Education

Fall 23-Ongoing
Ph.D. - Computer Science
University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA, USA

2016-2017
M. S. - Computer Science and Engineering
University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

2012 - 2015
B. Sc. - Computer Science and Engineering
University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Work Experience

Jun 22 - Ongoing (Currently on Study Leave)
Assistant Professor
Dept. of CSE, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Sep 19 - Jun 22
Lecturer
Dept. of CSE, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Apr 18 - Sep 19
Lecturer
Dept. of CSE, East West University, Bangladesh

May 16 - Apr 18
Lecturer
Dept. of CSE, United International University, Bangladesh

Mar 16 - May 16
Software Engineer
Enosis Solutions, Bangladesh

Past Projects

2022-2023
Speech Synthesis in Bangla
Project Co-Investigator
Organization: University Grant Commission (UGC Grant 2022-2023)

2021-2022
Assessment of Coastal and Marine Biodiversity Resources and Ecosystems to Implement the Blue Economy Action Plan
Database Consultant
Organization: Department of Environment, Bangladesh

2021-2022
Development of A Robust Bangla Language Model and a Bangla NLP Server
Project Co-Investigator
Organization: University of Dhaka (Centennial Research Grant)

Publications

Graph-based Substructure Pattern Mining with Edge-Weight
Md. Ashraful Islam, Chowdhury Farhan Ahmed, Carson K. Leung, Md. Tanvir Alam, Applied Intelligence (Springer), 2024

BaNeL: an encoder-decoder based Bangla neural lemmatizer
Md. Ashraful Islam, Md Towhiduzzaman, Md Bhuiyan, Tauhidul Islam, Abdullah Al Maruf, Jesan Ahammed Ovi, SN Applied Sciences (Springer), 2022

BaNeP: An End-to-End Neural Network Based Model for Bangla Parts-of-Speech Tagging
Jesan Ahammed Ovi, Md. Ashraful Islam, Md Rezaul Karim, IEEE Access, 2022

UGMINE: Utility Based Graph Mining
Md. Tanvir Alam, Amit Roy, Chowdhury Farhan Ahmed, Md. Ashraful Islam, Carson K. Leung, Applied Intelligence (Springer), 2022

Weighted frequent sequential pattern mining
Md. Ashraful Islam, Mahfuzur Rahman Rafl, Al-amin Azad, Jesan Ahammed Ovi, Applied Intelligence (Springer), 2021

Weighted Clickstream Mining Using Pre-order Linked Web-Access Pattern Tree
Abu Naser, Nusrat Sultana, Md. Ashraful Islam, Jesan Ahammed Ovi, International Conference for Emerging Technology (IEEE), 2021

An Efficient Approach for Mining Weighted Frequent Patterns from Data Stream
Jesan Ahammed Ovi, Md. Ashraful Islam, Jannatul Ferdosh Nima, International Conference for Emerging Technology (IEEE), 2021

Mining High Utility Subgraphs
Md Tanvir Alam, Amit Roy, Chowdhury Farhan Ahmed, Md. Ashraful Islam, Carson K Leung, International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (IEEE), 2021

Factoid Question Answering over Bangla Comprehension
Md Asiful Haque, Shamima Sultana, Md Jayedul Islam, Md. Ashraful Islam, Jesan Ahammed Ovi, International Symposium on Multidisciplinary Studies and Innovative Technologies (IEEE), 2020

An efficient approach for sequential pattern mining on GPU using CUDA platform
Shah Mohammed Nuruddin, Md Didarul Islam, Md Shaflqul Alam, Jesan Ahammed Ovi, Md. Ashraful Islam, International Symposium on Multidisciplinary Studies and Innovative Technologies (IEEE), 2020

WeFreS: weighted frequent subgraph mining in a single large graph
Nahian Ashraf, Riddho Ridwanul Haque, Md. Ashraful Islam, Chowdhury Farhan Ahmed, Carson K Leung, Jiaxing Jason Mai, Bryan H Wodi, Industrial conference on data mining (IBAI Publishing), 2019

WFSM-MaxPWS: an efficient approach for mining weighted frequent subgraphs from edge-weighted graph databases
Md. Ashraful Islam, Chowdhury Farhan Ahmed, Carson K Leung, Calvin SH Hoi, Pacific-asia conference on knowledge discovery and data mining (Springer), 2018