Hello, I am Joyanta!

I am from Dhaka, Bangladesh; a first-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at The University of Alabama at Birmingham. Currently, my research work focuses on understanding and exploring the Trustworthiness of Artificial Intelligence, including the Privacy, Safety and Security, with a specific emphasis on Large Language Models like ChatGPT. Other research interests include Computer Vision, Cloud Computing, and Human-Computer Interaction. At present, as a dedicated researcher, I am actively engaged in exploring different projects that allow me to delve deeper into the areas that captivate my interest. I have co-authored several conference papers and presented my research papers in different well-reputed conferences. My researches have been published in premier journals (Nature Scientific Reports, IEEE TCC) and conference (WACV, COMPASS). In addition to doing research, I have the experience of actively participating as a reviewer in the peer-review process of research papers at different confernce (NeurIPS, ICLR, CHI) and journal (ACM JCSS). Also, I have been honored with several research awards covering participation grants, travel grants, etc. Outside of my academic interests, I love to play games, watch TV Shows and anime. I love immersing myself in the virtual worlds of my favorite video games and challenging my friends to epic battles. I am also a big fan of outdoor activities and try to go cycling whenever I get the chance.

Fun fact: My Erdős score is 5.

The Bio I Hope You’ll Read

Meet Joyanta, the ultimate multitasker (when he's not procrastinating, that is)! When he's not busy procrastinating and finding new ways to avoid his responsibilities, you may find him randomly thinking on how to solve the impossible equation of life, to get the meaning out of it. He is a late sleeping utopian that spends his free time harassing neighbors with his late-night screamings, while playing online video games. If you have the ill-fate to live on the next-door to his, you may hear him to scream with enthusiastic battle cries like "মার মার!" (Crush them!) in his gaming sessions, in the midnight when owls should have been hooting instead. While some say he was “born under a struggling sign” or considers him as an enigma or an absolutely useless as a person, he chooses to believe that he is a higher level Buddha of sorts with great plans and designs on the founding of his empire in the Bengal Region. Also, in an epic twist of fate, he is connected to an extraordinary academic lineage; to legends like Issac Newton, De Morgan, Thomson, and Rutherford, explaining his unparalleled prowess (though in a way that may leave such great minds scratching their heads, wondering how their legacy ended up with him). Again, some mention him as a superhero since he stays inactive or randomly gets out of touch in social media messaging even though he is found really proactive sharing memes. Catch him on the gaming world, where he is known by his in-game name "LePotatoGuy" or "Potato" 🥔, in short which resembles both his physical size and gameplay style. If you want to challenge (and inevitably defeat) him to a game, don't hesitate to give Joyanta a shout!

• May 24: Paper on novel content-based searching approach in object storage cloud system accepted at IEEE Access!
• Feb 24: Invited as a reviewer in ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing 2024!
• Dec 23: Paper on Air Quality Index Prediction using Smartphone Images accepted at Nature Scientific Reports!
• Oct 23: Attended as a judge in Fall 2023 Undergradute Research Expo at University of Alabama at Birmingham!
• Nov 23: Paper on Fog-Resilient Bangla Car Plate Recognition accepted at 1st WACV 2024 Workshop on Vision-Based Understanding for Low-Resource Languages (WVLL)!
• Oct 23: Invited as a reviewer in 1st WACV 2024 Workshop on Vision-Based Understanding for Low-Resource Languages (WVLL)!
• Oct 23: Invited as a reviewer in ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2024!
• Sept 23: Invited as a reviewer in Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2024!
• Aug 23: Started my Ph.D. Studies at The University of Alabama at Birmingham!
• Jul 23: Paper on exploring factors of the uprising of contractual rides compared to ride-sharing app system in Bangladesh accepted at ACM COMPASS 2023!
• Apr 23: Invited as a reviewer in NeurIPS 2023!
• Mar 23: Awarded Blazer Graduate Research Fellowship by The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Graduate School!
• Feb 23: My first Op-Ed published in The Daily Star! [Link]
• Feb 23: Visited Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) for possible research collaboration. [Link]
• Jan 23: Completed my undergraduate studies!
• Jan 23: Selected as a reviewer in ACM JCSS Journal!
• Dec 22: Research Poster on AQI Detection from Smartphone Images using a low-cost and efficient CNN approach presented and awarded as Runner's Up at NSysS 2022!
• Dec 22: Paper on pothole detection using low-cost INN approach presented at ICCIT'2022!
• Dec 22: Paper on waste-water treatment plant fault detection using different statistical and ML approaches presented at ICCIT'2022!
• Dec 22: Paper on individual player contribution towards a win on a match in league of legends presented at ICCIT'2022!
• Nov 22: Research Poster on AQI Detection from Smartphone Images using a low-cost and efficient CNN approach accepted at NSysS 2022!
• Nov 22: Paper on pothole detection using low-cost INN approach accepted at ICCIT'2022!
• Nov 22: Paper on waste-water treatment plant fault detection using different statistical and ML approaches accepted at ICCIT'2022!
• Nov 22: Paper on individual player contribution towards a win on a match in league of legends accepted at ICCIT'2022!
• Jun 22: Paper on novel low-cost approach to detect plant leaf disease presented at ACM COMPASS 2022!
• May 22: Paper on novel low-cost approach to detect plant leaf disease invited as short paper at ACM COMPASS 2022!
• May 22: Awarded Travel and Participation Grant Fellowship to attend ACM COMPASS 2022, by ACM SIGCHI!
• Mar 22: Paper on faster image retrieval from cloud system accepted at IEEE TCC!
• Dec 21: Research Poster on faster image retrieval from cloud system accepted and presented at NSysS 2021!
• Dec 21: Research Poster on novel low-cost approach to detect plant leaf disease accepted and presented at NSysS 2021!