Rajib Rana

Rajib Rana is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern Queensland, affiliated with the School of Mathematics, Physics and Computing. He holds a PhD from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), completed in 2011. His research focuses on AI-driven solutions for mental health, speech emotion recognition, and healthcare informatics, with a strong emphasis on machine learning, deep learning, and domain adaptation techniques. His work spans clinical applications, wearable sensor systems, and mobile health technologies.

Dr. Rana has supervised numerous doctoral candidates, including studies on AI tools for youth mental health interventions, adversarial attack robustness in speech emotion systems, and data analytics for school mental health monitoring. His research outputs include over 50 peer-reviewed articles, with notable contributions in IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, Computers in Biology and Medicine, and other leading journals.

His technical expertise includes federated learning, compressive sensing-based encryption for IoT, and context-aware affect sensing via smartphones. He collaborates widely with clinical partners and industry, addressing challenges like mental health triage prioritization and ICU admission prediction during pandemics. His work bridges computational methods with real-world healthcare and educational applications.