Education

• Ph.D & MS in Computer Science, 2018 - 2024
  • Organization: Arizona State University
  • Advisors: Professor Mohamed Sarwat and Professor Jia Zou
  • Recepient of CIDSE Doctoral Fellowship award for the academic year 2018 - 2019
• B.Sc. in Computer Science & Engineering, 2010 - 2014
  • Organization: Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology
  • Advisor: Professor Moshiul Hoque
  • Thesis Title: Fuzzy Features based Online Handwritten Bangla Word Recognition Framework
  • Recipient of Honors award for academic performance
  • 2nd Runner-up at two national project competitions in Bangladesh: i) National Hackathon and ii) Mobile Application Code Hub in 2014
  • Achieved 6th position at Inter University Programming Contest organized by my undergraduate university in 2012

Work Experience

• Postdoctoral Research Scholar, August 2024 - Present
  • Organization: Arizona State University
  • Mentor: Professor Jia Zou
  • Working on optimizing end-to-end pipelines consisting of database queries and machine learning models for inference workloads, reducing runtime and memory usage of in-database machine learning systems
• Teaching & Research Assistant, Fall 2018 - Summer 2024
  • Organization: Arizona State University
  • Served as an instructor for a graduate course named Spatial Data Science and Engineering
  • Taught 5 courses as a Teaching Assistant including Distributed Database Systems, Data Processing at Scale, Object Oriented Programming & Data Structure, Introduction to Java & Python, Introduction to C++
  • Working on building systems for efficient processing and utilization of large scale geospatial and spatio-temporal data with applications to machine learning and deep learning techniques
  • Worked on AI powered improvement of data integration techniques
  • Worked on a benchmark for evaluating natural language to SQL query synthesis approaches
  • Mentor/Collaborators: Professor Mohamed Sarwat, Professor Jia Zou, Venkata VamsiKrishna Meduri, Jia Yu
• Research & Development Intern, January 2023 - August 2023
  • Organization: Wherobots Inc, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
  • Responsibilities: Developing scalable spatial machine learning tools, scalable map-matching and routing algorithms.
• Software Engineer, January 2017 - June 2018
  • Organization: Gagagugu PTE LTD (P1), Basundhara Group, Bangladesh
  • Responsibilities: Worked on developing Android applications featuring functionalities related to social networking such as calling, messaging, post sharing, etc.
• Android Application Developer, January 2015 - December 2016
  • Organization: Le Chef Plc, UK (ChefOnline in Bangladesh)
  • Responsibilities: Worked on developing Android applications featuring services such as online order and reservations for restaurants in UK.
• Trainer of Mobile Application Development, May 2015 - July 2015
  • Organization: ICT Division of Bangladesh
  • Responsibilities: Trained approximately 100 undergraduate students on Android Application Development.

Important Courses

• Graduate Courses
  • Statistical Machine Learning, Fundamentals of Statistical Learning, Distributed Database Systems, Data mining, Semantic Web Mining, Social Media Mining
• Undergraduate Courses
  • Programming in C/C++, Object Oriented programming in Java, Data Structure, Algorithms, Discrete Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, Digital Logic Design, Computer Architecture
• Online Courses
  • Effective Programming in Scala, Big Data Analysis with Scala and Spark, Natural Language Processing, Deep Neural Networks with PyTorch, Python for Data Science, AI & Development.