Md Abu Sayed

About Me

Welcome to the personal website of Md Abu Sayed, a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR). His research develops machine learning systems for predictive maritime autonomy, intent recognition in multi-agent systems, and cross-domain AI—spanning simulation (NavySim), threat visualization (ThreatMap), temporal deep learning, generative sequence modeling, and human–robot collaboration. His work is funded by the Office of Naval Research and collaborators include Huntington Ingalls Industries and Flinders University.

Before his Ph.D., Sayed was a Lecturer at The Millennium University, Bangladesh, teaching core and advanced computing courses. He earned his B.S. from Khulna University (thesis on retinal vessel segmentation) and M.S. from UNR (thesis on ThreatMap for naval security awareness).

Beyond academia, he serves as Council Member of the Graduate Student Association (Chair, Awards Committee), was Vice President of the International Students Club (organized Night of All Nations with 600 participants), and is Co-Lead of Google Developer Group Campus (co-organized DevFest Reno).