Education
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PhD in Computer Science
August 2025Chicago, IL
Advisor: Dr. Sidharth Kumar
Presentation
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MS in Information Technology
November 2018Dhaka, Bangladesh
Advisor: Dr. Md Whaiduzzaman
Presentation
BS in Information Technology
April 2016Dhaka, Bangladesh
Experiences
Research experience
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Postdoctoral Appointee
August 2025 - cont.Lemont, IL
Graduate Research Assistant
August 2023 - August 2025Chicago, IL
Graduate Student Intern (WJ Cody)
May 2023 - August 2023Lemont, IL
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Graduate Research Assistant (Blazer Graduate Research Fellow)
August 2021 - August 2023Birmingham, AL
Industry experience
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Assistant Programmer
June 2019 - August 2021Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Software Engineer
December 2017 - June 2019Dhaka, Bangladesh
Software Engineer
October 2016 - November 2017Dhaka, Bangladesh
Teaching experience
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Spring 2025Chicago, IL
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Fall 2024Chicago, IL
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Fall 2016Dhaka, Bangladesh
Selected Publications
Topology Assisted Clustering of Temporal fMRI Brain Networks With Use-Case in Mitigating Non-Neural Multi-Site Variability
Ahmedur Rahman Shovon, Sidharth Kumar, Gopikrishna DeshpandeIEEE Access (Q1 Journal)
PDF Code IEEE Access 2025
Multi-Node Multi-GPU Datalog
Ahmedur Rahman Shovon, Yihao Sun, Thomas Gilray, Kristopher Micinski, Sidharth KumarACM International Conference on Supercomputing 2025 (ICS 2025)
PDF Presentation Code ICS 2025
Optimizing Datalog for the GPU
Yihao Sun, Ahmedur Rahman Shovon, Thomas Gilray, Kristopher Micinski, Sidharth Kumar30th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS 2025)
PDF Code ASPLOS 2025
Bruck Algorithm Performance Analysis for Multi-GPU All-to-All Communication
Andres Sewell, Ke Fan, Ahmedur Rahman Shovon, Landon Dyken, Sidharth Kumar, Steve PetruzzaInternational Conference on High Performance Computing in Asia-Pacific Region (HPCAsia 2024)
PDF Code HPCAsia 2024
Towards Iterative Relational Algebra on the GPU
Ahmedur Rahman Shovon, Thomas Gilray, Kristopher Micinski, Sidharth Kumar2023 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC 2023)
PDF Presentation Code USENIXATC 2023
Accelerating Datalog applications with cuDF
Ahmedur Rahman Shovon, Landon Richard Dyken, Oded Green, Thomas Gilray, Sidharth Kumar2022 IEEE/ACM Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms (IA3 2022), in conjunction with SC22
PDF Presentation Code IA3 2022
UALCAN: An update to the integrated cancer data analysis platform
Darshan Shimoga Chandrashekar, Santhosh Kumar Karthikeyan, Praveen Kumar Korla, Henalben Patel, Ahmedur Rahman Shovon, Mohammad Athar, George J Netto, Zhaohui S Qin, Sidharth Kumar, Upender Manne, Chad J Crieghton, Sooryanarayana VaramballyNeoplasia by Elsevier (Q1 Journal)
PDF Code Demo Neoplasia 2022
A Resilient Fog-IoT Framework for Seamless Microservice Execution
Md Whaiduzzaman, Alistair Barros, Ahmedur Rahman Shovon, Md Razon Hossain, Colin Fidge2021 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2021)
PDF Presentation SCC 2021
A Privacy-preserving Mobile and Fog Computing Framework to Trace and Prevent COVID-19 Community Transmission
Md Whaiduzzaman, Md Hossain, Ahmedur Rahman Shovon, Shanto Roy, Aron Laszka, Rajkumar Buyya, Alistair BarrosIEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (IEEE JBHI, Q1 Journal)
PDF JBHI 2020
GDPR Compliance: Implementation Use Cases for User Data Privacy in News Media Industry
Ahmedur Rahman Shovon, Shanto Roy, Arnab Kumar Shil, Tanjila AtikInternational Conference on Advances in Science, Engineering and Robotics Technology 2019 (ICASERT 2019)
PDF Presentation Code ICASERT 2019
A RESTful E-Governance Application Framework for People Identity Verification in Cloud
Ahmedur Rahman Shovon, Shanto Roy, Tanusree Sharma, Md. Whaiduzzaman11th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2018)
PDF Cloud 2018
Combined approach of Tokenization and Mining to secure and optimize Big Data in Cloud Storage
Shanto Roy, Ahmedur Rahman Shovon, Md. Whaiduzzaman2017 IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC 2017)
PDF R10 HTC 2017
Projects
- MNMGDatalog - First multi-node multi-GPU Datalog engine designed for HPC systems developed as part of HARP-Lab. (research project)
- Tradewinds - TradeWinds is the world’s biggest shipping news service, publishing both online news and a printed weekly newspaper, that covers shipping as a global industry. (developer)
- Upstream - The leading global oil, gas and energy news resource. Covering the latest oil and gas news including shale, lng, drilling, exploration and production. (developer)
- Recharge - Recharge provides business intelligence for the renewable-energy industries, that matter most to the wind and solar sectors. (developer)
- Easy C - A real time web and mobile application to learn C programming language. (team leader and developer)
- CBPen - A web application for penetration testing to expose vulnerabilities associated with the network. (developer)
- Powerlog, Bangla, Opener, AutoLike, CopyUSB - PyPI enlisted Python packages. (developer)
Awards
USENIX ATC Student Grant
2023Boston, MA
Blazer Graduate Research Fellowship
2021 - 2022Birmingham, AL
Bangladesh-Sweden Trust Fund (BSTF) Travel Grant
2021 - 2022Dhaka, Bangladesh
National Science and Technology (NST) Fellowship
2016 - 2017Dhaka, Bangladesh
University Merit Scholarships
2011 - 2015Dhaka, Bangladesh
Achievements
Top 3% contributor @ StackOverflow
2013 - present3rd @ Computational Research Symposium Poster Presentation 2025
April 2025Winner @ oneAPI Hackathon: CUDA to SYCL Migration 2023
October 20231st @ Hackerrank Python & Security Domains
July 20167th @ IEEEXtreme Programming Competition 9.0
October 2015Services
Reviewer
Program committee
Volunteer
Judge @ UAB Research Expos (Fall 2021 – Spring 2023)
November 2021 – April 2023Webmaster @ IEEE SB Jahangirnagar University
May 2015 – October 2017