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My name is Anis Ur Rahman and I’m a Project Researcher at the University of Eastern Finland, in the Faculty of Science, Forestry and Technology. My role focuses on the ERC Starting Grant-funded project “Environmental thresholds for drought- and heat-related tree mortality (DRYTREE).” I will be contributing to this interdisciplinary project by developing pattern-recognition algorithms and utilizing remote sensing tools to map tree mortality across Europe and the US. This position leverages my expertise in image analysis, convolutional neural networks, high-performance computing, and managing large datasets.

A little bit about me: I did my Masters in Informatics with specialization in Parallel and Distributed Systems at the Universite Grenoble Alpes and my PhD in Computer Science at Universite Grenoble Alpes. My doctoral dissertation explores computational modelling of visual attention, focusing on mechanisms involving various cues: static, dynamic, face, and colour. Moreover, I evaluate eye movement predictions against eye-tracking data, study the impact of faces in videos, and propose real-time implementation using parallel architectures to enhance application quality and user experience.

Previously, I was an Associate Professor at the Department of Computing, NUST-SEECS (Pakistan). In 2019, I worked at the Department of Information Systems (FSKTM University of Malaya) as a Research Fellow for one year. During the fellowship, I worked on engineering a comprehensive simulation framework to model and analyze large-scale smart farming ecosystems. Moreover, I explored strategies for optimizing sustainable resource utilization within fog federations for smart cities. In 2022, I worked as a PostDoc researcher at the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Jyvaskyla. I’m working in close collaboration with high-performance computing experts at CSC (Finnish IT Center for Science) to develop pipelines for modelling and processing massive biodiversity data with LUMI, Europe’s fastest petascale supercomputer.

Learn more about my project at the University of Eastern Finland here: https://geho.fi/projects/

You can find some of my current projects here: https://github.com/aniskhan25