Research Profile

This page provides insights into my academic journey, highlighting the research I have done, the experiences I have gained, and the impact it has had on the community.

Research Objective


To conduct impactful research in the fields of Computer Vision, bioinformatics, and Machine Learning Systems, with a focus on developing solutions that address real-world challenges and contribute to the advancement of knowledge in these domains.

Research Interests


Machine learning, with a focus on computer vision and bioinformatics, and a growing interest in brain–computer interfaces.

Research Skills


Data Modalities:
Text, Images, Video, Audio/Signal, Time-Series, Tabular, Semi-Structured Data (JSON, XML)
Research Methods:
Problem formulation, EDA, Statistical analysis, Experimental design, Replication, Hypothesis testing, A/B testing, Visualization, Performance metrics, Hyperparameter tuning, Model evaluation
Programming Languages:
Python, R, C, C++, Bash
AI/ML Tools & Models:
PyTorch, torchvision, scikit-learn, TensorFlow/Keras, NumPy, Pandas, SciPy, timm, OpenCV, MNE, HuggingFace Transformers
Evaluation:
Accuracy, precision, recall, F1, AUROC, AUPRC, MSE, k-fold and LOSO cross-validation, grid search, ROC/PR analysis, confusion matrix, statistical significance testing
Databases:
Structured (MySQL, PostgreSQL), Semi-Structured (MongoDB), Data Modeling, Vector Databases
Computation Platforms:
Linux, Windows, macOS, Google Colab, Jupyter Notebook, Jupyter Lab, VS Code, CUDA, JetBrains IDEs, remote development over SSH, Docker, cross-platform environment setup (Linux/macOS, WSL)
Scientific Writing:
LaTeX (TikZ, latexmk, LuaLaTeX), Zotero, Markdown, Academic Writing (Research Paper/Proposal), Technical Documentation, diagram drawing (TikZ, draw.io, Figma)

Research Experience


Interpretable Classification of Hand Motor Imagery from EEG Signals

Independent Research

Key Responsibilities:

  • Investigating cross-session classification of left and right-hand motor imagery from EEG, with emphasis on participant variability and model interpretability.
  • Developed leakage-controlled CSP-LDA and EEGNet baselines on BCI Competition IV Dataset 2a; a three-participant pilot yielded mean balanced accuracies of 78.24% and 75.23%, respectively.
  • Currently designing a channel frequency attention model to identify informative EEG channels and frequency bands.

Skills Applied: EEG Signal Processing, Brain–Computer Interfaces, CSP-LDA, EEGNet, Cross-Session Evaluation, Model Interpretability

Vision Transformer-Based Video Anomaly Detection using Attention-Driven Recurrence

Advisor(s): Dr. Swakkhar ShatabdaPublished in Elsevier "Array"

Key Responsibilities:

  • Investigated whether a Vision Transformer paired with an efficient recurrent model can detect and classify real-world violent anomalies in long, sparsely labeled surveillance video.
  • Lead contributor to model training, comparative experiments, result visualization, and ablation studies. Designed and implemented the complete end-to-end pipeline, including training and evaluation notebooks, temporal segmentation and augmentation, ViT-small feature extraction, and attention-enhanced SRU++ modeling.
  • Achieved 95.14%, 92.88%, and 93.73% test accuracy on UCF-Crime, RWF-2000, and SCVD, respectively, with the highest reported AUC among the compared methods on all three datasets.

Skills Applied: Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Video Anomaly Detection, Vision Transformers, Attention Mechanisms, SRU++, Video Segmentation and Augmentation, Multiclass Classification, Feature Clustering, Model Training, Ablation Studies, Performance Evaluation

A Hybrid GBDT–SVM Framework for snoRNA–Disease Association Prediction

Advisor(s): Dr. Riasat AzimPublished in Computers in Biology and Medicine

Key Responsibilities:

  • Investigated whether a computationally lighter, non-neural framework could accurately predict snoRNA–disease associations without relying on graph neural networks.
  • Co-developed a two-stage GBDT-to-SVM framework integrating snoRNA functional similarity, disease semantic similarity, and Gaussian interaction-profile kernels; used K-means-based proportional negative sampling to address class imbalance, contributed to methodology and analysis, and independently verified top-ranked predictions using RNADisease v4.0 and PubMed across 12 diseases.
  • Achieved mean AUROC 0.96, AUPRC 0.95, accuracy 0.95, and F1-score 0.94 on MDRF under five-fold cross-validation, with higher reported AUROC/AUPRC than seven comparison methods; also evaluated generalization on LSGT and PsnoD.

Skills Applied: Bioinformatics, Feature Engineering, Ensemble Machine Learning

Energy Footprint Evaluation of Python and R in Heavy Statistical and ML Tasks

Advisor(s): Dr. Md. Motaharul Islam, Dr. Pham Phuoc Hung, and Dr. Mohammad Mehedi Hassan

Key Responsibilities:

  • Investigated which language and CPU architecture minimizes the energy and carbon footprint of statistical and ML workloads.
  • Designed a cross-platform energy-measurement framework using OS-native tools (powermetrics, powerstat, and HWiNFO), isolating task energy via idle-power subtraction; ran 72 benchmarks per OS across Windows, Linux, and macOS.
  • Tests show ARM drew approximately 100× less idle power than x64 (approximately 0.05 W vs. 4–9 W), with energy scaling by dataset size; Python was most efficient on ARM and R on x64.

Skills Applied: Green Computing, Energy Profiling, Cross-Platform Benchmarking, Python and R, Hardware-Aware Performance Analysis

Ameliorating Performance of Random Forest Using Data Clustering

Advisor(s): Dr. Dewan Md. FaridPublished in Proceedings of ICCIT 2023 (IEEE)Presenting Author

Key Responsibilities:

  • Investigated whether coupling K-means clustering with Random Forest could improve classification performance relative to a conventional Random Forest baseline on UCI benchmark datasets.
  • Lead contributor of methodology, implementation, and evaluation. Designed and implemented the RFWOC pipeline, using Elbow-method selection of k, cluster-specific Random Forest classifiers, and comparative evaluation; led experiment execution and result visualization, authored the Methodology section, and co-authored the Results section.
  • Outperformed the classical Random Forest baseline on most evaluated benchmarks, including 88.6% accuracy on Heart Disease, 76.9% on Diabetes, and 95.2% F1-score on Breast Cancer.

Skills Applied: Machine Learning, Ensemble Learning, K-Means Clustering, Random Forest, Data Preprocessing, Model Evaluation, Experimental Analysis

Assessing Password Strength and Compromise Likelihood Using GPT-2

Advisor(s): Mohammad Shamim Ahsan

Key Responsibilities:

  • Investigated whether a language model could flag weak passwords by modeling character-sequence predictability.
  • Developed a GPT-2-based proof of concept using a corpus of 1.92M unique passwords prepared from 10M+ RockYou and SecLists entries; implemented character 1–3-gram tokenization and perplexity-based scoring.
  • In exploratory tests, perplexity separated trivial passwords (approximately 2–5) from complex ones (greater than 50); documented dataset-scale and model-capacity limitations.

Skills Applied: Password Security Analysis, Deep Learning, Transformer Language Models (GPT-2), Character N-gram Tokenization, Perplexity-Based Evaluation

Publications


Muna, U. M., Biswas, S., Zarif, S. A. A. M., Deori, P. J., Tajwar, T., & Shatabda, S. (2025). Vision transformer embedded video anomaly detection using attention driven recurrence. Array, 27, 100471. DOI: 10.1016/j.array.2025.100471

Muna, U. M., Hafiz, F., Biswas, S., & Azim, R. (2025). GBDTSVM: Combined support vector machine and gradient boosting decision tree framework for efficient snoRNA–disease association prediction. Computers in Biology and Medicine, 192 (Part A), 110219. DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2025.110219

Zarif, S. A. A. M., Deori, P. J., Muna, U. M., Mubin, M. M. R., Biswas, S., & Rahman, R. (2024). A deep learning–based approach for automated defect detection of fabrics in garment production line. Proc. 3rd International Conference on Computing Advancements (ICCA ’24) (pp. 131–138). ACM. DOI: 10.1145/3723178.3723196

Muna, U. M., Biswas, S.*, Zarif, S. A. A. M., & Farid, D. Md. (2023). Ameliorating performance of random forest using data clustering. Proc. 26th Int'l Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT) (pp. 1–6). IEEE. DOI: 10.1109/ICCIT60459.2023.10441376.
*Presenting author — selected for oral presentation