Ishita Haque - Research

Research

Exploring email-based abuse and its detection from the context of Bangladesh with Dr. A. B. M. Alim Al Islam (2020-2022)

Even though emails are identified as a significant source of abusive behaviors, little effort has been spent to date on the detection and prevention of such abusive behaviors. Through a mixed-method user study consisting of formative interviews and a survey, I explore abusive behavior and different types of abuse detection systems for emailing platforms in the context of Bangladesh. Inspired by those findings, following an iterative approach, a fully automated abuse detection system "Citadel" for emails has been developed. Evaluation results portray efficacy, efficiency, and user acceptance of "Citadel" in detecting and preventing abusive emails.

Exploring email-based abuse and its detection from the context of Bangladesh with Dr. A. B. M. Alim Al Islam (2020-2022)

Even though emails are identified as a significant source of abusive behaviors, little effort has been spent to date on the detection and prevention of such abusive behaviors. Through a mixed-method user study consisting of formative interviews and a survey, I explore abusive behavior and different types of abuse detection systems for emailing platforms in the context of Bangladesh. Inspired by those findings, following an iterative approach, a fully automated abuse detection system "Citadel" for emails has been developed. Evaluation results portray efficacy, efficiency, and user acceptance of "Citadel" in detecting and preventing abusive emails.

Investigating the online interactions of small-scale non-profit organizations working for street children in Bangladesh with Dr. A. B. M. Alim Al Islam and Dr. Sriram Chellappan (2020-2022)

Non-profit organizations play a critical role in welfare of street children, but the lack of proper interactions with people causes difficulty for small-scale organizations. Through mixed methods research, I studied limitations in existing interactions from the perspective of organizers, donors and general people, and explore possible technological interventions.

Paper published in COMPASS 2023, Poster published in CSCW Companion 2022

Exploring the role of online information sources on circular consumption behavior from behavioral reasoning perspectives with Dr. Najmul Islam and Dr. Md. Shamim Talukder (2022-2023)

I explored utilizing a novel consumer behavior framework called Behavioral Reasoning Theory (BRT) to investigate consumers’ intentions to engage in circular consumption behavior. To validate the study model and test the research hypotheses proposed, a questionnaire-based survey was conducted with 293 respondents.

Genome Assembly using Third Generation Sequencing (2017) with Dr. Atif Hasan Rahman

In genome sequencing, short reads have less error rates than long reads but is prone to repetitive sequences. I proposed an approach to combine best of both technologies and develop a maximum likelihood based model to estimate long read error parameters, extend short read contigs by using overlapping long reads and estimate gap lengths to create scaffolds between contigs.