Dr. Md. Sohel Rana is Vice Chairperson of the Center for Policy and Economic Research (CPER), Dhaka, Bangladesh, and Associate Professor of Statistics, at the Department of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Before joining CPER, he held positions as a senior lecturer at the Department of Mathematics, Universiti Putra Malaysia. He holds a Ph.D. in Statistics from the Universiti Putra Malaysia.

Dr. Rana has more than ten years of teaching and research experience in applied statistics. Under his supervision, many M.Sc. students have graduated besides 4 Ph.D. students. He has published more than 50 articles in international peer-reviewed journals, one book, and over 25 conference proceedings. Besides, he has presented his research work at several national and international conferences as a speaker and invited speaker. He reviewed more than 30 articles in peer-reviewed journals as a reviewer. He has completed two research grants as a leader and two research grants as a co-researcher.  

Dr. Rana achieved Gold, Silver, and Bronze Medals from the research and innovation exhibition. In addition, he received the Vice-Chancellor Award for excellent teaching in 2014 from Universiti Putra Malaysia. Also, he received the University Excellent Service Award in 2012 from the same university.