Service and Professional Development Activities

•     Technical Program Co-Chair for 18th IEEE International Symposium on Embedded Multicore/Many-core Systems-on-Chip (MCSoC), Singapore, 2025. 

•     Session Chair of “Multicore/Manycore Interconnection Networks”, 17th IEEE International Symposium on Embedded Multicore/Many-core System-on-Chip Conference (MCSoC), 2024.       

•      General Co-Chair of the 17th International Workshop on Network-on-Chip Architectures (NoCArc) 2024, held in conjunction with the 57th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO) in Austin, Texas, November 2024.

•       Served as Session Chair for the Keynote session "Rethinking Network Fabric Architectures for Distributed AI/ML Platforms" at NoCArc 2024. Also served as Session Chair for the research paper sessions: Session 1: Interconnects for Emerging Domains and Session 3: Recent Advances in NoC. 

•       Special Sessions Chair for 17th IEEE International Symposium on Embedded Multicore/Many-core System-on-Chip Conference (MCSoC), Malaysia, 2024

•        Track Chair of “Machine Learning for Energy-efficient, High-Performance, and Reliable Manycore Interconnects” track at 17th IEEE International Symposium on Embedded Multicore/Many-core System-on-Chip Conference (MCSoC), 2024

•       Technical Program Co-Chair of the  International Workshop on Network-on-Chip Architectures (NoCArc) 2023, held in conjunction with the 56th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO) in Toronto, Canada, October 2023.

•       Special Sessions Chair for 16th IEEE International Symposium on Embedded Multicore/Many-core System-on-Chip Conference (MCSoC), Singapore, 2023

•        Track Chair of “Machine Learning for Energy-efficient Manycore Interconnects” track at 16th IEEE International Symposium on Embedded Multicore/Many-core System-on-Chip Conference (MCSoC), 2023

•       Session Co-Chair of the "Circuit and Systems Track" at IEEE International Conference on Omni-layer Intelligent Systems (COINS), Berlin, Germany, 2023 

•       Technical Program Committee Member of 33rd ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI) Conference, Knoxville, TN, USA 2023

•       Publicity Co-Chair and a Technical Program Committee Member of International Workshop on NoCArc 2022, to be held in conjunction with the 55th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO) , Oct 1-5, 2022, Chicago, Illinois, USA

•     Track Chair of "Internet of Things (IOT): From Device, to Fog, and Cloud" , IEEE International Conference on Omni-layer Intelligent Systems (COINS), 2022

•     Session Chair of “Novel Computation and Communication Methods for AI Accelerator Design” IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS), 2022

•     Special Session Organizer, IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS), 2022

•     Publication Co-Chair: IEEE International System-on-Chip Conference (SOCC'22, SOCC’21, and SOCC’20)

•     Publicity Co-Chair: IEEE International Conference on Omni-layer Intelligent Systems (COINS’22)

•   Technical Program Committee Member: International Workshop on Network on Chip Architectures (NoCArc), held in conjunction with IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), 2021

•      Technical Program Committee Member: IEEE International System-on-Chip Conference (SOCC'22, SOCC’21, and SOCC’20)

•   Technical Program Committee Member: IEEE International Conference on Omni-layer Intelligent Systems (COINS’22, COINS’21, and COINS’20)

•     Review Committee Member (RCM): IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS), 2022

 •     Review Committee Member (RCM): IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) , 2017-Present

•      Session Chair: Served as a chair in the “Security” session at the IEEE International System-on-Chip Conference (SOCC), 2020

•    Session Chair: Served as a chair in the “Estimation and Optimization of NoC and System Reliability” session at the IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), 2020

•        Member, Computer Science Group, Eastern Illinois University, Aug 2021 – Present

•        Member, Computer Science Group, University of Central Missouri, Aug 2019 – Aug 2021

•     Journal Paper Reviewer: IEEE TPDS, Elsevier NanoComm, IEEE TSUSC, IEEE TETC, Springer DAEM, Elsevier VLSI Integration, Elsevier Information Systems, IEEE Access, ACM TODAES, ACM JETC.

•        Conference Paper Reviewer: IEEE ISCAS, 2017 to 2022; IEEE/ACM NoCArc, 2021; IEEE SOCC, 2020; IEEE COINS, 2020; IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), 2019; IEEE MWSCAS, 2018 

                 ·  Served as a Secondary Paper Reviewer for following Conferences: IEEE ICCD, 2018; IEEE/ACM NOCS, 2018; IEEE ISCAS, 2014, 2015, and 2016; IEEE SOCC 2014; ACM/IEEE Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), 2015 and 2016

•    Volunteer: Conference Coordinator, 42nd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), New Orleans, LA, USA, 2017; PhD Forum Coordination (as A. Richard Newton Young Fellow) in 51st ACM/IEEE     Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, CA, USA, 2014

•        Conference Participation: 

 IEEE AICAS 2022, IEEE MWSCAS 2021, IEEE ISOCC: 2021, IEEE ISCAS 2021, IEEE SOCC 2020, IEEE MWSCAS 2020, ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2020, ACM International Conference on Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI) 2019, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip (NOCS) 2019, IEEE SOCC 2018, IEEE ICCD 2018, IEEE ISCAS 2017, ACM GLSVLSI 2016, ACM/IEEE DAC 2014

•    Grant review: Secondary reviewer for several grants (assigned by supervisor) during holding post-doctoral position

Membership

•        Professional Member, Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)

•        Professional Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

•        Member, IEEE Young Professionals

Honors and Awards

•    CLAS Travel Award from Eastern Illinois University, To chair multiple research paper sessions and a keynote session at International Workshop on Network on Chip Architectures (NoCArc) 2024, colocated with IEEE/ACM MICRO’24, Austin, Texas

•     Invited to present paper at the at the 2024 IEEE International VLSI Symposium on Technology, Systems and Applications (VLSI TSA), Hinschu, Taiwan, April 2024  

        •       Achievement and Contribution Award (ACA) in Balanced category in recognition of outstanding contribution to the University during the 2022-2023 academic year, Eastern Illinois University  

•    CLAS Travel Award from Eastern Illinois University, To chair multiple research paper sessions and a keynote session at International Workshop on Network on Chip Architectures (NoCArc) 2023, colocated with IEEE/ACM MICRO’23, Toronto, Canada 

•      Scholarly Activity Fund Recipient from Eastern Illinois University to attend and present research paper at IEEE International Conference on Omni-layer Intelligent Systems (COINS), Berlin, Germany, July 2023 

•      CLAS Travel Award from Eastern Illinois University, To chair a research paper session at International Workshop on Network on Chip Architectures (NoCArc) 2022, colocated with IEEE/ACM MICRO’22, Chicago, IL, USA 

•       Scholarly Activity Fund Recipient from Eastern Illinois University, To attend and to chair a paper session at International Workshop on Network on Chip Architectures (NoCArc) 2022, colocated with IEEE/ACM MICRO’22, Chicago, IL, USA 

•       Scholarly Activity Fund Recipient from Eastern Illinois University to attend and present paper at International Workshop on Network on Chip Architectures (NoCArc) 2021, colocated with IEEE/ACM MICRO’21 

•       Scholarly Activity Fund Recipient from Eastern Illinois University to attend and present paper at IEEE International SoC Design Conference (ISOCC) 2021 

•        Invited to present paper at the IEEE/ACM NOCS, New York, USA, 2019

•        Invited to present paper at the ACM GLSVLSI, Tyson Corner, VA, USA, 2019

•        Scholarly Activity Fund Recipient to attend IEEE MWSCAS , University of Central Missouri, 2020

•        Scholarly Activity Fund Recipient to attend IEEE SOCC, University of Central Missouri, 2020

•        Scholarly Activity Fund Recipient IEEE/ACM NOCS, University of Central Missouri, 2019

•        ACM Travel Grant Award, ACM GLSVLSI, Boston, MA, USA, 2016

•        SGA Travel Grant Award, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2017

•        GSO Travel Grant Award, UL Lafayette, Boston, MA, USA, 2016

•        GSO Travel Grant Award, UL Lafayette, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2014

•        A. Richard Newton Young Fellow Award, ACM/IEEE DAC, 2014

•        Academic Excellence Awards, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2014-2015

•        Awarded Membership of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society

•        Graduate Teaching and Research Assistantship, UL Lafayette, 2012 – 2017

•        Dean’s List, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, 2004 – 2005

•        Education Board Scholarship, Govt. of Peoples Republic of Bangladesh, 2000–2005

Most Recent Activities

•        Chaired the session “Novel Computation and Communication Methods for AI Accelerator Design” at IEEE AICAS 2022 

•        Organized the special session “Novel Computation and Communication Methods for AI Accelerator Design” at IEEE AICAS 2022

•        Attended and presented research paper at 14th ACM/IEEE NoCArc 2021

•        Attended and presented research paper at 64th IEEE MWSCAS 2021

•        Attended and presented research paper at 54th IEEE ISCAS 2021

•        Attended and presented research paper at IEEE ISOCC 2021

•        Attended and presented research paper at 33rd IEEE SOCC,  USA, 2020

•        Attended and presented research paper at 63rd IEEE MWSCAS, USA, 2020

•       Chaired the session “Security” at the 33rd IEEE SOCC 2020

•       Chaired the session “Estimation and Optimization of NoC and System Reliability” at the 63rd IEEE MWSCAS 2020

•        Attended and presented research paper at 13th IEEE/ACM NOCS, New York, NY, USA, 2019

•        Attended and presented research paper at 29th ACM GLSVLSI, Tysons Corner, VA, USA, 2019

•     Guest Editor: Submitted a proposal for Special Issue on IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS), 2019

•       Presented research paper in the CESCA (Center for Embedded Systems for Critical Applications) Research Day, Virginia Tech, 2019

•        Attended and presented (with a teammate) research paper at 36th IEEE ICCD, Orlando, FL, USA, 2018

•        Attended and presented research paper at 31st IEEE SOCC, Washington DC, USA, 2018

•        Attended and presented research paper at 50th IEEE ISCAS, Baltimore, MD, USA, 2017

•        Attended and presented research paper at 26th ACM GLSVLSI, Boston, MA, USA, 2016

OTHERS

•  Programming Contest: Cajun Codefest Health Care Coding Challenges in 2013 and 2014, Lafayette, LA:

                                                        Developed recommendation system and Android software for locating medical services

•  Attended ARM Accredited Engineering Program (one-day workshop) co-located with ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, USA, 2014

•   Volunteer: Judge of High School Mini Urban Challenge in University of Louisiana at Lafayette