Academic Appointments

• Assistant Professor (2019 – Present)
  • University of Virginia (UVA)
• Postdoctoral Associate (2017 – 2019)
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  • Supervisor: Prof. Julie Shah

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science (2017)
  • University of California San Diego (UCSD), CA, USA
• M.S. in Computer Science (2012)
  • University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), TX, USA
• B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering (2007)
  • Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Bangladesh

Professional Experiences

• Cognitive Robotics Intern (2016)
  • IBM Watson Lab, Austin, TX
  • Description: Devised a method for robots to detect human head gestures and to incorporate those understandings in human-robot conversational contexts.
• Senior System Engineer (2010 – 2011)
  • Grameenphone Ltd., Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Description: Worked as a lead engineer responsible for maintaining the availability and the security of the servers containing performance, fault and configuration data of the telecommunication network of 25 million subscribers.
• System Engineer (2007 – 2010)
  • Grameenphone Ltd., Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Description: Worked as a system administrator to keep the network database servers operational.