Md Touhidul Islam

About Me

I am a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) at Penn State University. I am working under the supervision of Dr. Syed Billah at the a11y lab.

I have a well-defined research emphasis on Accessibility and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). My expertise lies in the identification and resolution of application and system-level accessibility challenges. Please check out my recent projects to learn more about my work.

I completed my Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 2017.

News

[February 2024] Got my Master's in Informatics on my way to Ph.D.!
[October 2023] Attened Ubicomp/ISWC'23 in majestic Cancun, Mexico!
[April 2023] Attended CHI'23 in beautiful Hamburg, Germany!
[April 2023] Our paper "SpaceXMag: An Automatic, Scalable, and Fast Space Compactor of Smartphone Apps for Low-Vision Screen Magnifier Users" is accepted at IMWUT (November 2022)! [link]
[February 2023] Received Graduate Student Travel grant (IST, Penn State) for attending CHI'23 in Hamburg, Germany! Thank you, Dept. of IST!
[January 2023] Our paper "A Probabilistic Model and Metrics for Estimating Perceived Accessibility of Desktop Applications in Keystroke-Based Non-Visual Interactions" is accepted in CHI'23! [link]
[November 2022] Received travel grant from Bangladesh-Sweden Trust Fund!
[May 2022] Passed my Qualifying Exam, one more step completed in the Ph.D. journey!
[April 2021] Our paper “Understanding Screen Readers’ Plugins” is accepted in ASSETS'21! [link]
[January 2021] Started my Ph.D. majoring in Informatics at the Pennsylvania State University!
[April 2020] Our paper “Reducing Storage Requirement in Blockchain Networks Using Overlapping Data Distribution.” is accepted in ICBC'20! [link]