I joined North South University in Summer 2018 as a Full-time faculty of Computer Science in Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE). After graduating with a B.Sc in CSE from Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET) in 2011 – I spent nearly 10 years in Academia & Industry in various roles spanning from Software Engineer to Teaching/Research Assistant & Faculty. Currently I am on leave from NSU to pursue a Ph.D in Computer Science at University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. More info about my current research group can be found here.

Before joining as a Computer Science faculty in NSU – I worked in various software engineering roles in Mobile Devices (Samsung Electronics, Dhaka, Bangladesh) and Electronic Design Automation (Keysight Technologies , Santa Rosa, CA, USA) industry.

I also spent time as a graduate research assistant working in Mobile Interaction / HCI area in Ruiz Lab under supervision of Dr. Jaime Ruiz while pursuing my masters at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO USA. As a Graduate Research Assistant in Ruiz Lab (Currently in University of Florida, Gainsville) – I published & presented first author conference papers at CHI 2016 (San Jose, CA) and MobileHCI 2015 (Copenhagen, Denmark). At CSU, I also worked as a teaching assistant in Computer Science Department from Fall 2014 to Spring 2015 teaching Computer Organizations (Dr. Chris Wilcox, Jack Applin) and Java (Dr. Asa-Ben Hur, Dr. Charles Anderson).

I am well experienced in Agile SCRUM/XP/Kanban, Incremental / RAD / V-model Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Version Controlling, Software Project Management / Bug tracking / Quality Assurance process, and well-acquainted with Continuous Integration / Deployment (CI/CD) & build automation process. As a software engineer – I received best employee award at SRBD for Software Development work on Samsung Rex 70 Middle East Asia (MEA) release in 2013.

If you are thinking about approaching me for a Letter of Recommendation (LOR) for graduate school or professional reference, please read this guideline.

I can be reached via the following emails outside of NSU:

• skshimon[at]alumni[dot]colostate[dot]edu
• ssarefin[at]uwaterloo[dot]ca

• Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
• Software Engineering
• Mobile, Wireless and Web Applications Development

If you are interested in working with me, send me an email at <shaikh[dot]shimon[at]northsouth[dot]edu> .
Please read the guideline for communicating with me as a current NSU student.

Note: A great way to understand if a faculty is a good fit for working with on research is to do a course under him.

If you already have done a course under him/her,  you are well aware of the faculty’s supervision style and the faculty is well aware of your potential as a hard worker.

• CSE 498/EEE 498/ETE 498 Internship/Co-op/Directed Research
• CSE 486 Mobile and Wireless Application Development
• CSE 427 Software Quality Assurances & Testing
• CSE 373 Design and Analysis of Algorithms
• CSE 332 Computer Organization and Architecture
• CSE 299 Junior Design Course
• CSE 225 Data Structures and Algorithms
• CSE 225L Data Structures and Algorithms Lab
• CSE 215 Programming Language II
• CSE 215L Programming Language II Lab
• CSE499A/EEE499A/ETE499A – Senior Design I
• CSE499B/EEE499B/ETE499B – Senior Design II

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