- Faculty
- Faculty Faculty of Sciences and Engineering
- Research Interest
- Robust statistical methods, outlier detection, regression diagnostics, multivariate analysis, econometric methods, data mining, statistical machine learning, the application of advanced statistical and machine learning methods to public health, medical, and epidemiological data for predictive modeling, causal inference, and health policy evaluation.
- Teaching Materials
- Teaching Areas: Statistics, Applied Statistics, Data Science. Course Taught: Regression Analysis, Advanced Regression Analysis, Econometrics, Multivariate Statistical Analysis, Nonparametric Statistics, Survey sampling methods, Population Studies, Statistical computing (R, SPSS, Minitab), Statistical Quality Control, Mathematical Statistics, Basic Experimental Design, Elements of Statistics, Probability Distribution, Probability and Statistics (Engineers, Pharmacy, Genetics, Business), Differential & Integral Calculus, Applied Mathematics for Business and Economics, Data Management, Mathematical and Statistical Methods.
- Academic Background
- Ph.D. (Statistics), University Putra Malaysia M.Sc. (Statistics), University of Rajshahi B.Sc.(Statistics), University of Rajshahi
- Awards & Achievements
- Awards: Vice Chancellor Award for Excellent Teaching in 2014, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 2015. University Excellent service Award, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 2012. Most active lecturer in student Learning Management System, Faculty of Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 2013 . University excellent service certificate (Staff Performance Evaluation KPI= 92.47%), Universiti Putra Malaysia, 2011. University excellent service certificate (Staff Performance Evaluation, KPI = 89.42%), Universiti Putra Malaysia, 2012 . University excellent service certificate (Staff Performance Evaluation, KPI = 96.10%), Universiti Putra Malaysia, 2013. University excellent service certificate (Staff Performance Evaluation, KPI = 97.28%), Universiti Putra Malaysia, 2014. Gold Medal, Research and Innovation Exhibition, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 2012. Silver Medal, Research and Innovation Exhibition, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 2012. Silver Medal, Research and Innovation Exhibition, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 2011. Bronze Medal, Research and Innovation Exhibition, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 2010. Silver Medal, Research and Innovation Exhibition, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 2009. Gold Medal, Outstanding academic result for BSc (hons.) and MSc, Rajshahi University, Bangladesh, 2003. Achievements: Research grants Co-researcher: Assessing the Reuse Potential of Water Collected from the Air Conditioning Units of East West University: A Pilot Study on Air Condensate Harvesting, Amount : 2515000 taka, Grant no: EWUCRT-RG-17(20)/2025(7), Approved on: 25 September 2025 ( Continue ). Leader: Robust Imputation and Estimation of Missing Values in the presence of Outliers, Amount: RM40,000, GP-IPM/2013/9424500, Completed. Leader: On Errors of Measurements in Regression Analysis in the presence of outliers, Amount: RM 17,000, Grant No. 05-05-11-1561RU/9313000, Completed. Co-researcher: Robust Gage Repeatability and Reproducibility (Gage R&R) Study In the Presence of Outliers, Amount: RM40,000, Grant No. GP-IPM/2013/9424600, Completed. Co-researcher: Robust Variable Selection Techniques in Linear Regression in the Presence of Outliers, Amount: RM68,000.00, Grant No. ERGS/1-2012/5527118, completed. Co-researcher: High Leverage Collinearity Influential Observations and New Robust Ridge Estimator for Logistic Regression, Amount: RM 88,850, Grant No. 02-02-13-13-1378FR/5524459, completed.
- Selected Publications
- Journal / Book Chapter Publication Conference & Seminars Book Saha S, Rana S. , Reza, A. W., & Amin, M. R. (2026) Unmasking Adversarial Attacks Using a Robust XAI-Driven Approach for Secure Medical Image Classification. Scientific Reports ( Q1 , Nature Portfolio). Accepted for publication (2026). Saha, S., Rana, S. (2026) Heterogeneous wealth-related differences in modern contraceptive use in Bangladesh: a machine learning-based g-computation analysis of the DHS 2022 cross-sectional survey. Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition ( Q1 , Springer Nature), 2026. DOI: 10.1186/s41043-026-01371-1 Saha, S., Rana, S. (2025). Explainable AI in Healthcare: Clinical Decision Support and Diagnostic Systems. In Explainable AI in Critical Domains: From Theory to Trusted Applications, Chapter 7. Nova Science Publishers, Inc. (Accepted). [Book Chapter] Rana S ., Mamun, A.S.M.A, Rahman F.M. , and Elgohari H. (2023). Outliers as a Source of Overdispersion in Poisson Regression Modelling: Evidence from Simulation and Real Data. International Journal of Statistical Sciences. Vol. 23. Page. 31-37. DOI: 10.3329/ijss.v23i2.70105. Rana S ., Adamu, MM, Elgohari H (2022). A New Approach of Using the Goldfeld-Quandt Test of Heteroscedasticity for Multiple Linear Regression, International Journal of Agricultural and Statistical Sciences , Vol. 18 (2), pp. 697-703. Mamun, A.S.M.A, Zubairi, YZ, Hussin, A.G, Imon, A. H. M. R , Rana, S. & Carrasco, J. (2022). Identification of influential observation in linear structural relationship model with known slope, Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation, 51(1), 72-83, DOI: 10.1080/03610918.2019.1645172 Baba I, Midi H, Gafurjan, I, and Rana S , (2022). A new optimization scheme for robust design modeling with unbalanced data, Sains Malaysiana , , Vol. 51(5), 1577-1586. Rana S ., Eshita, NN, and Mamun, ASMA (2021). Robust Normality Test in the Presence of Outliers, Journal of Physics: Conference Series , 1863 (2021) 012009. Mamun, A.S.M.A, Imon., A.H.M.R, Zubairi, YZ, Hussin, A.G, Rana, S. (2020). Identification of High Leverage Points in Linear Functional Relationship Model, P akistan Journal of Statistics and Operation Research . Vol. 16(3), pp 491-500. Mamun, A.S.M.A, Zubairi, YZ, Hussin, A.G, Rana, S. (2020). A Modified Maximum Likelihood Estimator for the Parameters of Linear Structural Relationship Model, Malaysian Journal of Mathematical Sciences , Vol. 14(2), pp. 209–220. Rana S ., Elgohari H. and Islam M.F (2019). Temperature Modeling of Rangpur Division, Bangladesh : A Comparative Study between Artificial Neural Network and Linear Regression model, International Journal of Agricultural and Statistical Sciences , Vol. 15(1), pp 123-130. Islam MR, Rana MS, Hossain MM et al. (2019) Determining the l x and estimating the force of mortality for children under five in Bangladesh. F1000Research , 8:2045. Saadati, M, Bagheri, A and Rana, S (2018). Application of Classification and Regression Trees Algorithm to Classify Children Ever Born: BDHS 2011, Malaysian Journal of Mathematical Sciences, 12(3), pp. 401–419. Sleabi, W.D., Rana, S. , Alshaybawee, T and Midi, H. (2018). The single-index support vector regression model to address the problem of high dimensionality, Communications in Statistics – Simulation and Computation, 47 (9), pp. 2792-2799. Rana, S. , Sleabi, W.D. and Midi, H. (2018). Fixed Parameters Support Vector Regression for Outlier Detection. Economic Computation and Economic Cybernetics Studies and Research. 52(2), pp. 267-292. Ahmed Kadom, A, Midi, H. and Rana, S. (2018) The Performance of k -means Clustering Method based on Robust Principal Components, Far East Journal of Mathematical Sciences , 103(11), pp. 1757-1767. Sleabi, W.D., Rana, S. and Midi, H. (2017). A high breakdown, high efficiency and bounded influence modified GM estimator based on support vector regression, Journal of Applied Statistics, 44 (4), pp. 700-714. Uraibi, H, Midi, H. and Rana, S. (2017). Selective o
- Professional Experience
- Period Position and Institute 2024 to date Professor, East West University. 2019 – 2024 Associate Professor, East West University. 2016 – 2019 Assistant Professor, East West University. 2010 – 2016 Senior Lecturer/ Assistant Professor, University Putra Malaysia. 2011– 2016 Associate researcher, Institute for Mathematical Research, University Putra Malaysia. 2008 – 2010 Graduate Research Fellow, Institute for Mathematical Research, University Putra Malaysia. 2006 – 2007 Lecturer of Statistics ( contract ), Department of Mathematics, Government Shahid Titumir University College, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
- Affiliation Professional Membership
- Life Member, Malaysia Institute of Statistics, 2013-to date. Life Member, Bangladesh Statistical Association, 2014- to date. Member, IAENG international Association of engineering, 2013-to date. Editorial Board Member, Bangladesh Army University of Science & Technology (BAUET) Journal, 2016-to date. Editorial Board Member, Horus International Journal of Business Research, 2025-to date.