Research

 

Research Grants

  1. IEEE SMC 2025 Student and Young Professional Travel Grant (USD 600) 2025
  2. CI: Compute grant, 2025 Pawsey Supercomputing Centre allocation, 1000 kSU CPU and 9,000 kSU GPU on my PhD project "Multi-modal Language Model for Measuring Human Empathy" 2025
  3. Co-PI: Research Seed Grant Initiative, BRAC University, 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 ($8,000) 2024–2025
  4. CI: Compute grants, 2024 Pawsey Supercomputing Centre allocation 2024
    • Neural architecture search to detect empathy in videos (800 kSU CPU and 1100 kSU GPU)
    • Computational Modelling of Human Verbal and Non-verbal Behaviour for Social Good (800 kSU CPU and 1100 kSU GPU)
 

Awards

  1. 2025 IEEE SPS Scholarship (USD 2,000) 2025
  2. 2024 IEEE SPS Scholarship (USD 2,000 & IEEE + SPS free memberships) 2024
  3. Quality Journal Publication Award, BRAC University, Bangladesh ($950 cash prize) (News, Booklet) 2024
  4. Curtin HDR Scholarship (Tuition & Stipend Scholarship valued $245K) Dec. 2022 – Jun. 2026
  5. Seeds for the Future 2018 Champion by Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd 2018
  6. University Dean’s Award for three consecutive academic years, KUET, Bangladesh 2015-16 – 2017-18
  7. Higher Secondary Board Stipend under Jashore Education Board, Bangladesh 2015 – 2019
 

Current research interests

 

Research talks

Conferences

2024

  1. Presented three papers at DICTA 2024, Nov. 27-29, 2024 at Perth, Australia.
  2. Presented two papers at EACL 2024, Mar. 17-22, 2024 (online).

2023

  1. Presented a paper at the 13th WASSA workshop at ACL 2023 conference, Jul. 14 (online).
  2. Presented a paper at 2023 International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP2023), Nov. 20-23, 2023 (online). [Video]

2022

  1. Presented a paper at 29th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (IEEE ICIP), Oct. 16-19, 2022 (online). [Video]
  2. Presented a paper at International Conference on Innovations in Science, Engineering and Technology 2022 (ICISET 2022), Feb. 26-17, 2022 (online). [Slides] [Video]
  3. Presented a paper at ICAART 2022 - 14th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, Feb. 3-5, 2022 (online). [Slides] [Video]

2020

  1. Presented a paper at 2020 IEEE 8th R10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC)] [Slides, Dec. 1-3, 2020 (online). [Video]
  2. Presented a paper at 2020 IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP), Jun. 5-7, 2020 (online). [Conference weblink] [Slides] [Video]

2019

  1. Presented a paper at 2019 1st International Conference on Advances in Science, Engineering and Robotics Technology (ICASERT), May 3-5, 2019, Dhaka, Bangladesh. [Slides]
  2. Speaker on Workshop on MATLAB and SIMULINK, Organized by EEE Makers Hub, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Khulna University of Engineering & Technology (KUET), Bangladesh. [Slides]
 

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