Jannatul Ferdous

Research Assistant

About Me

I am a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of New Mexico. I am working as a research assistant at Moses Biological Computation Lab, University of New Mexico under direct supervision of Dr. Melanie Moses. I completed my Bachelor Degree in Computer Science from University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. My husband, Parvez, and I have a beautiful daughter: Inaya. I love cooking, reading, watching movies and mostly spending time with our daughter.

What I Do

Research

My research is focused on modeling complex biological systems, including developing computational and mathematical models of immune systems. The study of biologically-inspired model can help to build autonomous robot, such as Swarm Robots. I analyze complex problems and implement new statistical techniques for deriving insights from the biological and the computational data gathered from my developed Agent-Based Model (ABM). I study the scaling of the immune system of mammals through ABM modeling, simulations and statistical tools.

I am Experienced at

Teaching

I was a lecturer at Eastern University, Bangladesh where I taught Introduction to programming with C, Object Oriented Programming and Distributed Systems along with other courses. I was an instructor at UNM where I taught Object Oriented Programming (OOP) and CS4All. The OOP course was focused on introducing students with OOP using JAVA. The course was mostly designed for freshman and sophomore years student. CS4All is an introductory course designed for students new to computing and focusing on the cross disciplinary aspects of computer science for high school and college students. Combined these two teaching positions, I have trained over 100 students, 75% of them women and/or students of color who are underrepresented in STEM, particularly in Computer Science. I am delighted that I played a small role on changing their perception towards Computer Science.

Testimonials

Very insightful lectures and very approachable. Overall, she is a very nice person and I did not hesitate to ask her for help many times.

Anonymous

Course: CS4All

The computer science aspect was difficult to learn but the professor was very helpful. Her walking through the material with us was very insightful.

Anonymous

Course: OOP

Resume

Education

Jan, 2018 - Current

(Expected Graduation: Dec, 2023)
University of New Mexico

PhD in Computer Science

CGPA: 3.99 / 4.00

2016

University of Dhaka

BSc in Computer Science

CGPA: 3.64 / 4.00

Experience

Aug, 2020 - Current

Moses Biological Computation Lab, UNM

Research Assistant

Research Interest: Computational Immunology, Biologically Inspired Computation, Scaling Complex Biological Systems.

Jan, 2019 - July, 2020

Department of Computer Science, UNM

Instructor

Courses: Object Oriented Programming, CS for All

Jan, 2018 - Dec, 2018

Department of Computer Science, UNM

Teaching Assistant

Courses: Cyber Security, Data organization with C

May, 2016 - Dec, 2017

Department of Computer Science, Eastern University, Dhaka

Lecturer

Courses: Distributed Systems, Object Oriented Programming, Computer Peripheral and Interfaces, Introduction to C

Technical Skills

Languages: Java, Python, C, SQL, MATLAB, NetLogo, PHP, HTML/CSS, Arduino UNO
Databases: Oracle
Frameworks: WordPress
Tools & Libraries: Git, MASON, OpenCV, OpenGL, TensorFlow, Keras
OS: Linux, Windows

Knowledges

Immunology
Complex Adaptive System
Biological System Modeling
Data Mining
Algorithm
Dynamic Programming
Graph-Theory
Problem-Solving

Professional Service Activities

President of computer science graduate student association, UNM (2020 - 2021)
Organized 15th annual Computer Science Student conference (Virtual), 2021
Secretary of computer science graduate student association, UNM (2019 - 2020)
Organized fall graduate student orientation, 2020.
Reviewer, BDA (Biological Distributed Algorithms Workshop) 2021, co-located with PODC.

Journals

1. J. Ferdous, M. P. Mollah, M. A. Razzaque, M. M. Hassan, A. Alamri, G. Fortino and M. Zhou, "Optimal Dynamic Pricing for Trading-Off User Utility and Operator Profit in Smart Grid", in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 455-467, Feb. 2020, doi: 10.1109/TSMC.2017.2764442.

Conferences

1. J. Ferdous, G. Matthew Fricke, and Melanie E. Moses ”Modeling Immune Search through the Lymphatic Network”, Accepted for Thirteenth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, 2022, Malaga, Spain. To be published by Springer in the LNCS series, Volume 13491.

Workshops

1. J. Ferdous, G. Matthew Fricke, Juddy Cannon, and Melanie E. Moses ”Distributed Processing in Lymph Nodes Supports a Scalable Immune Response”, 8th Workshop on Biological Distributed Algorithm, 2021, in conjunction with PODC 2021

Gallery

My Daughter

Cooking

My Daughter