Md. Asif Iqbal Fahim

College Road · Sreemangal · Bangladesh · (+880) 1303-021134 · asif.iqbal.fahim.bd@gmail.com
**Looking for the Role of Data Scientist/Machine Learning Engineer/Deep Learning Engineer/Research Assistant**

  • Experienced Data Scientist with over 3 years in Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Data Analysis across diverse industries, including tenures at Research Institutes and Software Industries.

  • Graduated from the Green University of Bangladesh with a major in Computer Science & Engineering in 2020.

  • Had Research Publications in high impact-factor Journal, Conference on Computer Vision domain.

  • Attained Kaggle Expert(X2) Title(Top 1%). Archived 2 Silver Medal & 1 Bronze Medal.

  • Selected as a Mentor & Alpha tester by Deeplearning.ai for Natural Language Processing in Coursera Platform.

  • Archived Regional Champion & Global Nomination Title in Nasa Space Apps Challenge 2020.

  • Participated in many Competitive Coding Contests (Regional ACM ICPC, NCPC, Inter-University Programming Contests, etc.)



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Areas of Expertise

  • Python scientific programming (Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Time Series Analysis, etc.)

  • Deep Learning frameworks (TensorFlow, etc.)

  • C/C++, Java programming, and Kotlin languages.

  • Android Platform (Design and Development)

  • Web Frameworks (Flask, etc.)



Research Interests

  • Machine Learning

  • Deep Learning

  • Computer Vision

  • Sequence Modeling

  • Natural Language Processing

Educations

B.Sc. in Computer Science & Engineering

Green University of Bangladesh , Bangladesh
CGPA: 3.566 out of 4.00 | Ranked 2nd in Batch.
Two times received Dean Awards for Outstanding Academic Performances.

Higher Secondary Certificate (H.S.C.)

Sreemangal Govt. College, Sreemangal , Bangladesh
GPA: 5.00 (out of 5.00).

Secondary Secondary Certificate (S.S.C.)

The Buds Residential Model School, Sreemangal , Bangladesh
GPA: 5.00 (out of 5.00).

Certifications

Deep Learning Specialization - Deeplearning.AI

Platform : Coursera - Credential
May. 2020

AWS Machine Learining Nanodegree Program

Platform : Udacity - Credential
May. 2020

AI for Medicine - Deeplearning.AI

Platform : Coursera - Credential
Jan. 2021

Natural Language Processing - Deeplearning.AI

Platform : Coursera - Credential
Jan. 2021

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) - Deeplearning.AI

Platform : Coursera - Credential
Feb. 2021

DeepLearning.AI TensorFlow Developer

Platform : Coursera - Credential
August. 2020

Android App Development - Vanderbilt University

Platform : Coursera - Credential
August. 2020

Device-based Models with TensorFlow Lite - Deeplearning.AI

Platform : Coursera - Credential
June. 2020

Basic Image Classification with TensorFlow - Coursera Project Network

Platform : Coursera - Credential
May. 2020

Custom object detection on Google colab & android deployment

Platform : Udemy - Credential
Dec. 2019

Intro to ML: Image Processing

Platform : Qwiklabs - Credential
Jan. 2020

Intro to ML: Language Processing

Platform : Qwiklabs Credential
Jan. 2020

Computer Vision - Object Tracking with OpenCV and Python - Coursera Project Network

Platform : Coursera - Credential
Apr. 2020

Competitive Programming

Platform : Coding Blocks Credential
Feb. 2020

Experience

Machine Learning Engineer [Full Time]

REVE System Ltd

Working as Machine Learning Engineer in this company.

  • Improved Speech-to-Text (STT) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) models by adapting OpenAI Whisper wav2vec2 models and exploring various vocoders.
  • Enhanced voice data quality using echo cancellation and speech augmentation techniques.
  • Evaluated data and handled outliers using crowdsourced STT, TTS tools, and Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA).
  • Optimized model training and inference speed using the Whisper JAX framework, dynamic training in a virtual container, and pruning techniques.
  • Developed and deployed WhisperX, a precise streaming service for speech recognition with integrated voice activity detection, using FastAPI and Flask frameworks.

December 2022 - Present

Research & Teaching Assistant [Full Time]

Riot Center, Independent University

Worked as Research & Teaching Assistant in this Institution. [Offer Letter]

  • Led research on Bevacizumab's effect on Ovarian Cancer, achieving 96% accuracy and 99% ROC AUC score with a ViT model; preparing a paper for a Q1 journal.
  • Instructed three sections of CIS 101 Lab at IUB's CSE department, teaching an average of 40 students per class.

September 2022 - December 2022

Research Assistant [Full Time]

Institute for Advanced Research, United International University

Worked as Research Assistant in this Institution. [Offer Letter]

  • Worked in research project funded by the Institute of Advanced Research, UIU (Grant Reference: UIU/IAR/02/2021/SE/25), on semantic biomedical image segmentation. Developed a modified U-Net architecture with attention mechanisms based on deep CNN.

February 2022 - August 2022

Natural Language Processing - Mentor & Alpha Tester [Part Time]

Deeplearning.ai

Responsible Mentor & Aplha Tester for Natural Language Processing Specialization in Coursera Platform. [Achieved Outstanding Mentor Title]

  • Answering learner questions in the discussion forums.
  • Posting new thread to spark discussion.
  • Providing feedback to the course staff.
  • Course curriculum alpha testing before published to the coursera.
  • Identifying bug of the platform.

February 2021 - May 2021

Junior Research Assistant [Contract]

Research Hub

Responsible Researcher in Machine Learning Domain for ResearchHub. [Offer Letter]

  • Research on Efficiently Convert Time Series Data to Image & Deep learing Modeling for Credit Card Fraud Detection.(Ongoing)

Sep 2021 - Mar 2022

Data Scientist - Independent Contractor [Contract]

Ilekun Health (US StartUP)

Worked as a Data Scientist in this StartUp company. [Proof]

  • Aggregate New York City Boroughs Dentist Information Data by using web scraping ( Technologies : Scrapy and Selenium )
  • Extracting information from Data, Data Cleaning and Predictive Modeling.

May 2021 - July 2021

Data Science & Business Analytics - Intern

The Spark Foundation

Worked in the Business Problem as a Data Science & Business Analytics Intern. [Offer Letter]

  • Performed Exploratory Data Analysis & Predictive Modeling with Machine Learining Algorithms.

Oct 2021 - Nov 2021

Machine Learning Developer - Intern

TechnoColabs

Worked in the Business Problem as a Data Science & Business Analytics Intern. [Offer Letter]

  • EDA ,Feature Engineering ,Missing Value Handlin for Spotify Track Skips.
  • Build Predictive Modeling for Predict Spotify Track Skips.
  • End to End Deployment for Spotify Track Skips.

Oct 2021 - Nov 2021

Kaggle Expert(x2)

Kaggle - The world's largest data science community

- Achieved Expert tier in two sections. Top 10% among all the Kaggler. [Kaggle Profile]

  • Achieved Bronze Medal(Top 10%) in Kaggle Research Prediction Competition: G2Net Gravitational Wave Detection.
  • Datasets Expert: Ranked 344th out of 33,809 experts.
  • Discussion Expert: Ranked 662th out of 185,967 experts.

Sep 2020 - Present

250+ Reputations

Data Science Stack Exchange - The wrold best Q&A community

Contribute World Largest Data Science QA Community. [Data Science Stack Exchange Profile]

  • Answered 11 impactful questions along with 3 questions. Impact: 423 people reached.
  • Ranked 15th in this 2021.

Feb 2021 - Present

Android Development Intern

SDMGAP Project(Govt. Project)

Developed various of Android Applications using Native Android Development. [Proof] [Feature Project]

  • Responsible for brainstorming, developing, testing, delivering, iterating products and regularly communicating with the team as Team leader.
  • Worked with MVVM Pattern, RestAPI, Firebase, MLKit, Google Sceneform.
  • Worked in fast-paced environment, wrote maintainable and reusable Java and Kotlin Code.

Nov 2019 - May 2020

Core Team Member

International AI-based Dhaka Traffic Detection Challenge

Core Team Member in the International Event. [Proof 1:Screen Shot; Now Site Down] [Proof 2: Core Team Member Github Organization Page]

  • Responsible for acquisition of the top solutions from the Challenge.
  • As contribution integrate Flask JSON Web Token in Website for Security.

Oct 2020 - Dec 2020

Projects


  • Camera Beautify - AI Face Recognized Android Application

    This is the bangladeshi traditional AI based Camera Stickers and Face Beautify Android Application. To build this application maintained agile methodology and software engineering best practices. ( Project Link)
    Architectural Pattern & Language Used : MVC & Java.
    Technologies used : Open CV , Open Graphics Library (OpenGL®) , HTML ,and Many Android Components like recyclerview , webview , shared preference etc.

  • New Connection Chat Bot

    This is basically the Telegram Chat Bot. This conversational chat bot help depressed peoples. Google Dialogflow integrated into the software to became more intelligent. ( Project Link)
    Architectural Pattern & Language Used : MVC & Python.
    Hosted & Services Used : Heroku & Telegram API.

  • Multi Class Image Classification Using SVM

    This was performed on Kaggle's dogs-cats-horses-humans Dataset, using Support Vector Machine model for Classifying Dog or Cat or Human or Horse. ( Project Link)
    Language used: Python.
    Development Tools: Jupyter Notebook.

  • Predict Profit for Bike Sharing Company

    This was performed on a Tabular dataset which contains Profit and Population attributes. Linear Regression model used for predict future profit of this company. ( Project Link)
    Language used: Python.
    Development Tools: Jupyter Notebook.

  • Customer Car Purcheased Group Classification and Prediction

    This was performed on a Tabular dataset which contains Gender,Age and Estimated Salary attributes. Support Vector Machine model used for Classify and Predicts various of Car Purchased Group. This project involves data pre-processing, Feature Scaling, and Statistical Analysis Like confusion metrics. ( Project Link)
    Language used: Python.
    Development Tools: Jupyter Notebook.

  • My71 - Android application about Bangladesh Liberation War

    This app encourage peoples by sharing about Bangladesh liberation war's histories. Maintain user-friendly features. ( Project Link)
    Architectural Pattern & Language used: MVC & Java
    Technologies Used : Expandable List View , Foldable Layout , Gif ImageView , Recycler View and ohter android conponets.
    Development Tools: Android Studio.

  • Cat and Dog Recognition - Android application for recognizing cats or dogs

    This is the cat and dog detection android application. This is a camera app that continuously detects the objects (bounding boxes and classes) in the frames seen by device's back camera, using a quantized MobileNet SSD model trained on the COCO dataset. ( Project Link)
    Architectural Pattern & Language used: MVC & Java
    Technologies Used : TensorFlow Lite and Many Android Components like recyclerview , webview , shared preference etc.
    Development Tools: Android Studio.

  • Space Air Quality Monitoring - Nasa Space App Challenge 2019 Project - (Android Version)

    This applicaton shown the details of the air quality of the surface from IOT Device Data through API. And analysis those data with NASA Data. ( Project Link)
    See the Details Description From : NASA
    Architectural Pattern & Language used: MVC & Java
    Technologies Used : Rest Api , Expandable List View , Foldable Layout , Recycler View and ohter android conponets.
    Development Tools: Android Studio.

  • Hello AR - Augmented Reality related Android Application

    This is fun app . Using this app user can set augmented fox whatever user want. ( Project Link)
    Architectural Pattern & Language used: MVC & Java
    Technologies Used : Google Sceneform , Android Components like recyclerview , shared preference etc.
    Development Tools: Android Studio.

  • Corona Informative Android App

    This applications provide information about Covid 19 for Bangladesh. ( Project Link)
    Architectural Pattern & Language used: MVC & Java
    Technologies Used : Expandable List View , Foldable Layout , Gif ImageView , Recycler View and ohter android conponets.
    Development Tools: Android Studio.

  • News Hub - A Online News App

    By using this application users get all online newspaper in one app. It's user friendly application. Trying to satisfy the users need. ( Project Link)
    Architectural Pattern & Language used: MVC & Java
    Technologies Used : Android Components like Recyclerview , Webview , Shared preference etc.
    Development Tools: Android Studio.

  • Environment Natural Events - Nasa Space App Challenge 2020 Project (Champion Project)

    This project achived Global Nominee from Nasa Space Apps Challenge. This website is great visulizaion project for nearby natural events. ( Project Link)
    See the Details Description From : NASA
    Architectural Pattern: MVC
    Technology & Language used : Node.js , React js , Leaflet js , Chart js , Axios

  • F & E Shoppy - E-Commerce Website

    This is the E-Commerce Website with Admin Panel and User Panel. ( Project Link)
    Architectural Pattern: MVC
    Language used : HTML , CSS , bootstrap , PHP and MYSQL

  • Space Air Quality Monitoring - Nasa Space App Challenge 2019 Project - (Web Version)

    Through This is the website, We shown the details of the air quality of the surface from IOT Device Data. And analysis those data with NASA Data. ( Project Link)
    See the Details Description From : NASA
    Architectural Pattern: MVC
    Language used : HTML , CSS , bootstrap , Java Script and MYSQL

  • Snack Game - JS Edition

    This is a fun type snack game. Where snack always eats the apples and want to go big. ( Project Link)
    Architectural Pattern: MVC
    Language used : Javascript & HTML
    Technologies used : Javascript Phaser

  • Space Air Quality Monitoring - Nasa Space App 2019 IOT Source Code

    This code used for detect harmful gases from environment and send them to the website and android using web server. ( Project Link)
    See the Details Description From : NASA
    Language used: C/C++
    Hardware Used : NodeMCU and Sensors
    Development Tools: NodeMCUSimulator and Arduino IDE.

  • Temperature Indicator for baby feeder

    By using a waterproof temperature sensor to get the reading of the liquid’s temperature. Based on that temperature taking decision whether the temperature is too hot for the baby to drink or too cold. ( Project Link)
    Project platform: Arduino
    Equipment: Arduino Uno R3 , DS18B20 temperature sensor , Colour (RGB)LED , Jumper wires, Resistors ( 220ohm, 1k ), Buzzer
    Development Tools: NodeMCUSimulator and Arduino IDE.
    Programming Language: C/C++

Research

Published Research

  • Md. Asif Iqbal Fahim, Feroza Naznin, Mohammad Ali Moni and Dr. Md Zahidul Islam, "Improved Transfer Learning Architecture to Classify Covid-19 Affected Chest X-Rays using Noisy Student Pre-training," ICIEV & ICIVPR, JAPAN.
  • Md. Rayhan Ahmed, Md. Asif Iqbal Fahim, A.K.M. Muzahidul Islam, Salekul Islam, Swakkhar Shatabda, DOLG-Next: Deep Orthogonal Fusion of Local and Global Features with ConvNext for Biomedical Image Segmentation. (Neurocomputing, Elsevier) . IF: 5.779.
  • Ashifur Rahman; Md. Rakibul Islam; Umme Hany; Md. Asif Iqbal Fahim; Mohasina Jannat Moon; Lassaad K. Smirani; Shaik Hasane Ahammad; Md. Amzad Hossain; Ahmed Nabih Zaki Rashed; Numerical Algorithm Deep Learning for A Novel Method To Detect COVID Patients Check (Under review).

Ongoing Research

  • Researching on Efficiently Convert Time Series Data to Image & Deep Learning Modeling for Credit Card Fraud Detection.
  • Researching on Highly Crowded Dhaka City Traffic Detection.
  • Researching on Efficient Bangla News Article Classification.

Skills

Scientific Programming
  • Python
  • R
Programming Languages & Tools
Workflow
  • Mobile-First, Responsive Design
  • Cross Browser Testing & Debugging
  • Cross Functional Teams
  • Agile Development & Scrum

Awards & Achievements

  • [Kaggle Research Competition] PetFinder.my - Pawpularity, Kaggle - Silver Medal Rank in Top 2%.
  • [Kaggle Research Competition] G-Research Crypto Forecasting, Kaggle - Silver Medal Rank in Top 5%.
  • [Kaggle Research Competition] G2Net Gravitational Wave Detection, Kaggle - Bronze Medal Rank in Top 10%.
  • [Hackathon] Champion from Bangladesh and Got Global Nominee in NASA Space Apps Challenge 2020.
  • [Hackathon] Global Problem Solver- special mentioned got from NASA for efforts to address COVID-19-related challenges.
  • [Hackathon] Got Swag from Facebook Messaging Hackathon for entered the top 20.
  • [Competitive Coding Contest] 27th Place out of 161 teams - SUST Inter University Programming Contest 2019.
  • [Competitive Coding Contest] Two times received the champion award in Programming Contest at CSE CARNIVAL of GUB '19 & '18.
  • [Education] Scholar at AWS Machine Learining Nanodegree Scholarship Program.
  • [Academic] Two times received Dean Award for outstanding academic performence.