CV
A pdf version of my resume is available here.
Education
- B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, GitHub University, 2012
- M.S. in Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2024 (expected)
- Ph.D in Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2026 (expected)
Work experience
- Sep 2021 - Present: Graduate Research Assistant
- University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Designed and developed a journaling agent for patients with chronic illness
- Developed a categorization to map the existing design space of chatbot avatars
- Designed and developed a multi-agent chatbot for rich input elicitation (CSCW 2023)
- Sep 2021 - Present: Graduate Teaching Assistant
- University of Massachusetts Amherst
- CICS 210: Data Structures (Fall 2023)
- COMPSCI 325: Introduction to HCI (Fall 2021, Fall 2022)
- June 2020 - July 2021: Software Engineer
- TigerIT Bangladesh Ltd
- Developed question-answering systems using a reader-retrieval model
- Implemented a kids learning chatbots in Rasa
- Finetuned a multilingual model (M2M100) on the English-Bengali dataset
- Worked on a Flask server to deploy ML models
Honors and Awards
- 2023: Awarded Dr. Dave Lomet Graduate Scholarship for Systems Research
- 2022: Awarded Jim Gray Scholarship for Systems Research
- 2019: Champion, Code Samurai Inter-University Hackathon
- 2019: Awarded Bangabandhu Innovation Grant - 1 million BDT (11,000 USD)
- 2019: Winners, Student to Startup, Chapter 2
- 2018: 1st Runner Up, DUITS IT Festival
- 2017: 21st Position, ACM-ICPC Asia Dhaka Regional Contest
- 2017: 5th Position, City University Inter University Programming Contest
Skills
- Machine Learning Libraries: Scikit Learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Transformers, Haystack
- Programming Languages: C/C++, Java, Python
- Mobile Application Development: Android
- Database: MySQL, Oracle SQL, MongoDB, Firestore
- Cloud Platform: Google Firebase, AWS
- Web Server Programming: JavaScript, Flask, FastApi
- Development: Software Design Pattern, Git
Publications
Rashik, Mashrur, et al. "Speeding up distributed pseudo-tree optimization procedures with cross edge consistency to solve DCOPs." Applied Intelligence 51 (2021): 1733-1746.
Dewitt, E. R. I. C. A. "Mapping Instability: The Effects of the Pandemic on the Civic Life of a Small Town." Environments By Design: Health, Wellbeing, and Place Conference. AMPS proceeding Series 26.2, 2022.
Jiang, Zhiqiu and Rashik, Mashrur, et al. "CommunityBots: creating and evaluating A multi-agent chatbot platform for public input elicitation." Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 7.CSCW1 (2023): 1-32.
Rashik, Mashrur, et al. "Beyond Text and Speech in Conversational Agents: Mapping the Design Space of Avatars." Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. 2024.
Talks
October 18, 2023
Conference Presentation at Hyatt Regency Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN USA
July 04, 2024
Conference Presentation at ITU University (Virtual Presentation), Copenhagen, Denmark
Service and leadership
- 2023: Reviewer at ACM CHI
- 2023-2024: IEEE VIS Web Chair
