Md Nasir Uddin Laskar
Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, and Computational Neuroscience
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I have joined Walmart Global Tech as a Staff Machine Learning Engineer, in Silicon Valley, California, USA. My work centers around classifying image types for e-commerce applications. We are developing systems to automatically detect and enhance the quality of images in the e-commerce sites.
I have completed my PhD in Computer Science from the University of Miami, under the supervision of Professor Odelia Schwartz. My primary research focus was Deep Learning, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and their applicability to understand the brain visual system, specifically in the middle level areas of the brain. I studied statistical regularities in natural scenes and their processing in the brain from the computational perspective. My particular interest was the study of neural basis of object representation and recognition. Since CNNs have already proven to be a very good model for visual recognition, I have investigated the factors and computations that make them so powerful, aka the mathematics behind it, to understand their correspondence with the brain visual system.
I completed BSc in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. My Masters is in Computer Engineering, from Artificial Intelligence Lab at Kyung Hee University, South Korea, under the supervision of Professor TaeChoong Chung.
Updates:
[05/2023] I am giving an invited talk at the Embedded Vision Summit 2023 in Santa Clara Convention Center, California, USA
[09/2022] I have joined Walmart Global Tech as a Staff Machine Learning Engineer in Sunnyvale, California.
[06/2020] I served as an Invited speaker at the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare, AI4HC 2020.
[03/2020] I have joined the Whirlpool Corporation AI Team in Silicon Valley as a Machine Learning and Computer Vision Engineer.
[12/2019] I have successfully defended my PhD dissertation on "Understanding Texture Sensitivity in the Brain Visual System with Deep Neural Networks" [Link]
[10/2017] I will be presenting at the MBCCw in ICCV 2017. See you in Venice!
[02/2017] I will be presenting my poster at Cosyne 2017. See you in Salt Lake City, Utah!
[12/2016] I will be presenting my poster at the Brains and Bits: Neuroscience Meets Machine Learning in NIPS 2016. See you in Barcelona!