Curriculum Vitae
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Vision and Machine Learning
Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia
Advisors: Prof. Nick Barnes & Prof. Salman Khan
Thesis: Visual Reasoning and Image Understanding: A Question Answering Approach
M.S. in Biomedical Engineering
University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada · GPA: 87.1%
Advisors: Prof. Rafeef Garbi & Prof. Sidney Fels
Thesis: 3D Biomechanical Oropharyngeal Model for Training and Diagnosis of Dysphagia
M.S. in Biomedical Image Processing
Islamic University of Technology (IUT), Dhaka, Bangladesh · GPA: 4.00/4.00 (1st)
Thesis: Optimization of Elastography Implementation for Breast Cancer Detection
B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Islamic University of Technology (IUT), Dhaka, Bangladesh · GPA: 3.99/4.00 (1st)
OIC Gold Medal for Academic Excellence
Academic & Research Experience
Assistant Professor, Data Science and AI
University of Doha for Science and Technology (UDST), Doha, Qatar
Adjunct Faculty (Level B)
Australian National University (ANU), College of Engineering, Computing & Cybernetics
Research Scientist, Computer Vision and AI
Data61–CSIRO, Canberra, Australia
Postgraduate AI Researcher (Ph.D. Candidate)
Data61–CSIRO / ANU, Canberra, Australia
Sessional Academic
Australian National University, CPAS & CECS, Canberra, Australia
Graduate Research Assistant
University of British Columbia, Biomedical Signal & Image Computing Lab & Human Communication Technologies Lab
Graduate Teaching Assistant
University of British Columbia, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Lecturer
Islamic University of Technology (IUT), Dhaka, Bangladesh
Grants & Funding
Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment of Hybrid Aviation Fuel Using ML-Based Optimization of Green and Blue Hydrogen Production
CoPI · QLTC01-0219-250012 · USD $62,000
HairNet: Deep Learning for Cotton Leaf Hair Density Estimation
CSIRO Machine Learning & AI Future Science Platform (MLAI FSP) – Seed Funding · AUD $20,000
Teaching
Assistant Professor – Course Instructor
University of Doha for Science and Technology (UDST), Doha, Qatar
Teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in AI, machine learning, and computer vision.
Sessional Academic
Australian National University, CPAS & CECS · 7 semesters · ~400 hours face-to-face
- ENGN/COMP 6250 – Professional Practice 1 (S1 & S2 2017, 2018, 2019; S1 2020)
- ENGN 1218 – Introduction to Electronics (S2 2017, 2018, 2019)
- ENGN 2218 – Electronic Systems and Design (S1 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020)
- ENGN 3213 – Digital Systems and Microprocessors (S1 2017)
Graduate Teaching Assistant
University of British Columbia, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- EECE 570 – Fundamentals of Visual Computing (Winter 2014)
- EECE 380 – Electrical Engineering Design Studio (Spring 2015)
- EECE 450 – Economic Analysis of Engineering Projects (Summer 2015)
Lecturer
Islamic University of Technology (IUT) · 4 semesters · avg. class size 150
- EEE 4205/4206 – Computer Programming Language + Lab (Summer 2012, 2013)
- EEE 4554 – Random Signal Processing Lab (Winter 2012, 2013)
- EEE 4308 – Digital Electronics Laboratory (Winter 2013)
- EEE 4326 – Electrical and Electronic Technology Lab (Winter 2014)
Student Supervision
Hanif Rasyidi — Ph.D., Computer Science, ANU (Primary Supervisor)
Deep Learning Approaches for Historical Writer Identification and Document Analysis
Sameera Ramasinghe — Ph.D., Computer Science, ANU (Co-Supervision)
Geometrically structured latent manifolds for conditional GANs
Yu Cui — M.Phil. / Research Masters, ANU
Visual Relationship Detection using transformer architectures (VReBERT)
Ce Wang — Research Masters, ANU
Recursive Training for Zero-Shot Semantic Segmentation
Additional supervision: 3 Research Masters students and 4+ undergraduate capstone projects at ANU
Scholarships & Awards
Top-10 Research Project Pitch, MARS2021 Conference, MLAI FSP – CSIRO
CVPR Outstanding Reviewer Award, Computer Vision Foundation
PhD Scholarship + HDR Fee Remission Merit Scholarship + Research Project Award, ANU
Engineers in Scrubs (EiS) Scholarship, NSERC, Government of Canada
International Tuition Award, UBC
Faculty of Applied Science Graduate Award, UBC
Commonwealth Scholarship, Imperial College London (Declined)
Gold Medal for Academic Excellence, Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC)
Undergraduate Scholarship, Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC)
Technical Skills
Research Areas
Computer Vision
Multimodal Deep Learning
Vision-Language Models
Visual Question Answering
Object Detection
Zero-Shot Learning
Image Segmentation
NLP
Medical Imaging
Languages
Python
C
C++
Java
Frameworks & Tools
PyTorch
TensorFlow
Keras
Transformers (BERT, GPT)
LLMs
OpenCV
CUDA / GPU
HPC Clusters
AWS / GCP
Docker
Git