Mohammad Shahed Sorower
2770 NW 29 St., Apt #G, Corvallis, OR 97330
Phone: 901-216-6168
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E-mail: ssorower@gmail.com
Web: http://people.oregonstate.edu/~sorowerm/
EDUCATION
PhD in Computer Science
Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon.
Oct. 2015 (expected)
MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, GPA : 4.0/4.0
The University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee.
Dec 2008
BS in Computer Science and Engineering, GPA : 3.80/4.0
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Nov 2004
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
◊ Oregon State University, Dept. of Computer Science
09/09-Present
Graduate Research Assistant, Research Focus: Machine Learning, NLP, HCI
(10/10-Present) “TaskTracer”, is an intelligent desktop assistant that virtually organizes resources
that are distributed across files systems, emails, websites, calendars and contacts. The challenges
include understanding user behavior, inferring user-preferences, and finally, evaluation through
user studies. This research is supported by DAPRA with previous support from Google, Intel, and
the DARPA CALO project.
(09/09-12/12) A DARPA funded project titled as "Machine Reading", in collaboration with CMU,
Univ. of Washington, ISI, BBN technologies and Cycorp. Goal of my work was to learn inference
rules from incomplete texts using undirected graphical model (Markov Logic Networks).
◊ The University of Memphis, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engg.
08/08-08/09
Herff Fellow, Research Focus: Intelligent Systems
Human Computer Interaction/Natural Language Processing: Worked towards building a framework
to recognize human emotion using multimodal fusion of audio, video and text features.
◊ The University of Memphis, FedEx Institute of Technology
10/06-10/07, 10/07-05/08
System Testing Excellence Program (STEP), Senior Investigator
Research Focus: Towards providing a unified solution for software testing using machine learning.
◊ The University of Memphis, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engg.
Computer Vision, Pattern and Image Analysis Lab, Graduate Research Assistant
Research Focus: Pattern Recognition, Information Retrieval and Semantic Analysis.
08/06-08/08
◊ Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dept. of CSE
Undergraduate Thesis: Pattern Recognition Using Neural Networks; Mathematical Polynomials and
Radial coding to develop a High Performance Invariant Character Recognition System.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
◊ PPAML Summer School, Participant
07/14-07/14
Attended ‘Probabilistic Programming for Advanced Machine Learning Summer School’. This summer
school covered advanced concepts in Probabilistic Programming, and hands-on tutorial sessions on
a few Probabilistic Programming Languages (e.g., Venture, Figaro, BLOG).
◊ Microsoft Research, Research Intern
06/12-09/12
Semantic Parsing of natural language texts is the bottleneck for a variety of NLP problems due to
knowledge capacity and computability of the existing techniques. We worked to develop a general
unsupervised semantic parsing technique by inducing "unsupervised supervision".
◊ IBM, Application & Integration Middleware S/W, Performance Engg. Co-Op
05/08-08/08
Developed an automation program within Software Testing Automation Framework (STAF) for
Websphere Application Server performance evaluation using STAX, Java, Jython and Jacl.
◊ AutoZone Inc., Summer IT (Security) Intern
05/07-08/07
Developed automatic secure (i.e., PGP Encryption) file transfer system using Expect and Perl;
deployment of File integrity checkers (e.g., Samhain).
◊ TM International (Bangladesh) Ltd.(TMIB), System Analyst
03/05-08/06
Administered Firewall and VPN Operations, VoIP setup and billing (using RADIUS, MYSQL/Oracle,
PHP, JS); developed Information and IP Network Security policy to achieve ISO27001 certification.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND POSTER
Mohammad S. Sorower, Michael Slater and Thomas Dietterich. Improving Automated Email
Tagging with Implicit Feedback. In Preparation (April 2015) for ACM User Interface Software and
Technology (UIST).
Michael Slater, Mohammad S. Sorower, and Thomas Dietterich. Tape: An integrated machine
learning system for email tagging. In Preparation (May 2015) for ACM Transactions on Interactive
Intelligent Systems (TIIS).
Mohammad S. Sorower, Thomas G. Dietterich, Janardhan Rao Doppa, Walker Orr, Xiaoli Fern and
Prasad Tadepalli. Inverting Grice's Maxims to Learn Rules from Natural Language Extractions.
Proceedings of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS-2011), Granada, Spain,
Dec 12-15, 2011.
Janardhan Rao Doppa, Mohammad S. Sorower, Mohammad Nasresfahani, Jed Irvine, Walker Orr,
Thomas G. Dietterich, Xiaoli Fern and Prasad Tadepalli. Learning Rules from Incomplete Examples
via Implicit Mention Models. Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR) Proceedings Track, Vol.
20 (ACML-2011).
Sorower, M. S., Dietterich, T. G., Doppa, J. R., Tadepalli, P., Fern, X. Learning Rules from
Incomplete Examples via a Probabilistic Mention Model. IJCAI 2011 Workshop on Learning by
Reading and its Applications in Intelligent Question-Answering, Barcelona, Spain.
Doppa, J. R., NasrEsfahani, M., Sorower, M. S., Irvine, J. Dietterich, T. G., Fern, X., Tadepalli, P.
Learning Rules from Incomplete Examples via Observation Models. IJCAI 2011 Workshop on
Learning by Reading and its Applications in Intelligent Question-Answering, Barcelona, Spain.
Mohammad S. Sorower, Thomas G Dietterich. Mention Model for Learning Rules from Incomplete
Examples. Poster in Student Summit, jointly organized with the Machine Reading Phase 3 kick-off
meeting, Seattle, WA. April 5-8, 2011.
Janardhan Doppa, Mohammad Nasresfahani, Mohammad S. Sorower, Thomas G. Dietterich, Xiaoli
Fern and Prasad Tadepalli. Towards Learning Rules from Natural Texts. In Proceedings of Workshop
on Formalisms and Methodologies in Learning by Reading (NAACL-2010), Los Angeles, CA.
Mohammed Yeasin, Haritha Malempati, Ramin Homayouni and Mohammad S. Sorower. A
systematic study on latent semantic analysis model parameters for mining biomedical literature.
UT-ORNL-KBRIN Bioinformatics Summit, Pikeville, TN, USA. 20–22 March 2009 and BMC
Bioinformatics 2009, 10(Suppl 7):A6 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-10-S7-A6.
D.J. Russomanno, M. Yeasin, E. Jacobs, M. Smith, and M.S. Sorower. Sparse Detector Sensor:
Profiling Experiments for Broad-Scale Classification. Proceedings SPIE-Defense and Security
Symposium: Unattended Ground, Sea, and Air Sensor Technologies and Applications X, vol. 6963,
2008, Orlando, Florida, CD. 11 pages.
M. Yeasin, D.J. Russomanno, M. S. Sorower, M.E. Smith and J.S. Shaik. Robust Classification of
Objects using a Sparse Detector Sensors. 2008 International Conference on Machine Learning;
Models, Technologies and Applications (MLMTA'08), July 14-17, 2008, Monte Carlo Resort, Las
Vegas, Nevada, USA.
M. E. Hoque, M. S. Sorower, M. Yeasin, M. M Louwerse. What Speech Tells Us About Discourse:
The Role of Prosodic and Discourse Features in Dialogue Act Classification. 2007 International Joint
Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Aug 12-17, 2007, Orlando, Florida, USA.
Mohammad S. Sorower, Mohammed Yeasin. Robust Classification of Dialog Acts from the
Transcription of Utterances. First IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC),
Sept 17-19, 2007, Irvine, California, USA.
SELECTED DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE
◊ Reconstruction of video (facial expressions) in sync with audio for Videophone, using Java.
◊ Search Engine with common features for www.memphis.edu domain using Perl and Perl CGI.
◊ Content-based music retrieval system using Perl and Perl CGI.
COMPUTER EXPERTISE
◊ Programming Language: C, C++, C#, VB, JAVA, Matlab, Prolog
◊ Scripting Language: Shell Script, Perl, Expect, Python, JavaScript, PHP, HTML
◊ Tools and Technology: OpenCV, .NET, OpenGL, UML
◊ RDBMS: Oracle 8i, PL/SQL, MS SQL, MySQL
RELATED COURSEWORKS
Graduate
Artificial/Computational Intelligence
Data Mining, Neural Networks
Machine Learning, NLP/IR
Undergraduate
Algorithms/Data Structures, Databases
Software Development/Engineering
Calculus, Linear Algebra/Numerical Methods
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
◊ Intermediate System Administration for Solaris 9 Operating Environment, SA239.
◊ Advanced System Administration for Solaris 9 Operating Environment, SA299.
◊ Cisco Secured PIX Firewall Advanced, CSPFA.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
◊ Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (2014-2015),
Public Library of Science (PLOS) One (2014-2015).
HONORS
◊ Herff Fellowship, Herff College of Engineering, The University of Memphis, 2008.
◊ Undergraduate Honors, University Grant Commission (UGC), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2003.
◊ Merit Scholarship, BUET, 2001-2002.
REFERENCES
Available upon request