Humayun Kayesh, PhD

AI/ML, NLP, Data Science / Software Engineer / Commonwealth Scholar

Education

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), 2018 – 2022

Griffith University, Australia

  • Thesis Topic: Deep Learning for Causal Discovery in Texts
  • Research Area: Causality Detection, Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Discovery, Machine Learning, Text Mining, Data Science

MSc in Advanced Computer Science and IT Management, 2016 – 2017

The University of Manchester, UK

  • Thesis Topic: Mining Patient Experience in Free-Text Data
  • GPA: 78.0% (Passed with Distinction)

Bachelor of Information Technology, 2009 – 2013

University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

  • Major: Software Engineering
  • CGPA: 3.82 (out of 4.00)

Work Experience

Research Assistant, Part-time, (Jun 2021 - Present)

HealthcareLogic Pty Ltd., Gold Coast

Responsibilities

  • Designed and developed a machine learning model for hospital length of stay prediction
  • Improved the accuracy of the existing LoS prediction model by more than 20%
  • Developed a patient arrival rate prediction model for hospitals

AI Research Engineer, Contrat, (Sep 2018 - Apr 2019)

DeepCognito Ltd., Manchester, UK

Responsibilities

  • Extracted topics and associate sentiments from patient feedback comments
  • Applied data loading, preprocessing, segmentation, and topic modeling on patient opinion data
  • Completed an ML model to detect sentiment in news articles

Software Engineer (Dec 2015 - Aug 2016)

Jaxara IT Limited, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Responsibilities

  • Transformed client requirements into requirement specification
  • Designed and setup system architecture by following standard practices
  • Applied tools such as Drupal, Jira, and Git for implementation and documentation

Software Engineer (Apr 2015 - Nov 2015)

Four D Communications Ltd., Dhaka, Bangladesh

Responsibilities

  • Developed a hybrid mobile app using the Ionic framework, Cordova, and AngularJS
  • Monitored and fixed issues in a customer relationship management (CRM)
  • Managed software development life cycle using Agile Scrum

Software Engineer (Jun 2013 - Mar 2015)

Nascenia IT, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Responsibilities

  • Developed a betting-related PHP web application that requires API integration
  • Optimized the performance of a web application using caching
  • Integrated the social media login API to a web application

Technical skills

Python (data manipulation with numpy and pandas, data mining with keras, scikit-learn, data visualization with matplotlib), TensorFlow (Machine learning model architecture design, deep learning), SQL (Database design and integration), MongoDB (Storing and retrieving large datasets, schema validation), R (Text data mining with dplyr, NLP, tm), C/C++ (desktop applications), PHP (web application development, REST API)

Leadership Roles

  • Founded Dhaka University IT Society (DUITS) and served as an Executive Committee Member from 2012 to 2013
  • Led Griffith University Bangladesh Association, Gold Coast (GUBAGC) as a Secretary from 2019 to 2020
  • Mentored junior software engineers at DeepCognito
  • Tutored a Python programming course at Griffith University

Awards and Scholarships

  • The best paper runner-up award at the ADMA 2019 conference
  • Griffith University PhD Scholarship (2018 - 2022)
  • Commonwealth Scholarship (2016-2017)