Md. Asif Haider is currently serving as a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Brac University. He earned his Bachelor of Science (BSc. Engg.) degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 2024. During his undergraduate studies, Asif completed short, hybrid internships at OpenRefactory, Inc. Bangladesh and North West Power Generation Company Limited (NWPGCL) where he focused on Secure Software Engineering and Machine Learning tasks respectively. Additionally, he had actively mentored high school students for the past few years.

His current research interests span Software Engineering and Security, Large Language Models, and Human Factors in Computing. He is also passionate about Natural Language Processing techniques applied to the Healthcare domain and contemporary topics on Computational Social Science.
 

Asif is deeply thankful for the mentors and resources he has been blessed with throughout his journey. Driven by a strong enthusiasm towards research and development, he is committed to contributing back to the academic community with what the students need most: quality education, motivating guidance, and mental support. He is also an advocate of academic and cultural leadership activities on campus and beyond. When he is not busy with academic/research work, he is likely to be found diving into music, literature, and theater.

Faculty initials: AHF [USIS], ASR [CSE, SDS]

Visit my Google Scholar Profile for an up-to-date list of peer-reviewed and archived articles.

• Siddiq, Mohammed Latif, Abdus Samee, Sk Ruhul Azgor, Md Asif Haider, Shehabul Islam Sawraz, and Joanna CS Santos. "Zero-shot prompting for code complexity prediction using github copilot." In 2023 IEEE/ACM 2nd International Workshop on Natural Language-Based Software Engineering (NLBSE), pp. 56-59. IEEE, 2023.
• Nabi, Khondoker Nazmoon, Md Toki Tahmid, Abdur Rafi, Muhammad Ehsanul Kader, and Md Asif Haider. "Forecasting COVID-19 cases: A comparative analysis between recurrent and convolutional neural networks." Results in Physics 24 (2021): 104137.

Work Experience

Lecturer, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

School of Data and Sciences,

Brac University (2024 - Present)

Apprentice Software Engineer, Engineering Department

OpenRefactory, Inc. Bangladesh (2023)
 

Intern Machine Learning Engineer

North West Power Generation Company Limited Bangladesh (2023)

Voluntary Affiliation

Vice Chairperson

IEEE Computer Society BUET Student Branch Chapter (2023 - 2024)

Co-ordinator

BUET System Analysis, Design and Development Community (2020 - Present)

Publication Secretary

Notre Dame Drama Club (2017 - 2018)

Research and Travel Grants

• GenBench Workshop Travel Grant @ EMNLP 2024 [Amazon, ACL]
• PLMW Travel Grant @ PLDI 2024 [ACM SIGPLAN]
• RISE-BUET Undergraduate Student Research Grant 2023
• IEEE Video and Image Processing Cup Champion Team Award @ ICIP 2023 [IEEE SPS]
• HPC Immersion Travel Grant @ SC 2022 [ACM SIGHPC, IEEE CS]

Academic Scholarships

• Undergraduate Dean’s List Award and University Merit Scholarship @ BUET [2023, 2021]
• Honorable Mention Award for Distinction in Academic and Extra-Curricular Activities @ NDC [2018]
• Talent Pool Merit Scholarship in High School Public Exams @ HSC, SSC [2018, 2016]

Competition Prizes

• Biomedical Datathon Runner-up @ BUET BME Fest [2024]
• DevOps Hackathon Champion Team @ DU IIT Fest [2024]
• DevOps Hackathon Champion Team @ BUET CSE Fest [2023]
• Best Student Research Poster Team @ NSysS [2021]

Other Recognitions

• National Champion @ জাতীয় ভাষা প্রতিযোগ [2018]
• National Finalist @ Bangladesh Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology Olympiads [2018, 2017]
• NDC Drama Team @ বাংলাদেশ শিল্পকলা একাডেমি National Youth Drama Festival [2018, 2017]

Bachelor of Science (BSc. Engg.)

Computer Science and Engineering (2019 - 2024) 

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Higher Secondary School Certificate (H.S.C.)

Science (2016 - 2018)

Notre Dame College (NDC), Dhaka, Bangladesh
 

Secondary School Certificate (S.S.C.)

Science (2006 - 2016)

Ideal School and College, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Fall 2024

• CSE 230: Discrete Mathematics [Theory]
• CSE 422: Artificial Intelligence [Lab]
• CSE 470: Software Engineering [Theory]

Summer 2024

• CSE 221: Algorithms [Lab]
• CSE 423: Computer Graphics [Theory]

Below are some of the broad research areas that excite me. I am always up for discussing how to solve challenging problems within these domains. 

• Software Engineering and Software Security
• Deep Learning and Large Language Models 
• Human Factors in Computing
• Natural Language Processing
• AI for Healthcare and Social Good

In-Person Presentation

• ACM SIGHPC International Conference for High-Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, Dallas, Texas, USA [SC 2022]
• International Conference on Networking, Systems and Security, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh [NSysS 2023, 2022, 2021]

Virtual Attendance

• ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, Copenhagen, Denmark [PLDI 2024]
• IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia [ICIP 2023]