Mahbuba Tasmin

MS/PhD Student (Sept 2022-Current) || Graduate Research Assistant

University of Massachusetts Amherst
Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences

  • Working on building explainable machine learning models for predicting protein-based resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
  • My research aims to enhance the accuracy of resistance predictions from small datasets, with a focus on providing explainability that can be directly applied in medical settings.
  • Research Interest: Resistance forecast, Explainable modeling

2023 Updates:

Apart from professional and academic involvements, I enjoy doing indoor gardening, mobile photography, and occasional writing. The cover photo is taken by me at the longest sea beach in the world, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.

Education

University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Doctor of Philosophy | Computer Science (2022-Current)
  • Research Field: Computational Biology, Machine Learning

North South University

  • Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) | Computer Science and Engineering (Jan 2016-Dec 2019)
  • CGPA: 3.89 (out of 4.00- 97.25% Marks)
  • Major Concentration: Artificial Intelligence and Algorithms
  • Merit-based Scholarship Awardee
  • Research Field: Human Computer Interaction, Adversarial Attack, Computational Fluid Dynamics

NITEX Solutions Ltd

  • AI Engineer (Mar 2022-July 2022)
  • Development of Computer-Vision based Automatic Identification of hundreds of Fashion Product Category and Attributes
  • Built an OCR processed Automatic Moodboard creation for Fashion Designers (With Pantone Codes and Recommendation)
  • Created Business Document Processing through NLP and OCR for fast computation of Account Managers

M2SYS Technology

  • Software Engineer (AI/ML) (July 2020-Feb 2022)
  • Production-grade Image spoofing algorithm currently in active use for ~5000 employee screening daily
  • Contextual Information powered Recommendation Engine used at the Search feature of ‘CloudApper’, a no-code application platform
  • Developed and maintained the Automation Workflow of the 'CloudApper' using Camunda Automation Engine for swift handling of multiple API service communications.
  • Preparation of ML-powered automated Resume Parsing pipeline
  • Development of democratized and customer-centric Image Classification pipeline

Challenges for women in computing in Bangladesh considering the learning and workplace environment over a period of eight years
Nova Ahmed, Lamia Iftekhar, Mahbuba Tasmin, Tamanna Islam Urmi, Silvia Ahmed, Tamanna Motahar
Published in SN Social Sciences Springer International Publishing, 2022/10.
[Original Paper]

Technology for empowerment: Context of urban Afghan women
Nova Ahmed,Mahbuba Tasmin, Sayyed Mohammad Nasim Ibrahim
Published in Technology in Society, 2022/8.
[Original Paper]

Assessment of Deep Learning Models for Human Activity Recognition on Multi-variate Time Series Data and Non-targeted Adversarial Attack
Mahbuba Tasmin,Sharif Uddin Ruman,Taoseef Ishtiak, Arif-ur-Rahman Chowdhury Suhan, Redwan Hasif, Shahnawaz Zulminan,and Rashedur M. Rahman.
Published in Advances in Intelligent Systems Research and Innovation Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, Springer International, 2022.
[Book Chapter]

Non-Newtonian effect on heat transfer and entropy generation of natural convection nanofluid flow inside a vertical wavy porous cavity
Mahbuba Tasmin, Zarin Tarannum Haq, Preetom Nag*, Md. Mamun Molla*
Published in Springer Nature Applied Sciences, 2021.
[Paper]

Comparative Study of Classifiers on Human Activity Recognition by Different Feature Engineering Techniques.
Mahbuba Tasmin, Taoseef Ishtiak, Sharif Uddin Ruman, Arif-ur-Rahman Chowdhury Suhan, N.M. Shihab Islam, Sifat Jahan, Sajid Ahmed, Shahnawaz Zulminan , Abdur Raufus Saleheen, Rashedur M.Rahman.
Published in 2020 IEEE 10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems (IS), 2020.
[Paper]

Multi-Dimensional Aspect Analysis of Text Input through Human Emotion and Social Factors.
Mahbuba Tasmin.
Published in In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Joint Conference and 2018 International Symposium on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Wearable Computers (UbiComp '18), 2018.
[Paper]

Gender Disparity in Computer Science Education in Bangladesh: A Study of Women’s Participation in Computer Science.
Mahbuba Tasmin, Nova Ahmed, Tamanna Motahar.
Published in 2019 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Education (TALE), 2019.
[Paper]

Challenges and Opportunities for Young Female Learners in STEM from the Perspective of Bangladesh.
Nova Ahmed, Tamanna Urmi, Mahbuba Tasmin
Published in 2020 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE), 2020.
[Paper]

Comparative Study of Classifiers on Human Activity Recognition by Different Feature Engineering Techniques.
Mahbuba Tasmin, Taoseef Ishtiak, Sharif Uddin Ruman, Arif-ur-Rahman Chowdhury Suhan, N.M. Shihab Islam, Sifat Jahan, Sajid Ahmed, Shahnawaz Zulminan , Abdur Raufus Saleheen, Rashedur M.Rahman.
Video Presentation, 2020 IEEE 10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems (IS).
[Paper] [Slides][Video]

A Complete Road Health Monitoring System for Bangladesh: Crowdsourced Data Collection through User Application and Smart Analyzer with Real-time Feedback System for Driving Assistance.
Mahbuba Tasmin,Taoseef Ishtiak, Md Sajid Ahmed, Mehreen Hossain Anila, Md. Tamim Abdullah.
Oral Presentation and Poster, NSU ACM SC Innovation Challenge Project Showcase. Summer 2019.
[Poster][Synopsis]

Multi-Dimensional Aspect Analysis of Text Input through Human Emotion and Social Factors.
Mahbuba Tasmin
Oral Presentation, Poster, the 2018 ACM International Joint Conference and 2018 International Symposium on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Wearable Computers.
[Poster]

NEGATIVE EMOTIONS AND US.
Dr. Nova Ahmed, Mahbuba Tasmin, Prabodh Sakhardande, Bhakti Bhikne
Oral Presentation, the ACM SIGCHI Summer School, IIT Bombay 2018.
[Slide]

CV

See here.