Prof Rajib Rana

NameProf Rajib Rana
Email Addressrajib.rana@unisq.edu.au
Job TitleProfessor (Computer Science)
QualificationsPhD UNSW
DepartmentSchool of Mathematics, Physics and Computing
ORCIDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0506-2409 (unauthenticated)
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PhD
UNSW
2011

Current Supervisions

Research TitleSupervisor TypeLevel of StudyCommenced
Bridging the Gap: AI-Driven Tools for Enhancing Youth Mental Health InterventionsAssociate SupervisorDoctoral2025
Applications of Artificial Intelligence for early detection of neurodegenerative disordersPrincipal SupervisorDoctoral2025
Call Center Service Training and Quality Improvement SystemPrincipal SupervisorDoctoral2025
Monitoring Student Mental Health in Schools: The Utility and Feasibility of Data Analytics for Universal ScreeningAssociate SupervisorDoctoral2023
Improving the Robustness of Automatic Speech Emotion Recognition System against Adversarial AttackPrincipal SupervisorDoctoral2021
Advanced Deep Learning for Speech Emotion Recognition: Enabling Emotion-Aware Human-Machine InteractionPrincipal SupervisorDoctoral2019

Completed Supervisions

Research TitleSupervisor TypeLevel of StudyCompleted
Inferring mood from phone conversation without any human interventionPrincipal SupervisorDoctoral2024
Deep Representation Learning for Speech Emotion RecognitionPrincipal SupervisorDoctoral2022

Feasibility of Mental Health Triage Call Priority Prediction Using Machine Learning

Rana, Rajib, Higgins, Niall, Haque, Kazi Nazmul, Burke, Kylie, Turner, Kathryn and Stedman, Terry. 2024. "Feasibility of Mental Health Triage Call Priority Prediction Using Machine Learning." Nursing Reports. 14 (4), pp. 4162-4172. https://doi.org/10.3390/nursrep14040303

Domain Adapting Deep Reinforcement Learning for Real-world Speech Emotion Recognition

Rajapakshe, Thejan, Rana, Rajib, Khalifa, Sara and Schuller, Björn W.. 2024. "Domain Adapting Deep Reinforcement Learning for Real-world Speech Emotion Recognition." IEEE Access. 12, pp. 193101-193114. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3519761

Dual-Phase Neural Networks for Feature Extraction and Ensemble Learning for Recognizing Human Health Activities

Dhar, Joy, Rana, Kapil, Goyal, Puneet, Alavi, Azadeh, Rana, Rajib, Vo, Bao Quoc, Mishr, Sudeepta and Mistry, Sajib. 2024. "Dual-Phase Neural Networks for Feature Extraction and Ensemble Learning for Recognizing Human Health Activities." Applied Soft Computing. 169. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2024.112550

A Systematic Review Protocol of Child Mental Health Screening Tools and Systems

Terlich, Rebecca Jane, Krishnamoorthy, Govind, March, Sonja, Fein, Erich, Rana, Rajib and Koirala, Ishwar. 2024. "A Systematic Review Protocol of Child Mental Health Screening Tools and Systems." OSF Registries. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/YN6HB

emoDARTS: Joint Optimization of CNN and Sequential Neural Network Architectures for Superior Speech Emotion Recognition

Rajapakshe, Thejan, Rana, Rajib, Khalifa, Sara, Sisman, Berrak, Schuller, Björn W. and Busso, Carlos. 2024. "emoDARTS: Joint Optimization of CNN and Sequential Neural Network Architectures for Superior Speech Emotion Recognition." IEEE Access. 12, pp. 110492-110503. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3439604

HGSOXGB: Hunger-Games-Search-Optimization-Based Framework to Predict the Need for ICU Admission for COVID-19 Patients Using eXtreme Gradient Boosting

Pinki, Farhana Tazmim, Awal, Md Abdul, Mumenin, Khondoker Mirazu, Hossain, Md. Shahadat, Faysal, Jabed Al, Rana, Rajib, Almuqren, Rajib, Ksibi, Amel and Samad, Md Abdus. 2023. "HGSOXGB: Hunger-Games-Search-Optimization-Based Framework to Predict the Need for ICU Admission for COVID-19 Patients Using eXtreme Gradient Boosting." Mathematics. 11 (18). https://doi.org/10.3390/math11183960

A novel employability embedding framework for three-year bachelor’s programs

Rana, Rajib, Galligan, Linda, Fard, Rouz and McCredie, Tessa. 2023. "A novel employability embedding framework for three-year bachelor’s programs." Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability. 14 (1), pp. 104-118. https://doi.org/10.21153/jtlge2023vol14no1art1604

Natural Language Processing in Electronic Health Records in relation to healthcare decision-making: A systematic review

Hossain, Elias, Rana, Rajib, Higgins, Niall, Soar, Jeffrey, Barua, Prabal Datta, Pisani, Anthony R. and Turner, Kathryn. 2023. "Natural Language Processing in Electronic Health Records in relation to healthcare decision-making: A systematic review." Computers in Biology and Medicine. 155. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2023.106649

Improving the Domain Adaptation of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Models for Open Domain Question Answering

Siriwardhana, Shamane, Weerasekera, Rivindu, Wen, Elliott, Kaluarachchi, Tharindu, Rana, Rajib and Nanayakkara, Suranga. 2023. "Improving the Domain Adaptation of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Models for Open Domain Question Answering." Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics. 11, pp. 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1162/tacl_a_00530

Speech Synthesis with Mixed Emotions

Zhou, Kun, Sisman, Berrak, Rana, R., Schuller, Bjorn W. and Li, Haizhou. 2023. "Speech Synthesis with Mixed Emotions." IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. 14 (4), pp. 3120-3134. https://doi.org/10.1109/TAFFC.2022.3233324

Multitask Learning From Augmented Auxiliary Data for Improving Speech Emotion Recognition

Latif, Siddique, Rana, Rajib, Khalifa, Sara, Jurdak, Raja and Schuller, Bjorn W.. 2023. "Multitask Learning From Augmented Auxiliary Data for Improving Speech Emotion Recognition ." IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. 14 (4), pp. 3164-3176. https://doi.org/10.1109/TAFFC.2022.3221749

Emotion Intensity and its Control for Emotional Voice Conversion

Zhou, Kun, Sisman, Berrak, Rana, Rajib, Schuller, Bjorn W. and Li, Haizhou. 2023. "Emotion Intensity and its Control for Emotional Voice Conversion." IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. 14 (1), pp. 31-48. https://doi.org/10.1109/TAFFC.2022.3175578

Self Supervised Adversarial Domain Adaptation for Cross-Corpus and Cross-Language Speech Emotion Recognition

Latif, Siddique, Rana, Rajib, Khalifa, Sara, Jurdak, Raja and Schuller, Bjorn. 2023. "Self Supervised Adversarial Domain Adaptation for Cross-Corpus and Cross-Language Speech Emotion Recognition." IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. 14 (3), pp. 1912-1926. https://doi.org/10.1109/TAFFC.2022.3167013

Multi-Task Semi-Supervised Adversarial Autoencoding for Speech Emotion Recognition

Latif, Siddique, Rana, Rajib, Khalifa, Sara, Jurdak, Raja, Epps, Julien and Schuller, Bjorn W.. 2022. "Multi-Task Semi-Supervised Adversarial Autoencoding for Speech Emotion Recognition." IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. 13 (2), pp. 992-1004. https://doi.org/10.1109/TAFFC.2020.2983669

A Novel Policy for Pre-trained Deep Reinforcement Learning for Speech Emotion Recognition

Rajapakshe, Thejan, Rana, Rajib, Khalifa, Sara, Liu, Jiajun and Schuller, Bjorn W. 2022. "A Novel Policy for Pre-trained Deep Reinforcement Learning for Speech Emotion Recognition." Abramson, David and Dinh, Minh Ngoc (ed.) 2022 Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW 2022). Brisbane, Australia 14 - 17 Feb 2022 United States. https://doi.org/10.1145/3511616.3513104

SigRep: Towards Robust Wearable Emotion Recognition with Contrastive Representation Learning

Dissanayake, Vipula, Seneviratne, Sachith, Rana, Rajib, Wen, Elliot, Kaluarachchi, Tharindu and Nanayakkara, Suranga. 2022. "SigRep: Towards Robust Wearable Emotion Recognition with Contrastive Representation Learning." IEEE Access. 10, pp. 18105-18120. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3149509

Survey of Deep Representation Learning for Speech Emotion Recognition

Latif, Siddique, Rana, Rajib, Khalifa, Sara, Jurdak, Raja, Qadir, Junaid and Schuller, Bjorn. 2023. "Survey of Deep Representation Learning for Speech Emotion Recognition." IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. 14 (2), pp. 1634-1654. https://doi.org/10.1109/TAFFC.2021.3114365

Guided Generative Adversarial Neural Network for Representation Learning and Audio Generation using Fewer Labelled Audio Data

Haque, Kazi Nazmul, Rana, Rajib, Liu, Jiajun, Hansen, John H. L., Cummins, Nicholas, Busso, Carlos and Schuller, Bjorn W.. 2021. "Guided Generative Adversarial Neural Network for Representation Learning and Audio Generation using Fewer Labelled Audio Data." IEEE ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing. 29, pp. 2575-2590. https://doi.org/10.1109/TASLP.2021.3098764

Towards a Compressive-Sensing-Based Lightweight Encryption Scheme for the Internet of Things

Xue, Wanli, Luo, Chengwen, Shen, Yiran, Rana, Rajib, Lan, Guohao, Jha, Sanjay, Seneviratne, Aruna and Hu, Wen. 2021. "Towards a Compressive-Sensing-Based Lightweight Encryption Scheme for the Internet of Things." IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. 20 (10), pp. 3049-3065. https://doi.org/10.1109/TMC.2020.2992737

Development Data of Mood Inference Engine

Rana, Rajib. Development Data of Mood Inference Engine. Springfield. https://doi.org/10.26192/PV1J-E485

High-fidelity audio generation and representation learning with guided adversarial autoencoder

Haque, Kazi Nazmul, Rana, Rajib and Schuller, Bjorn W.. 2020. "High-fidelity audio generation and representation learning with guided adversarial autoencoder." IEEE Access. 8, pp. 223509-223528. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3040797

Deep Architecture Enhancing Robustness to Noise, Adversarial Attacks, and Cross-corpus Setting for Speech Emotion Recognition

Latif, Siddique, Rana, Rajib, Khalifa, Sara, Jurdak, Raja and Schuller, Bjorn W.. 2020. "Deep Architecture Enhancing Robustness to Noise, Adversarial Attacks, and Cross-corpus Setting for Speech Emotion Recognition." 21st Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association: Cognitive Intelligence for Speech Processing (INTERSPEECH 2020). Shanghai, China 25 - 29 Oct 2020 France. https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2020-3190

Augmenting Generative Adversarial Networks for Speech Emotion Recognition

Latif, Siddique, Asim, Muhammad, Rana, Rajib, Khalifa, Sara, Jurdak, Raja and Schuller, Bjorn W.. 2020. "Augmenting Generative Adversarial Networks for Speech Emotion Recognition." 21st Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association: Cognitive Intelligence for Speech Processing (INTERSPEECH 2020). Shanghai, China 25 - 29 Oct 2020 France. https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2020-3194

Federated Learning for Speech Emotion Recognition Applications

Latif, Siddique, Khalifa, Sara, Rana, Rajib and Jurdak, Raja. 2020. "Federated Learning for Speech Emotion Recognition Applications." 19th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2020). Sydney, Australia 21 - 24 Apr 2020 United States. https://doi.org/10.1109/IPSN48710.2020.00-16

Direct modelling of speech emotion from raw speech

Latif, Siddique, Rana, Rajib, Khalifa, Sara, Jurdak, Raja and Epps, Julien. 2019. "Direct modelling of speech emotion from raw speech." 20th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association: Crossroads of Speech and Language (INTERSPEECH 2019). Graz, Austria 15 - 19 Sep 2019 France. https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2019-3252

Automated screening for distress: A perspective for the future

Rana, Rajib, Latif, Siddique, Gururajan, Raj, Gray, Anthony, Mackenzie, Geraldine, Humphris, Gerald and Dunn, Jeff. 2019. "Automated screening for distress: A perspective for the future." European Journal of Cancer Care. 28 (4). https://doi.org/10.1111/ecc.13033

A novel framework for distress detection through an automated speech processing system

Rana, Rajib, Gururajan, Raj, Mackenzie, Geraldine, Dunn, Jeff, Gray, Anthony, Zhou, Xujuan, Barua, Prabal Datta, Epps, Julien and Humphris, Gerald Michael. 2018. "A novel framework for distress detection through an automated speech processing system." 2018 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2018). Santiago, Chile 03 - 06 Dec 2018 Los Alamitos, CA, United States. https://doi.org/10.1109/WI.2018.00-29

Phonocardiographic sensing using deep learning for abnormal heartbeat detection

Latif, Siddique, Usman, Muhammad, Rana, Rajib and Qadir, Junaid. 2018. "Phonocardiographic sensing using deep learning for abnormal heartbeat detection." IEEE Sensors Journal. 18 (22), pp. 9393-9400. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2018.2870759

Variational Autoencoders to Learn Latent Representations of Speech Emotion

Latif, Siddique, Rana, Rajib, Qadir, Junaid and Epps, Julien. 2018. "Variational Autoencoders to Learn Latent Representations of Speech Emotion." 19th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association: Speech Research for Emerging Markets in Multilingual Societies (INTERSPEECH 2018). Hyderabad, India 02 - 06 Sep 2018 France. https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2018-1568

Transfer learning for improving speech emotion classification accuracy

Latif, Siddique, Rana, Rajib, Younis, Shahzad, Qadir, Junaid and Epps, Julien. 2018. "Transfer learning for improving speech emotion classification accuracy." 19th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association: Speech Research for Emerging Markets in Multilingual Societies (INTERSPEECH 2018). Hyderabad, India 02 - 06 Sep 2018 France. https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2018-1625

EEG source localization using a sparsity prior based on Brodmann areas

Saha, Sajib, Nesterets, Yakov, Rana, Rajib, Tahtali, Murat, de Hoog, Frank and Gureyev, Timur. 2017. "EEG source localization using a sparsity prior based on Brodmann areas." International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology. 27 (4), pp. 333-344. https://doi.org/10.1002/ima.22236

Evaluating the performance of BSBL methodology for EEG source localization on a realistic head model

Saha, Sajib, Rana, Rajib, Nesterets, Yakov, Tahtali, Murat, de Hoog, Frank and Gureyev, Timur. 2017. "Evaluating the performance of BSBL methodology for EEG source localization on a realistic head model." International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology. 27 (1), pp. 46-56. https://doi.org/10.1002/ima.22209

Kryptein: A Compressive-Sensing-Based Encryption Scheme for the Internet of Things

Xue, Wanli, Luo, Chengwen, Lan, Guohao, Rana, Rajib, Hu, Wen and Seneviratne, Aruna. 2017. "Kryptein: A Compressive-Sensing-Based Encryption Scheme for the Internet of Things." Zhang, Pei, Dutta, Prabal and Xing, Guoliang (ed.) 16th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2017). Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 18 - 21 Apr 2017 United States. https://doi.org/10.1145/3055031.3055079

IEEE Access special section editorial: health informatics for the developing world

Qadir, Junaid, Mujeeb-U-Rahman, Muhammad, Rehmani, Mubashir Husain, Pathan, Al-Sakib Khan, Imran, Muhammad Ali, Hussain, Amir, Rana, Rajib and Luo, Bin. 2017. "IEEE Access special section editorial: health informatics for the developing world." IEEE Access. 5, pp. 27818-27823. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2783118

Mobile health in the Developing World: review of literature and lessons from a case study

Latif, Siddique, Rana, Rajib, Qadir, Junaid, Ali, Anwaar, Imran, Muhammad Ali and Younis, Muhammad Shahzad. 2017. "Mobile health in the Developing World: review of literature and lessons from a case study." IEEE Access. 5, pp. 11540-11556. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2710800

Gait velocity estimation using time-interleaved between consecutive passive IR sensor activations

Rana, Rajib, Austin, Daniel, Jacobs, Peter G., Karunanithi, Mohanraj and Kaye, Jeffrey. 2016. "Gait velocity estimation using time-interleaved between consecutive passive IR sensor activations." IEEE Sensors Journal. 16 (16), pp. 6351-6358. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2016.2577708

wHealth - transforming telehealth services

Rana, Rajib, Hume, Margee, Reilly, John and Soar, Jeffrey. 2016. "wHealth - transforming telehealth services." EAI Endorsed Transactions on Scalable Information Systems. 3 (8). https://doi.org/10.4108/eai.9-8-2016.151635

Context-driven mood mining

Rana, Rajib. 2016. "Context-driven mood mining." 14th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys 2016). Singapore 25 - 30 Jun 2016 United States. https://doi.org/10.1145/2938559.2938601

Opportunistic and context-aware affect sensing on smartphones: the concept, challenges and opportunities

Rana, Rajib, Hume, Margee, Reilly, John, Jurdak, Raja and Soar, Jeffrey. 2016. "Opportunistic and context-aware affect sensing on smartphones: the concept, challenges and opportunities." IEEE Pervasive Computing. 15 (2), pp. 60-69. https://doi.org/10.1109/MPRV.2016.36

Demo Abstract: CScrypt - A Compressive-Sensing-Based Encryption Engine for the Internet of Things

Xue, Wanli, Luo, Chengwen, Rana, Rajib, Hu, Wen and Seneviratne, Aruna. 2016. "Demo Abstract: CScrypt - A Compressive-Sensing-Based Encryption Engine for the Internet of Things." 14th ACM Conference on Embedded Network Sensor Systems (SenSys '16). Stanford, Calif, USA 14 - 16 Nov 2016 https://doi.org/10.1145/2994551.2996525

Novel activity classification and occupancy estimation methods for intelligent HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) systems

Rana, Rajib, Kusy, Brano, Wall, Josh and Hu, Wen. 2015. "Novel activity classification and occupancy estimation methods for intelligent HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) systems." Energy. 93 (1), pp. 245-255. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2015.09.002

Guiding Ebola patients to suitable health facilities: an SMS-based approach

Trad, Mohamad-Ali, Jurdak, Raja and Rana, Rajib. 2015. "Guiding Ebola patients to suitable health facilities: an SMS-based approach." F1000Research. 4 (43). https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.6105.1

Ear-phone: a context-aware noise mapping using smart phones

Rana, Rajib, Chou, Chun Tung, Bulusu, Nirupama, Kanhere, Salil and Hu, Wen. 2015. "Ear-phone: a context-aware noise mapping using smart phones." Pervasive and Mobile Computing. 17 (Part A), pp. 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmcj.2014.02.001

SimpleTrack: adaptive trajectory compression with deterministic projection matrix for mobile sensor networks

Rana, Rajib, Yang, Mingrui, Wark, Tim, Chou, Chun Tung and Hu, Wen. 2015. "SimpleTrack: adaptive trajectory compression with deterministic projection matrix for mobile sensor networks." IEEE Sensors Journal. 15 (1), pp. 365-373. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2014.2335210

Optimal sampling strategy enabling energy-neutral operations at rechargeable wireless sensor networks

Rana, Rajib, Hu, Wen and Chou, Chun Tung. 2015. "Optimal sampling strategy enabling energy-neutral operations at rechargeable wireless sensor networks." IEEE Sensors Journal. 15 (1), pp. 201-208. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2014.2337334

Real-time classification via sparse representation in acoustic sensor networks

Wei, Bo, Yang, Mingrui, Shen, Yiran, Rana, Rajib, Chou, Chun Tung and Hu, Wen. 2013. "Real-time classification via sparse representation in acoustic sensor networks." 11th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2013). Rome, Italy 11 - 15 Nov 2013 United States. https://doi.org/10.1145/2517351.2517357

Feasibility analysis of using humidex as an indoor thermal comfort predictor

Rana, Rajib, Kusy, Brano, Jurdak, Raja, Wall, Josh and Hu, Wen. 2013. "Feasibility analysis of using humidex as an indoor thermal comfort predictor." Energy and Buildings. 64, pp. 17-25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2013.04.019

Nonuniform compressive sensing for heterogeneous wireless sensor networks

Shen, Yiran, Hu, Wen, Rana, Rajib and Chou, Chun Tung. 2013. "Nonuniform compressive sensing for heterogeneous wireless sensor networks." IEEE Sensors Journal. 13 (6), pp. 2120-2128. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2013.2248253