Short Bio

I am a PhD candidate and Research Assistant in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Utah. My expertise lies at the intersection of operations research, data science, and machine learning — with a focus on improving operational efficiency of moving people/goods through transportation networks.

At the University of Utah, I have worked on a National Science Foundation project to develop novel algorithms that improve the operational efficiency of transit systems. My works are focused on: (i) optimizing low-demand bus routes through semi-flexible routing and advanced online reservation systems, (ii) integrating Dial-a-Ride services with transportation network companies to serve outlier trips, and (iii) building dynamic vehicle routing algorithms for microtransit operations.

Before joining Utah, I was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering at International University of Business Agriculture and Technology (IUBAT) in 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 developed spatio-temporal deep multi-task learning architectures to forecast demand and supply-demand gap in ride-hailing system without spatial adjacency information. 

Beyond academia, I have collaborated with industry partners in the on-demand transportation domain, where I helped design and deploy optimization frameworks that improved vehicle routing performance and reduced operational costs significantly.

Outside of work, you will usually find me playing basketball, hiking, or exploring new places.