Research

Graduate Research Assistant [Aug. 2023 - Present]

Sensing Systems for Health Lab, University of Virginia, USA

Director: Prof. Laura Barnes

Data Scientist [Dec. 2020 - Aug. 2023]

Design Inclusion and Access Lab, North South University, Bangladesh

Director: Prof. Nova Ahmed

Projects

1. Assessing Depression and Loneliness in Real-Time Through XAI (a part of Mon Majhi), Funded by NSU-UIU, BD   [Sept. 2022 to Sept. 2023]

   • Leading this project under the supervision of Prof. Nova Ahmed (PI) and Prof. Salekul Islam (Co-PI)

   • Designed the study and wrote the research proposal

   • Developed the data collection tool to collect data in real-time

   • Will analyze the data through visualization, development of statistical and computational models

   • Will write research papers

2. Low-Cost Wearable For Upper Limb Rehabilitation, Funded by Cardiff University, UK   [July 2022 to Aug. 2022]

   • Developed ML models to facilitate a low-cost system in identifying the 5 exercises automatically which can support UL rehabilitation in low-resource settings.

   • Contributed to writing the research paper (preprint link). 

3. Intersection of Gender & Technology, Funded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USA   [Dec. 2020 to June 2022]

   • Analyzed and interpreted the quantitative data through statistical models and advanced visualization technique

   • Contributed to the writing of research papers

Research Student [July 2019 - Nov. 2020]

North South University,  Bangladesh

Advisor: Prof. Nova Ahmed

Project: Mon Majhi 

• I led this project with the support and supervision of Prof. Nova Ahmed. Please, visit Mon Majhi for details.

Member of Research Group [Dec. 2017 - June 2021] 

Eastern University, Bangladesh

Advisor: Prof. Md. Mahfuzur Rahman

Project: Manan Guru

• Developed apps focusing on the students of remote areas to support them instantly in education.

• Prepared related documents for different competitions.

Scholarly Service

Committees

• Associate Chair: LBW track of ACM CHI’24, Poster track of ACM CSCW'24

• Member: ACM UbiComp/ISWC’23 Posters & Demos

Peer Review

• ACM CHI’22 (1 LBW) & ’23 (12 LBWs), '24 (2 full paper, 1 Special Recognition for Outstanding Reviews)

• ACM CSCW’23 (1 full paper)

• ACM IMWUT (12 full papers, 1 Special Recognition for Outstanding Reviews)

• ACM MobileHCI’22 (1 full paper) & ’23 (2 full papers)

• ACM UbiComp’22 (2 posters) & '23 (3 posters) 

• Journal of Medical Internet Research (6 full papers)

• JMIR Bioinformatics & Biotechnology (1 full paper)

• JMIR Medical Informatics (3 full papers)

• International Journal of Medical Informatics, Elsevier (1 full paper)

• Journal of Psychiatric Research, Elsevier (1 full paper)

• IEEE Journal of Biomedical & Health Informatics (1 full paper) 

Volunteering

Supervisor & Mentor

Ada Lovelace Datathon’ 21

This was a part of Ada Lovelace Celebration'21 which was led by Prof. Nova Ahmed. The datathon was organized by BdOSN and HerWill. This was the first ever all-women participant datathon in Bangladesh.

I contributed here in the following ways.

• Delivered a lecture on statistical analysis.

• Explored the research-based datasets for the datathon.

• Supervised and mentored the participants during the datathon.

Student Mentoring

Design Inclusion and Access Lab, NSU

• Mentored (currently, mentoring 1 student) some undergraduate students from Bangladesh and India working on health informatics to be applicable in low-resource settings.