As a Graduate Research Assistant (GSR), I work with Professor Charless Fowlkes at the Computer Vision lab at UC Irvine. My research work focuses on aiding investigators with crime-scene shoeprint analysis and encompasses depth prediction, domain adaptation, and multimodal image retrieval. 

I have created a large-scale synthetic database of shoes with detailed tread information by predicting depth from shoe-tread images downloaded from online retailers. The make and model of crime-scene shoeprints are identified by matching the prints to our curated database and retrieving the most similar shoes. 

For these projects, I have rendered a large-scale synthetic dataset and collected real datasets for training and evaluation. I have also analyzed different state-of-the-art networks extensively and proposed new methods that outperform them. 

Projects I have worked on as a GSR are listed here.

I studied document understanding to automate fraud detection. Here are a few things I have gained experience with during the course of the internship:

• Prompt engineering for Chat GPT

• Fine-tuning an LLM (T5) and working with hugging face models

• Experimenting with custom prompt and response formats for LLMs

The Diverse Educational Community and Doctoral Experience (DECADE) aims to create a warm and inclusive climate for students at the University of California, Irvine. As the Student Representative of the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS) at UC Irvine, I helped in organizing events and initiatives involving faculty for a supportive environment for all graduate students. 

I was responsible for both Bachelor's and Master's level courses including Computer Vision, Programming, and Computational Photography. As a Teaching Assistant (TA) I assisted students with course objectives, conducted exams, and graded scripts among other things. A full list of courses I was TA for is available here.

I worked on various aspects of the Polydyne software (a product of Supplyframe) including designing and implementing 3 features from scratch. The features are a generic module for exporting data, a generic progress display page, and a scheduled background task to clean up old files from the cloud storage used by the software. In addition to these, I have worked on bug fixes and minor improvements in the software.

As a lecturer in the Computer Science department, my primary task was to design and instruct theory and laboratory courses on Operating Systems, Graphics, Algorithms, and Digital Logic Design. In addition to this, I have volunteered to be a Judge for projects at Project Showcasing, UIU CSE Festival 2017, and an Instructor and Problem Setter at ICT Olympiad and UIU Programming Camp 2016. A list of my activities is available here.

I am a Founding Member of Bangladeshi Women in Computer Science in Engineering. While serving as a Vice President and Event Director there, I organized events to encourage women toward higher studies and career pursuit in STEM. My activities included motivating students to participate in academic research, competitions, development work, etc. It was also my immense pleasure to initiate a formal 3-tier mentoring program to help undergraduate students learn from experienced seniors and alumni.

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