Rate My Professor Hafizur Rahaman

Dr. Hafizur Rahaman serves as an Adjunct Research Fellow in the School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry at Curtin University, within the Faculty of Humanities. He earned his PhD in Digital Heritage Interpretation from the National University of Singapore between 2008 and 2011. His career includes faculty positions in the Architecture discipline at Khulna University, Bangladesh, researcher at the Centre for Advanced Studies in Architecture (CASA), National University of Singapore from 2008 to 2013, consultant for heritage management at Tun Tan Cheng Lock Centre, Malaysia in 2012, Visiting Research Fellow at Curtin University from 2013 to 2014, and appointments at the University of Newcastle and the NSW Government Office of Environment and Heritage. A founding member of ICOMOS Bangladesh, Rahaman held the UNESCO Research Fellowship at Curtin University from 2017 to 2020. He possesses extensive experience in teaching, research, and computation related to built heritage documentation, visualization, and place management.

Rahaman specializes in digital and virtual heritage interpretation, photogrammetry, 3D modeling, and immersive technologies including augmented, virtual, and extended reality for cultural heritage conservation, museum studies, and visualization. Notable publications include "Digital heritage interpretation: a conceptual framework" (Digital Creativity, 2018), "3D Digital Heritage Models as Sustainable Scholarly Resources" (Sustainability, 2019), "From photo to 3D to mixed reality: A complete workflow for cultural heritage visualisation and experience" (Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, 2019), and "To 3D or Not 3D: Choosing a Photogrammetry Workflow for Cultural Heritage Groups" (Heritage, 2019). His scholarship has amassed over 1,250 citations on Google Scholar. Rahaman received best paper awards at SIGGRAPH 2008 (USA) and CAADRIA 2010 (Hong Kong). He has developed practical projects such as real-time VR tours for heritage sites, AR applications for Noongar Indigenous language learning, and accessible 3D mixed reality workflows for galleries, libraries, archives, and museums, enhancing preservation and public engagement with cultural assets.