Faria Binta Awal is a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at BRAC University and an Adjunct Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). She earned her B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering from BUET in March 2025, where she graduated with distinction, ranking among the top 10 students in her cohort.

Her research focuses on developing computational methods for life science, spatial biology, and biomedical data science. She has worked on projects spanning machine learning for spatial transcriptomics, graph-based biological modeling, and deep learning for biomedical imaging. In undergraduate thesis, Faria developed SuNSTAMP, a supervised factorization framework integrating spatial transcriptomics with complementary molecular readouts, and contributed to the Spatialomics-Toolkit, presented at the Festival of Genomics & Biodata Boston 2025 workshop.

She has received multiple academic and research awards, including the RISE (Research and Innovation Centre for Science and Engineering) Research Grant and national recognition in programming contests such as the National Girls’ Programming Contest (Champion, 2022). Her team (BUET_Harmonica) ranked 23^rd in ICPC Asia Dhaka Regional Contest 2024. Her ongoing work explores graph-based contrastive learning and computational models of cell–cell communication in regenerative biology.

• Supervised Factorization to Associate Spatial Transcriptomics with Complementary Molecular Readouts
  bioRxiv, 2025
  Faria Binta Awal, Robia G. Pautler, Md. Abul Hassan Samee, M. Saifur Rahman
  DOI: bioRxiv-Preprint
  Code Repository: SuNSTAMP
   
• Spatial Transcriptomics Data Analysis Pipeline
  I worked with Dr. Md. Abul Hassan Samee on the literature review and the design of a pipeline that ultimately led to the development of the Spatialomics-Toolkit,  which was later utilized during live demonstrations at a Festival of Genomics & Biodata Boston 2025 workshop.
  
   

• Lecturer
  Department of Computer Science and Engineering
  School of Data and Sciences, BRAC University
  (August 2025 - Present)
• Adjunct Lecturer
  Department of Computer Science and Engineering
  Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)
  (April 2025 - Present)
• Remote Research Engineer (Machine Learning)
  (May 2025 - September 2025)

• National Girls’ Programming Contest (NGPC) 2022, Rank: Champion, Team Name: BUET Pirates
  Highlighted on the BUET Website: https://cse.buet.ac.bd/home/news_detail/161
  Featured in a leading national newspaper, Prothom Alo: https://www.prothomalo.com/lifestyle/zldk32um72 
• Research and Innovation Centre for Science and Engineering (RISE) Research Grant 2024
  
   

• ICPC Asia Dhaka Regional Contest 2024
  Rank - 23 | Team Name - BUET Harmonica
• BUET Inter University Programming Contest 2023
  Rank - 15 | Team Name - BUET Trumpet
• Ada Lovelace National Girls’ Programming Contest 2022
  Rank - 14 | Team Name - BUET error 404
• NASA Space Apps Challenge 2021
  Rank - 2nd Runner Up, Dhaka Division | Team Name - Luminal Caliber