University of Newcastle

Department Member, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

PhD Candidate, Casual Academic

Thesis Title: Large Scale Algorithmics

About

Ahmed Shamsul Arefin is a PhD Candidate at CIBM, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Newcastle, Australia. (http://www.newcastle.edu.au)

He  maintains a programming contest training website ACMSolver (http://www.acmsolver.org/) that he introduced in 2002, as an enthusiastic contestant. The site has been referred by ACM UVa , USU, Polish Online Judge– Sphere and several other university programming contest training pages (e.g., http://www.cs.rice.edu/~greiner/icpc.html) and mentioned in Wikipedia as a ACM-ICPC Training Blog (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACM_International_Collegiate_Programming_Contest#ICPC_Blogs).

His research interests are:  Large Scale Algorithms, Graph Theory, Bioinformatics and Web-based applications.


Curriculum Vitae: http://newcastle-au.academia.edu/AhmedShamsulArefin/CurriculumVitae

Latest Updates:

[1] Papers accepted:

[A] Arefin, A. S., Riveros C., Berretta, R., and Moscato, P. (2012). kNN-Boruvka-GPU: A fast and scalable MST construction from kNN graphs on GPU, submitted to the “12th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2012)” (accepted)
[B]  Arefin, A. S., Riveros C., Berretta, R., and Moscato, P. (2012). kNN-MST-Agglomerative: a fast and scalable graph-based data clustering approach on GPU, submitted to the “The IEEE 7th International Conference on Computer Science & Education (ICCSE 2012)” (accepted)
[C]  Arefin, A. S., Riveros C., Berretta, R.,  and Moscato, P. (2012). Computing large-scale distance matrices on GPU, submitted to the “The IEEE 7th International Conference on Computer Science & Education (ICCSE 2012)” (accepted)

[2] Presented a talk at Australasian Computing Doctoral Consortium (ACDC'12), RMIT University, Melbourne. Monday 30th January 2012 
http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/acdc2012/

[3] Presented a paper at ICA3PP/HardBio 2011, 24 Oct, Melbourne (St. Kilda).
Ahmed Shamsul Arefin, Mario Inostroza-Ponta, Luke Mathieson, Regina Berretta and Pablo Moscato. Clustering Nodes in Large-Scale Biological Networks using External Memory Algorithms, 11th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP), Y. Xiang et al. (Eds.): ICA3PP 2011 Workshops, Part II, LNCS 7017, pp. 375–386, 2011, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011
http://www.springerlink.com/content/g2312418m3252513/

[4] Won the Postgraduate Research Prize (valued 1000$), CSSE Discipline, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, The University of Newcastle, Australia, 2011,  for the work titled "GPU-FS-kNN: A Fast and Scalable kNN Computation Technique using GPU"
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/faculty/engineering/news-and-events/#postgradprize

[5] Received the "Best Presentation Award" in Computer Science and Software Engineering Research Day, The University of Newcastle, Australia, 2011.
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/research-centre/cibm/about-us/news.html

[6] Casual Academic (TA) for COMP2240 (OS) (S2/2011), CSSE, EECS, FEBE, The University of Newcastle, Australia.
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/staff/directory/arefin_ahmedshamsul_940.html

[7] Program committee member, The 1st international workshop on distributed systems: security, privacy and trust challenges. (DS:SPT) in conjunction with The 6th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2011), Abu Dhabi.
http://www.icitst.org/Program%20Committees.html
Call for paper: http://www.icitst.org/DSSPT_%202011%20call%20for%20papers.pdf

[8] Poster presentation, An External Memory Approach for Clustering of Large-Scale Biological Networks, Ahmed Shamsul Arefin, Regina Berretta, Pablo Moscato, The Inaugural Biomarker Discovery Conference (BDC 2010), Shoal Bay, Australia.
http://bdc.mtci.com.au/


Websites:
http://www.acmsolver.org/ [Programming Training Site maintained by Arefin]
http://www.daffodilvarsity.edu.bd/acmsolver/asarefin/ [Old Official Homepage - not updated any more]
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/ [Uni Website]

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