Ariful Azad

I am a PhD student in the department of Computer Science at Purdue University. I am working with Prof. Alex Pothen on Bioinformatics and parallel graph algorithms. I did my Bachelors in Computer Science and Engg. in the department of CSE at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET).

I grew up in Ullapara, Sirajganj, a beautiful rural area in the northern part of Bangladesh.

High Content flow cytometry: I am working on high contenct flow cytometry data. The goal is to match cell populations across samples to identify the presence (or absence) of different cell types. With many samples from few classes we classify them with templates and attemp to match meta-clusters (a closely related population from different samples).
Parallel Matching in Bipartite Graph: Large scale graph matching algorithms are difficult to parallelize. We aim to address the issues involving in cardinality matching in bipartite graph on multi-threaded architecture (e.g., Cray XMT and Intel Nehalem) and implementing a scalable parallel algorithm. [with Mahantesh Halappanavar and John Feo at PNNL ]

Multithreaded Algorithms for Maximum Matching in Bipartite Graphs
Ariful Azad, Mahantesh Halappanavar, Sivasankaran Rajamanickam, Sivasankaran Rajamanickam, Arif Khan, and Alex Pothen
Accepted for publication at 26^th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium, Shanghai, China [IPDPS '12]
Matching phosphorylation response patterns of antigen-receptor-stimulated T cells via flow cytometry
Ariful Azad, Saumyadipta Pyne and Alex Pothen
Accepted for publication at BMC Bioinformatics
Computing Maximum Matching in Parallel on Bipartite Graphs: Worth the Effort?
Ariful Azad, Mahantesh Halappanavar, Florin Dobrian, and Alex Pothen
Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures & Algorithms, Seattle, USA [IAAA '11]
Identifying Rare Cell Population in Comparative Flow Cytometry [PDF] [SpringerLink]
Ariful Azad, Johannes Langguth, Youhan Fang, Alan Qi, Alex Pothen
10^th Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics, Liverpool, UK [WABI '10]
Appeared in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2010, Volume 6293/2010, 162-175.
Residual Resampling: Robust Estimators of Error and Fit for Evolutionary Trees and Phylogenomics [PDF][ArXiv]
Peter J Waddell, Ariful Azad
ArXiv , Dec 2009

FlowCAP-II Presentation: flowMatch: A tool to create feature-preserving templates by population matching
Flow Cytometry: Critical Assessment of Population Identification Methods, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland [FlowCAP-II '11]
GLBIO '11 Presentation: Identifying Cross Class Phosphorylation in Comparative Flow Cytometry [PDF]
Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference, Athens, Ohio [GLBIO '11]
WABI '10 Presentation: Identifying Leukemic Cell Populations in Comparative Flow Cytometry [PDF]
10^th Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics, Liverpool, UK [WABI '10]

Research Assistant, Department Of Computer Science, Purdue University [Aug 09 - Current]
Summer Intern, High Performace Computing , Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL), Richland, WA [Summer '10, Summer '11]
Research Assistant, Department of Biological Science, Purdue University [Jan 09 - Aug 09]
Teaching Assistant, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University [Aug 08 - Dec 08]
Member, R&D, Commlink InfoTech Ltd. , Dhaka [Sep 06 - Jun 08]