"..., 'Indeed, my prayer, my rites of sacrifice, my living and my dying are for Allah, Lord of all worlds'" - Al-Qur'an 6:162

As-salamu alaykum (Peace be upon you :)
I belong to Bangladesh, one of the world's most densely populated countries. Growing up in an environment with limited resources, I aim to create, develop, and implement sustainable systems tailored for societies facing resource constraints. Hence, I have established the ‘Computing for Sustainability and Social Good (C2SG) Research Group’, dedicated to the research and development of sustainable societies. This interdisciplinary lab engages researchers from diverse fields such as computer science, biology, public health, and behavioral sciences. Our research, spanning HCI, deep learning, the Internet of Things, and Cloud Computing, focuses on practical applications contributing to societal well-being to provide solutions for underrepresented groups. Currently, my focus is on understanding the needs of under-served, underrepresented, and marginalized communities, then co-design, and co-develop systems for them.

I love teaching and spending time with my students. As an Associate Professor at UIU, I am privileged to mentor enthusiastic students with a keen interest in technology. I oversee thesis students, and our research groups consistently achieve remarkable results across various sectors, publishing in esteemed journals and conferences. I have completed my Ph.D. and M.Sc. Engg. from CSE, BUET under the supervision of Prof Dr. A. B. M. Alim Al Islam Razi (The person I greatly admire, I learned “Never Give Up” and always be a part of impactful research from him). Before UIU, I worked as an assistant professor at BRACU, a team lead, and a software analyst for the IPV-Cloud team at IPvision Canada Inc. I have a diversified career and experience. I received several grants for projects (RSGI 2023, RSGI 2024) and for presenting papers in Top venues (Gary Marsden Travel Awards, IEEE Comsoc Travel Grant, etc).

Contact information:

Jannatun Noor (She/her/hers)
Director, Computing for Sustainability and Social Good (C2SG) Research Group
Associate Professor, Department of CSE

Director, BSc in Data Science
Room # 412, United International University
jannatun@cse.uiu.ac.bd

Recent News:

April 2025: Paper got accepted at Computers in Biology and Medicine [Q1].
January 2024: Paper got accepted at CHI2025 (A*).
December 2024: Paper on Understanding the Adoption and Usage of MFS became the Runners Up Paper in NSysS 2024. Congratulations to Ehsan and the team
May 2024: Paper on content-based searching is accepted in IEEE ACCESS (Q1). Congrats to Sakif, Ratul, and the team!
May 2024: Paper on efficient image storage and archival is accepted in Future Generation Computing Systems (Q1).
April 2024: Three papers accepted in ACM COMPASS 2024. Congratulations to Shabab's, Bishal, and Aditto's teams!
March 2024: Shabab's team published a paper in High Confidence Computing (Q1)! Congrats.
February 2024: Will Serve as an AC (Associate chair) in CSCW 2024.
August 2023: Received Research Seed Grant for Innovation (RSGI) from BRAC University for our CancerCare Project!
August 2023: Acceptance of my Object Storage Sustainability paper in IEEE ACCESS (Q1).
July 2023: Human Activity recognition paper accepted in IEEE ACCESS (Q1). Congrats to Ishrat!
June 2023: Defended my Ph.D.
January 2019: 'A new network paradigm for low-cost and lightweight real-time communication between train and rail track to detect missing and faulty rail blocks' Journal published in JCNA.
September 2018: 'Effective Management of Multimedia and Orphaned Data in Cloud Storage Systems' Abstract selected for Oral Presentation at the 3rd Young Scientist Congress on 14-15 September 2018
July 2018: 'svLoad: An Automated Test-Driven Architecture for Load Testing in Cloud Systems' Paper accepted in IEEE Globecom 2018, Abu Dhabi, Dubai.
April 2018: Awarded CRA-W AND COMSOC TRAVEL GRANTS for attending ICC 2018.
April 2018: 'Faster Image Retrieval in Low-Bandwidth with Optimal Scan' Poster accepted in N2Women and WICE Workshop in ICC 2018, Kansas City, MO, USA.
April 2018: 'svLoad: An Automated Load Testing Architecture' Poster accepted in N2Women and WICE Workshop in ICC 2018, Kansas City, MO, USA.
March 2018: 'Astha: Handy and Manageable Cancer Management System for Bangladesh', Poster Accepted in BSRO AGM & Scientific Seminar 2018, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
March 2018: 'Data Storage Sustainability: Unused Data or Orphan Data?' Poster accepted in ICT4S, 2018, Toronto, Canada.
March 2018: Selected and invited as an international volunteer in ICT4S, 2018.
December 2017: Attended IPCCC and served as a volunteer, 2017 in Bahia Resort Hotel, San Diego, California.
October 2018: 'Secure Processing Aware Media Storage' Paper accepted in IPCCC 2017, San Diego, California, USA.
June 2017: 'Secure Processing Aware Media Storage' Poster accepted in GHC 2017, Florida, USA.
November 2016: 'iBuck: Reliable and Secured Image Processing Middleware for OpenStack Swift' Paper accepted in NSysS, 2017, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Research Interests

Human-Computer Interaction

Survey research
Communication and helping underprivileged people through HCI (Farmers, Fisherman, etc)
Cognitive disability Studies
Computation for Oncology Studies

Artificial Intelligence

Generative AI for Education
Human-centered AI for Interaction Processes
Applications of Graph Neural Networks (GNN)
AI in Bioinformatics and Genomics
Robotics and Automation

Machine Learning

Integrating Machine Learning Concepts in Cloud
Neural networks/CNN/RNN
3D Image/Video/Pose estimation and processing using Machine Learning
Efficient Data processing and estimation using Machine Learning in Fog/Edge/Cloud Node
Identify and report innovative and novel research outcomes on applications of IoT, AI, machine learning, deep learning, remote sensing, and autonomous systems in smart farming and precision livestock.
- Look at the journal papers from HERE ('Artificial Intelligence and Automation in Sustainable Smart Farming' in Remote Sensing).

Cloud Computing

- Cloud Infrastructure and Services: Computing, storage, fog for IoT, Data center architecture and networking, Cloud-hosted blockchain, Coding theory, non-volatile memories, Emerging storage media: MRAM, RRAM, PCM
- Distributed Computing and Storage: Decentralized storage, Distributed ledger tech, Data storage channels, networks
- Cloud Management and Optimization: Orchestration, automation, Federation, traffic characterization, Reliability, endurance, elasticity, scalability
- Networking in Cloud Environments: Intra/inter-cloud networking, Mobile networking, computing, cloud/fog/edge infrastructure
- Innovative Cloud Computing Models: Serverless computing, FaaS, Software-defined storage, networking, Virtualization,
- Other innovations

Data center energy consumption

Cooling energy
Computation energy
Design a low-energy consumption system

System-level design

Lossless and lossy image compression
Progressive JPEG, Next Generation Images
Efficient caching mechanism for cloud system

Load test/ Stress test

Software endurance test
Load Testing of a cloud system
Load Testing of a cache system