Biography

Anis Ur Rahman received his Master's degree in Parallel and Distributed Systems from Joseph Fourier University, France in 2009, and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science (Images and Signal specialty) in 2013 from Université Grenoble Alpes, France. Thereafter, till 2022, he worked as an Associate Professor at the Department of Computing, NUST-SEECS (Pakistan). In 2019, he worked at the Department of Information Systems (FSKTM University of Malaya) as a Research Fellow for one year. Currently, he is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences (University of Jyväskylä Finland) funded by the HORIZON-INFRA-2021-TECH-01 project "Biodiversity Digital Twin for Advanced Modelling, Simulation and Prediction Capabilities." The work is in close collaboration with high-performance computing experts of CSC (Finnish IT Center for Science) to develop pipelines for processing of massive biodiversity data with LUMI, Europe’s fastest petascale supercomputer. In addition to the project, he is involved in international and multidisciplinary collaborations in the context of international ERC-synergy project LIFEPLAN 2020-2026 ("Planetary Inventory of Life") that combines a global biodiversity sampling campaign (based on DNA-, audio- and image-based methods) with the development of bioinformatics and statistical methods for big ecological data.