Experience

Graduate Research Assistant

iHARP: NSF HDR Institute, UMBC · Baltimore, MD

• Build causal representation learning and time series methods, tested first on polar science data.
• Turn open polar science questions into machine learning problems with glaciologists, atmospheric scientists, and data scientists across eight institutions.
• Release code and data on GitHub, Zenodo, and PyPI (rictsc).

Team Lead, Support Team

NSF HDR Machine Learning Challenge (Year 2), iHARP · Baltimore, MD

• Led the four-person team that implemented, ran, and evaluated iHARP’s sub-challenge, Predicting Coastal Flooding Events.
• The challenge drew 2,709 submissions from 151 participants, with $4,000 in prizes plus AWS and NVIDIA cloud credits.

Graduate Research Assistant

Department of Computer Science, Florida International University · Miami, FL

• Developed machine learning models for distributed cache management in the NSF Caching‑as‑a‑Service project.

Guest Lecturer and Workshop Instructor

Department of Information Systems and iHARP, UMBC

• Guest lectures in two graduate courses (IS 733 Data Mining; IS 790 Causal AI), and led the iHARP Explainable AI workshop.

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Department of Information Systems, UMBC

• Supported four courses, three of them graduate courses; taught the weekly labs for IS 320 and ran team peer evaluations for IS 636.

Lecturer

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Port City International University · Chittagong, Bangladesh

• Taught twelve undergraduate computer science courses and advised about 20 thesis students; four theses led to six peer‑reviewed papers.

Ph.D. in Information Systems

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

• Advisor: Dr. Md Osman Gani, Causal Artificial Intelligence Lab.
• Dissertation: Causal Representation Learning for Dynamical Systems: Uncovering Causal Mechanisms in Climate Science.

M.S. in Information Systems

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering

University of Chittagong, Bangladesh

B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering

University of Chittagong, Bangladesh