Kowshika Sarker

Greetings!

I am Kowshika Sarker, a 4th year Ph.D. student in the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science department of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the TIMAN group, under the supervision of Prof. ChengXiang Zhai. I focus on designing data-driven solutions for real-world problems, especially for the biomedical domain. I develop computational approaches to analyze omics- and other high-dimensional modalities.

Research interest: Computational biology, Machine learning, Big data analytics.

Publication

Kowshika Sarker, Ruoqing Zhu, Hannah D Holscher, ChengXiang Zhai

Augmenting nutritional metabolomics with a genome-scale metabolic model for assessment of diet intake. Accepted among top 10% of manuscripts at ACM-BCB 2023. [DOI]

Kowshika Sarker, Ruoqing Zhu, Hannah D Holscher, ChengXiang Zhai

Quintet Rooting: rooting species trees under the multi-species coalescent model. Bioinformatics. 2022;38 (Suppl 1):i109-i117. [DOI]

Yasamin Tabatabaee, Kowshika Sarker, Tandy Warnow

STELAR: A statistically consistent coalescent-based species tree estimation method by maximizing triplet consistency. BMC Genomics. 2020; 21(1):1–13.[DOI]

Mazharul Islam, Kowshika Sarker, Trisha Das, Rezwana Reaz, Md. Shamsuzzoha Bayzid

Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Aug 2021 - Present)
- Advisor: Prof. ChengXiang Zhai
B.Sc. in Computer Science & Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (Jul 2014 - Oct 2018)
- Thesis supervisor: Prof. Md. Shamsuzzoha Bayzid

Software engineer, Samsung R&D Institute, Dhaka, Bangladesh (Nov 2018 − Dec 2018)
Lecturer, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh (Jan 2019 − Aug 2021)