Awards & Service

Recognition for my research, and the ways I serve the research community.

Recognition

Honors and awards

2026

Doctorate Student Award · COEIT Research Day, UMBC

For work on refining partial causal graphs through interventional representation learning.

2025

Doctorate Student Award (Honorable Mention) · COEIT Research Day, UMBC

For supraglacial lake time series classification.

2023

Survey Certification · Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)

For our survey of causal discovery methods.

2024–2026

Travel and professional development grants · UMBC

Conference travel grants from the Department of Information Systems to present at IEEE ICMLA 2025 and ACM SIGSPATIAL PolDS 2026, and a Professional Development Grant from the Graduate Student Association.

Service

Service to the community

Reviewing

Conferences

AAAI 2027 · ICLR 2025, 2026 · NeurIPS 2026 · AISTATS 2025, 2026 · KDD 2025 · MLHC 2023–2026 · ML4H 2024, 2025 · ICDH 2023

Journals

IEEE Computer · ACM Transactions on Internet Technology · Applied Artificial Intelligence · Information Fusion · International Journal of Approximate Reasoning

Community challenge

Support team lead for iHARP’s coastal flooding sub-challenge in the NSF HDR Machine Learning Challenge (2025–2026): 2,709 submissions from 151 participants. I also led iHARP’s session at the NSF HDR virtual hackathon and supported the awards session at the FARR Workshop.

Outreach

Invited panelist, “Higher Studies: Insights from Our Mentors,” PCIU Computer Club, Port City International University, Bangladesh (2026).

iHARP representative, UMBC Earth Month Community Day (2024).

Programming contests and memberships

Staff, ICPC Southeast USA Regional Contest (2022).

Volunteer, National High School Programming Contest, Bangladesh (2015).

Memberships

ACM · IEEE · AMS