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I am an Associate Lecturer (teaching and research) in the Discipline of Computer Science & Software Engineering (CSSE), School of Electrical Engineering, Computing and Mathematical Sciences (EECMS) at Curtin University. With a teaching and research background since 2019 across four universities in Australia and Bangladesh, I currently serve as the Unit Coordinator and Lecturer for Human Computer Interface and Secure DevOps units, which includes teaching at Curtin Bentley campus and coordinating across 5 offshore campuses (Singapore, Dubai, Sri Lanka, Mauritius and Malaysia).
My research is centred on trustworthy and responsible AI-enabled software systems across application areas such as healthcare, education and social support. I have recently finished my PhD, with a thesis on supervised fine-tuning of foundation models for robust empathy detection in text and video interactions. I have also worked on multiple cross-disciplinary projects, such as mineral resources with CSIRO, mental health with The Kids Research Institute, and cybersecurity with Edith Cowan University. I have published 35+ research papers, including articles in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) and IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (TAFFC). I have received a "Best Publication" award from the School of EECMS, Curtin University, for a paper from my PhD, and two "Quality Journal Publication" awards from BRAC University.
I have received a few grants, including a research grant in 2024-2025 from BRAC University and four high-performance computing grants in 2024-2026 through the "Pawsey Partner Merit Allocation" scheme. I have mentored and (co-)supervised 30+ undergraduate and postgraduate computing research projects (40+ students).
If you are interested in collaborating or exploring student supervision opportunities, I would be pleased to connect.
Recent news
June 2026
- Delivering a talk on my PhD research at the research festival – Research Bazaar (ResBaz) Perth. Details are at ResBaz Perth website.
- Our work on snore detection and wearable feedback has been acceped for IEEE SMC 2026 (CORE B).
May 2026
- My PhD research has been selected as a finalist for the INCITE Awards across two categories: (1) Artificial Intelligence and (2) Research and Development. INCITE Awards, in its 35th iteration, celebrates innovation in Western Australia. List of finalists, including me, is available at INCITE website.
- Received my PhD thesis reviews, and both external examiners recommended "PASSED with no requirement for correction other than minor typographical or editorial matters"!
April 2026
- 2nd time elected as the "Communication Secretary" of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) WA Chapter!
March 2026
- Started serving in the IEEE WA Section Executive Committee as the "Student Activities Coordinator".
- Pleased to be a member of IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Cyber-Medical Systems (see announcement).
February 2026
- Glad to have this paper accepted in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (SJR: Q1, IF: 13.7).
- Submitted my PhD thesis for examination. See my PhD project page.
- Joined Curtin School of EECMS as an Associate Lecturer (teaching & research)!
December 2025
- Received compute grant as CI (100% FTE) under 2026 Pawsey Partner Merit Allocation: 100 kSU CPU and 3,500 kSU GPU for one year on my PhD project "Multi-modal Language Model for Measuring Human Empathy".
- Two of our papers from my collaboration with KUET, Bangladesh have been accepted in two IEEE conferences.
November 2025
- Started working on a new short-term industry project with The Kids Research Institute, as part of Pawsey Supercomputing Centre Research Internship 2026. Project title: "Prediction of Transdiagnostic Markers of Mental Health via Passively Sensed Data", supervised by Prof Kathryn Modecki and Assoc Prof Kristin Gainey.
- Presented the last milestone (Milestone 3) of my PhD program at Curtin.
- Presented our work on a physics-informed diffusion model for super-resolution and surrogate modelling of time-dependent partial differential equation at the EAGE Workshop on Enhancing Subsurface Practices using AI/ML.
October 2025
- Received Best Publication award at Curtin EECMS HDR Forum.
September 2025
- Awarded USD 2,000 second time as part of the 2025 IEEE SPS Scholarship Program. [Certificate of Recognition]
- New paper on arXiv: how state and trait empathy is related to speaker-perceived empathy.
August 2025
- Yay! Our work on physics-informed super-resolution that I did at CSIRO has been accepted in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) (SJR: Q1, IF: 18.6).
July 2025
- Yay! My first journal submission from my PhD work has been accepted in IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (SJR: Q1, IF: 9.8).
- New paper on arXiv: speech envelope following responses using multichannel EEG, in collaboration with Prof Mahbub, KUET.
June 2025
- Received IEEE SMC 2025 Student and Young Professional Travel Grant (USD 600).
- Released transient simulation datasets publicly on Zenodo.
May 2025
- Paper on context-driven abstractive summarisation that I supervised and co-authored has been accepted for ACL 2025 Findings. Congratulations to Fahmida et al.!
April 2025
- New paper on arXiv: my PhD work on in-context learning of tabular foundation model.
February 2025
- Elected as the "Communication Secretary" of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) WA Chapter!
- Paper on using ML on the impact of antibiotics is accepted in the IET System Biology journal (2023 IF: 1.9).
January 2025
- Paper on using machine learning in Biology has been accepted in Neural Computing and Applications journal (SJR: Q1, IF: 4.5)
December 2024
- Received compute grant as CI (100% FTE) under 2025 Pawsey Partner Merit Allocation: 1000 kSU CPU and 9,000 kSU GPU for one year on my PhD project "Multi-modal Language Model for Measuring Human Empathy".
November 2024
- Attended and presented three papers at DICTA 2024 conference in Perth, Australia
- Volunteered in the organising committee of the DICTA 2024 conference.
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 Partner Merit 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.