Mohammed Abid Abrar
Senior Lecturer
Address
Level: 4
Kha-224 Merul Badda
Dhaka 1212. Bangladesh
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Education
+–Jun 2020 – Present
Brac University, Dhaka, M.Sc. In Computer Science
– Master thesis: Identification of genes with location dependent variance in spatial transcriptomics data
Feb 2015 – Apr 2019
Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology, Dhaka, B.Sc. In Electrical and Electronic Engineering
– Major: Communication (signal processing)
– Bachelor thesis: Head motion estimation and correction in dental CT using deep learning
Aug 2014
Chittagong College, Chittagong, Higher Secondary Certificate
May 2012
Chittagong Govt. High School, Chittagong, Secondary School Certificate
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Publications
+–Journals
Hossen, Z., Abrar, M. A., Ara, S. R., & Hasan, M. K. (2020). RATE-iPATH: On the design of integrated ultrasonic biomarkers for breast cancer detection. Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 62, 102053. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bspc.2020.102053
Conferences
Zaman, S., Abrar, M. A., Hassan, M. M., & Islam, A. N. M. N. (2019). A recurrent neural network approach to image captioning in braille for blind-deaf People. 2019 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Information, Communication & Systems (SPICSCON), 49–53. Dhaka, Bangladesh: IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/SPICSCON48833.2019.9065144
Abrar, M. A., Nafiul Islam, A. N. M., Hassan, M. M., Islam, M. T., Shahnaz, C., & Fattah, S. A. (2019). Deep lip reading-a deep learning based lip-reading software for the hearing impaired. 2019 IEEE R10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC)(47129). Depok, West Java, Indonesia: IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/R10-HTC47129.2019.9042439
Debnath, B., Anika, A., Abrar, M. A., Chowdhury, T., Chakraborty, R., Khan, A. I., … Shahnaz, C. (2019). Automatic Handwritten words on Touchscreen to Text file converter. 2018 IEEE Region 10 Conference, 2018, 219–223. Jeju, Korea (South): IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/TENCON.2018.8650269
Abrar, M. A., Ishtiaque Mahbub, A. M., & Mamun, M. (2014). Design optimization of a horizontal axis micro wind turbine through development of CFD model and experimentation. 10th International Conference on Mechanical Engineering, ICME 2013, 90, 333–338. Dhaka, Bangladesh: Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2014.11.858
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Professional Activities
+–Jul 2020 – Oct 2020
Secretary of the Steering Committee for Summer Grading & Plagiarism, Brac University
May 2019 – Aug 2019
Lecturer at Department of EEE, Green University, Dhaka
Feb 2017 – Jul 2020
Undergraduate Researcher at Digital Signal Processing Research Laboratory, BUET
Aug 2018 – Aug 2019
President of BUET Energy Club
Oct 2017 – Oct 2018
Academic Team Coordinator of Bangladesh Physics Olympiad
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Courses Taught
+–CSE251: Electronic Devices and Circuits
CSE251L: Electronic Devices and Circuits Laboratory
CSE250L: Electrical Circuits Laboratory
CSE350L: Digital Electronics and Pulse Techniques Laboratory
CSE330L: Numerical Methods Laboratory
MAT101: Fundamental of Mathematics
CSE428: Image Processing -
Conferences, Talks, and Speaking Engagements
+–[Poster Presentation] Many Genes Show Location-Dependent Variance in Cancer Spatial Transcriptomics Data, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Conference on Single Cell Analyses 2021, New York (Virtual)
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Awards, Honors
+–2018
Globally 4th (among 30 teams) at IEEE SPS Signal Processing Cup
2017
Globally 1st (among 19 teams) at IEEE SPS Video and Image Processing Cup
2017 – 2018
Duke of Edinburgh International Award (Bronze and Silver)
2018
1st runner up (among 25 participants), MATLAB Contest, Esonance, IUT
2017
1st runner up in the Smart Grid category, National Power and Energy Hackathon
2016
1st Runner-up, Line Follower Competition, Robo Carnival, BUET Robotic Society
2016 – 2019
3 times Dean’s list scholarship as a recognition of excellent academic performance
2014
Participant, International Physics Olympiad (Kazakhstan)
2013
Participant, International Physics Olympiad (Denmark)
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Research Areas/Interests
+–Computational biology; Systems biology; Biomedical image and signal processing; Machine learning; Deep learning.