Sabrina Zaman Ishita graduated from the University of Dhaka in Computer Science and Engineering with BSc degree in 2017 (position -1st) and MSc degree in 2019 (position -1st). Currently, she is doing her PhD in Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the USA. She actively contributed to the development of online course material (bux) during the pandemic (2020-2021). Back in her undergraduate life, she persistently participated in the competitive programming contests and achieved the 2nd runner-up position in the National Girls’ Programming Contest (2015). 

1. Ishita S.Z., Ahmed C.F. & Leung C.K. New Approaches for Mining Regular High Utility Sequential Patterns. Appl Intell 52, 3781–3806 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-021-02536-7
2. Ishita S.Z., Ahmed C.F., Leung C.K., Hoi C.H.S. (2019) Mining Regular High Utility Sequential Patterns in Static and Dynamic Databases. In: Lee S., Ismail R., Choo H. (eds) Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication (IMCOM) 2019. IMCOM 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 935. Springer, Cham.
3. Ishita S.Z., Noor F., Ahmed C.F. (2018) An Efficient Approach for Mining Weighted Sequential Patterns in Dynamic Databases. In: Perner P. (eds) Advances in Data Mining. Applications and Theoretical Aspects. ICDM 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10933. Springer, Cham. 

• Received Grace Hopper Conference scholarship 2024 from Computer Science department, UMass Amherst to attend the conference virtually
• Selected to participate in the 2023 CRA-WP Grad Cohort for Women conference, San Francisco, USA with full sponsorship.
• Lori A. Clarke Scholarship, CICS, UMass (2022)
• High Profile ICT Scholar Fellowship (2018) -awarded to only two Bangladeshi students each year from the ICT Division, Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology, Government of Bangladesh for doing high-quality research that impacts people positively.
• Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence, University of Dhaka (2016)
• Prof. Dr. Md. Lutfar Rahman Award for securing highest CGPA in BSc (2016)
• Board Scholarship based on SSC and HSC result (2009, 2011)