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01/2008 - Present: Research Assistant, Web Accessibility Lab
• Conducting research on Accessible Information Technology for people with visual disabilities. Recent work is on Non-Visual Skimming and Touch Interface for improving accessibility of web content. Regarding NLP I am working on extracting clinical relationships from doctor-patient conversation/narratives. I am a key member of the Hearsay (www.cs.sunysb.edu/~hearsay/) R&D team. Technologies Used: C++, Java, JavaScript, JNI, MSTTS.
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01/2011 - Present: Research Assistant, Charmtech Labs LLC.
• Research assistant working with a company: Charmtech Labs LLC. Working on web mining and web accessibility. Designing and developing assistive technologies for visually impaired individuals. Technologies Used: Java, JavaScript, XML.
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06/2011: Technology Analyst, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney
• I have worked in MSSB TapsCo where I developed a reporting system for monitoring inbound & outbound file transmission and clustering transactions in mainframe,. Technology Used: Perl, JCL.
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06/2010: Technology Analyst, Morgan Stanley
• I have designed and developed a Batch Milestone Management application to manage MS’s numerous business deliverables efficiently. I also worked on a trade volume console for visualizing incoming live traffic. My work includes predicting next day trade volume, automating the task of volume data extraction from datacenter, report creation and sending. Technology Used: Perl, ASP.NET, Sybase.
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06/2009 Summer: Research Intern, Microsoft Research
• Researched on building a generic accessible medical data/user interface on traditional Gaming Consoles
(i.e., Xbox) at Microsoft Medical Media Lab. I designed and developed a prototype for patient to let them
access and view their status using Xbox which is currently deployed at Washington Hospital Center. Technology Used: .NET.
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2008: Teaching Assitant
• Introduction to Computer Science, Discrete Mathematics.
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01/2007: Software Engineer, Commlink Infotech (www.commlinkinfotech.com)
• Projects worked on: Web based ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system. I completed the Payroll Management System module.
Technologies Used: .NET, PHP, HTML, MySQL, AJAX, JavaScript, Apache.
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08/2006: Software Engineer, Streamstech Inc. (www.streamstech.com)
• Worked as a designer and developer of plug-ins for Open Source GIS (Global Information Systems) software.
Technologies Used: C, C++, .NET framework.
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03/2006: Departmental Website Development
• Worked as a team leader for developing the website for Computer Science & Engineering Department, BUET (www.buet.ac.bd/cse).
Technologies Used: PHP, HTML, AJAX, JavaScript, MySQL, Apache, Flash.
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05/2006: Hospital Management System, City Hospital
• Development of Hospital management system for City Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Technology Used: Visual Basic.
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04/2004: Software Engineer, INFOREV Limited
• Worked as a designer and developer of a SMS server. I improved the performance of the SMS server by making the
engine thread safe. Technologies Used: Unix C++, Unix environment.
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• C/C++, C#, Java, Assembly, SQL, MCML, Perl
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• XML, XQuery, Oracle, MySQL, PostGreSQL, Sybase
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• HTML, PHP, JSP, Java Script, Struts, Hibernate, LAMP, ASP
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• Eclipse, MS Visual Studio .NET, MapWindow
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• Hearsay
I have worked as a member of development team of Hearsay. Hearsay is a non-visual web browser which provides context directed browsing experience to the visually impaired people. It provides various input and output interface to facilitate numerous user needs.
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• Radiology Search Engine
A project in collaboration with Stony Brook University hospital. I led a team of four to make a radiology search engine which is built upon Lucene indexing System. The search engine includes account management, bookmark management, incremental indexing etc. The project is being under installation.
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• Skimming
I have analyzed various summarization techniques and designed an algorithm of skimming specially for blind individuals. I have evaluated the effectiveness of the approach experimentally and by doing user study.
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• Extraction of Medical Information
I have worked on extracting clinical relationships from doctor-patient conversation/narratives. I have used SNOMED to identify the medical terms on the doctor patient conversation as attribute and devised an algorithm to find the attribute value, if it has any. This task makes the data processing significantly faster.
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• Voice Activated Home Appliance System
led a team of five to design and implement an appliance system for manipulating domestic
electronic equipments by voice. Technologies Used: C++, MS Voice SDK
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• Classifying articles from 20 online Newsgroups
I built a classifier using Expectation Maximization algorithm, a technique in Statistical Machine Learning. Technology Used: Java.
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• Compression at bit level by increasing redundancy in static binary file
Research project to find out maximum compression limit of static files. Technology Used: Java.
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• Compiler Design and Implementation
I built a compiler from scratch, for an object oriented language. Technologies Used: flex, bison, C.
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• Optical Character Identification
Worked in a team to build a model for indentifying Bengali Characters, using neural network. Technology Used: C++
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• Basic 4-bit Microprocessor
I implemented a 4 bit micro processor capable of doing 27 basic operations including function call. Technology Used: Assembly
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• 1st prize in Website Development Competition
arranged by the Department of CSE, BUET(www.buet.ac.bd/cse/common/credits.php).
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• Presidential fellowship from Stony Brook University.
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| • Best TA Award, 2008 Spring, Computer Science Department, SUNYSB.
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• University Merit Scholarship
(awarded to the top few students of the department) for first two semesters at BUET.)
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