Activities

This page highlights professional landmarks, achievements, and certifications from my CV, focusing on policy engagement, research leadership, competition results, speaking engagements, and education initiatives.

Professional Landmarks, Achievements and Certifications

• Selected Delegate, ITU-T AI Capacity Building Workshop, commissioned by the ICT Division, Government of Bangladesh, New Delhi, May 2025. Engaged regulators and ministry officials on AI Ethics, Risk Governance, and ITU-T Recommendations integration into national digital strategies.
• Runner-up, IEEE VIP CUP 2019. Coached BUET Synapticans and tutored six undergraduates in a privacy-aware activity classification system for first-person video.
• Runner-up, Call for Nation Covid Accelerator (ICT Division, Government of Bangladesh) for RadAssist — Bangladesh's first AI-assisted teleradiology platform.
• Champion, IEEE VIP CUP 2018. Presented at ICIP 2018 in Greece on an automated lung tumor detection and segmentation pipeline using 3D CT scans.
• Launched the national Grammatical Error Detection (GED) competition on Kaggle. Served as host, data curator, and judge, and provided bias analysis and feedback to top national research teams.
• Kaggle Best Community Competition Award, Bengali.AI, 2022, for organizing the DL Sprint competition on Bengali Automatic Speech Recognition with 59 participating teams.
• Hosted the National ASR Hackathon arranged by Bengali.AI and BUET CSE, serving as host, data curator, and judge.
• Speaker, ICBBDB 2021, UIU Bangladesh: talk on Bengali language technology history, challenges, and a roadmap.
• Guest Lecturer and Course Designer, Introduction to Data Science SWE 227, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SUST.
• Public Lecture, ‘Demystifying AI’ at Reading Club Trust, University of Dhaka.
• Research Grant, awarded an NVIDIA Titan Xp GPU from the NVIDIA GPU Grant program for data science research.
• Public Lecture, ‘Workshop on Basic Matlab and Image Processing’ at BUET.
• Instructor, 6-day hands-on workshop on image processing and deep learning at the BUET university science club.
• Champion, National Robotics Competition 2017 (machine learning).
• Champion, National Power Energy Hackathon 2017 (‘BUET Luminaries’) for a smart grid system with SCADA integration.
• Runner-up, Bangladesh Physics Olympiad.
• Runner-up, Bangladesh National Science Olympiad.