About
I am a final-year doctoral student in the Department of Computer Science at Texas State University focusing on Eye-Tracking under the supervision of Dr. Oleg Komogortsev. My research revolves around eye tracking, eye-movement biometrics, and signal processing.
Ph.D. Timeline
March 2026
Papers accepted at IEEE TBIOM — on reliability of embedding learned from Deep learning based gaze authentication.
July 2025
Two papers accepted at IJCB 2025 — on temporal-persistence of deep-learning biometrics and ocular authentication fusion.
May 2025
Paper accepted at IEEE Security & Privacy Workshops (SPW) 2025: Eye Movement Biometrics in VR.
March 2025
Short paper accepted at ETRA 2025: Evaluating Eye Tracking Signal Quality with Real-time Gaze Interaction Simulation.
Nov 2024
Successfully defended my dissertation proposal at Texas State University.
Aug 2024
Awarded the TXST Graduate College Scholarship.
Aug 2023
Awarded the TXST Doctoral Retention Scholarship and the CS Research Excellence Award.
Research Interests
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Eye Tracking
Signal quality evaluation, noise characterisation, and filtering of eye-tracking time-series data.
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Biometrics
Eye movement-based authentication, liveness detection.
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Machine Learning
Deep learning for temporal-persistence biometrics.
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Signal Processing
Frequency-domain analysis, digital filtering, and signal-vs-noise separation.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
Jan 2021 – Present
B.S. in Information and Communication Engineering
Bangladesh University of Professionals, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2015 – 2018
Publications
2026
Embedding Reliability as a Predictor of Biometric Performance in Eye-Movement Biometrics
IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science.
2025
From Features to Embeddings: Extending the Temporal-Persistence Principle to Deep-Learning Eye-movement Biometrics
IJCB 2025 · IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics
Ocular Authentication: Fusion of Gaze and Periocular Modalities
IJCB 2025 · IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics
Evaluating Eye Tracking Signal Quality with Real-time Gaze Interaction Simulation: A Study Using an Offline Dataset
ETRA 2025 · ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications
Device-Specific Style Transfer of Eye-Tracking Signals
ETRA 2025 · ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications
Eye Movement Biometrics in Virtual Reality: A Comparison Between VR Headset and High-End Eye-Tracker Collected Dataset
IEEE SPW 2025 · IEEE Security and Privacy Workshops
The Percentile-Matching Technique for Synthetic Eye Tracking Signal Degradation: A Biometric Case Study
PLOS One 2025 · Public Library of Science
2024
Signal vs Noise in Eye-tracking Data: Biometric Implications and Identity Information Across Frequencies
ETRA 2024 · ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications
2023
Determining which sine wave frequencies correspond to signal and which correspond to noise in eye-tracking time-series
JEMR 2023 · Journal of Eye Movement Research
Filtering eye-tracking data from an EyeLink 1000: Comparing heuristic, Savitzky-Golay, IIR and FIR digital filters
JEMR 2023 · Journal of Eye Movement Research
2022
Iris Print Attack Detection using Eye Movement Signals
ETRA 2022 · ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications
2020 – 2021
Mumap: Modified Ultralightweight Mutual Authentication Protocol for RFID Enabled IoT Networks
JIIAE 2021 · Journal of the Institute of Industrial Applications Engineers
Security Analysis and a Potential Layer to Layer Security Solution of Medical Cyber-Physical Systems
IoT in Biomedical and Cyber Physical Systems (Springer, 2020)
Health Informatics: Challenges and Opportunities
Signal Processing for Computational Health Informatics (Springer, 2020)
Awards & Recognition
Graduate College Scholarship
Texas State University · August 2024
Doctoral Retention Scholarship
Texas State University · August 2023
Computer Science Research Excellence Award
Texas State University, Dept. of CS · 2022 & 2023
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🏫 Dept. of Computer Science, Texas State University
📍 San Marcos, TX 78666, USA