Awards & Grants

Selected honors and funded projects.

Research grants

Selected funding
2024–2025
AI-powered Pavement Distress Detection
Role: PI · Funder: WiSys · Award date: 30 May 2024 · Duration: 1 year
2022–2023
Robust Contactless Fingerprint Processing Tool
Funder: CITeR · PI: Faraz Hussain, Daqing Hou · Role: proposal + milestones
2021–2023
Fingerprint image segmentation using deep learning
Funder: CITeR · PI: Faraz Hussain, Stephanie Schuckers · Role: proposal + milestones
2020–2022
Fingerprint template security
Funder: Verizon Wireless · Role: proposal, milestones, extension
2020–2021
Evaluate and test the Robot Operating System (ROS) of the Marty Robot
Funder: Badger Technologies · Role: software + preliminary experiments + milestones

Awards & honors

Selected

Professional & academic

  • Full-Tuition Merit Scholarship (TA & RA), Clarkson University (2018–2023)
  • Advanced Level in Software Capability Test, Samsung Electronics (2016)
  • Top 20% annual performance evaluation (Samsung), two consecutive years (2014–2015)
  • University Merit Scholarship, CUET (2009–2013)

Programming competitions

  • Runner-up, Inter-university programming contest (Chittagong Zone) (2011)
  • Runner-up, Inter-department programming contest (CUET) (2010)