I am a Senior Research Engineer at Samsung Research America (SRA) and a visiting scholar at the Computational Behavior Analysis Lab at Georgia Tech. Before joining SRA, I completed my Ph.D. and MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech, co-advised by Dr. Gregory Abowd and Dr. Thomas Ploetz. During my Ph.D., I collaborated with Microsoft Research, Intel Labs, and Siemens. I have a Bachelor's in Computer Science and Engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology.
My research lies in the intersection of human-computer interaction, ubiquitous computing, and health informatics. My high-level research goal is to leverage and expand the sensing capabilities of widely used technologies to assess and improve the overall well-being of individuals. This involves data-driven, domain-driven, and user-centered approaches to (i) rethink the use cases of existing sensors on smart devices, (ii) extend sensing capabilities to acquire human behaviors, and (iii) leverage such behaviors to model individual well-being.
Recent Highlights
December 2023: My first work at Samsung Research America got accepted at ICASSP 2024.
January 2023: I started working at Samsung Research America in Mountain View, CA.
December 2022: I attended my commencement ceremony and relocated to Bay Area. I will miss Atlanta and, more importantly, the friends I made there.
November 2022: I defended my Ph.D. dissertation!
October 2022: I accepted a job at Samsung Research America! Extremely happy to start my journey with Samsung after my graduation.
September 2022: I will attend UbiComp in Atlanta, GA, and present our paper on snacking detection using earbuds.
August 2022: My paper on developing a snacking detection system got conditionally accepted at ISWC 2022!
July 2022: My research internship paper with Microsoft Research got accepted at ACII 2022!
June 2022: Paper accepted at ACM Health!
May 2022: Visited NOLA to attend CHI, 2022 --- first in-person conference after the COVID-19 pandemic.
May-August 2021: I did a remote research internship with the HUE team at Microsoft Research.
July 2021: I was one of the GVU Foley Scholar Finalists, 2021.
February 2021: I defended my Ph.D. thesis proposal! Huge thanks to my advisors and my committee members!
December 2020: Our paper got accepted at JMIR mHealth and uHealth!
August 2020: Our paper got accepted at Pervasive Health!
July 2020: I was one of the GVU Foley Scholar Finalists, 2020.
November 2020: I received "Outstanding Review" recognition for my review at CHI.
August 2019: We were awarded a research grant by GVU and IPAT for conducting a research study on food insecurity at Georgia Tech.
July 2019: Our paper got accepted at IMWUT.
January 2019: I became a Siemens FutureMaker Fellow for the academic year 2019-2020. Thank you, Siemens!
December 2018: Our team, Hooky Hackers, became the runner-up at Convergence Innovation Competition at Georgia Tech!
December 2018: I received "Outstanding Review" recognition for my review at CHI!