Last updated, June,2023 : [Drive Link]
2019-Current: Doctor of Philosophy in Computing Science
University of Alberta (UofA)
Conducting research in the field of Natural Language Processing and Explainable AI with Professor Randy Goebel and Professor Mi-Young Kim
2015 - 2017 : Master of Science in Computer Science
University of British Columbia (UBC)
Research in Intelligent User Interfaces with Professor Cristina Conati
Thesis: Toward user-adaptive visualizations: further results on real-time prediction of user cognitive abilities from action and eye-tracking data [Drive Link]
2009–2012 : Bachelor of Science (Engg.) in Computer Science and Engineering
Islamic University of Technology
Research in Ubiquitous Computing with Professor Kamrul Hassan
Thesis: An Integrated Lifelogging System for Android
2017-2019: Lecturer, Islamic University of Technology (IUT), Bangladesh.
Notable courses conducted : Numerical Methods, Advanced Graph theory, Operating Systems, Artificial Intelligence
2016-2017: Graduate Research Assistant, University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Responsibilities include running user studies, data collection and data analysis.
2015-2016 : Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Responsibilities included taking labs, grading and holding office hours
Affiliated Courses: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Introduction to Computation in Engineering Design
2012 - 2015 : Lecturer, Islamic University of Technology (IUT), Bangladesh.
Notable courses conducted : Computer Programming, Unix Programming, Theory of Computation, Software Development Lab.
International Tuition Award, UBC
OIC Scholarship, IUT
Government Scholarship, Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) , Bangladesh Government
Refereed Journal(s):
1. Conati, Cristina, Sébastien Lallé, Md Abed Rahman, and Dereck Toker [ In Alphabetical Order]. "Comparing and Combining Interaction Data and Eye-tracking Data for the Real-time Prediction of User Cognitive Abilities in Visualization Tasks." ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS) 10, no. 2 (2020): 1-41. [Link]
Refereed Conference(s):
Cristina Conati, Sébastien Lallé, Md. Abed Rahman, Dereck Toker [ In Alphabetical Order and equal contribution], Further Results on Predicting Cognitive Abilities for Adaptive Visualizations , Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence(IJCAI-17). [Link]