Short Bio

I am currently a PhD candidate and Graduate Research Assistant in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Utah. Before coming to the U, I worked as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering at IUBAT, Bangladesh. While working at IUBAT, I completed my MS degree in Civil Engineering (Transportation) in 2019 from Islamic University of Technology. During my master's, I worked on developing spatio-temporal multi-task learning architectures for ride-hailing systems with anonymized spatial adjacency information. 

For my PhD at the U, I am working on a project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), which aims to develop optimization frameworks that improve the operational efficiency of transit systems. In this project, my research works are focused on: (i) improving public transport operations for low-demand routes through semi-flexible bus routing and advanced online reservation, (ii) integrating Dial-a-Ride services with Transportation Network Companies for serving outlier trips, and (iii) developing dynamic vehicle routing algorithms for microtransit operations. 

Despite having a civil engineering background, I have a strong inclination toward data science, machine learning, and operations research; I enjoy utilizing them to solve problems within the transportation domain, especially problems pertaining to planning, operations, and simulation of transportation systems. 

Outside of work, I enjoy playing basketball, traveling, and hiking.