Ahmedur Rahman Shovon

Education

PhD in Computer Science

August 2025

University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) · Chicago, IL

Dissertation: Declarative Analytics on Heterogeneous HPC Systems Presentation
Advisor: Dr. Sidharth Kumar

MS in Information Technology

November 2018

Jahangirnagar University (JU) · Dhaka, Bangladesh

Thesis: A RESTful E-Governance Application Framework for People Identity Verification in Cloud Presentation
Advisor: Dr. Md Whaiduzzaman

BS in Information Technology

April 2016

Jahangirnagar University (JU) · Dhaka, Bangladesh

Project: EasyC: A Platform for Learning C Programming Presentation
Advisor: Dr. Risala Tasin Khan

Experiences

Postdoctoral Appointee

August 2025 - cont.

Argonne National Laboratory · Lemont, IL

Designing system software and runtime support for energy-efficient HPC platforms.
Implementing deployment and monitoring tools for scientific data streaming workflows.
Evaluating performance and energy efficiency on novel architectures and accelerators.

Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant

August 2023 - August 2025

Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois Chicago · Chicago, IL

Developed the first multi-node, multi-GPU Datalog engine for heterogeneous systems.
Designed topological clustering pipelines for high-dimensional brain connectivity data.
Performed GPU portability and power analysis of GPU-accelerated Datalog engines.
TA: CS 480 Database Systems, CS 455 Introduction to High Performance Computing.

Graduate Student Intern (WJ Cody)

May 2023 - August 2023

Argonne National Laboratory · Lemont, IL

Enhanced Rosetta-Bench, a benchmark suite for evaluating parallel programming model performance.
Integrated HIP benchmarks and refined benchmark report generation.
Collaborated with HPC engineers on integrating the benchmark suite in HPC systems.

Graduate Research Assistant (Blazer Graduate Research Fellow)

August 2021 - August 2023

Department of Computer Science, University of Alabama at Birmingham · Birmingham, AL

Built a GPU-accelerated relational algebra backend for Datalog-like applications.
Developed a visualization tool to create Kaplan Meier survival probability graph for cancer data analysis.
Designed a topological data analysis pipeline using persistent homology on rs-fMRI brain networks.

Assistant Programmer

June 2019 - August 2021

Department of ICT, ICT Division · Dhaka, Bangladesh

Developed a web application visualizing e-File usage data across root-level government offices.
Led cross-functional teams in developing and delivering multiple e-Governance applications.
Integrated technology-driven solutions to advance Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

Software Engineer

December 2017 - June 2019

Cefalo · Dhaka, Bangladesh

Developed and maintained five publications of this Norwegian media conglomerate in a global team.
Re-designed the digital subscription model that reduced the subscription completion time by 75% using Django REST framework and ReactJS.
Automated multi-tiered web application deployment process by designing a CI/CD pipeline.

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.

Selected Publications

Multi-Node Multi-GPU Datalog

Ahmedur Rahman Shovon, Yihao Sun, Thomas Gilray, Kristopher Micinski, Sidharth Kumar
ACM International Conference on Supercomputing 2025 (ICS 2025)
PDF Presentation Code ICS 2025

Optimizing Datalog for the GPU

Yihao Sun, Ahmedur Rahman Shovon, Thomas Gilray, Kristopher Micinski, Sidharth Kumar
30th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS 2025)
PDF Code ASPLOS 2025

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

Andres Sewell, Ke Fan, Ahmedur Rahman Shovon, Landon Dyken, Sidharth Kumar, Steve Petruzza
International Conference on High Performance Computing in Asia-Pacific Region (HPCAsia 2024)
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
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
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
2023 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC 2023)
PDF Presentation Code USENIXATC 2023

Accelerating Datalog applications with cuDF

Ahmedur Rahman Shovon, Landon Richard Dyken, Oded Green, Thomas Gilray, Sidharth Kumar
2022 IEEE/ACM Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms (IA3 2022), in conjunction with SC22
PDF Presentation 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
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
2021 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2021)
PDF Presentation SCC 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
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
International Conference on Advances in Science, Engineering and Robotics Technology 2019 (ICASERT 2019)
PDF Presentation Code ICASERT 2019

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

Ahmedur Rahman Shovon, Shanto Roy, Tanusree Sharma, Md. Whaiduzzaman
11th International Conference on Cloud Computing(CLOUD 2018)
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
2017 IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC 2017)
PDF R10 HTC 2017

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)
Powerlog, Bangla, Opener, AutoLike, CopyUSB - PyPI enlisted Python packages. (developer)
Type Speed - One minute typing test with popular 5000 English words. (developer)
Drumpad Web, Drumpad Android - Application to play virtual drums. (developer)