Amit Sarker
Graduate Research Assistant
Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolAmit Sarker is a Graduate Research Assistant at UMass Amherst pursuing an MS/PhD in Computer Science with an 8-year background spanning research and industry, focused on the intersection of differential privacy, data visualization, and HCI. He designs visual data-exploration platforms for DP-protected data and studies fairness implications to ensure privacy mechanisms do not introduce bias in decision-making. Amit combines rigorous academic training (3.93 GPA) with practical experience from roles in multi-agent optimization research and software QA, enabling him to bridge theory and production-ready tools. He has taught introductory programming, emphasizing clear communication of technical concepts, and values collaborative problem-solving as a core part of his approach. Outside core research, Amit’s work reveals a pattern of applying optimization and systems thinking to make complex algorithms more interpretable for end users.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Higher Secondary, Science, Higher Secondary, Science at DRMC - Dhaka Residential Model CollegeMS/PhD, Computer Science, 3.93 / 4.00 (ongoing), MS/PhD, Computer Science, 3.93 / 4.00 (ongoing) at University of Massachusetts AmherstBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Engineering, 3.77 / 4.00, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Engineering, 3.77 / 4.00 at University of DhakaGithub contributions (5)
amit-sarker/cdcop_aamas2021
May 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:12 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
amit-sarker/amit-sarker.github.io
Oct 2020 - Apr 2024
Contributions:188 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
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