Research & Scholarship

2025

Blue Sky Best Paper Award (Runner-up)

27th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2025), Canberra, Australia. Awarded for the MUSE framework paper.

2026

Silver Reviewer, ICML 2026

Recognized among the top reviewers at the International Conference on Machine Learning.

2021–22

UNL College of Engineering Research Excellence Award

University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Engineering.

Teaching Excellence

2023

Holling Family Distinguished Teaching Award for Excellence in Inclusive Teaching

UNL College of Engineering.

2020–21

Students Choice Award — Outstanding Teaching of Graduate-Level Courses

UNL Department of Computer Science and Engineering.

2016–17

Students Choice Award — Outstanding Teaching of Undergraduate-Level Courses (100–200)

UNL Department of Computer Science and Engineering.

2014–15

Students Choice Award — Outstanding Teaching of Undergraduate-Level Courses (100–200)

UNL Department of Computer Science and Engineering.

2014

UNL Parents Association Award

Certificate of Recognition for Contributions to Students.

Community & Engagement

2026
Murder in the Makerspace — UNL College of Engineering
1st Place, Outreach and Engagement Pitch (expert panel)
People's Choice Award, Outreach and Engagement Pitch (peer faculty)
People's Choice Award, Best Impromptu Pitch

Concluding session of the faculty workshop series on community-engaged research. Three awards at a single event.

Early Career & Academic Milestones

2013

Chair's Prize, Ph.D. Poster Competition

Spring 2013 Department of Software and Information Systems Ph.D. Poster Competition, UNC Charlotte.

2006

Best Student Award

Highest grade in CSE 5510 (Mobile and Distributed Computing Systems), School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monash University, Australia.

2005

Australian Development Scholarship (AusAID)

Sole recipient in the Information Technology category from Bangladesh, awarded in recognition of founding and operating a non-profit IT startup for rural development.

2001

2nd Position with First Class, M.Sc. in Physics

University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.