Syed Billah
Assistant Professor at Penn State University
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolSyed Billah is an assistant professor and HCI-focused computer scientist at Penn State with 11 years of experience designing intelligent interactive systems and assistive technologies. His research bridges low-level OS accessibility, custom input/output devices, and AI for accessibility, producing prototypes such as Sinter, AGTex, WiY, and DarkReader to improve non-visual interaction for people with vision impairments. Trained with a PhD from Stony Brook and prior industry experience at Red Hat and telecom R&D, he combines systems-level engineering (e.g., Ceph QoS work) with user-centered design. Based in Bethlehem, PA, he is notable for integrating accessibility into platform layers rather than only at the application level, enabling broader, lower-power solutions for assistive use.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of ArkansasBachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering at Bangladesh University of Engineering and TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Stony Brook University
English, Bengali
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
smbillah/ist526
Apr 2021 - May 2023
Contributions:91 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 1 month
smbillah/CSrankings
Sep 2023 - Sep 2023
A web app for ranking computer science departments according to their research output in selective venues, and for finding active faculty across a wide range of areas.
Contributions:14 PRs, 17 pushes, 6 branches in 2 days
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