Amit Seal Ami

I am an Assistant Professor at the Bellini College of AI, Cybersecurity and Computing, at University of South Florida, a AAU-ranked, R1 university, where I lead the Systematic sEcurity anAlysis and evaLuation (SEAL) research lab.

📖 Background

I completed my Ph. D. at the Computer Science Department, William & Mary, Co-advised by Dr. Adwait Nadkarni and Dr. Denys Poshyvanyk. I researched on Security and Software as part of the SPL and SEMERU research groups. I used to teach at Institute of Information Technology, the pioneering software engineering Institute of Bangladesh. I have completed both my B.Sc. in IT (Major in Software Engineering) and M.Sc. in Software Engineering from the same Institute in year 2012 and 2014 respectively.

🧑‍🧑‍🧒 Personal

I am married with the lovely Prianka Mandal, who is also a pursuing Ph. D. at the William & Mary, since 2017. I became a father to a beautiful, healthy daughter in 2023. We named her Agnika (Born from Fire) Prisha (God’s Gift).

💼 Career

I started my career by working as a software engineering intern at Southtech Limited (was CMMI level 3 software company then, now CMMI level 5). Later, I joined M&H Informatics Ltd. (An IQVIA company) as a software engineer after graduation. Within a very short time, I was assigned to various projects and was selected to lead the company team at Code Warriors’ Bangladesh - industry level competition. After a while, I was offered a position at Academia, and I switched to become a Lecturer at IIT, University of Dhaka. More career details and publications are available [here] and [here].

💻 Open Source Software

I have a keen interest in new technologies, experimental software engineering and practical possibilities of novel ideas. I sometimes look at pain points of day to day activities (mostly related to software engineering/computing); create simple, open source solutions as pet projects and share it with everyone through GitHub. My pet projects are referred/recognized in websites like OMG! Ubuntu! and by Microsoft MVPs sometimes. Some ideas end up becoming funded experimental software engineering [researches].

🕺 Volunteering

BASIS Code Warriors Competition - Finalist

'Windows 8 Professor' for Microsoft App-a-Thon at North South University

Microsoft Imagine Cup Bangladesh, Finalist and DRIK ICT Innovation Award Winner

Organizer, Mozilla Tri-Event @ University of Dhaka

Priyo-Norton Antivirus Blog Competition Winner, with Sakib Al Hasan, World Famous Cricket Player

With the then Prime Minister of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee as an Youth Delegate from Bangladesh

In USA

I organized Capture the Flag Cybersecurity Competitions, and volunteered as Judge at Hackathons at the William & Mary.

In Bangladesh

I achieved accolades in, organized, and mentored different competitions and workshops, such as Microsoft Imagine Cup Bangladesh, Microsoft App-a-Thon, BASIS Code Warriors’ Bangladesh and BUET System Design and Development Contest. I was recognized as one of the 100 young people to represent Bangladesh as part of Bangladesh Youth Delegates to India program. After becoming a faculty member, I continued by by volunteering as judge and mentor at national level competitions (National Hackathon, EATL Apps Contest, Smart City Hackathon, Tech for Peace Initiative etc.) in Bangladesh, and by giving talks on various topics at other universities. Due to my experiences in both academia and industry, I regularly collaborate with industry and academia at different levels, including helping develop national level policies.

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