Awards & Talks

Fellowships and awards, media highlights, travel grants, talks and competitions.

Fellowships & awards

  1. 2026 Finalist, OASIS 2026 Student Challenge ACM SIGSPATIAL 1st Student Challenge on Open Agents with Spatial Intelligence for Social Good, with ARFA. Team travel supported by a Google DeepMind grant.
  2. 2025 Endowed Fellowship UVA School of Engineering & Applied Science $12,000 award given to 20–25 doctoral students across the school each year.
  3. 2023 AI-COE Fellowship USDA-ARS SCINet Graduate Student Internship Program Funded summer research internship on irrigation mapping.
  4. 2023 3rd place, AgAthon 2023 AgAID Institute digital hackathon
  5. 2021 PhD Fellowship UVA Computer Science
  6. 2019 Dean's List of Honor Ahsanullah University of Science & Technology B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering, CGPA 3.79 / 4.00.

Media and research highlights

  1. Jul 2025 Paper highlight on ACM Kudos, KDD 2025 IrrMap: A Large-Scale Comprehensive Dataset for Irrigation Method Mapping View on Kudos

Travel grants

  1. Google DeepMind OASIS 2026 student challenge, ACM SIGSPATIAL Team grant to present ARFA Sep 2026 Riverside, CA
  2. WiCV Women in Computer Vision workshop, CVPR 2026 Jun 2026 Denver, CO
  3. AIVO HARVEST-VISION workshop, WACV 2026 Feb 2026 Tucson, AZ
  4. IJCAI IJCAI 2025 Aug 2025 Montréal
  5. CRA-WP Grad Cohort for Women Apr 2025 Denver, CO
  6. CMD-IT/ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Full travel grant Sep 2024 San Diego, CA
  7. CVPR CVPR 2024, DEI travel grant Jun 2024 Seattle, WA
  8. WiCV Women in Computer Vision workshop, CVPR 2024 May 2024 Seattle, WA
  9. CRA-WP Grad Cohort for Women Apr 2023 San Francisco, CA

Talks and presentations

  1. Nov 2026 OASIS @ SIGSPATIAL 2026 Finalist presentation and demo ARFA: An Agentic System for Real-Time Riverine Flood Response Riverside, CA
  2. Jun 2026 EarthVision @ CVPR 2026 Poster CAFOSat Denver, CO
  3. Sep 2025 AgAID Institute annual meeting Thesis summary presentation
  4. Aug 2025 IJCAI 2025 Oral and poster KIIM and IGraSS Montréal
  5. Sep 2024 Tapia 2024 Doctoral Consortium talk and poster IrrNet: Spatio-Temporal Segmentation Guided Classification for Irrigation Mapping; Irrigation Canal Mapping: Constraining the Network Topology and Reachability to Water Sources San Diego, CA
  6. Jun 2024 V4A and WiCV @ CVPR 2024 Oral and poster IrrNet Seattle, WA
  7. Apr 2023 CCI Symposium 2023 Oral and poster COVID-19 Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions: Data Annotation for Rapidly Changing Local Policy Information
  8. Dec 2020 ICCIT 2020 Oral Autonomous Deblurring and Information Extraction from Documents
  9. Dec 2020 MLCSA @ ACCV 2020 Oral BdSL36: A Dataset for Bangladeshi Sign Letters Recognition
  10. Dec 2018 ICIET 2018 Oral Real-Time Bangladeshi Sign Language Detection Using Faster R-CNN

Competitions

  1. Oct 201811th of 120 teams, National Girls Programming Contest 2018
  2. 2017–18ACM ICPC Dhaka Regionals, 2017 and 2018
  3. Mar 20165th place, Intra-AUST Programming Contest