Jarin Ritu - Award and Honors

Awards and Honors

2026 SPIE Travel Award

2025 Travel Award – STAQ Quantum Ideas Summer School

2025 Seleted participant at NSF Funded Program -STAQ Quantum Ideas Summer School

2025 ECEN Departmental Graduate Merit Scholarship, Texas A&M University

2023 First Place in The Computer Engineering and Systems Group (CESG), Texas A&M University

2023 - Present Graduate Research Assistantship (GRA), Texas A&M University

2022 Teaching Assistantship (TA), Jahangirnagar University

2021 Best Paper Award

2018 Champion at Inter Hall Chess Competition, Jahangirnagar University

Presentations

Invited Talk

Oct 2025 Texture-Informed Knowledge Distillation from Foundation Models for Efficient Deployment, Computer Engineering and Systems Group (CESG) Seminar, Texas A&M University

Poster Presentations

Mar 2025 Structural and Statistical Audio Texture Knowledge Distillation (SSATKD) ECE Poster Event, Texas A&M University

Mar 2025 Texas Innovation in Computational Intelligence (TICI) Workshop

Oct 2023 Histogram Layer Time-Delay Neural Networks for Passive Sonar Classification, IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA)

Apr 2023 Histogram Layer Time-Delay Neural Networks for Passive Sonar Classification, CESG Poster Event, Texas A&M University (First Place)

Oral Presentation

Mar 2026 Quantitative Measures for Passive Sonar Texture Analysis, SPIE Defense + Security Conferences

Apr 2026 Morphological Change Detection for Scanning Electron Microscope Images of Lung Cell Surface, nternational Conference on Advance in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AAIML)

Oct 2021 Facial Detection for Neonatal Infant Pain, International Conference on Trends in Computational and Cognitive Engineering (TCCE)

Service

Sep 2024 Vice President, Media - ECE Graduate Student Association (ECE-GSA)

Jan 2023 Officer of Administration - ECE Graduate Student Association (ECE-GSA)

Feb 2025 Program Committee Member - IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference

Dec 2022 Founding Member - Jahangirnagar Higher Study Club

Reviewer / Service to the Community Jun 2025 – Present

Reviewed manuscripts for Elsevier’s Digital Signal Processing journal.
Reviewed manuscripts for IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing
Reviewed manuscripts for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Mentoring

2025–Present Adeleke, B. – Undergraduate Student, Texas A&M University. Supported through “Respiratory Health Evaluation with Machine Learning Models” project

2023 - 2024 Masabarakiza, I. – Undergraduate Student, Texas A&M University. Supported through “Histogram Layers for Improved Target Classification” project

2023 Barnes, E. – Undergraduate Student Technician, Texas A&M University. Supported through “Histogram Layers for Improved Target Classification” project