Summary
Sarker Asish is an Assistant Professor and researcher with a decade of software engineering experience, currently building VR-based classroom systems that detect and mitigate student distraction using physiological sensors and machine learning. He combines academic rigor—PhD work and a dissertation fellowship on detecting distracted students—with practical product experience leading Android app teams at Samsung R&D, Save the Children, and startups. As a long-time TA and instructor, he teaches algorithms, big data analytics, operating systems, neural networks, and VR, bridging theory and hands-on systems development. His background in low-level Android OS work and shipping device-level features informs his research-driven approach to real-time sensing and interaction in immersive environments. Based in Lakeland, Florida, he brings a rare mix of classroom impact, publication-focused research, and production mobile engineering leadership.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.54 out of 4, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.54 out of 4 at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 3.66, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 3.66 at University of Louisiana at Lafayette