Welcome!
I'm glad you are here!
I'm a PhD candidate in Computing at 'Human-Centric Group in AI' at Curtin Perth campus. I'm fortunate to be supervised by Professor Tom Gedeon, Dr Md Zakir Hossain and A/Professor Aneesh Krishna, with whom I'm developing novel deep learning systems to detect empathy in human interactions. My overarching research interest includes advancing affective computing and multimodal systems using deep learning algorithms.
In addition to research, I'm keen on teaching. I've been tutoring as a casual academic at Curtin University and Murdoch University. I'm on leave from BRAC University, Bangladesh, where I currently hold a senior lecturer position. I also lectured full-time at the Bangladesh Army International University of Science & Technology.
I received BSc (2019) and MSc (2021) degrees from Khulna University of Engineering & Technology, Bangladesh. In 2024, I received the 'Quality Journal Publication Award' from BRAC University for two of my publications between January and June 2023. As a CI, I received two grants on computational power for 2024 from the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre, Australia. I championed the "Seeds for the Future 2018" program by Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., leading to a two-week sponsored visit to China.
I am a big fan of open online learning and have completed over 25 certified courses on machine learning, deep learning and data science from Coursera, DataCamp and other similar platforms.
Recent news
October 2024
- Research grant of BDT 650,000 as Co-PI under the Research Seed Grant Initiative from BRAC University, in our project, Design and Development of a 3D-printed MEMS-based Stethoscope for Real-time Heart Monitoring and Cardiovascular Disease Prediction Using Machine Learning to Assist Medical Professionals
September 2024
- Awarded USD 2,000 and IEEE + Signal Processing Society (SPS) free memberships for one year from 2024 IEEE SPS Scholarship Program
August 2024
- Our paper on deep learning-based autism detection has been accepted for Computers in Biology and Medicine journal (SJR: Q1, IF: 7.0).
- Our paper on CNN-based cancer detection from CT scans has been accepted for DICTA 2024 (CORE: B) conference.
June 2024
- Our paper on multimodal engagement estimation by triplet concatenated-attentional network has been acceped for ICIP 2024 (CORE: B) conference.
May 2024
- Presented the results of my internship with CSIRO. Stay tuned for the paper.
- Presented and passed Milestone 2 of my PhD.
April 2024
- Finished some image processing work on a research project with CSIRO Energy (internship with CSIRO Mineral Resources was extened for an additional two months to work with a different team).
March 2024
February 2024
- Awarded BDT 75K cash prize for two of our papers under the Quality Journal Publication Award scheme at my workplace (on leave) BRAC University.
January 2024
- Paper on my PhD thesis proposal has been accepted for EACL Student Research Workshop 2024.
- 2nd paper from my PhD has been accepted for EACL 2024 conference (CORE: A).
December 2023
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Received compute grants as CI (100% FTE) under 2024 Pawsey allocation. Two projects, each awarded with 800 kSU CPU and 1100 kSU GPU for one year:
- Neural architecture search to detect empathy in videos (My PhD Project)
- Computational Modelling of Human Verbal and Non-verbal Behaviour for Social Good
November 2023
- Our paper on COVID prediction using CNN on cough sound has been accepted for MMM 2024 conference.
- Paper from my supervised UG students has won best paper award at the flagship IEEE Region 10 Conference 2023 (TENCON 2023) in Thailand.
October 2023
- Secured a postgraduate research internship at CSIRO Discovery Postgraduate Internship Program (DISIPA) 2023-2024. Project: Physics-informed machine learning for modelling reactive flow responsible for critical mineral deposition
September 2023
- My co-first-authored paper on facial expression recognition from masked faces has been accepted for DICTA 2023 conference.
July 2023
- My co-first-authored paper on auditory evoked potential has been accepted for ICONIP 2023 conference.
- Passed PhD confirmation-of-candidature milestone.
- Three of my supervised UG student groups got their papers (this, this and this) accepted for IEEE R10 flagship conferences (TENSYMP 2023 and TENCON 2023).
June 2023
- The very first paper related to my PhD research has been accepted for ACL 2023 workshop.
May 2023
- Our work on machine learning in PV systems is accepted for Heliyon journal (SJR: Q1).
April 2023
- Our work on predicting primary sites of cancer by variational autoencoder is acceped for IJCNN 2023 INNS DLIA workshop.
March 2023
- Our work on finding useful features in machine learning-based COVID-19 prognostication is acceped as a full-length paper to appear in IEEE Computer Society-sponsored 11th ICHI 2023 conference.
February 2023
- Highly commended winner at CUSP London Data Dive, happened on 21st – 24th Feb 2023.
December 2022
- Journal article on COVID-19 diagnosis and prognosiss by ML and omics data accepted for publication at the BMC Bioinformatics journal (SJR: Q1, IF: 4.341).
- Started PhD (Computing) at Optus Centre for Artificial Intelligence at Curtin University (Supervisor: Professor Tom Gedeon, Co-supervisor: Dr Susannah Soon)
October 2022
- Presented our conference paper on Autism diagnosis using convnets at the 29th ICIP 2022.
July 2022
- Conference paper on diagnosing multiple sclerosis disease using ML accepted for the 14th ACIIDS 2022, Vietnam (CORE Rank: B).
June 2022
- Conference paper on Autism diagnosis using convnets accepted for the 29th ICIP 2022, France (CORE Rank: B).
May 2022
- 2nd journal article on NN-based Bengali speech recognition from my M.Sc. thesis is accepted for the Wiley Expert Systems journal (SJR: Q2, IF: 2.587).
April 2022
- Conference paper on cancer severity prediction using ML accepted for the 10th ICHI 2022, USA.