H M Sajjad Hossain ITE 461, UMBC, MD 21250, Phone: 443-825 8341 Email: [email protected], Website: http://mpsc.umbc.edu/sajjad

Education PhD in Information Systems — University of Maryland Baltimore County (4th year) CGPA: 3.89/ 4.00 [Jan 2014--May 2018(exp)] Department of Information Systems , Mobile, Pervasive & Sensor Computing Lab. Bachelor of Science — Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET) [Jun 2007--Apr 2012] Department of Computer Science & Engineering. Experience Research Assistant — Department of Information Systems, UMBC [Jan 2014-- Current] ◆ Improved and developed and deep learning algorithms to detect Activities of Daily Living utilizing smart devices and wearables. ◆ Developed a low cost sensor technology box using OSGI framework for monitoring activities of daily living.

Software Engineer Intern — Agewell Biometrics, Maryland [Jun 2016--Aug 2016] ◆ Developed web services in Azure using entity frame work code first approach. ◆ Developed an Azure Machine Learning web service which removes noises from the accelerometer data. Used change point detection algorithm on the server side.

Teaching Assistant — Department of Information Systems, UMBC [Aug 2015--Dec 2015] ◆ Grader for Project management course (IS 669). ◆ Tutoring Introduction to Information Systems (IS 607). Helping students with Java programming assignments. Member &D — Commlink Info Tech Ltd, Dhaka, Bangladesh [Apr 2012-- Dec 2013] ◆ Developed a fingerprint collection & verification application used biometric registration of mobile SIM in Bangladesh. ◆ Contributed in front end development of an E-commerce solution using Django framework. ◆ Developed various reporting views using ASP Dot Net for a billing application.

Skills Programming Language: C/C++, Python, Java, C#, R, Lua, Javascript, PHP. Database Systems: MySQL, Oracle, NoSql database. Frameworks & Applications: Django,Spring, Android. Cloud Services: Microsot Azure, Azure Machine Learning Studio. Machine Learning Tools: Torch, Weka, Scikit, Vowpal Wabbit.

Projects Activity Recognition using Microsoft Lab of Things Implemented activity recognition algorithm in Microsoft Lab of Things(C#) using Hidden Markov Model. Anomaly Detection in Daily Activities Implemented an algorithm based on hidden Markov Model which detects anomalies in activities of daily living. Soccer Mate: Soccer attribute profiling using wrist worn devices A personal soccer attribute (agility, strength etc) profiling using accelerometer mounted wrist worn devices.

Publications Conference Publications: ◆ Joseph Taylor, H M Sajjad Hossain, Mohammad Arif Ul Alam, Md Abdullah Al Hafiz Khan, Nirmalya Roy, Elizabeth Galik, Aryya Gangopadhyay. SenseBox: A Low-Cost Smart Home System, In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Demonstrations (PerCom) 2017. (To Appear) ◆ H M Sajjad Hossain, Md Abdullah Al Hafiz Khan, Nirmalya Roy. SoccerMate: A Personal Soccer Attribute Profiler using Wearables, 1st IEEE PerCom International Workshop on Behavioral Implications of Contextual Analytics (BICA 2017) (To appear). ◆ H M Sajjad Hossain, Nirmalya Roy, Md Abdullah Al Hafiz Khan. Active Learning Enabled Activity Recognition, IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (Percom ’16) Sydney, Australia. (acceptance rate < 15%) March, 2016. ◆ H M Sajjad Hossain, Nirmalya Roy, MD Abdullah Al Hafiz Khan. Sleep Well: A Sound Sleep Monitoring Framework for Community Scaling. IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM ’15) Pittsburgh. (acceptance rate < 25%) June, 2015. ◆ MD Abdullah Al Hafiz Khan, H M Sajjad Hossain, Nirmalya Roy. SensePresence: Infrastructure-less Occupancy Detection for Opportunistic Sensing Applications, International Workshop On Human Mobility Computing And Privacy (HuMoComP ’15) Pittsburgh. June, 2015. ◆ Md Abdullah Al Hafiz Khan, H M Sajjad Hossain, Nirmalya Roy Infrastructure-less Occupancy Detection and Semantic Localization in Smart Environments, International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous) Portugal. (acceptance rate 27%) July, 2015. ◆ H M Sajjad Hossain, Sheikh Al-Amin, Mahmuda Naznin. Energy Efficient Routing in Wireless Sensor Network for Multi- commodity Based Network, Workshop on Wireless Network and Communication (WNC). BUET, Dhaka.. April, 2013. Journal Publications: ◆ H M Sajjad Hossain, Nirmalya Roy and Md Abdullah Al Hafiz Khan, Active Learning Enabled Activity Recognition, Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC) Journal, Elsevier 2016 (in press). ◆ Md Abdullah Al Hafiz Khan, H M Sajjad Hossain, Nirmalya Roy Infrastructure-less Occupancy Detection and Semantic Localization in Smart Environments EAI Endorsed Transactions on Context-aware Systems and Applications . Issue: 5 Volume: 2, 2015.

Awards Third Runner up, 3rd Citi Financial IT Case Competition [June 2011] Project: Developed a banking pattern recognition system “Artificial Agent for Better Banking” that utilizes data mining techniques for better analyzing transaction data. NSF I Corps Fall 2015 Cohort [Oct 2015 – Dec 2015] Role: Entrepreneurial Lead. Project title: SenseBox: A sensor technology box for smart health. Intra Department Research Poster Contest, 2nd runner up [March 2014] Intra Department Research Poster Contest, 2nd runner up [April 2015] Scholarships:  Government Scholarship for outstanding result in Higher Secondary School Certificate Exam, Dhaka College, Dhaka, Bangladesh (2006)  Government Scholarship for outstanding result in Secondary School Certificate Exam, Ideal School & College, Dhaka, Bangladesh (2004)

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