Faculty

Ridwan Noel

Biography

EDUCATION

Ph. D. in Computer Science, The University of Texas at San Antonio

M.S. in Computer Science, The University of Texas at San Antonio

B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

RESEARCH

Automated Text Analysis Approach for Finding Insights in Conservative Environmentalism
Covid-19 Modeling and Infection Estimation
Improving Cloud Storage Performance with Machine Learning Based Adaptive
Resource Management
Taming Performance Hot-spots In Multi-tenant Cloud Object Storage
Towards Efficient MapReduce Computation in Ceph

FACULTY-STUDENT COLLABORATION

Collaborative summer research, 2022: “Fake news detection using Machine Learning Approaches” with Ty Edwards (supported by TLU VPAA grant)
Collaborative summer research, 2021: “Investigation of Machine Learning algorithms in predicting stock market behavior” with John Person and Ty Edwards (supported by TLU VPAA grant)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

PUBLICATIONS

“Conservative Environmentalism? An automated text analysis of the National Review from 2010-2020” - Daniel Braaten, Albert Chiu, and Ridwan Rashid Noel, published in MPSA2021 (The 78th Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference (MPSA))
“Towards Self-Managing Cloud Storage with Reinforcement Learning.” – Ridwan Rashid Noel, Rohit Mehra, and Palden Lama, published in IC2E2019 (The 7th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E))
“Taming Performance Hotspots in Cloud Storage with Dynamic Load Redistribution” Ridwan Rashid Noel and Palden Lama, published in CLOUD2017 (The 10th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD)), (Best Paper Award)
“A Novel Approach for Constructing Emulator for Microsoft Kinect XBOX 360Sensor in the .NET Platform” - Raihanul Islam, Sazzadur Rahaman, Rakibul Hasan, Ridwan Rashid Noel, Asif Salekin, and Hasan Shahid Ferdous, published in ISMS2013 (The 4th International Conference on Intelligent Systems, Modeling, and Simulation)