Shams Imam

I am a graduate student in the Department of Computer Science at Rice University working under Prof. Vivek Sarkar in the Habanero Multicore Software Research Project. My research interests include Parallel Programming Models and Runtime Systems. I have been involved in projects such as Habanero-Java, Habanero-Scala, CnC-Scala, CnC-Python, and CnC-Matlab.

• Integrating Task Parallelism with Actors.  Shams Imam, Vivek Sarkar.  Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA), October 2012.
• CnC-Python: Multicore Programming with High Productivity.  Shams Imam, Vivek Sarkar.  4th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Parallelism (HotPar '12), June 2012.  [accepted as poster with accompanying paper]
• Habanero-Scala: A Hybrid Programming model integrating Fork/Join and Actor models.  Shams Imam.  Master's Thesis, May 2012.
• Habanero-Scala: Async-Finish Programming in Scala.   Shams Imam, Vivek Sarkar.  The Third Scala Workshop (Scala Days 2012), April 2012.
• Interfacing Chapel with Traditional HPC Programming Languages.   Adrian Prantl, Thomas Epperly, Shams Imam, Vivek Sarkar.  PGAS11 Proceedings, October 2011.
• A Lossless Image Compression Technique Using Generic Peano Pattern Mask Tree.  Mohammad Kabir Hossain, Shams Imam, K. Shajadul Hasan, William Perrizo.  ICCIT 2008: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, December 2008.
• Transformations on Images Stored in Peano Mask Trees.  Mohammad Kabir Hossain, Shams Imam, S. M. Rezaul Hoque.  IEEE INMIC 2005: Proceedings of the 9th International Multitopic Conference, December 2005.
• A New Technique for Lossless Image Compression using PPM-Tree.  Shams Imam, S. M. Rezaul Hoque, Mohammad Kabir Hossain, William Perrizo.  ICCIT 2005: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, December 2005.
• Algorithm for Shifting Images Stored in Peano Mask Trees.  S. M. Rezaul Hoque, Shams Imam, Mohammad Kabir Hossain, William Perrizo.  ICCIT 2005: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, December 2005.

• Adding J into the Alphabet Soup.  End of Internship Tech Talk, August 2012.
• CnC-Scala: a Declarative Approach to Multicore Parallelism.  The Third Scala Workshop (Scala Days 2012), April 2012.
• Interfacing Chapel with traditional HPC programming languages.  Graduate Research Seminar, Rice University, September 2011.

• Master of Computer Science + Doctor of Philosophy

  2009 to Current

  Rice University, Houston, TX, USA.
  GPA: 4.00/4.00
  Completed Master's defense in Fall 2011
  
  

• Bachelor of Science

  Summer 2010 and 2011

  North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
  GPA: 3.99/4.00
  Valedictorian - 2006 Convocation
  
  

• Student Intern

  Summer 2012

  Oracle Labs, Redwood City, CA, USA.
  Mentor: Christian Wimmer
  Implemented an AST interpreter for the array programming language, J, using the Truffle framework in the Alphabet Soup project.
  
  

• Student Intern

  Summer 2011 and 2010

  Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA.
  Mentors: Tom Epperly and Adrian Prantl
  Extended support for Chapel into Babel, a language interoperability tool that previously supported C, C++, Fortran 77/90/2003, Python, and Java.
  
  

• Teaching Assistant

  2009 to 2011

  Rice University, Houston, TX, USA.
  Comp 140: Computational Thinking
  Comp 211: Principles of Program Design
  
  

• Teaching Assistant

  2005 to 2006

  North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
  CSC 115: Computing Concepts
  CSC 382: Internet and Web Technology
  MAT 350: Engineering Mathematics
  MAT 361: Probability and Statistics
  
  

• UI Technologist

  2009 to 2011

  Travelocity, Southlake, TX, USA.
  Senior developer and architect for Hotel and Flight landing pages.
  UI Developer for Orion configuration management system for production pages.
  Technology and Tools: J2EE, Groovy-Grails, Spring, jQuery, Maven, Tomcat Server.
  
  

• Software Developer

  2007 to 2008

  Escenic Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh + Oslo, Norway.
  Project Lead and Scrum Master for Dhaka projects, Mentor for junior Dhaka developers.
  Technology and Tools: J2EE, JSP, Struts, Java Swing, iBatis, Maven, Glassfish, Tomcat Server, Oracle Application Server, Scrumworks, Perforce, JIRA.
  
  

• Junior Software Developer

  2006 to 2007

  United IT Global Net, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
  Develop custom web applications.
  Technology and Tools: J2EE, Wicket, JSP, Servlets, Spring, Hibernate, JPA, SWT, Ant, SUSE 9.3, Tomcat 5.5.16, MySQL, Subversion, MS Project, MS Office [Excel, Word, Visio], XPlanner.
  
  

Email:

shams (at) rice (dot) edu

Physical Address:

DH 3063
Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston TX 77005

Mailing Address:

Computer Science - MS # 132
Rice University
P O Box 1892
Houston TX 77251-1892