Summary
Shakila T is a CERC Post-doctoral Research Fellow and PhD candidate in Computing with eight years’ experience applying NLP, ML and deep learning to real-world problems. She earned an MRes with High Distinction for work in privacy-preserving machine learning and has blended academic research with industry-facing roles—from Telstra Health analytics to data science training and a research consultancy at Illinois Tech on poison/backdoor detection for NLP. Skilled across transformers (BERT, RoBERTa), PyTorch/TensorFlow, classical ML toolkits and data visualization, she brings both software engineering breadth (C#, C++, SQL) and rigorous experimental methods. As a tutor and lecturer she has taught machine learning, Python and software engineering, sharpening her ability to communicate complex ideas clearly. Her trajectory shows a practical researcher who translates adversarial-robustness and privacy concepts into implemented systems and proofs-of-concept. Based in Australia, she combines deep academic credentials with hands-on implementation experience that accelerates applied NLP projects.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computing, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computing at Macquarie University
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science and Engineering, 3.75, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science and Engineering, 3.75 at Jahangirnagar University
English, Bengali