Ahmedur Rahman Shovon

Ahmedur Rahman Shovon

PhD Student (Computer Science)
University of Illinois Chicago

Ahmedur Rahman Shovon

shovon.sylhet@gmail.com https://arshovon.com
Chicago, IL

Interests

  • High-Performance Computing
  • Data Analytics
  • Cloud Computing
  • Software Engineering

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Network Profiles

  • Stackoverflow profile
  • Github profile

About me

I am a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Chicago, working with my advisor, Professor Sidharth Kumar. My research interests include high-performance computing (HPC), data analytics, cloud computing, and software engineering. Specifically, I am engaged in advancing high-performance declarative analytics on GPUs and employing topological data analysis for brain fMRI datasets.

Interests

High-Performance Computing

Data Analytics

Cloud Computing

Software Engineering

Education

PhD (Student) in Computer Science

August 2023 - present
University of Illinois Chicago · Chicago, IL
Third year doctoral student (Graduate Research Assistant)

PhD (Student) in Computer Science

August 2021 - August 2023
University of Alabama at Birmingham · Birmingham, AL
Graduate Research Assistant, Blazer Graduate Research Fellow

Master of Science in Information Technology

December 2015 - December 2016
Jahangirnagar University · Dhaka, Bangladesh
CGPA: 3.67 out of 4.00

Bachelor of Science in Information Technology

December 2011 - December 2015
Jahangirnagar University · Dhaka, Bangladesh
CGPA: 3.73 out of 4.00

Experiences

Graduate Research Assistant

August 2023 - Cont.
Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois Chicago · Chicago, IL
  • Developing GPU applications focusing on high-performance relational algebra primitives.
  • Extending the topological data analysis pipeline to apply persistent homology on temporal brain networks.
  • Evaluating different parallel programming models to solve iterative high-performance relational algebra tasks.

Graduate Student Intern (WJ Cody)

May 2023 - August 2023
Argonne National Laboratory · Lemont, IL
  • Extended Rosetta-Bench, a benchmark suite and framework for heterogeneous computing focusing on the performance benchmarks of parallel programming models.
  • Collaborated with Argonne scientists to gain insights into runtime systems, compilers, and other aspects of computational science.
  • Worked in a research environment that includes access to one of DOE's leadership-class computers and the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility.

Graduate Research Assistant (Blazer Graduate Research Fellow)

August 2021 - August 2023
Department of Computer Science, University of Alabama at Birmingham · Birmingham, AL
  • Demonstrated the feasibility of a high-performance relational algebra backend for a subset of Datalog applications leveraging GPU parallelism.
  • Developed a visualization tool to create Kaplan Meier survival probability graph for cancer data analysis.
  • Designed a topological data analysis pipeline to apply persistent homology on brain networks resting state fMRI data.

Assistant Programmer

June 2019 - August 2021
Department of ICT, ICT Division · Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Designed and implemented e-File application ranking platform.
  • Contributed to the development of e-Governance and e-Services solutions.
  • Actively served to achieve Smart Cities and Communities to attain Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

Software Engineer

December 2017 - June 2019
Cefalo · Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Developed and maintained five publications of NHST Media Group in a global team.
  • Re-designed the digital subscription model that reduced the subscription completion time by 75% using Django REST framework and ReactJS.
  • Contributed to building a CI/CD pipeline to automate the application deployment.

Software Engineer

October 2016 - November 2017
Codalo · Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Developed a Education as a Service(EaaS) application.
  • Created real time fingerprint based attendance system with instant messaging service.
  • Designed a CI/CD pipeline for web application auto deployment.

Freelancer

April 2015 - August 2019
Upwork
  • Developed custom plugins and data scrapper as per clients' requirements.
  • Worked on web and data driven application development on contractual and hourly basis.
  • Developed a web app to calculate height of the tide between high and low water.

Publications

Bruck Algorithm Performance Analysis for Multi-GPU All-to-All Communication

Andres Sewell, Ke Fan, Ahmedur Rahman Shovon, Landon Dyken, Sidharth Kumar, Steve Petruzza
In Proceedings of the International Conference on High Performance Computing in Asia-Pacific Region (HPCAsia 2024) (pp. 127-133).
PDF Code HPCAsia 2024

Scalable, interactive and hierarchical visualization of virus taxonomic data

Kashyap Balakavi, Rushitha Janga, Ahmedur Rahman Shovon, Don Dempsey, Elliot Lefkowitz, Sidarth Kumar
In 2023 IEEE Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare (VAHC), in conjunction with IEEE VIS 2023
PDF Code VAHC 2023

The robustness of persistent homology of brain networks to data acquisition-related non-neural variability in resting state fMRI

Sidharth Kumar, Ahmedur Rahman Shovon, Gopikrishna Deshpande
In Human Brain Mapping (Q1 Journal)
PDF Code HBM 2023

Towards Iterative Relational Algebra on the GPU

Ahmedur Rahman Shovon, Thomas Gilray, Kristopher Micinski, Sidharth Kumar
In 2023 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC 2023)
PDF Slide Code USENIXATC 2023

Accelerating Datalog applications with cuDF

Ahmedur Rahman Shovon, Landon Richard Dyken, Oded Green, Thomas Gilray, Sidharth Kumar
In 2022 IEEE/ACM Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms (IA3 2022), in conjunction with SC22
PDF Slide Code IA3 2022

UALCAN: An update to the integrated cancer data analysis platform

Darshan Shimoga Chandrashekar, Santhosh Kumar Karthikeyan, Praveen Kumar Korla, Henalben Patel, Ahmedur Rahman Shovon, Mohammad Athar, George J Netto, Zhaohui S Qin, Sidharth Kumar, Upender Manne, Chad J Crieghton, Sooryanarayana Varambally
In Neoplasia by Elsevier (Q1 Journal)
PDF Code Demo Neoplasia 2022

A Resilient Fog-IoT Framework for Seamless Microservice Execution

Md Whaiduzzaman, Alistair Barros, Ahmedur Rahman Shovon, Md Razon Hossain, Colin Fidge
In IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC) - 2021, Chicago, IL.
PDF Slide SCC 2021

COVID-19: Update, Forecast and Assistant - An Interactive Web Portal to Provide Real-Time Information and Forecast COVID-19 Cases in Bangladesh

Md. Shahriare Satu, Md. Khalilur Rahman, Maksud Alam Rony, Ahmedur Rahman Shovon, Md. Jane Alam Adnan, Koushik Chandra Howlader, M Shamim Kaiser
In International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Sustainable Development 2021 (ICICT4SD 2021).
PDF Code ICICT4SD 2021

A Privacy-preserving Mobile and Fog Computing Framework to Trace and Prevent COVID-19 Community Transmission

Md Whaiduzzaman, Md Hossain, Ahmedur Rahman Shovon, Shanto Roy, Aron Laszka, Rajkumar Buyya, Alistair Barros
In IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (IEEE JBHI, Q1 Journal)
PDF JBHI 2020

GDPR Compliance: Implementation Use Cases for User Data Privacy in News Media Industry

Ahmedur Rahman Shovon, Shanto Roy, Arnab Kumar Shil, Tanjila Atik
In International Conference on Advances in Science, Engineering and Robotics Technology 2019 (ICASERT 2019).
PDF Slide Code ICASERT 2019

A RESTful E-Governance Application Framework for People Identity Verification in Cloud

Ahmedur Rahman Shovon, Shanto Roy, Tanusree Sharma, Md. Whaiduzzaman
In International Conference on Cloud Computing - 2018, Seattle, WA.
PDF Cloud 2018

Combined approach of Tokenization and Mining to secure and optimize Big Data in Cloud Storage

Shanto Roy, Ahmedur Rahman Shovon, Md. Whaiduzzaman
In IEEE R10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10 - HTC) - 2017.
PDF R10 HTC 2017

Awards

USENIX ATC Student Grant

2023
The USENIX Association · Boston, MA
Awarded by the USENIX Association for conference attendance.

Blazer Graduate Research Fellowship

2021 - 2022
The University of Alabama at Birmingham · Birmingham, AL
Awarded by UAB recognizing outstanding qualification for doctoral research.

Bangladesh-Sweden Trust Fund (BSTF) Travel Grant

2021 - 2022
Bangladesh Sweden Trust Fund · Dhaka, Bangladesh
Awarded by Economics Relations Division, the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh.

National Science and Technology (NST) Fellowship

2016 - 2017
Ministry of Science and Technology · Dhaka, Bangladesh
Awarded by Ministry of Science & Technology, Bangladesh for research excellence at graduate level.

University Merit Scholarships

2011 - 2015
Jahangirnagar University · Dhaka, Bangladesh
Awarded by Jahangirnagar University for academic excellence at undergraduate level.

National Merit Scholarship

2011
Education Boards · Dhaka, Bangladesh
Awarded by Education Boards, Bangladesh for academic excellence at higher secondary level.

National Merit Scholarship

2009
Education Boards · Dhaka, Bangladesh
Awarded by Education Boards, Bangladesh for academic excellence at secondary level.

Achievements

Top 3% contributor @ StackOverflow

2013 - present
StackOverflow profile
Contributing regularly at StackOverflow and have more than 13,000 reputation.

Winner @ oneAPI Hackathon: CUDA to SYCL Migration 2023

October 2023
oneapi-sycl-hackathon
Ported CUDA project to SYCL with automatic and manual interventions.

Participant @ 1st Parallel Programming Marathon 2022

November 2022
SC22(View Certificate)
Optimized sequential programming challenges on Cori (NERSC 30 petaflops supercomputer).

Participant @ Argonne GPU Hackathon 2022

July 2022
Event link
Benchmarked transitive closure computation and nested loop join on ThetaGPU using CUDA and cuDF.

1st @ Hackerrank Python domain

July 2016
Rank list
Solved all Python domain challenges at Hackerrank.

1st @ Hackerrank Security domain

July 2016
Rank list
Solved all security domain challenges at Hackerrank.

7th @ IEEEXtreme Programming Competition 9.0

October 2015
Rank list
Achieved 7th position out of 2,477 teams.

1st @ Intra University Programming Contest, Jahangirnagar University

August 2015
Organized by JU CSE
Achieved 1st position in Intra University Programming Contest, Jahangirnagar University, 2015.

Training

ALCF Hands-on HPC Workshop

October 10-12, 2023
Argonne National Laboratory
Covers topics to utilize Polaris and AI Testbeds focusing on porting applications to heterogeneous architectures (CPU + GPU) on ALCF systems.

AI for Science on Supercomputers (View Certificate)(Digital Badge)

December 06, 2022
Argonne National Laboratory
Covers topics to develop and apply AI solutions and scale AI training for science on ThetaGPU (Argonne supercomputer).

Hands-On HPC (View Certificate)

December 05, 2022
Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility
Covers essential tools for High-Performance Computing, including MPI, OpenMP, and GPU programming using Summit supercomputer.

Fundamentals of Accelerated Computing with CUDA C/C++ (View Certificate)

July 30, 2022
NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute
Covers topics of accelerating CPU-only applications to run their latent parallelism on GPUs utilizing CUDA programming model.

Problem Solving (View Certificate)

January 07, 2021
Hackerrank
Covers topics of Data Structures (such as HashMaps, Stacks and Queues) and Algorithms (such as Optimal Solutions).

C programming language (View Certificate)

September 15, 2020
Hackerrank
Covers topics of Conditionals, Loops, Arrays, Strings, Functions, Structs, and Enums.

Rest API (View Certificate)

July 11, 2020
Hackerrank
Covers topics of getting data from an API and process using parameters or paging.

JavaScript (View Certificate)

May 07, 2020
Hackerrank
Covers topics of Functions, Currying, Hoisting, Scope, Inheritance, Events and Error Handling.

Python programming language (View Certificate)

May 05, 2020
Hackerrank
Covers topics of Scalar Types, Operators and Control Flow, Strings, Collections and Iteration, Modularity, Objects and Types and Classes.

The International English Language Testing System(IELTS) - Academic

October 31, 2019
British Council
Band 7.5: (Listening-8.5, Reading-8.5, Writing-6.0, Speaking-7.0)

Effective Object Oriented Programming (View Certificate)

March 21, 2018 - May 30, 2018
Cefalo
Covers core concepts and principles of Object Oriented Programming. Achievement: Certificate of Excellence (Distinction)

Information Technology Passport Examination (ITEE - IP)

April 24, 2016
Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) governed by IPA, Japan
Passer ID: IP2016Apr00048
Achievement: Certificate of Excellence (3rd position in Bangladesh)

Front End Development Certification (View Certificate)

October 22, 2015 - March 10, 2016
freeCodeCamp
Covers HTML5 and CSS, Responsive Design with Bootstrap, JavaScript, jQuery, Object Oriented and Functional Programming, JSON APIs and Ajax, Algorithm Scripting, Front End Development Projects.

Mobile Application Development (Android)

November 2, 2015 - January 2, 2016
BASIS Institute of Technology and Management (BITM)
It covers Android Overview, Main Building blocks, Java Basics, OOP, UI, SQLite, Broadcast Receiver, Services, Content Providers, Lists & Adapters, Preferences, API, Web Service, Deployment.

Presentations

Accelerating iterative joins toward a modern Datalog backend on GPU

Accelerating iterative joins toward a modern Datalog backend on GPU

May 2024
11th Greater Chicago Area Systems Research Workshop, Chicago
Poster presentation at GCASR 2024
Poster
High Performance Joins

High Performance Joins

February 2024
HPC Group, UIC
Presentation on high performance join operation
Presentation slide
Parallel Computing

Parallel Computing

November 2023
Microteaching Workshop, UIC
Presentation on parallel computing
Presentation slide
Join on GPU

Join on GPU

October 2023
Lecture @ CS 480 Database Systems, UIC
Guest lecture on join operations on GPU at UIC
Presentation slide
Introduction to Cloud Computing

Introduction to Cloud Computing

September 2023
Microteaching Workshop, UIC
Presentation on cloud computing 101
Presentation slide
Porting CUDA code to SYCL

Porting CUDA code to SYCL

September 2023
One API SYCL Hackathon
Presentation on migrating CUDA code to SYCL using SYCLomatic
Presentation slide, Project Github repository
Towards Iterative Relational Algebra on the GPU

Towards Iterative Relational Algebra on the GPU

July 2023
USENIX ATC 23 @ Boston, MA
Paper presentation at 2023 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC 2023)
Presentation slide, Project Github repository
Accelerating Datalog Applications with cuDF

Accelerating Datalog Applications with cuDF

November 2022
SC22 @ Dallas, TX
Paper presentation at 12th Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms (IA^3 2022)
Presentation slide, Project Github repository
LaTexPlained

LaTexPlained

August 2022
Webinar @ IEEE JU Student Branch, Bangladesh
Session on LaTeX
Presentation slide, Certificate of appreciation, Event banner
GPU Join

GPU Join

July 2022
Team Hackathon @ Argonne GPU Hackathon 2022
Presented with Dr. Sidharth Kumar and Landon Dyken
Presentation slide, Project Github repository
An Approach to Compare Clustering Results of Two Temporal fMRI Dataset

An Approach to Compare Clustering Results of Two Temporal fMRI Dataset

April 2022
Team Project @ CS 763: Data Mining Course, UAB
Presentation slide
Graph Algorithms

Graph Algorithms

March 2022
Lecture @ CS 303: Algorithms and Data Structures Course, UAB
Undergraduate level lecture on Graph algorithms
Presentation slide, Challenge Github repository
CBPen: Cloud Blazers Penetration Scanner

CBPen: Cloud Blazers Penetration Scanner

December 2021
Team Project @ CS 743: Cloud Security Course, UAB
Presented with William Austin, Andrew Balfour, Jeremy Crown, Trina Lin
Presentation slide, Project Github repository
GDPR Compliance: Implementation Use Cases for User Data Privacy in News Media Industry

GDPR Compliance: Implementation Use Cases for User Data Privacy in News Media Industry

May 2019
Conference Presentation @ ICASERT 2019, Bangladesh
Part of software engineering research at Cefalo
Presentation slide, ICASERT 2019 Paper
GDPR Dashboard

GDPR Dashboard

December 2018
Team Project @ Effective Object Oriented Programming course, Cefalo
Presented with Arnab Kumar Shil
Presentation slide, Project Github repository
Docking with Docker

Docking with Docker

February 2018
Team Project @ NHST Media Group, Oslo, Norway
Presented with Arnab Kumar Shil
Presentation slide
An Optimized RESTful E-Governance Application Framework for People Identity Verification in Cloud

An Optimized RESTful E-Governance Application Framework for People Identity Verification in Cloud

September 2017
MSc Thesis @ Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh
Part of Mobile Cloud Computing and Big Data Research Group, JU
Presentation slide, CLOUD 2018 Book chapter
Websocket and SockJS

Websocket and SockJS

December 2016
TechTalk @ Codalo, Bangladesh
Research and development on Websocket
Presentation slide
Message Broker System

Message Broker System

December 2016
TechTalk @ Codalo, Bangladesh
Research and development on RabbitMQ
Presentation slide
Easy C: A new method of learning C programming in the context of Bangladesh

Easy C: A new method of learning C programming in the context of Bangladesh

September 2016
BSc Project @ Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh
Presentation slide, Project Github repository
E-learning Tool for Basic Programming

E-learning Tool for Basic Programming

February 2016
BSc Project Proposal @ Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh
Presentation slide

Services

Judge @ UIC Undergraduate Research Forum 2024

April 2024
Office of Undergraduate Research and External Fellowships, UIC

Judge @ Spring 2023 Research Expo, UAB

April 2023
Service Learning and Undergraduate Research - UAB
Served as a judge of Spring 2023 Research Expo.

Judge @ Fall 2022 Research Expo, UAB

November 2022
Service Learning and Undergraduate Research - UAB
Served as a judge of Fall 2022 Research Expo.

Volunteer @ The World Games 2022, Birmingham, USA

July 2022
International World Games Association (IWGA)
Served as a volunteer at the The World Games 2022.

Judge @ Spring 2022 Research Expo, UAB

April 2022
Service Learning and Undergraduate Research - UAB
Served as a judge of Spring 2022 Research Expo.

Judge @ Fall 2021 Research Expo, UAB

November 2021
Service Learning and Undergraduate Research - UAB
Served as a judge of Fall 2021 Research Expo.

Journal reviewer @ Sustainable Cities and Society (SCS)

November 2021
Elsevier

Webmaster @ IEEE SB JU

May 2015 - October 2017
IEEE Student Branch · Jahangirnagar University
I was responsible for development and maintenance of IEEE Student Branch, JU website.

App Developer @ ICEEICT 2015

May 2015
International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Information & Communication Technology (ICEEICT) 2015
Developed the mobile application for ICEEICT 2015 conference.

Projects

  • Tradewinds - TradeWinds is the world’s biggest shipping news service, publishing both online news and a printed weekly newspaper, that covers shipping as a global industry. (developer)
  • Upstream - The leading global oil, gas and energy news resource. Covering the latest oil and gas news including shale, lng, drilling, exploration and production. (developer)
  • Recharge - Recharge provides business intelligence for the renewable-energy industries, that matter most to the wind and solar sectors. (developer)
  • Easy C - A real time web and mobile application to learn C programming language. (team leader and developer)
  • CBPen - A web application for penetration testing to expose vulnerabilities associated with the network. (developer)
  • ImageStego - ImageStego is an image steganography tool. (developer)
  • Bangla, Opener, AutoLike, CopyUSB - Python Package Index enlisted Python packages. (developer)
  • Dictmate - English to English and English to Bangla Dictionary. (developer)
  • Type Speed - One minute typing test with popular 5000 English words. (developer)
  • Drumpad Web, Drumpad Android - Application to play virtual drums. (developer)
  • Coders-Theme - Coders theme for Brackets editor enlisted in Brackets registry. (developer)

Skills

Python

JavaScript

Git

LaTeX

C++

CUDA

MPI

BASH

AWS

SQL

PHP

Github Actions

NoSQL

HIP

Docker

Java