Media and Research Highlights
- July 2025 – Research Spotlight, SCINet Newsletter: Advancing Irrigation Mapping Through AI and Remote Sensing; featured in the USDA SCINet July 2025 issue. [Read online]
- July 2025 – Paper Highlight, on ACM Kudos: “IrrMap: A Large-Scale Comprehensive Dataset for Irrigation Method Mapping,” KDD 2025, [View on Kudos]
Academic Awards
- 2025 – Endowed Fellowship, UVA School of Engineering & Applied Science (SEAS); awarded to 20–25 outstanding doctoral students. Amount: $12,000.
- 2023 – USDA-ARS AI-COE Fellowship, Graduate Student Internship Program, USDA-ARS, USA.
- 2021 – PhD Fellowship, UVA Computer Science.
- 2019 – Dean’s List of Honor, AUST.
Travel Grants
- Aug 2025 – International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Montréal, Canada.
- Apr 2025 – CRA-WP, Grad Cohort for Women Workshop, Denver, CO.
- Sep 2024 – CMD-IT/ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing, San Diego, CA.
- Jun 2024 – IEEE/CVF CVPR 2024, DEI Travel Grant, Seattle, WA.
- May 2024 – Women in Computer Vision (WiCV) Workshop, CVPR 2024, Seattle, WA.
- Apr 2023 – CRA-WP, Grad Cohort for Women Workshop, San Francisco, CA.
Other Achievements
- Sep 2024 – Selected for Doctoral Consortium, CMD-IT/ACM Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing 2024.
- Sep 2024 - Selected for a Poster Presentation, CMD-IT/ACM Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing 2024.
- Jun 2024 – Extended Abstract and Poster Presentation, Women in Computer Vision (WiCV), CVPR 2024.
- Jun 2024 – Oral Presentation, Vision for Agriculture (V4A) Workshop, CVPR 2024.
- Jan 2023 – 3rd Place, AgAthon 2023 (AgAID Digital Hackathon).
- Oct 2018 – 11th Place (of 120 teams), National Girls Programming Contest 2018.
- Mar 2016 – 5th Place, Intra-AUST Programming Contest (Spring 2016).
Professional Services
- 2024 – Reviewer, CVPR Workshop on Vision for Agriculture (V4A);
- 2024 - Social Chair, UVA Computer Science Graduate Student Group (CSGSG) Council.
- 2022 – Space and Media Chair, UVA CSGSG Council.
- 2020–2019 – Judge, Bangladeshi National Robotics Olympiad.
- 2019 – Program Committee / Sub-Reviewer, ICIET 2019.
Other Services
- 2023 – Student Volunteer, GEMS (Girls Excited about Math and Science), University of Virginia — assisted with course design and teaching.
- 2023 – Volunteer, Meals on Wheels — assisted with meal delivery to elderly individuals.
- 2018 – Problem Setter, Organizer, and Host, AUST CSE Week; Host, Prize Giving Ceremony.
- 2016 – 2018 – Class Representative, Batch 35, AUST CSE Dept. (52 students).
Research Talks and Presentations
- Aug 2025 – Oral & Poster Presentations: Knowledge-Informed Deep Learning for Irrigation Type Mapping from Remote Sensing and IGraSS: Learning to Identify Infrastructure Networks from Satellite Imagery by Iterative Graph-constrained Semantic Segmentation, *IJCAI 2025.
- Sep 2025 – Thesis Summary Presentation, AgAID Annual Meeting.
- Jun 2024 – Oral & Poster Presentation, IrrNet: Advancing Irrigation Mapping with Incremental Patch Size Training on Remote Sensing Imagery, V4A Workshop, CVPR 2024; Poster, WiCV Workshop, CVPR 2024.
- Sep 2024 – Doctoral Consortium & Poster Presentations, CMD-IT/ACM Tapia Conference, San Diego, CA.
- Apr 2023 – Oral & Poster Presentation, “COVID-19 Non-pharmaceutical Interventions: Data Annotation for Rapidly Changing Local Policy Information,” CCI Symposium 2023.
- Dec 2020 – Oral Presentations at ICCIT 2020 and ACCV MLCSA Workshop 2020: Autonomous Deblurring Images and Information Extraction and BdSL36 Dataset for Bangladeshi Sign Letters Recognition.
- Dec 2018 – Oral Presentation, Real-Time Bangladeshi Sign Language Detection Using Faster R-CNN, ICIET 2018.
Language Test
- Dec 2020 – Passed Japanese NAT – N4 Test.
