Curriculam Vitae

Education

• 09/2017 – Present: M.Sc. in Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada.
  • Courses: Machine Learning, Data Mining, Natural Language Processing.
  • CGPA: 4.00
• 09/2017 – Present: M.Sc. in Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada.
  • Courses: Machine Learning, Data Mining, Natural Language Processing.
  • CGPA: 4.00
• 09/2017 – Present: M.Sc. in Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada.
  • Courses: Machine Learning, Data Mining, Natural Language Processing.
  • CGPA: 4.00

Research Experience

• 05/2018 – Present: Research Assistant, Computational Logic Lab, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
  • Worked on co reference resolution in natural language which will be useful to determine the object that a pronoun refers to.
  • Collected and analyzed 283 Winograd schemas and classified them into categories which will be used to solve hard coreference resolution problems.
• 08/2016 – 04/2017: Research Assistant, Networking Lab, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
  • Designed and Implemented a routing algorithm for UBER car sharing which helped UBER drivers to select routes that minimizes both gas cost and delays while serving multiple customers.
  • Designed and Implemented a routing algorithm for bicycle rebalancing vehicles which helped to rebalance the bicycle stations using shortest route.
• 01/2014 – 09/2015: Research Assistant, BUET Samsung Innovation Lab, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Implemented an algorithm to calculate the Order k Voronoi Diagram by expanding shortest path trees from multiple sources in a large graph with 20 million nodes distributed in different computers which will help a user to choose k nearest points of interests (e.g., restaurants) in real time.
  • Designed and implemented a stochastic algorithm to identify the street crime patterns in Dhaka city and to predict future crimes which will help a pedestrian to take necessary precautions.
• 02/2013 – 12/2013: Research Assistant, BUET Database Lab, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Worked in a team of 7 researchers to create “DhakaSim”, the first road traffic simulator for Dhaka city which will help the government to estimate the change of behavior of traffic flow due to any major structural modifications.

Teaching Experience

• 10/2015 – 05/2016: Lecturer in Computer Science, Eastern University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Technical Project Experience

• Sep 2017 – Dec 2017:
  • Data Mining: Yelp Rating Prediction and Recommendation System
    • Implemented a system to predict the ratings of businesses from yelp database based on 2 million past ratings and reviews using an ensemble of singular value decomposition and non negative matrix factorization which helped our team to secure 7th position in a Kaggle contest among 30 teams.
  • Machine Learning: Soccer Player Performance Prediction System
    • Implemented a system to predict the performance of soccer players for the next session based on his performances of previous seasons using deep learning, random forest and gradient boosted tree which was able to estimate the player rating of 2017 with 81% accuracy.
  • Natural Language Processing Projects:
    • Segmentation of text of an unknown language using n gram language model
    • Chunking of phrases using conditional random field
    • Aligning of French words to English words using IBM1 model
    • Decoding/Translating French to English sentences using beam search and
    • Automatic evaluation of two machine translation using deep learning.

Volunteer Experience:

• 01/2016 – 02/2016:
  • Math Olympiad Organization at Eastern University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Awards and Honors:

• Best Demo for DhakaSim: A Tool for Simulating Traffic Mobility in Dhaka City, In Proceedings of Workshop on Mobile Computing and Human Computer Interaction (MoHCI) [DEMO], Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2014.
• Second Runner Up for DhakaSim: A Simulating Tool for Improving Road Safety , Appeared in a national-level competition on Innovative Projects on Improving Road Safety using ICTs, organized by Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company Limited (BSCCL), 2014.
• Passed 2nd IT Engineer's Examination (ITEE), April 27, 2014. Organized by: Bangladesh IT Engineers-examination (only 22 examinee passed from Bangladesh out of nearly 437, passing rate 5%).
• 5th Poster: DhakaCrimeAlert! Secured 5th position in Thesis Poster Presentation of L-4, T-2 Students in BUET.
• 6th Poster: Asynchronous Parallel Computation in a Large Graph secured 6th position in Final Thesis Poster Presentation in BUET.
• Dean’s list award: 2nd, 3rd, 4th undergraduate year for excellent academic result.
• University Merit Scholarship: 3rd and 4th undergraduate year for excellent academic result.

Interests and Hobbies:

• Problem Solving: Solved 60 problems in UVa Online Judge [http://uhunt.onlinejudge.org/id/86407] and achieved specialist rank in Codeforces [http://codeforces.com/profile/traash]
• Hiking: Explored different trails in British Columbia and a member of SFU hiking club and Nature Photo Hikes club.

Reference:

• Dr. James Delgrande, Professor, Computing Science, Simon Fraser University.
  • Email: jim@cs.sfu.ca
• Dr. Mohammed Eunus Ali, Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, BUET.
  • Email: eunus@cse.buet.ac.bd
• Dr. A.B.M. Alim Al Islam, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, BUET.
  • Email: alim_razi@cse.buet.ac.bd
• Dr. Sarana Nutanong, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong.
  • Email: snutanon@cityu.edu.hk