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Academician Researcher HCI Enthusiast

Currently I am a post-doctoral Research Associate at Design and Data Nest, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA working with Dr. Beenish M Chaudhry.

I am highly energetic in human-computer interaction, health informatics, digital health, relational agents, pervasive computing, user experience design, interfaces, and applied machine learning.

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Teaching Statement Research Statement
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Appointments

2022

Research Associate

Design and Data Nest, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA

2019-22

Graduate Teaching and Research Assistant

School of Computing and Informatics, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA

2017-18

Lecturer

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Daffodil International University, Bangladesh

2016

Lecturer

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh Institute of Science and Technology, Bangladesh

2014-16

Research Assistant

Advanced Intelligent Multidisciplinary Systems Lab, United International University, Bangladesh

Educations

2022

PhD in Computer Science

University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA

2020

MS in Computer Science

University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA

2016

BSc in Computer Science and Engineering

Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh

Publications

Peer-reviewed Book Chapters

  1. A. Islam, B.M. Chaudhry, "Acceptance Evaluation of a COVID-19 Home Health Service Delivery Relational Agent," In: Lewy, H., Barkan, R. (eds), Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare. PH 2021. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 431. Springer, Cham, 2022. [Published by PervasiveHealth-2021 Conference]
  2. A. Islam*, M.I. Hossen*, F. Anowar, E. Ahmed, M.M. Rahman, "Generating Cyber Threat Intelligence to Discover Potential Security Threats Using Classification and Topic Modeling", In: O. Pal, V. Kumar, R. Khan, B. Alam, M. Alam (eds), Cyber Security using Modern Technologies: Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and Quantum Cryptography. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, USA, 2022. [*Joint First Authorship] [In Press]
  3. A. Islam, M.M. Rahman, M.F. Kabir, B.M. Chaudhry, "A Health Service Delivery Relational Agent for the COVID-19 Pandemic", In: Chandra Kruse L., Seidel S., Hausvik G.I. (eds), The Next Wave of Sociotechnical Design. DESRIST 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), vol 12807. Springer, Cham, 2021.
  4. B.M. Chaudhry, A. Islam, ”Design Validation of a Workplace Stress Management Mobile App for Healthcare Workers During COVID-19 and Beyond,” In: Hara, T., Yamaguchi, H. (eds) Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services. MobiQuitous 2021. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 419. Springer, Cham, 2022. [Published by MobiQuitous-2021 Conference]
  5. E. Ahmed, A. Islam, A.I. Chowdhury, M.M. Rahman, S. Chowdhury, M.I. Hosen, "Robo-friend: Can a Social Robot Empathize with Your Feelings Eectively?", In: C.R. Panigrahi, B. Pati, B.K. Pattanayak, S. Amic, and K.C. Li (eds.), Progress in Advanced Computing and Intelligent Engineering, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (AISC), vol 1299. Springer, Singapore, 2021.
  6. A.I. Chowdhury, F. S. Shishir, A. Islam, E. Ahmed, M.M. Rahman, "Artistic Natural Images Generation Using Neural Style Transfer", In: Hassanien A.E., Bhattacharyya S., Chakrabati S., Bhattacharya A., Dutta S. (eds) Emerging Technologies in Data Mining and Information Security. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (AISC), vol 1286. Springer, Singapore, 2021.
  7. M.A. Karim, A. Karim, S. Azam, E. Ahmed, F.D. Boer, A. Islam, F.N. Nur, "Cognitive Learning Environment and Classroom Analytics (CLECA): A Method Based on Dynamic Data Mining Techniques", In: Raj J.S., Iliyasu A.M., Bestak R., Baig Z.A. (eds) Innovative Data Communication Technologies and Application. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 59. Springer, Singapore, 2021.
  8. N. N. Ontika, M. F. Kabir, A. Islam, E. Ahmed, M. N. Huda, "A Computational Approach to Author Identification from Bengali Song Lyrics", Algorithms for Intelligent Systems (AIS), Springer, Singapore, M. S. Uddin and J. C. Bansal (eds.), Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence, 2018.

    9. Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

  9. A. Islam and B.M. Chaudhry, “Design Validation of a Relational Agent by COVID- 19 Patients,” JMIR Human Factors, 2022. [In Review]
  10. A. Islam* and B.M. Chaudhry*, “Mobile Application based Relational Agent as a Health Professional for COVID-19 patients: Design, Approach, and Implications,” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022. [*Joint First Authorship] [In Press]
  11. B.M. Chaudhry, A. Islam, M. Matthieu, "Toward Designs of Workplace Stress Management Mobile Apps for Frontline Health Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond: Design Implications for a Mixed Methods Qualitative Study", JMIR Formative Research 2022;6(1):e30640.
  12. C. Liang, B. Shanmugam, S. Azam, A. Karim, A. Islam, M. Zamani, S. Kavianpour, N. B. Idris, "Intrusion Detection System for the Internet of Things Based on Blockchain and Multi-Agent Systems", Electronics 2020, 9, 1120.

    13. Peer-reviewed Conference Papers

  13. A. Islam and B.M. Chaudhry, “Early Usability Evaluation of a Relational Agent for the COVID-19 Pandemic,” in the adjunct publication of the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology Proceedings (UIST ’22). Bend, OR, USA: ACM, 2022.
  14. A. Islam, B.M. Chaudhry, "Acceptance Evaluation of a COVID-19 Home Health Service Delivery Relational Agent ", 15th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth), Dec 2021, Israel.
  15. A. Islam, B.M. Chaudhry, "Identifying User Personas for Engagement with a COVID-19 Health Service Delivery Relational Agent", 9th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2021), Nov 2021, Japan.
  16. B.M. Chaudhry, A. Islam, "Design Validation of a Workplace Stress Management Mobile App for Healthcare Workers During COVID-19 and Beyond", 18th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous 2021), Nov 2021, Japan.
  17. N. Halder, S. R. Islam, M. S. Hosain, E. Ahmed, A. Islam, S. R. H. Noori, "Efficacy and Acceptance of Virtual Classrooms During COVID-19: Bangladesh Perspective", 2021 3rd International Congress on Human-Computer Interaction, Optimization and Robotic Applications (HORA), Jun 2021, Turkey.
  18. A. Islam, M.M. Rahman, E. Ahmed, F. Arafat, M.F. Rabby, "Adaptive Feature Selection and Classifica- tion of Colon Cancer From Gene Expression Data: an Ensemble Learning Approach", ACM International Conference on Computing Advancements (ICCA 2020), Jan 2020, Bangladesh.
  19. E. Ahmed, A. Islam, M. Ashraf, M.I. Khan, A.I. Chowdhury, A. Karim, "An Investigation Into The Level Of Valence Offered By Different Pointing Devices Against Challenging Tasks", IEEE 2020 International Conference on Advanced Computer Science and Information Systems (ICACSIS), Oct 2020, Indonesia.
  20. E. Ahmed, A. Islam, M. Ashraf, A.I. Chowdhury, M.M. Rahman, "Internet of Things (IoT): Vulnerabili- ties, Security Concerns and Things to Consider", IEEE 11th International Conference on Computing, Communication and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT), Jul 2020, India.
  21. F. Anowar, M. Ashraf, A. Islam, E. Ahmed, A.I. Chowdhury, "A Review on Diabetes Self-management Applications for Android Smartphones: Perspective of Developing Countries", 2020 2nd IEEE International Congress on Human-Computer Interaction, Optimization and Robotic Applications (HORA), Jun 2020,
  22. A.I. Chowdhury, M.M. Shahriar, A. Islam, E. Ahmed, A. Karim, M.R. Islam, "An Automated System in ATM Booth Using Face Encoding and Emotion Recognition Process", 2nd International Conference on Image Processing and Machine Vision (IPMV 2020), Jul 2020, Thailand.
  23. A.I. Chowdhury, M. Ashraf, A. Islam, E. Ahmed, M.S. Jaman, M.M. Rahman, "hActNET: An Improved Neural Network based Method in Recognizing Human Activities", 2020 4th International Symposium on Multidisciplinary Studies and Innovative Technologies (ISMSIT), Oct 2020, Turkey.
  24. A. Jose, S. Azam, A. Karim, B. Shanmugam, F. Faisal, A. Islam, F.D. Boer, M. Jonkman, "A Framework to Address Security Concerns in Three Layers of IoT", 2020 2nd International Conference on Electrical, Control and Instrumentation Engineering (ICECIE), Nov 2020, Malaysia.
  25. M.M. Rahman, A. Islam, M.F. Kabir, M.N. Huda, "An Approach of Handling Verbal Inflections of Bengali Text: Conversion of Sadhu to Cholito Form of Language", IEEE 22nd International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT 2019), Dec 2019, Bangladesh.
  26. M.T. Hoque, A. Islam, E. Ahmed, K.A. Mamun, M.N. Huda, "Analyzing Performance of Different Machine Learning Approaches With Doc2vec for Classifying Sentiment of Bengali Natural Language", IEEE 2nd International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Communication Engineering (ECCE 2019), Feb 2019, Bangladesh.
  27. M.A. Helal, A.I. Chowdhury, A. Islam, E. Ahmed, S. Mahmud, S. Hossain, "An Optimization Approach to Improve Classification Performance in Cancer and Diabetes Prediction", IEEE 2nd International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Communication Engineering 2019 (ECCE 2019), Feb 2019, Bangladesh.
  28. E. Ahmed, M.M. Hasan, M.O. Faruk, M.F. Hossain, M.A. Rahman, A. Islam, "Icons For the Mass: An Approach Towards Text Free Smart Interface", IEEE 1st International Conference on Advances in Science, Engineering and Robotics Technology (ICASERT-2019), May 2019, Bangladesh.
  29. N. Neehal, D.Z. Karim, A. Islam, “Cloud-POA: A Cloud-Based Map Only Implementation of PO-MSA on Amazon Multi-node EC2 Hadoop Cluster”, IEEE 20th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT 2017), Dec 2017, Bangladesh.
  30. E. Ahmed, A. Islam, F. Sarker, M.N. Huda, K.A. Mamun, “A Road to Independent Living with Smart Homes for People with Disabilities”, IEEE 5th International Conference on Informatics, Electronics and Vision (ICIEV16), May 2016, Bangladesh
  31. A. Islam, E. Ahmed, A.F. Islam, J. Lu, F. Sarkar, K.A. Mamun, “Decoding Human Brain States Using Transcranial Doppler Ultrasonography”, IEEE 2nd International Conference on Electrical Engineering and ICT (iCEEiCT2015), May 2015, Bangladesh.

    32. Peer-reviewed Extended Abstracts/Posters

  32. A. Islam, U. Islam, B.M. Chaudhry, "Designing Sensor-Based System for Monitoring Quality of Pepper Mash Stored in Wooden Barrels", 14th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST 2019), Jun 2019, USA.
  33. U. Islam, A. Islam, B.M. Chaudhry, "Towards an Integrated Tool for Care Coordination of Alzheimer’s Patients in an Assisted Living Facility", 14th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST 2019), Jun 2019, USA.
  34. E. Ahmed, A. Islam, L. Lu, K.A. Mamun, “Identification of Cognitive States based on Transcranial Doppler Ultrasonography”, International Conference on Physics in Medicine and Clinical Neuroelectro- physiology (PMCN2015), Feb 2015, Bangladesh.
  35. A. Islam, F. Anowar, E. Ahmed, K. A. Mamun, “Smart Green Home: An Intelligent Way to Lead a Better Life”, 2nd National Conference on Natural Sciences and Technology (NCNST2015), April 2015, Bangladesh.
  36. A. Islam, E. Ahmed, L. Lu, K. A. Mamun, “Transcranial Doppler Ultrasonography: A Non-invasive Approach for Identifying Human Brain States”, 2nd National Conference on Natural Sciences and Technology (NCNST2015), April 2015, Bangladesh
  37. A. Islam, E. Ahmed, F. Anowar, J. Lu, K. A. Mamun, “Decoding Cognitive States of Human Brain using Transcranial Doppler Ultrasonography”, National Conference on Physics Education and Research in Bangladesh, April 2015, Bangladesh.
  38. M. A. Helal, S.D. Bibon, S. Das, A. Islam, E. Ahmed, “A Gender Discrimination Approach By Decoding Emotional States Through EEG Signals”, 3rd National Conference on Natural Science and Technology (NCNST 2016), April 2016, Bangladesh. 4/8

    39. Scientific Magazines

  39. S.M.R. Islam, N. Halder, A. Islam, E. Ahmed, S.R.H. Noori. "Virtual classrooms during Covid-19: understanding their efficacy and acceptance among Bangladeshi students." ACM Interactions 29, no. 4 (2022): 7-9.
  40. E. Ahmed, A. Islam, F. Anowar. "Modifying Category Icons In Smartphone App Stores For Better Understanding: A User-centric Approach." ACM Interactions 29, no. 2 (2022).
  41. A. Islam, M. Henninger, B. M. Chaudhry, "COVID-19 Related Stressors in Healthcare Settings", Healthy Living, Society of Behavioral Medicine, USA, 2020 [https://www.sbm.org/healthy-living/strategies-to-address-covid-19-related-stressors-in-healthcare-settings].

    42. Manuscripts Under Preparation

  42. A. Islam, B.M. Chaudhry. "Relational Agents in Healthcare: A Systematic Literature Review of Design Decisions." Unpublished.
  43. S. Jahan, M.U. Islam, A. Islam, M.R. Islam, D.M. Farid. "Active Learning with Clustering for Mining Big Data." Unpublished.

Professionl Services

Int'l Advisory Committee/Board Member

  • International Conference on Intelligent Informatics and Biomedical Sciences (ICIIBMS) [2022, 2021]
  • International Conference on Sustainable Computing (SUSCOM) [2022, 2021]

Technical Program Committee Member

  • The 2023 15th ACM Symposium of Eye Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA)
  • SAI 9th Computing Conference 2022 (Computing 2022)
  • 8th Intelligent Systems Conference (IntelliSys) 2022
  • 7th FTC 2022 - Future Technologies Conference 2022
  • 5th Future of Information and Communication Conference (FICC) 2022
  • 2021 2nd International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for Medicine Sciences (ISAIMS 2021)
  • 2020 4th International Conference on Imaging, Vision & Pattern Recognition (IVPR 2020)

Reviewer

  • ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2023, CHI 2022)
  • The 14th ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA2022)
  • The 6th International Conference on Biological Information and Biomedical Engineering (BIBE 2022)
  • SAI 2022 Intelligent Systems Conference (IntelliSys 2022)
  • 2022 Computing Conference (Computing 2022)
  • Journal of Medical Internet Research, JMIR Publications (2021–to date)
  • JMIR mHealth and uHealth, JMIR Publications (2021–to date)
  • JMIR Medical Informatics, JMIR Publications (2021–to date)
  • JMIR Human Factors, JMIR Publications (2021–to date)
  • Intelligent Cyber Security for Modern Networks, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, USA (2021)
  • EAI Endorsed Transactions on Pervasive Health and Technology , EAI (2021–to date)
  • Journal of Neuroscience Methods, Elsevier (2019–to date)
  • 9th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2021)
  • 33rd Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (OzCHI ’21)
  • IEEE International Conference on Electrical, Computer, Communications, and Mechatronics Engineering (ICECCME-2021)
  • 2021 International Conference on Intelligent Informatics and Biomedical Sciences (ICIIBMS)
  • International Conference on Imaging, Vision & Pattern Recognition (IVPR-2020)

Contact

Phone: (337) 482-6338

Email: ashraful.cacs[at]gmail.com || ashraful.islam1[at]louisiana.edu

Office: James R Oliver Hall, Room 208, 301 E Lewis Steet, Lafayette, LA 70503, USA. CCDS-HCI Wing