Md Awsafur Rahman
PhD Student at UC Santa Barbara | Ex - Google | Kaggle Grandmaster & Google Developer Expert (GDE) | Ex - Weights & Biases | Ex - Research Assistant in IRAB
Hello! I’m a PhD student in the ECE department at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Beyond that, I am a Kaggle Grandmaster and Google Developer Expert (GDE). Recently, I left my job (contract) for Google, where I worked on solving competitive Machine Learning problems from Kaggle in the fields of Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, and Audio Processing, utilizing multi-backend Keras.
Just like a detective, I find joy in dissecting complex research problems and crafting solutions through code, and math. My perseverance has led to the authorship of 7 papers and co-authorship of 2 more. Beyond academia, I thrive in competitions like Kaggle, DrivenData, etc. It’s here that I became one of the youngest Kaggle Grandmasters, peaking at 5th (now 8th) out of 61,000+ participants. I also take pride in open-source contributing on GitHub, in platforms such as TensorFlow, Keras, HuggingFace, YOLOv5 (PyTorch), etc. I also won Google OSS Prize 4 times and Kaggle ML Research Award for my open-source contributions.
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News
Dec 1, 2023 | Started working for Google in the Keras Team as a Contractor. |
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Oct 9, 2023 | Awarded Google Open Source Peer Bonus Award for gcvit-tf and TransUNet-tf. |
Aug 15, 2023 | Symbiotic Transformer paper has been accepted to WACV 2024 |
Jul 17, 2023 | DwinFormer paper has been accepted to IEEE Sensors Journal (Q1, IF: 4.3) |
Jun 22, 2023 | ArtiFact paper has been accepted at ICIP 2023 |
Jun 1, 2023 | Joined IRAB (Institue of Robotics & Automation BUET) as Research Assistant. |
Sep 10, 2022 | Ranked 1st on LB in IEEE VIP Cup 2022: Synthetic Image Detection at ICIP 2022. |
Sep 3, 2022 | Won Kaggle ML Research Spotlight: August 2022 Award for GCViT-TF. |
Jul 11, 2022 | Won Google OSS Expert Prize: June 2022 Award for Fake Speech Detection. |
Jul 3, 2022 | Ranked 1st in IEEE SP Cup 2022: Synthetic Speech Attribution at ICASSP 2022. |