Fariha Tabassum Islam

Hi! This is Fariha. I am a first year Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the department of Computer Sciences. Previously, I worked as a faculty at the Department of CSE in United International University. I have completed my Undergrad and Master’s in the Department of CSE, BUET.

Publications

[C1] A Privacy-Enhanced and Personalized Safe Route Planner with Crowdsourced Data and Computation
Fariha Tabassum Islam, Tanzima Hashem, Rifat Shahriyar
ICDE 2021 | Link | PDF

[C2] MTUL: A Novel Approach for Multi-Trajectory User Linking
Fariha Tabassum Islam*, Md. Tareq Mahmood*, Mahmuda Naznin
NSysS 2022 | Link

[J1] A Crowd-enabled Solution for Privacy-Preserving and Personalized Safe Route Planning for Fixed or Flexible Destinations
Fariha Tabassum Islam, Tanzima Hashem, Rifat Shahriyar
TKDE 2023 | Link | PDF

[J2] Representative Dissimilar Path Queries: Accomodating Human Movement Dynamics in Road Networks
Tanzima Hashem, Matt Duckham, Mahathir Monjur, Fariha Tabassum Islam
JOSIS 2023 | Link

Fellowship

High Profile ICT Scholar Fellowship | June 2019 - June 2020

Information and Communication Technology Division, Bangladesh

Education

Master of Science | December 2018 - June 2021

Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

Thesis: A Privacy-enhanced Approach for Planning Safe Routes with Crowdsourced Data and Computation

Bachelor of Science | July 2014 - October 2018

Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

Thesis: An Efficient Approach for Real-Time Crowdsourced Package Delivery using Public Transport Networks

Experience

Graduate Teaching Assistant | August 2023 - Present

Lecturer | February 2019 - June 2023

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, United International University

High Profile ICT Scholar Fellow | June 2019 - June 2020

Information and Communication Technology Division, Bangladesh

Awards and Services

Reviewer

  • WISE (2020, 2021)
  • NSysS (2020, 2021)
  • APWeb-WAIM (2019, 2023)
  • DSAA (2023)

Awards

  • First runner-up group, Hackathon for Women 2017 (36 hours) by ICT Division, Govt. of Bangladesh
  • First runner-up group, Women’s Day Innovation Challenge 2017, Facebook Developer Circle, Dhaka
  • Dean’s Honor List, BUET - 2016-17, 2015-16, 2014-15, 2013-14

News

  • Dec 2022 - One paper got accepted in TKDE, another in JOSIS
  • Oct 2022 - One paper got accepted in NSySS
  • Jun 2021 - Master’s thesis defended
  • Oct 2020 - My first paper got accepted in ICDE :)

Notable Research Projects

Safe Route Planner

Master’s thesis, published in ICDE2021, extension accepted in TKDE

System architecture of safe route planner

We introduce a novel safe route planning problem and develop an efficient solution to ensure the travelers' safety on roads. Our approach finds the safest routes within a user-specified distance threshold based on the personalized travel experience of the knowledgeable crowd without involving any centralized computation. Our algorithms for finding the safest route further enhance user privacy by minimizing the exposure of personalized safety scores with others. Our safe route planner can find the safest routes for individuals and groups by considering both a fixed and a set of flexible destination locations.

Crowdsourced Package Delivery using Public Transport Networks

Undergrad Thesis

The popularity of e-commerce has caused the rise of crowdsourced package delivery. In this research, we introduce an efficient approach to find the package delivery route based on the available journey plans of passengers in public transport networks. Our approach allows package transfers between the public transport passengers and thereby increase the success rate of the crowdsourced package delivery.

Multi-trajectory User Linking

Data Mining master’s course project, published in NSysS 2022

This work identifies a user from his/her multiple available trajectories using GRU autoencoder.

Representative Dissimilar Path Finding

Accepted in JOSIS 2022

This work introduces a representative dissimilar path (RDP) query and provides an efficient algorithm for finding a set of most dissimilar routes from sets of representative routes for different features.

Mobile image analysis in healthcare

A survey manuscript under preparation

In this project, we utilize smartphone cameras and sensors to screen various diseases for preliminary healthcare, especially considering underserved people.

Reference Guided Genome Annotation

Computational Biology master’s course project

In this project, we annotates a target genome using a closely related, well-annotated reference genome using ensemble of RATT, Glimmer and BLAST.

Credit Card Fraud Detection

Network Security master’s course project

In this project, we detects credit card frauds using Siamese network.

Teaching Experience

Fall 2022 | October 2022 - Present

CSE 2217 Algorithms
CSE 2218 Algorithms Lab
CSE 3812 Artificial Intelligence Lab
URC 1103 Life Skills for Success


Summer 2022 | June 2022 - October 2022

CSE 2217 Algorithms
CSE 2218 Algorithms Lab
CSE 3811 Artificial Intelligence
CSE 3812 Artificial Intelligence Lab


Spring 2022 | March 2022 - June 2022

CSE 2217 Algorithms
CSE 2218 Algorithms Lab
CSE 3811 Artificial Intelligence
CSE 3812 Artificial Intelligence Lab
CSE 1110 Introduction to Computer Systems


Fall 2021 | November 2021 - February 2022

CSI 227 Algorithms
CSI 228 Algorithms Lab
CSI 341 Artificial Intelligence
CSI 416 Pattern Recognition Lab


Summer 2021 | July 2021 - October 2021

SOC 101 Society, Technology and Engineering Ethics
CSI 227 Algorithms
CSI 228 Algorithms Lab
CSI 322 Software Engineering Lab
CSI 341 Artificial Intelligence


Spring 2021 | February 2021 - June 2021

CSI 227 Algorithms
CSI 228 Algorithms Lab
CSI 322 Software Engineering Lab


Fall 2020 | October 2020 - February 2021

CSI 122 Structured Programming Language Lab
CSI 211 Object Oriented Programming
CSI 227 Algorithms
CSI 312 System Analysis and Design Lab


Summer 2020 | August 2020 - October 2020

CSI 217 Data Structure
CSI 416 Pattern Recognition Lab


Spring 2019 | January 2019 - May 2019

CSI 411 Compiler Theory
CSI 412 Compiler Lab