Research and Teaching

My academic philosophy: Learning is a lifelong journey and should not be defined by grades and numbers. Rather, the focus should be on quality and development.

Present Research Focus: My research focuses on reforming engineering curricula to bridge the gap between technological advances and evolving industry skills.

Research interest: engineering education, AI governance, computational intelligence, design creativity, mental health

My Teaching Philosophy: My teaching philosophy centers on empowering engineering students to become adaptable, ethically grounded problem-solvers by bridging rigorous engineering fundamentals with emerging intelligent technologies. I believe modern engineering education must transcend passive knowledge transfer, transforming classrooms into collaborative, inquiry-driven environments where students critically evaluate and co-create with advanced digital tools rather than rely on them as black boxes. By framing core concepts through real-world systems design, authentic project-based challenges, and transparent competency benchmarks, I guide students to build robust conceptual foundations, embrace creative experimentation, and develop the metacognitive resilience necessary to navigate an AI-augmented professional landscape. Ultimately, my goal is to cultivate inclusive, reflective learning spaces that mentor students not only to master technical execution, but to lead with intellectual curiosity and social responsibility.

Grants and Awards:

Awardee of Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science Graduate Scholarship (2023-2026)
Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Alliance Grant, Canada, 2023-2027
Concordia Conference and Exposition Grant 2025
PEIYOU Scholarship (First-class), SDUFE, China (2020-2023)
Merit Scholarship, East West University, Dhaka (2013)

Selected publications

Soroush, M.Z., Sourav, M.S.U., Zeng, Y. (2025). Creativity and AI. In: Suh, S.C. (eds) Artificial Intelligence for Design and Process Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-67886-8_3
Sourav, M. S. U., & Zeng, Y., & Ge, H., & Akgunduz, A. (2025, June), BOARD #128: (Work-in-Progress) Bridging the Gap: Integrating AI into Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Engineering Curricula Paper presented at 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Montreal, Quebec, Canada . 10.18260/1-2--55945
M. S. U. Sourav, M. S. Mahmud, M. S. H. Talukder, and R. B. Sulaiman, “IoMT-blockchain-based secured remote patient monitoring framework for neuro-stimulation devices,” in Artificial Intelligence for Blockchain and Cybersecurity Powered IoT Applications, CRC Press, 2024.
M. S. Ullah Sourav et al., “Transformer-based Text Classification on Unified Bangla Multi-class Emotion Corpus,” in 2024 25th International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT), Dec. 2024, pp. 1–7. doi: 10.1109/ACIT62805.2024.10877210.
Wang H, Sourav MSU, Yang M and Zhang J (2023) Classifying mental disorders through clinicians’ subjective approach based on three-way decisions. Front. Psychol. 14:1144826. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1144826 (IF = 4.3)
Sourav, M.S.U., Wang, H. Intelligent Identification of Jute Pests Based on Transfer Learning and Deep Convolutional Neural Networks. Neural Process Lett (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11063-022-10978-4 (IF= 2.6)
S. U. Sourav et al., "Exploring Engineering Education in Bangladesh, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Switzerland: An International Perspective," 2022 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE), Hung Hom, Hong Kong, 2022, pp. 740-743, doi: 10.1109/TALE54877.2022.00132.
M. S. U. Sourav, X. Zhang and H. Wang, "Social Media as Information Support in Reducing COVID – 19 Depressions: Self-Efficacy as Mediator for Behavioral Modeling," 2021 11th International Conference on Intelligent Control and Information Processing (ICICIP), 2021, pp. 82-87, doi: 10.1109/ICICIP53388.2021.9642194
Sourav, M. S. U., & Diordieva, C., & Galhotra, R., & Asif Iqbal, S. M. (2023, June), Board 120: A Study of the Bangladeshi Engineering Students’ Perceptions to Succeed Academically Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore, Maryland. https://peer.asee.org/42421
Islam M., Shuvo SA, Nipun MS, Bin Sulaiman R, Shaikh M M, Nayeem J, Haque Z, Sourav MSU, Ameer K. (2023). Efficient approach of using CNN based pretrained model in Bangla handwritten digit recognition. In: Smys, S.,Tavares, J.M.R.S., Shi, F. (eds) Computational Vision and Bio-Inspired Computing. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1439. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-9819-5_50
A. T. M. M. M. Chowdhury, J. Sultana and M. S. U. Sourav, "IoT-based Efficient Streetlight Controlling, Monitoring and Real-time Error Detection System for Smart Cities in Bangladesh," 2023 International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Communication Engineering (ECCE), Chittagong, Bangladesh, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi:10.1109/ECCE57851.2023.10101600.
Lu Wang, H.Wang and M. S. U Sourav, “A multi-center k-means clustering framework,“ First National Workshop on Big Data and Machine Learning, CUET, Chattogram, Bangladesh, 2020 (Oral presentation)

My research profiles

Web of Science: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/JTK-9248-2023

Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57434881900

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=XLmPUFAAAAAJ

Ongoing Activities:

Promoting STEM knowledge through my project STEM in Bangla, among Bengali speakers. We have enormous resources available in English regardless of online/offline platforms on tech-based topics, but not many in the Bengali language.
STEM in Bangla is a platform where we mainly focus on developing skills and knowledge needed for cutting-edge research to solve real-world issues for Bengali-speaking learners and science enthusiasts.

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