Complete Vitae

First name(s)/ Surname(s)

A.K.M. Rezaul KARIM

Address

Professor, Department of Psychology, Arts Building, University of Dhaka, 1000 Dhaka, Bangladesh

Telephone

+880 2 96619(20–74) 7709

Fax

+880 2 8615583

E-mail

rezaul76@yahoo.com; karim.akmr.monscho06@gmail.com

Nationality

Bangladeshi (by birth)

Date of birth

01/12/1976

Sex

Male

Marital status

Married

Career objective

To secure a promising academic position that offers both a challenge and a good opportunity for learning and growth

Qualifications

Ph.D. in Psychology (Kanazawa University, Japan)

M.Sc. in Psychology (University of Dhaka, Bangladesh)

Research interests

Visuo-spatial perception, perceptual asymmetry, visual and tactile aesthetic pleasure, internet addiction and mental health

Work experience

Permanent positions

Dates

October 2013 - Date

Occupation or position held

Professor of Psychology

Main activities & responsibilities

• Teaching perception, statistics and neuropsychology
• Psychophysical  and psychosocial research
• Supervising undergraduate research project, Master’s thesis and Ph.D. dissertation

Medium of instruction

English

Name and address of employer

University of Dhaka, 1000 Dhaka, Bangladesh

Dates

December 2010 – October 2013

Occupation or position held

Associate Professor of Psychology

Main activities & responsibilities

• Teaching perception, statistics and neuropsychology
• Psychophysical and psychosocial research
• Supervising undergraduate research project, Master’s thesis and Ph.D. dissertation

Medium of instruction

English

Name and address of employer

University of Dhaka, 1000 Dhaka, Bangladesh

Dates

April 2010 – December 2010

Occupation or position held

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Main activities & responsibilities

• Teaching perception, statistics and neuropsychology
• Psychophysical research
• Supervising undergraduate research project and Master’s thesis

Medium of instruction

English

Name and address of employer

University of Dhaka, 1000 Dhaka, Bangladesh

Dates

April 2006 – March 2010

Occupation or position held

Assistant Professor (but was on study leave)

Main activities

Psychophysical research

Name and address of university

Kanazawa University, Kakuma, 920-1192 Kanazawa, Japan

Dates

February 2004 – March 2006

Occupation or position held

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Main activities & responsibilities

• Teaching theories of perception, research methods, and advanced statistics and experimental design
• Psychosocial research
• Supervising undergraduate and graduate level research projects

Medium of instruction

English

Name and address of employer

University of Dhaka, 1000 Dhaka, Bangladesh

Dates

April 2002 – February 2004

Occupation or position held

Lecturer in Psychology

Main activities & responsibilities

• Teaching experimental psychology, statistics and theories of perception
• Psychosocial research
• Supervising undergraduate and graduate level research projects

Medium of instruction

English

Name and address of employer

University of Dhaka, 1000 Dhaka, Bangladesh

Dates

October 2000 – April 2002

Occupation or position held

Lecturer in Educational Psychology

Main activities & responsibilities

• Teaching educational psychology, and measurement, evaluation and statistics
• Psychosocial and educational research

Medium of instruction

English

Name and address of employer

Institute of Education and Research (IER), University of Dhaka, 1000 Dhaka, Bangladesh

Honorary positions

• To act as an advisory board member
• To review submitted manuscripts in the area of my expertise and interest

Dates

December 2013 - Date

Position held

Action Editor/Member, Editorial and Advisory Board, International Journal of Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Studies (IJIMS), India

Main activities & responsibilities

• To act as an action editor i.e., to take vital decision on the acceptance or rejection of submitted manuscripts
• To act as an advisory board member
• To review submitted manuscripts in the area of my expertise and interest

Career highlights

Teaching

• Has more than 10 years of teaching experience (excluding 1-year research plus 3-year doctoral study period abroad)
• Teaches diverse areas of psychology
• Supervises undergraduate research projects, Master’s thesis and Ph.D. dissertation

Research

• Received Ph.D. in (Experimental) Psychology
• Has 14 years' experience of psychological research (including 1-year research plus 3-year doctoral study period abroad)
• Current activities encompass both the psychophysical and psychosocial research
• Has 26 research papers: 15 published in international/foreign peer reviewed journals, and 11 in local peer reviewed journals
• Attended a number of international conferences and symposia
• Has 7 conference/symposium papers
• Has expertise in psychophysical experiments using computer program
• Has skills in analyzing psychophysical data using probit model and signal detection theory
• Has skills in applying advanced level of statistical analysis such as factor analysis, path analysis, structural equation modeling
• Has experience of working with foreign scientists
• Currently working as a member of the Editorial and Advisory Board  for two Journals: Universal Journal of Psychology, USA; and the International Journal of Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Studies (IJIMS), India

2014: Envision Postdoctoral Fellowship, Jointly sponsored          by the Envision Research Institute (ERI), Wichita,              Kansas, USA, and the International Research and              Exchanges Board (IREX), New York, Washington,              USA

Education

Dates

April 2007 – March 2010

Title of qualification awarded

Ph.D. (Awarded on: 23/03/2010)

Principal subjects/ occupational skills covered

Psychology (Experimental)

Dissertation title: The asymmetric nature of visual spatial perception

Name and type of organisation providing education and training

Graduate School of Human and Socio-environment Studies, Kanazawa University, Japan

Dates

July 1996 – June 1997

Title of qualification awarded

M.Sc.

Principal subjects/ occupational skills covered

Psychology (Special areas: Educational and Social Psychology)

Thesis title: A scale for measuring study habits of the secondary school students of Bangladesh

Name and type of organisation providing education and training

Department of Psychology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Dates

July 1993 – June 1996 

Title of qualification awarded

B.Sc. Honours

Principal subjects/ occupational skills covered

Major: Psychology

Subsidiary: Statistics, and Economics

Name and type of organisation providing education and training

Department of Psychology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Training and workshop

Training

• Trained on Fundamentals of the Borland C++ Builder, Per Lab, Department of Psychology, Kanazawa University, Japan
• Trained on Fundamentals of the C Programming, Sponsored by the Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Participated in a 6-Month Long Training on Intensive Japanese Language, Kanazawa University, Japan
• Participated in a 3-Month Long Training Course on Japanese Language, Life and Culture, Japanese Universities Alumni Association in Bangladesh (JUAAB), Dhaka, Bangladesh

• Trained on SPSS for Windows, Organized by the Institute of Statistical Research and Training (ISRT), Sponsored by the Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Workshop

• Participated in a 15-Day Long Training Workshop on Educational Psychology, Conducted by the Department of Psychology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

• Participated in a Training Workshop on Network Maintenance and Troubleshooting, Organized by the Institute of Information Technology (IIT), Sponsored by the Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Conference/ symposium attendance

Conference attendence

• The 4th Bangladesh Clinical Psychology Conference, Mental Health Gap in Bangladesh: Resources and Response, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh  

• The 72nd Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association (JPA), Hokkaido University, Japan

• Space Collaboration System (SCS), Kanazawa University, Japan.

• Annual Conference of the Vision Society of Japan (VSJ), Tokyo, Japan

• International Psychological Conference, Jointly organized by Bangladesh Psychological Association (BPA) and South Asian Association of Psychologists (SAAP), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Symposium attendence

• The 21 Century COE International Symposium on Innovative Brain Science for Development, Learning, Memory and Autism, Kanazawa University, Japan

Conference/ Symposium proceedings

Conference proceeding(s)

01. Nigar, N., & Karim, A. K. M. R. (2014). Affective state         and cognitive emotion regulation of the abused               juvenile offenders. Proceeding from the 4th                   Bangladesh Clinical Psychology Conference, Mental           Health Gap in Bangladesh: Resources and Response,       36.

05. Karim, A. K. M. R., & Kojima, H. (2008). Visual spatial        discrimination: a phenomenon affected by simple           stimulus configuration. Proceeding from the 72nd           Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological           Association (JPA), 504.

Symposium proceeding(s)

01. Karim, A. K. M. R., & Kojima, H. (2008). prevalence of       visual sensitivity to position relativity of the image           segments in spatial configuration. Proceeding from           the 21 Century COE (Center of Excellence)                       International Symposium on Innovative Brain Science        for Development, Learning, Memory and Autism, 96.       Kanazawa University, Japan.      

Publications

Papers in international/ foreign journals

01. Karim, A. K. M. R., Proulx, M. J., & Likova, L.                   Directionality bias in visuospatial functioning:                   anticlockwise or clockwise? (under preparation). 

02. Karim, A. K. M. R. Adult persistence of head-turning       asymmetry: A reanalysis-based interpretation of               Güntürkün’s (2003) data (under preparation).

03. Karim, A. K. M. R., & Proulx, M. J. Perceiving tactile          aesthetics with and without vision: On the roles of           visual experience and neural substrates (under               preparation).

09. Karim, A. K. M. R., & Nigar, N. (2014). The Internet            Addiction Test: Assessing its psychometric properties       in Bangladeshi culture. Asian Journal of Psychiatry,          10, 75-83.                                                                       doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajp.2013.10.011 Click

10. Karim, A. K. M. R., Mahmud, A. Y., & Mahmud, S. H.        (2014). The affect of ethnic minority people: A               prediction by gender and marital status. International       Journal of Social, Human Science and Engineering,          8(3), 34-37. Click

11. Karim, A. K. M. R., Sharafat, T., & Mahmud, A. Y.               (2013). Cognitive emotion regulation in children is           attributable to parenting style, not to family type and       child’s gender. International Journal of Social, Human       Science and Engineering, 7(2), 112-119. Click

12. Karim, A. K. M. R., & Kojima, H. (2010c). The what            and why of perceptual asymmetries in the visual               domain. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 6,                   103-115.                                                                       doi: 10.2478/v10053-008-0080-6 Click

   13. Karim, A. K. M. R., & Kojima, H. (2010b). Perceptual          asymmetry in vernier offset discrimination: A similar          trend between the cardinal and oblique orientations.          The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 29(1),          1-16. Click

14. Karim, A. K. M. R., & Kojima, H. (2010a).                         Configurational asymmetry in vernier offset                     detection. Advances in Cognitive Psychology,                 6, 66-78.                                                                          doi: 10.2478/v10053-008-0077-1 Click  

15. Karim, A. K. M. R., & Kojima, H. (2008). Perceptual          learning of spatial position in the visual domain.               Human and Socio-environmental Studies, 16, 1-11.       Click

   16. Dively, J., Gilbreath, D., Cosgrove, P., Rinker, A.,                  Leininger, J., Vernon, A., Hossain, M. S., Karim, A. K.          M. R., Huq, M., & Mahmud, S. H. (2004). Substance              abuse across cultures: Bangladesh and America.                  Indian Journal of Psychological Issues, 12(1 & 2),                  4-19. Click

Papers in local journals

01. Shahnaz, I., & Karim, A. K. M. R. (2014). Life                   satisfaction as a determinant of life engagement.           Bangladesh Psychological Studies, 24. (Accepted)

02. Ansary, T. M. & Karim, A. K. M. R. (2011). Cognitive          emotion regulation in children as predicted by               parents’ marital adjustment and their nature of               affect. Bangladesh Psychological Studies, 21, 1-16.

03. Karim, A. K. M. R. (2007/08). The study of brain and       behavior: A necessity of the age of brain competition.       The Dhaka University Studies, 64/65(1/2), 163-182.

04. Matsumoto, D., Hossain, M. S., Uddin, M. K., Karim,       A. K. M. R., & Mahmud, S. H. (2007). Ethnic and               gender equalities in emotion regulation. Bangladesh       Psychological Studies, 17, 27-36.

05. Sorcar, N. R., Karim, A. K. M. R., & Shahinuzzaman,          M. (2006). Development of norms for the Seguin               Form Board Test for Bangladeshi children. The Dhaka       University Journal of Psychology, 30, 49-60.

06. Hossain, M. A., & Karim, A. K. M. R. (2005). Human          values and type of governance in education sector.           The Dhaka University Journal of Biological Sciences,       14(1), 107-117.

07. Karim, A. K. M. R., Islam, S., & Seraj, M. S. (2004). Self       -concept and family structure: a comparison between       the children of joint and nuclear families. The Dhaka       University Studies, 61(2), 171-182.

08. Karim, A. K. M. R., & Islam, M. Z. (2004). Self-esteem        of managerial personnel and some organizational           variables. The Dhaka University Journal of                        Psychology, 28, 73-92.

09. Sorcar, N. R., Uddin, M. K., & Karim, A. K. M. R.               (2003). A scale for measuring attitude towards               satellite television. The Dhaka University Journal of           Psychology, 27, 43-50.

10. Karim, A. K. M. R., & Rahman, H. (2001). Education          system-linked differences in basic areas of value           system. The Dhaka University Journal of Psychology,       25, 57-64.

11. Karim, A. K. M. R., & Banu, S. (2000). A scale for                measuring study habits of secondary school                   students. The Dhaka University Journal of Psychology,       24, 15-25.

Personal skills & competencies

Mother tongue(s)

Bangla

Other language(s)

English, Japanese, Arabic, and Hindi

Administrative skills and competences

In addition to regular teaching, Dr Karim worked for two years and eight months (July 2010 – March 2013) as a ‘House Tutor’ in a students’ dormitory at the University of Dhaka. As part of the university administration, his responsibility was to look after the dormitory students and ensure that they were living in the dormitory in a well disciplined and peaceful manner.

Organisational skills and competences

In the past, Dr Karim worked for three years (April 2003 – March 2006) as a ‘Student Advisor’ in the Dhaka Psychology Department. In this capacity, he took care of the psychology students (e.g., dealt with their personal and social problems) and also organized their co-curricular and extracurricular activities including sports, cultural and fare well programs, fresher reception, study tour, annual picnic etc. 

Computer skills and competences

• Language: Borland C++ Builder
• Application: SPSS for Windows, SPSS AMOS, Microsoft Excel, XLSTAT, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Acrobat Writer

Extracurricular skills and competences

Playing table tennis and carom, participating voluntary activities (e.g., health care activity for the minority, literacy programme)

Additional qualities

Worked as a teaching assistant from 2007 to 2008, and as a research assistant from 2007 to 2010 at the Graduate School of Human and Socio-environment Studies, Kanazawa University, Japan

Professional affiliations

    01. Member (former), Vision Society of Japan (VSJ)

    02. Member, Japanese Universities Alumni                                 Association in Bangladesh (JUAAB)

    03. Member, South Asian Association of                                     Psychologists (SAAP)