Towhidul Chowdhury
Data Scientist II
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTowhidul Chowdhury is a Data Scientist II and PhD candidate with 11 years of software engineering experience, blending production-grade architecture skills with applied ML research in urban analytics. He has a strong full‑stack background—shipping low‑latency web components and cloud deployments at startups and enterprises—while also building ML systems that turned 150,000+ social conversations into a community knowledge graph and achieved F1 scores up to 94% for needs detection. At RIT he advanced novel sentiment mining and LLM-driven approaches for hyperlocal data, and earlier work improved automatic program repair success rates and real‑time speech transcription systems. Now based in Bellevue and working at Microsoft, he focuses on NLP for social good and automated decision systems that support urban planning and policy. An organizer at heart, he founded RIT’s Bangladesh Cultural Society, reflecting his habit of creating impact beyond code.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computing and Information Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computing and Information Sciences at Rochester Institute of TechnologyGCE Advanced Levels, Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics, GCE Advanced Levels, Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics at Mastermind English Medium School
Bengali, English
Github Skills (10)
debug10
xdebug10
adapter10
vscode9
vscode-extension9
php9
visual-studio8
visual-studio-code5
javascript2
css2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
towhidabsar/react-frontend-dev-portfolio
Sep 2022 - Feb 2024
Easy to adapt and deploy React portfolio inspired with solutions found at GitHub.
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
reactreact-deployjavascriptadaptreactjs
towhidabsar/Nextdoor-Script
Aug 2022 - Feb 2024
Scrapes post and comments data from Nextdoor website
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 year 5 months
pythonscrapyscrapespostsscraper
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