Mohammad Tafiqur Rahman

Mohammad Tafiqur Rahman is an Associate Professor of Information Systems (IS) at the Department of Business, Marketing, and Law, University of South-Eastern Norway (USN). He received his Ph.D. in IS from the University of Agder (UiA) in 2021. He holds a solid background in the field of computing. His M.Sc. degree was awarded by KTH-Royal Institute of Technology in Software Engineering of Distributed Systems (majoring in ICT) and BS degree by North South University in Computer Engineering. In his Ph.D. thesis, Rahman focused on modeling a decision support system for operational decision-making in humanitarian logistics. The resulted system should assist decision-makers with rapidly analyze situations to make effective, efficient, and equitable decisions for humanitarian relief distribution despite lacking, conflicting, and uncertain information. For his empirical study, he exploited the mixed-methods modified e-Delphi technique that included multiple rounds of surveys and interviews. Thus, he incorporated social actors into the technological systems for generating smart solutions to the decision-making problems in humanitarian relief distribution. He used the semantic web concept in his M.Sc. thesis to provide in-depth insight on the hidden properties of the repository to app developers or app market contributors. To do so, he developed an automated system that utilized different data mining, web mining, and machine learning techniques to collect, analyze, and present required data. He is methodologically sound in using both qualitative and quantitative methods in research. Rahman is always fascinated by research to solve different challenges in practical workflows. He has already published research articles in different reputed IS-related conferences and journals that include Intl. Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD), Intl. Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management in Mediterranean Countries (ISCRAM-med), Intl. Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (IJISCRAM), Intl. Journal of Emergency Management (IJEM), Intl. Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST), Intl. Conference on Computing and Information Technology (ICCIT). Rahman’s article at ISD 2019 conference was recognized as one of the conference’s best papers, whereas his Ph.D. thesis was nominated for the Best Doctoral Thesis Award 2021from the HUMLOG Institute, Hanken School of Economics. His research interests mainly include information systems, software engineering, decision support systems, and humanitarian logistics. At USN, Rahman supports the Business school’s IT and Information Systems study program, where he teaches (WEB1100) Web Development and HCI and (APP2000) Web Application Development courses. He taught (IS104) Digital Interaction Design and (IS213) Open-source Software courses and supervised bachelor projects previously at UiA.