CV

The PDF version of my CV can be found here.

Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA (Aug. 2020 – Present)
MSc. Software Engineering, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh (Jan. 2018 – June 2019)
BSc. Software Engineering, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh (Jan. 2014 – Dec. 2017)

Text Mining & Natural Language Processing, concerning Information Retrieval, Selection and Summarization, and recent interest in Recommender System.

Research Assistant: Aug. 2022 – May 2023, Aug. 2023 – Present
- Co-op of CS@UIUC and eBay Inc., IL, USA
- Topic: Recommender System
- Advisor: Prof. Kevin C. Chang.
Graduate Teaching Assistant: Aug. 2023 – Present
- Dept. of CS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA
- Course: STAT 107- Data Science Discovery
- Supervisors: Karle Flanagan and Wade Fagen-Ulmschneider
Research Scientist Intern - Artificial Intelligence : May 2023 – Aug. 2023
- IBM Research – Almaden, San Jose, CA, USA
- Topic: Conversational AI
- Manager: Lucian Popa.
Graduate Research Assistant: Aug. 2020 – May 2023
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA
- Collaborations: IBM- Aug.’20 – Dec’21 (Topic: NextGen Search), Aug.’22 – May’23 (Topic: AIOps)
- Advisor: Prof. Kevin C. Chang.
Software Engineer: Nov. 2019 – Aug. 2020
- Samsung R&D Institute Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Duties: Developing Samsung wearable applications in Tizen platform
Short Course Instructor: Jan. 2018 – Sep. 2019
- Institute of Information Technology, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Duties: Instructing short courses named Web Programming, Web design and Office application
Software Engineer Intern: Jan. 2017 – June 2017
- Datasoft System Bangladesh Limited, Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Duties: Developing two in-house automation projects

IIT Academic Excellence Gold Medal Award, 2019
2019 IEEE Computer Society Bangladesh Chapter’s Award for Academic & Research Excellence in recognition of Outstanding Research Accomplishments
Winner in a Human activity recognition challenge called NURSE CARE ACTIVITY RECOGNITION CHALLENGE as a part of HASCA workshop at Ubicomp 2019
Awarded for IJCAI-AIJ 2019 TRAVEL and ACCESSIBILITY GRANT
Awarded as the best presenter in an international conference, ICREST 2019
Awarded as an ICT fellow (2018-19) under ICT Division Bangladesh

Pritom Saha Akash, ”An Evidential Inter-node Hellinger Distance based Tree Classifier”, Institute of Information Technology, University of Dhaka, 2019. [pdf]

Context Sensitive Bengali Spell Checker (Jul. 2017 - Nov. 2017)
- A Bengali Spell Checker for detecting and recommending corrections of typographic and contextual errors
- Developed using Python 3.5 and Django 1.11.2
Graduate Verification System (Aug. 2017 - Oct. 2017)
- A web-based system for verification of a graduate
- Developed using PHP, Laravel and MySQL
Budget Planning System (Sept. 2016 - Nov. 2016)
- A web-based system for planning yearly budget of IIT, University of Dhaka
- Developed using PHP and MySQL
Home Budget Manager (Feb. 2015 - May 2015)
- An Android application to set budget and track your earnings-expenses
- Developed using Java, Android Studio 1.0 and SQLite

Programming: Python, Java, Matlab, C/C++, MySQL, JavaScript, R
Software and Tools: PyTorch, scikit-learn, Git, LaTex, IntelliJ, Eclipse, Android Studio