from the University of Pavia. My research focused on Social Media Data Integration and Event Management for Smart Cities. Before that, I obtained my B.Eng. in Computer Science and Engineering from Khulna University, Bangladesh. Regarding my Ph.D. research project, I developed a data quality assessment methodology for large-scale knowledge bases. The primary emphasis was on automated knowledge base quality assessment using evolution analysis.

Google Scholar

Research Interests: Sustainable and Applied AI, Computer Vision, Knowledge Graphs, and IoT/Blockchain-Enabled Trustworthy Systems.

Current Focus


Current working projects:

  • A Brain Computer Interface System to Control Wheelchair for Severe Mobility Impaired Persons
    Developing an assistive BCI pipeline for real-time intent decoding and safe wheelchair navigation, focused on reliability, low-latency response, and practical deployment in mobility-support scenarios.
  • Structured RAG with Graph Databases
    Building retrieval-augmented generation workflows that combine structured knowledge graphs with semantic retrieval to improve factual grounding, multi-hop reasoning, and answer traceability.
  • BCI-Based Emotion Detection with Graph Neural Networks
    Designing graph-based deep learning models to capture spatial and temporal dependencies in brain-signal data for robust emotion-state recognition and interpretable affective computing.

GitHub and Open Projects


I actively share code, datasets, and project prototypes through GitHub to support reproducible research, student collaboration, and real-world AI deployment.

GitHub Profile: https://github.com/rifat963