About
I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Auburn University. I completed my Ph.D. under Dr. Collin F. Lynch at North Carolina State University and my B.S. from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. Before joining Auburn, I was a postdoctoral research scholar in the Department of Computer Science at Vanderbilt University, working with Dr. Maithilee Kunda . My research focuses on mining educational software (e.g., MOOCs, online learning platforms) to derive data-driven heuristics and designing interpretable machine learning algorithms. Towards interpretable machine learning, my research has focused on designing a cognitive theory-grounded system for personalized learning in education (EAAI 2022). Another work focused on designing a rule-mining classification algorithm--to find the right balance between interpretability and performance (GECCO 2017, GECCO 2018). Towards data-driven analytics, I focus on discovering insight by exploiting data from educational software, such as understanding students' interactions within the system and connecting those with their academic performance (ACM L@S 2020, EDM 2020).
Research Performance Summary
First Recorded Paper
Finite automata based algorithms for the generalized constrained longest common subsequence problems
Year: 2010
Citations: 13
Venue: International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval
Latest Recorded Paper
WOMBAT: A Framework for Characterizing Visuospatial Cognition in Neurodivergent Individuals
Year: 2025
Citations: 0
Venue: Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems
Last 10 Years Publication Activity
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