Greetings!
I am Kowshika Sarker, a 5th year Ph.D. student in the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the TIMAN group, under the supervision of Prof. ChengXiang Zhai. I focus on designing data-driven solutions for real-world problems, especially for the biomedical domain. I develop computational approaches to analyze omics- and other high-dimensional modalities.
Computational biology, Machine learning, Big data analytics
GCVAE: A graph conditional variational autoencoder for feature dependency guided synthetic metabolomic data generation. ACM-BCB 2025. [DOI]
Kowshika Sarker, ChengXiang Zhai
Integrating Prior Knowledge From Genome-Scale Metabolic Model With Metabolomics for Diet Assessment. IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. 22(4):1347-1357. [DOI]
Kowshika Sarker, Ruoqing Zhu, Hannah D Holscher, ChengXiang Zhai
Kowshika Sarker, Ruoqing Zhu, Hannah D Holscher, ChengXiang Zhai
Augmenting nutritional metabolomics with a genome-scale metabolic model for assessment of diet intake. ACM-BCB 2023. Accepted among top 10% papers. [DOI]
Kowshika Sarker, Ruoqing Zhu, Hannah D Holscher, ChengXiang Zhai
Quintet Rooting: rooting species trees under the multi-species coalescent model. Bioinformatics. 2022;38 (Suppl 1):i109-i117. [DOI]
Yasamin Tabatabaee, Kowshika Sarker, Tandy Warnow
STELAR: A statistically consistent coalescent-based species tree estimation method by maximizing triplet consistency. BMC Genomics. 2020; 21(1):1–13.[DOI]
Mazharul Islam, Kowshika Sarker Trisha Das, Rezwana Reaz, Md. Shamsuzzoha Bayzid
PhD in Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Aug 2021 — Present)
Advisor: Prof. ChengXiang Zhai
MS in Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Aug 2021 — Dec 2024)
Advisor: Prof. ChengXiang Zhai
BSc in Computer Science & Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (Jul 2014 — Oct 2018)
Thesis supervisor: Prof. Md. Shamsuzzoha Bayzid
Software engineer, Samsung R&D Institute, Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Nov 2018 — Dec 2018)
Lecturer, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Jan 2019 — Aug 2021)
CS410: Text Information Systems. Instructor: Prof. Pablo D Robles Granda. (Fall 2025, Spring 2025)
CS410: Text Information Systems. Instructor: Prof. ChengXiang Zhai. (Fall 2024)
CS412: Introduction to Data Mining. Instructor. Prof. Ruby Tahboub. (Spring 2024)
CS412: Introduction to Data Mining. Instructor: Prof. Arindam Banerjee, Â Prof. Ruby Tahboub. (Fall 2023)
CSE420: Computer Graphics. (Spring 2019 — Summer 2021)
CSE411: Software Engineering & Information System Design. (Fall 2020)
CSE325: Operating Systems. (Summer 2019 — Spring 2020)
CSE302: Database Systems. (Spring 2021 — Summer 2021)
CSE225: Numerical Methods. (Spring 2019)
CSE200: Computer Aided Engineering Drawing. (Summer 2020 — Summer 2021)
CSE106: Discrete Mathematics. (Summer 2020 — Fall 2020)
CSE102: Introduction to Computers II. (Spring 2019)