Awards/Distinctions

  • International Conferences
    • ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at the ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2025 
    • ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award nomination at the 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), 2017
  • York University (Professor), Toronto, Canada (July 2023 – Present)
    • York University Research Award, April 2025
  • IBM (Research Collaboration, 2020 – Present)
    • CAS Project of the Year Award at IBM TechXChange, Oct 2024
    • IBM Champion 2025
    • IBM Champion 2024
  • University of Calgary (Professor), Alberta, Canada (July 2020 – June 2023)
    • Early Research Excellence Award Link, 2023
  • McGill University (PhD), Montreal, Canada (2010 – 2018)
    • IBM Canada CAS PhD Fellowship (2011 – 2013).
    • Hydro-Quebec Fellowship (2011 – 2012).
    • Principal’s Graduate Fellowship (2010 – 2011).
    • Provost’s Graduate Fellowship (2010 – 2011).
    • Lorne Trottier Science Acceleration Fellowship (2010 – 2011)
    • McGill University PhD Fellowship (2010 – 2011)
  • Queen’s University (MSc), Kingston, Canada (January 2006 – February 2008)
    • Queen’s Graduate Award (QGA) (2006 – 2007)
    • W.W. King Graduate Fellowship (2006)
  • Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology BUET (BSc), Dhaka, Bangladesh (Sept. 1999 – Nov 2004).
    • Bangladesh Government Board Scholarship for academic excellence (1999 – 2004)
  • Pre Bachelor Selected Awards in Bangladesh
    • Bangladesh Government Board Scholarship for Academic Excellence (1992 – 1998).
    • 1st Merit Position among more than 150,000 students in Higher Secondary Certificate Examination (equivalent to CA/US High School Graduation), Chittagong Education Board 1998.
    • 19th Merit Position among more than 150,000 students in Secondary School Certificate Examination (equivalent to CA/US 10th grade), Chittagong Education Board, 1996.