Academic Leadership

  • Assistant Professor & Program Coordinator, Information Technology Program, Concordia University of Edmonton, 2024–Present.
  • Graduate Program Coordinator, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Military Institute of Science and Technology, 2015–2016.
  • Moderator, Computer Club, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, MIST, 2014–2016.

Research and Scholarship Committees

  • Committee Member, Research & Faculty Development Committee, Concordia University of Edmonton, 2025–2026.
  • Committee Member, BSc IT Cyclical Program Review Committee, Concordia University of Edmonton, 2025.
  • Selection Committee Member, Canada Graduate Scholarships – Master’s Program, Concordia University of Edmonton, 2025 and 2026.
  • Selection Committee Member, Alberta Innovates Graduate Student Scholarship Program, Concordia University of Edmonton, 2024 and 2026.

Reviewer and Judge Activities

  • Judge, CUE Annual Research and Innovation Conference, CARIC 2026.
  • Judge, CUE Annual Research and Innovation Conference, CARIC 2025.
  • Reviewer, Canada Graduate Scholarships – Master’s applications.
  • Reviewer, Alberta Innovates Graduate Student Scholarship applications.

Conference and Event Organization

  • Co-organizer, Summer Coding Camp 2025, Concordia University of Edmonton.
  • Joint Secretary, 18th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, ICCIT 2015, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
  • Volunteer, Meeting of the Minds Conference, University of Lethbridge, 2018.

Student Supervision

Master’s Students

  • Happy Hasmukhbhai Patel — Knowledge-Guided Software Intelligence: Experimental Analysis of Retrieval-Augmented Code Generation Frameworks.
  • Sindhuja Prabhakaran — Multimodal Drowsiness Detection Using MobileNetV2 and EEG-Based Models.
  • Devraj Parmar — Property Valuation using Supervised Learning and Visualization.

Undergraduate Students

  • Aditya Odedara — NeuroStation Arcade Report.
  • Mehran Rahmatinejad — Personalized, Context-Aware Calorie and Nutrition Tracking System.
  • Dewan Wasiul Islam Wasty — Evolution of Software Engineering in the Age of AI: A RAG-Based Perspective on Speed, Efficiency, and Accuracy.
  • Kieran Tomalty — A Novel Protocol for Data Storage and Censorship-Resistant Communication on the Bitcoin Blockchain.
  • Sayeed Islam — Dynamic Knowledge Retrieval for Intelligent Code Generation: Extending RAILS and P4OMP.
  • Maisha Nusrat Srishty — Predictive Analytics for Healthcare Treatment Cost and Wait Time Visualization.
  • Olivia Parsons — Building Trust in Multiplayer Gaming: Anti-Cheat System Design and Analysis.
  • Glory Deji-Akinlotan — Digital Health Apps for Medication and Appointment Adherence.

Research Grants and Funding

  • CUE Seed Grant, Principal Applicant, Concordia University of Edmonton, 2026–2027, CAD 7,000.
  • CUE Seed Grant, Principal Applicant, Concordia University of Edmonton, 2025–2026, CAD 5,000.
  • Mitacs Accelerate / Lab2Market, Principal Applicant, 2022, CAD 15,000.
  • Alberta Innovates Technology Futures Graduate Student Scholarship, 2018–2021, CAD 93,000.
  • School of Graduate Studies Fellowship, University of Lethbridge, 2017, CAD 15,000.

Industry Collaboration

  • Huawei Technologies Canada — Researcher, Centre of Software Excellence (2022–2024)
    • Contributed to FMware (Software 4.0) and load test generation projects.
    • Collaborated on software performance engineering and system optimization initiatives.
    • Led knowledge engineering efforts to integrate domain knowledge into foundation model and LLM-based systems.
    • Improved system performance through concurrency handling and scalability techniques.
    • Published research outcomes in leading software engineering venues, including ACM FSE 2024.
    • Chaired the Joint Health and Safety Committee at Huawei Technologies Canada (Kingston).

Teaching Service

  • Lecturer, University of Lethbridge, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, 2022.
  • Lecturer, Military Institute of Science and Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, 2011–2017.
  • Visiting Lecturer, Bangladesh University of Professionals, 2017.
  • Visiting Lecturer, Bangladesh University of Business & Technology, 2016–2017.
  • Visiting Lecturer, Ahsanullah University of Science & Technology, 2014.

Research Expertise

  • Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models
  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Software Intelligence
  • High-Performance Computing and Parallel Programming
  • Big Data Analytics and Graph Algorithms
  • Optimization Algorithms and Software Engineering
  • Machine Learning, Data Mining, and Advanced Networking

Entrepreneurial and Innovation Service

  • Intern Entrepreneur, Mitacs Accelerate Program at Lab2MarketMB, 2022.
  • Participated in a national research internship program focused on connecting academic research with industry and technology commercialization.