Professional Enrollments

Assitant Professor
January 2022 - Present
Gainesville, FL, USA

I will be leading the RoboPI group with the research focus of developing novel and improved robotics systems for autonomous inspection, surveillance, and long-term monitoring applications.

Research Scientist II
June 2021 - November 2021
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

I worked with the CR/RHI3-NA team (led by Dr. Liu Ren) on two research projects that focused on several perception problems for mixed reality and cloud robotics applications.

Past Enrollments

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Dept. of CSE, University of Minnesota

I was involved in preparing and grading assignments of the following courses:
  - Spring 2018: Introduction To Intelligent
    Robotic Systems (CSci 5551), and
  - Fall 2017/16: Introduction to C/C++
    Programming (CSci 1113)
I also held office-hours and conducted occasional lectures on relevant materials

Astnt. Professor & Lecturer

Dept. of CSE, United Int. University
May 2012 - August 2015

Major courses instructed by me:
  - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
  - Structured Programming Language
  - Microprocessors and Microcontrollers
  - Data Communications and Networks
  - Numerical Methods and Applications
  - Electronic Devices and Circuits

Education

List of Publications

Journal Articles

  1. J. Mo, M. J. Islam and J. Sattar. Fast Direct Stereo Visual SLAM. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L*), vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 778-785, 2021, doi: 10.1109/LRA.2021.3133860, 2021.   [code]   *Impact Factor: 3.74
  2. M. J. Islam, J. Mo, and J. Sattar. Robot-to-Robot Relative Pose Estimation using Humans as Markers. Autonomous Robots (AuRO), vol. 45, no. 4, pp. 579–593, 2021, doi: 10.1007/s10514-021-09985-6. [bib]   *Impact Factor: 3.602
  3. M. J. Islam, Y. Xia, and J. Sattar. Fast Underwater Image Enhancement for Improved Visual Perception. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L*), vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 3227-3234, 2020, doi: 10.1109/LRA.2020.2974710.   [code   data   bib]   *Impact Factor: 3.61
  4. M. J. Islam, J. Hong, and J. Sattar. Person Following by Autonomous Robots: A Categorical Overview. International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR*), vol. 38, no. 14, pp. 1581-1618, 2019, doi: 10.1177/0278364919881683. [bib]   *Impact Factor: 6.134
  5. M. J. Islam, M. Fulton, and J. Sattar. Towards a Generic Diver-Following Algorithm: Balancing Robustness and Efficiency in Deep Visual Detection. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 113-120, 2018, doi: 10.1109/LRA.2018.2882856. [code,   bib]   *Presented at the ICRA 2019
  6. M. J. Islam, M. Ho, and J. Sattar. Understanding Human Motion and Gestures for Underwater Human-Robot Collaboration. Journal of Field Robotics (JFR*), 2018, doi: 10.1002/rob.21837. [bib]   *Impact Factor: 4.345
  7. A. B. M. A. A. Islam, M. J. Islam, N. Nurain, and V. Raghunathan. Channel Assignment Techniques for Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks: A Survey. IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (IEEE ComST*), pp. 988-1017, 2016, doi: 10.1109/COMST.2015.2510164. [bib]   *Impact Factor: 22.973

Conference Papers

  1. M. J. Islam, R. Wang, and J. Sattar. SVAM: Saliency-guided Visual Attention Modeling by Autonomous Underwater Robots. Accepted for publication at the Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2022.   [pre-print   [code   data   bib]
  2. J. Mo, M. J. Islam and J. Sattar. IMU-Assisted Learning of Single-View Rolling Shutter Correction. Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2021.   [pre-print   code   data]
  3. M. J. Islam, P. Luo, and J. Sattar. Simultaneous Enhancement and Super-Resolution of Underwater Imagery for Improved Visual Perception. Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2020.   [code   data   bib]
  4. M. J. Islam C. Edge, Y. Xiao, P. Luo, M. Mehtaz, C. Morse, S. S. Enan, and J. Sattar. Semantic Segmentation of Underwater Imagery: Dataset and Benchmark. IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020, Virtual.   [code   data   bib]
  5. M. J. Islam S. S. Enan, P. Luo, and J. Sattar. Underwater Image Super-Resolution using Deep Residual Multipliers. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020, Virtual.   [code   data   bib]
  6. M. J. Islam, M. Ho, and J. Sattar. Dynamic Reconfiguration of Mission Parameters in Underwater Human-Robot Collaboration. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 1-8, 2018, Brisbane, Australia. [code,   bib]
  7. C. Fabbri, M. J. Islam, and J. Sattar. Enhancing Underwater Imagery using Generative Adversarial Networks. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 7159-7165, 2018, Brisbane, Australia. [code,   bib]
  8. M. J. Islam and J. Sattar. Mixed-domain Biological Motion Tracking for Underwater Human-Robot Interaction. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 4457-4464, 2017, Singapore. [bib]
  9. F. Shkurti, W. Chang, P. Henderson, M. J. Islam, J. C. G. Higuera, J. Li, T. Manderson, A. Xu, G. Dudek, and J. Sattar. Underwater Multi-Robot Convoying using Visual Tracking by Detection. IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 4189-4196, 2017, Vancouver, Canada. [bib]

Industry Internship Experiences

2019 Summer Internship, R&D
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Santa Clara, CA, USA

I worked with the Glance team on a low-power computer vision project.

2018 Summer Internship, R&D
Corporate Research Systems Lab, 3M
Maplewood, MN, USA

I worked with the AI group (Orthodontics team) on a couple of exciting projects.

Exposure

On both the internships, I was involved with the design and customization of various computer vision and machine learning modules for real systems. I enjoyed the experience of learning how research work or white-board ideas get transformed into concrete features of actual products.

Skill Sets

Programming Languages

  Python,   C++/C
  Java, MATLAB, Unix Shell

Operating Systems

  Linux (Ubuntu),   Windows

Libraries and Tool-kits

  • OpenCV 3.0
  • TensorFlow (1.11+ and 2.0)
  • Keras 2.2.0+
  • PyTorch 1.5.1
  • ROS: Kinetic and Melodic

Embedded AI devices

  Nvidia Jetson Xavier, TX2, Nano
  Google Coral Edge TPU

Robotic platforms

  AQUA 8, TurtleBot 2, OpenROV

Selected Awards and Achievements

  • Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (DDF) award (2019-20), University of Minnesota. [news]
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  • RAS Travel Grant for participating ICRA 2019 in Montreal, Canada.
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  • IEEE/RSJ Travel Grant for participating IROS 2017 in Vancouver, Canada.
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  • ADC Graduate Fellowship in Wireless and Networking Technology (2015-16), University of Minnesota.
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  • Runner-up (Team: BUET Skull). International Robotics Challenge, IRC Grand Finale, Techfest 2012-13, IIT-Bombay, India.
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  • Champion (Team: BUET Skull). Bangladesh Regional of IRC, 2012-13, IEEE Student Branch, BUET, Bangladesh.

    • Community Work and Extracurriculars

    Int. Conference Reviewer

          - ICRA 2021-16, IROS 2020-16
          - ICCV 2019, ICME 2021

    Journal Referee

          - IEEE RA-L, SPIC (Elsevier)
          - IEEE Signal Processing Letters
          - IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering
          - IEEE Tran. on Industrial Electronics

    I Play Live Cricket

    And I Take Make Photos