Education
Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science (Aug 2021 – Present)
University of Virginia , Charlottesville, VA, USA.
- Advisor: Dr. Madhav Marathe
- Specialization: Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning, Multimodal Understanding, VLMs, Remote Sensing
- Award: Endowed Fellowship, UVA School of Engineering & Applied Science (SEAS); awarded to only 20–25 outstanding doctoral students each year
Master of Science in Computer Science
University of Virginia , Charlottesville, VA, USA.
- Relevant Courses: Machine Learning (ML), ML in Image Processing, Interpretable ML, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, NLP, Mobile and IoT Security, Software Security via Program Analysis, 3D Computer Vision
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering (May 2015 – Aug 2019)
Ahsanullah University of Science & Technology (AUST) , Dhaka, Bangladesh.
- CGPA: 3.79 [out of 4.00]
- Award: Dean’s List of Honor
- Thesis Title: “Detecting Letters and Words from Bangladeshi Sign Language in Real-time”
- Thesis Presentation: [Presentation]
- Supervisor: Mohammad Imrul Jubair, Assistant Professor, Department of CSE
Experience
Research Experience
- Graduate Research Assistant, University of Virginia (2021 – Present)
- Topic: Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning, Multimodal Understanding, VLMs, Multispectral Imagery
- Research Intern, USDA-NIFA / NSF AI Institute for Next Generation Food Systems (Summer 2023)
- Topic: Deep Learning, Multispectral Imagery, Data Preparation
- Unergraduate Research, Ahsanullah University of Science & Technology (AUST) (2018-2020)
- Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Classification, Real-Time Object Recogntion
Teaching and Mentoring Experience
- Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Virginia (2021 – 2025)
- Machine Learning
- Neural Networks
- Digital Signal Processing
- Mobile Application Development
- Undergraduate Research Mentor, Biocomplexity Institute, University of Virginia (2025 – Present)
Mentoring undergraduate students in computer vision and remote sensing research, with a focus on dataset creation, model evaluation, and research writing.
Industry Experience
- Software Engineer, Enosis Solutions, Dhaka, Bangladesh (2020 – 2021)