Shammur Absar Chowdhury

Positions

• PresentMay 2019

  Postdoctoral Research Scientist

  QCRI: Qatar Computing Research Institute

• April 20192017

  Postdoctoral researcher

  CIMeC: Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento, Italy

• 20172012

  PhD Researcher

  SIS Lab, University of Trento, Trento, Italy

• 20122012

  Research Assistant

  SIS Lab, University of Trento, Italy

• 20112010

  Senior Research Programmer

  CRBLP: Centre for Research on Bangla Language Processing, BRAC University, Bangladesh

• 20112011

  Lecturer

  BRAC University, Bangladesh

Research Interests

• Speech Signal Processing
• Atypical Interaction
• Non-Verbal Communication
• Human-Machine Interaction
• Machine Learning
• Natural Language Processing

Affliated member

•    IEEE, ACM, ISCA, ACL

Education

• Ph.D. 2017

  Ph.D. in Computer Science

  ICT Doctoral School, University of Trento, Italy

• B.Sc. 2011

  Bachelor of Science in Electronics and Communication Engineering with second major in Computer Science

  BRAC University, Bangladesh

Awards

• 2018
  NVIDIA Grant to support research on RNN-based Artificial Grammaticality to Probe Lan- guage Universals.
• 2014
  ISCA Grant for Interspeech
• 2012
  Achieved 100% fund for doctoral study University Fund (Ranked in Top-3 in merit list)
• 2012
  Education Study Grant - DD342, for internship
• 2010
  Chancellor's Gold Medal and also became Valedictorian

  Achieved Chancellor's Gold Medal and also became Valedictorian for year 2010 (BRAC University 6th Convocation) for highest CGPA among all University Graduates.
• 2010
  Vice-Chancellor's Gold Medal

  Achieved Vice-Chancellor's Gold Medal for year 2010 (BRAC University 6th Convocation) for highest CGPA from Electronic and Communication Engineering Department
• 2008 - 2010
  A place in Vice-Chancellor’s List

  Vice-Chancellor’s List in 2008 - 2010.
• 2007
  Vice-Chancellor's Special Recognition Award

  Achieved the Vice-Chancellor's Special Recognition Award for high standard of discipline and achievement, during Residential Semester, Summer 2007.
• 2007-2010
  Performance-based scholarship

  Have achieved performance-based scholarship throughout 4-years of Undergraduate.