Areas of Interest
Wireless Sensor Networks, Cyber Physical Systems, Data Mining.
Education
Graduate Student August 2008 - Present
- Department of Computer Science
- University of Virginia
- Advisor: Prof. John A. Stankovic.
MS in Computer Science May 2010
- Department of Computer Science
- University of Virginia
- Overall GPA: 3.945/4.0
BSc in Computer Science & Engineering May 2007
- Department of Computer Science & Engineering
- Bangladesh University of Engineering & Techlonogy
- Overall GPA: 3.90/4.0
Graduate Courses
Computer Networks, Software Engineering, Operating Systems, Statistics for Engineers and Scientists, Theory of Computation, Computer Architecture, Cyber Physical Systems.
Work Experience
Research Assistant Janunary 2010 - Present
- Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia
- Involved in modeling, simulation and implementation of a reliable data transmission protocol for real-time applications in WSN under Prof. John A. Stankovic.
Software Engineering Intern Sept 2010 - Dec 2010
- AdSense back-end infrastructure team, Google Inc.
- Involved in design and implementation of a server that shows how configuration parameters of some other servers are changed over time under Bryce Liu. It is used as an internal tool for error diagnosis.
Research Assistant Janunary 2009 - August 2010
- Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia
- Involved in modeling, simulation and implementation of a reliable data transmission protocol for real-time applications in WSN under Prof. John A. Stankovic.
Teaching Assistant August 2008 - December 2008
- Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia
- Courses: Algorithms, Computer Architecture.
Software Engineer June 2007 - July 2008
- Structured Data Systems Limited (A branch of AfriGIS at Dhaka)
- Lead programmer in “Intiendo Atlas Generator”, a desktop application for generating map-book.
- Implemented several functionalities in “Intiendo Mapserver”, a full fledged multithreaded GIS server that generates map images dynamically based on user request.
Skills
- Languages: C/C++, Java, C#, Python, 80x86 Assembly Language, nesC, Prolog.
- Network Programming: TCP/IP Socket Programming, Java Mail API, CommAPI.
- Web Programming: HTML, PHP, ASP.NET, Django.
- Graphics Programming: OpenGL, GDIPlus.
- Database Systems: MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server.
- Tools: MS Visual Studio .NET, KawaPro, JBuilder, PSpice, Matlab.
- Operating Systems: Windows, Variants of Linux, TinyOS.
Course Projects
- An Intelligent Event Notifying System: The system monitors Gmail and Twitter account of a user, and notifies him through SMS at some pre-specified events of interest using Java Mail API, Java Twitter API, SMSLib, and MySQL.
- Mail2Phone: The system fetches mail from mail server and converts those text messages to voice using text to speech engine so that you can hear your emails over land phones, implemented using NetMailShar, FreeTTS, Java Mail API, MySQL, MSI & LSI chips.
- Internet Trading of DSE: Developed for the customers of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) so that they can buy/sell their shares through internet, using ASP.NET, MS SQL Server, IIS.
- Online Hotel Management System: Developed for the management of a hotel where customers can book rooms, give food orders, and pay their bills online, using PHP, Oracle 9i, IIS.
- Implementation of OSI Layers: Implemented Network Layer, Data Link Layer, and physical layer of internet protocol stack, using Java and commAPI.
- iCHAT: Developed a chat client so that people can chat together from different computers, using Java.
Publications
- Chieh-Jan Mike Liang, Jun Tang, Li Zhang, Feng Zhao, Sirajum Munir , and John A. Stankovic. "On Improving Elevator Usage Efficiency by Adapting to Human Behavioral Patterns". In Proc. of the 5th ACM Workshop On Embedded Systems For Energy-Efficient Buildings (BuildSys '13). Rome, Italy, November 13-14, 2013
- Sirajum Munir , John A. Stankovic, Chieh-Jan Mike Liang, and Shan Lin. "Reducing Energy Waste for Computers by Human-in-the-Loop Control". To appear in IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC), 2013.
- Sirajum Munir, John Stankovic, Chien-Jan Mike Liang, and Shan Lin. "Cyber Physical System Challenges for Human-in-the-Loop Control". In Proc. of the 8th International Workshop on Feedback Computing, in conjunction with USENIX, San Jose, California, June, 2013.
- Sirajum Munir, Shan Lin, Enamul Hoque, S. M. Shahriar Nirjon, John Stankovic, and Kamin Whitehouse. "Addressing Burstiness for Reliable Communication and Latency Bound Generation in Wireless Sensor Networks". In Proc. of the 9th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN '10). Stockholm, Sweden, April 12-16, 2010. [pdf] [ppt]
(Acceptance Rate: 17%)- Gourab Kundu, Md. Monirul Islam, Sirajum Munir, Md. Faizul Bari, “ACN: An Associative Classifier with Negative Rules”, In Proc. of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, São Paulo, Brazil, July 16-18, 2008. [pdf]
- Gourab Kundu, Sirajum Munir, Md. Faizul Bari, Md. Monirul Islam, and K. Murase, "A Novel Algorithm for Associative Classification", In Proc. of the 14th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, Kitakyushu, Japan, November 13-16, 2007. [pdf]
- Sirajum Munir, Shan Lin, Enamul Hoque, S. M. Shahriar Nirjon, John Stankovic, and Kamin Whitehouse. "Addressing Burstiness for Reliable Communication and Latency Bound Generation in Wireless Sensor Networks". In Proc. of the 9th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN '10). Stockholm, Sweden, April 12-16, 2010. [pdf] [ppt]
Awards
- Full Tuition Scholarship: University of Virginia, Graduate Studies Program (2008 - Present).
- Cyber Physical Systems Summer School Scholarship: Georgia Institute of Technology (June 23-25, 2010)
- University Merit Scholarship: Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (2002-2007).
- Dean’s List Award: Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (2002-2007).
- Dhaka Board Scholarship: For excellence in HSC examination (2002-2007).
- 4th in ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, Asia Regional, Dhaka site (2005).
- 7th in National Computer Programming Contest (2003).
- 6th in Inter University Programming Contest (2003).
- 3rd in National Computer Programming Contest at college Level (2000).
- Solved 700+ problems and ranked 43 in University de Valladolid 24 hour judge world ranking.
References
Available upon request.