Awards and Fellowships

Research Grants

  • NVIDIA Academic GPU Grant for the research project: Multimodal Representation Learning (2018).
  • University Grants Commission (UGC), Government of Bangladesh, research grant for the project: Domain-Adaptive Transfer Learning for Multi-Task Learning Models (2018-19).

Academic Fellowships & Awards

  • NeurIPS-2022 Scholar Award.
  • AAAI Conference Scholarship (2022).
  • Engineering Endowed Fellowship, University of Virginia (2021-2022; renewed for Fall 2022 – Spring 2023).
  • ESE-UVA Bicentennial Fellowship, University of Virginia (2019-2020).
  • Fellowship to attend the Cornell, Maryland, Max Planck Pre-Doctoral School (05-10 Aug 2019).
  • Dean’s Award (Session 2012-13), University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

    In recognition of outstanding scholastic achievement in the B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering. Awarded for securing a CGPA of 3.94/4.00 and second position in class.

  • Youth Fellowship (2016), Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC 42).
  • ICT Fellowship (2015-2016), Ministry of Information and Communication Technology, Bangladesh.
  • PyTorch Scholarship Challenge, Facebook.
  • Scholarship to attend the 7th Workshop on Collaborative Scientific Software Development at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy (29 Apr – 10 May 2019).

Software Contests / Hackathons — International (Contestant)

  • Winner (Round One), Team Omelet (Team Leader), Samsung Gear App Challenge 2014.
  • Runner-up & Public Choice Award, Team Omelet (Team Leader), Ford City Mobility Challenge 2014.
  • Public Choice Award, Team Omelet (Team Leader), Ford Monsoon App Downpour Challenge 2014.
  • World Summit Award 2015 Finalist, Hajj Wizard (Team Leader).

Software Contests / Hackathons — National (Contestant)

  • Winner, Team Infinity (Team Leader), Shetu Codewin Competition 2013.
  • Winner, Team Omelet (Team Leader), EATL Mobile Apps Development Competition 2013-2014.
  • Winner, Team Fat Boys (Team Leader), EATL Facebook Game Development Competition 2013-2014.
  • Winner (Utility Category), Team Omelet (Team Leader), Mozilla App Challenge 2014-2015.
  • Winner (Tourism and Culture), Team Omelet (Team Leader), National Mobile Application Award 2014-2015.
  • Runner-up, Team Omelet (Team Leader), National Hackathon 2014.
  • Runner-up (Mobile Application Division), Team University of Dhaka, Code Warriors Challenge 2014.
  • Runner-up, Team Logic Spinners (Team Leader), EATL Mobile Apps Development Competition 2012-2013.
  • Fourth Place, Team Purity (Team Leader), EATL Mobile Apps Development Competition 2013-2014.

Competitive Programming Contests (Contestant)

  • 8th, Team Proxima Centauri, International Collegiate Programming Contest 2011 (Dhaka Regional).
  • 7th, Team DU Proxima Centauri, Inter-University Programming Contest 2011 (hosted by BUET).
  • 11th, Team DU Proxima Centauri, Inter-University Programming Contest 2012 (hosted by BUBT).
  • 14th, Team DU Proxima Centauri, Inter-University Programming Contest 2011 (hosted by SUST).
  • 15th, Team DU Proxima Centauri, Inter-University Programming Contest 2011 (hosted by DIU).
  • 20th, Team DU Proxima Centauri, National Collegiate Programming Contest 2011.
  • 27th, Team DU Mango, International Collegiate Programming Contest 2012 (Dhaka Regional).
  • 29th, Team DU Novice, Inter-University Programming Contest 2011 (hosted by EWU).

Competition Judge & Problem Setter

  • Problem setter, HackerRank CodeWhiz.java (October 2015).
  • Problem setter, advanced programming problems in the Java domain on HackerRank.
  • Coordinator, judge, and problem setter, UIU Intra-University Programming Contest 2015.

Competitive Programming Contests (Coach — University of Dhaka)

  • Coach, International Collegiate Programming Contest 2018 (Dhaka Regional).
  • Coach, Inter-University Collegiate Programming Contest 2018 (hosted by Green University Bangladesh).
  • Coach, National Collegiate Programming Contest 2018.
  • Coach, International Collegiate Programming Contest 2017 (Dhaka Regional).

Competitive Programming Contests (Coach — United International University)

  • Coach, International Collegiate Programming Contest 2015 (Dhaka Regional).
  • Coach, National Collegiate Programming Contest 2016.
  • Coach, Inter-University Programming Contest 2016 (hosted by NSU Cybernauts).
  • Coach, Inter-University Programming Contest 2016 (hosted by SUB).
  • Coach, Inter-University Programming Contest 2016 (hosted by IUT).
  • Coach, National Collegiate Programming Contest 2015.
  • Coach, Inter-University Programming Contest 2015 (hosted by SUST).
  • Coach, Inter-University Programming Contest 2015 (hosted by IUT).