Md Fahim Sikder

Ph.D. Student

Linköping University

Biography

Md Fahim Sikder is a Ph.D. student who works on Explainable Synthetic Time-Series Data Generation with Privacy and Fairness under the supervision of Professor Fredrik Heintz at Reasoning and Learning (ReaL) Lab, IDA, Linköping University, Sweden. Fahim was a Lecturer in the Computer Science and Engineering department at the Institute of Science, Trade, and Technology (ISTT). In addition, he was the Coordinator of the HEAP Programming Club, ISTT, and Coach of the ACM ICPC team in ISTT.

His research interests include Deep Learning, Generative Models, Time-Series Generation, Data Privacy.

Md Fahim Sikder conducted several workshops and seminars, including a Workshop on Latex and a Week-long training course on Python (Beginning to Advance including Machine Learning). He participated in several National and International Contests. He achieved many titles, including “Champion at International Contest on Programming and System Development (ICPSD), 2014”, and “Champion at NASA SPACE APPS CHALLENGE 2016” in Rajshahi Region, Bangladesh.

Interests

Deep Learning
Generative Models
Time-Series Generation
Data Privacy
Data Fairness
Explainable AI (XAI)
Robotics

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Ongoing

Linköping University, Sweden
MSc in Computer Science, 2018

Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh
BSc (Engineering) in Computer Science & Engineering, 2016

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science & Technology University, Bangladesh
Higher Secondary Certificate, 2012

Khilgaon Government High School, Bangladesh
Secondary School Certificate, 2010

Khilgaon Government High School, Bangladesh

Experience

Ph.D. Student

Linköping University

Apr 2020 – Present Linköping, Sweden

Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA)

Responsibilities include:

Research
Supervising Master’s Thesis Students
Conducting Labs

Lecturer

Institute of Science Trade & Technology (ISTT)

Jul 2017 – Feb 2020 Dhaka, Bangladesh

Department of Computer Science & Engineering (CSE)

Responsibilities include:

Conducting Class & Labs
Research
Supervising Research Students

Accomplishments

Convolutional Neural Networks in TensorFlow

Coursera Dec 2019

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Convolutional Neural Networks

Coursera Jun 2019

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Sequence Models

Coursera May 2019

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Improving Deep Neural Networks - Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization

Coursera Apr 2019

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Featured Publications

Md Fahim Sikder

December, 2018 In IJCCI

Bangla Handwritten Digit Recognition & Generation

Handwritten digit or numeral recognition is one of the classical issues in the area of pattern recognition and has seen tremendous advancement because of the recent wide availability of computing resources. Plentiful works have already done on English, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese handwritten script. Some work on Bangla also have been done but there is space for development. From that angle, in this paper, an architecture has been implemented which achieved the validation accuracy of 99.44% on BHAND dataset and outperforms Alexnet and Inception V3 architecture. Beside digit recognition, digit generation is another field which has recently caught the attention of the researchers though not many works have been done in this field especially on Bangla. In this paper, a Semi-Supervised Generative Adversarial Network or SGAN has been applied to generate Bangla handwritten numerals and it successfully generated Bangla digits.

Recent Publications

Resmi Ramachandranpillai, Md Fahim Sikder, Fredrik Heintz (2023). Fair Latent Deep Generative Models (FLDGM) for Syntax-agnostic and Fair Synthetic Data Generation. Work in Progress.

Poster

Md Fahim Sikder, Fredrik Heintz (2023). TransFusion: Generating Long, High Fidelity Time Series using Diffusion Models with Transformer. Work in Progress.

Poster

Md Fahim Sikder, David Bergström, Resmi Ramachandranpillai, Fredrik Heintz (2023). Synthesizing Longer and Higher-Fidelity Time-Series Data Using Generative Adversarial Networks. Work in Progress.

Resmi Ramachandranpillai, Md Fahim Sikder, David Bergström, Fredrik Heintz (2023). Bias Transforming Generative Adversarial Networks (Bt-GAN). Work in Progress.

Md Fahim Sikder (2022). Sequential Ice Hockey Events Generation using Generative Adversarial Network. Student Project Competition, LINHAC 2022.

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Recent Posts

Installing Texlive Latest Version (Texlive-2021) on Ubuntu-20.04/18.04

Hello there! In this tutorial, we will learn how to install the latest version of texlive in the ubuntu system! Generally, Ubuntu 20.04 / 18.04 only install Texlive-version-2019 from the local repository!

Md Fahim Sikder

Oct 1, 2021 3 min read Tutorial, Blog Post

Installing Docker, Creating & Running First Python Script Using it on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

I always get in trouble when creating a new project with different dependencies installed on my machine. I had to reinstall new libraries, which is doing a new thing repeatedly, and it’s time-consuming.

Md Fahim Sikder

Dec 26, 2020 5 min read Tutorial, Blog Post

How to Install R and two most popular R packages (tidyverse & rstan) in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

This tutorial will show you how to install R in ubuntu 20.04 LTS version and the procedure of installing popular R packages tidyverse and rstan.

Md Fahim Sikder

Sep 6, 2020 3 min read Tutorial, Blog Post

How to Install R and two most popular R packages (tidyverse & rstan) in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Julia Tutorial Part 2: Data Structures

Data Structures In this tutorial, we will see Julia's data structure. Namely, Tuple, Array, Dictionary, and Set Tuple Lets first discuss about Tuple. Tuple and Array can hold a list of elements.

Md Fahim Sikder

Jul 30, 2020 8 min read Tutorial, Julia Tutorial

Julia Tutorial Part 1: Installations & Basics

Introduction, Installations, and Basics Julia is a open source programming language. It was designed from the beginning for high performance. Julia programs compile to efficient native code for multiple platforms via LLVM.

Md Fahim Sikder

Jul 8, 2020 4 min read Tutorial, Julia Tutorial

Julia Tutorial Part 1: Installations & Basics

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Achievements

Finalist, Student Project Competition, Linköping Hockey Analytics Conference (LINHAC) 2022, 2022
NVIDIA GPU Grant, NVIDIA, 2018
Champion, NASA Space Apps Challenge 2016, Rajshahi Region, Bangladesh, 2016
Best Young Inventor, Digital Innovation Fair 2016, 2016
Champion, Project Showcasing(Mobile Apps), CSE IT Carnival 2015, BSMRSTU, 2015
Champion, International Contest on Programming & System Development (ICPSD) 2014, System Development Section, 2014