Alif Al Hasan CS PhD Student @ CWRU

Academic


Education

Ph.D. | Computer Science

Case Western Reserve University

Aug, 2025 – Ongoing

M.Sc. | Computer Science and Engineering

Jahangirnagar University

Jul, 2023 – Dec, 2024

B.Sc. | Computer Science and Engineering

Jahangirnagar University

Feb, 2018 – Jun, 2023

Research Experience

Graduate Research Assistant

Responsible Software and AI Design Lab

Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, USA

Aug, 2025 – Present

Supervisor: Dr. Sumon Biswas

  • Characterized operational safety failures in agentic code assistants, uncovering key vulnerabilities in automated program synthesis.
  • Benchmarked state-of-the-art LLMs against new testing frameworks to expose reliability gaps in AI-driven software engineering.
  • Authored and published manuscripts to top-tier software engineering conferences, including ASE 2026.
Remote Research Assistant

Lens for Empirical Navigation in Software Lab

Missouri University of Science and Technology, Missouri, USA

May, 2024 – Jul, 2025

Supervisor: Dr. Mia Mohammad Imran

  • Modeled novice programmer emotions from 1,500 posts using Llama-3.1-70B, proposing five affect-aware support bots.
  • Developed an AI-guided refactoring framework benchmarked on MBPP and APPS, reducing refactoring failures by 54–71% and improving novice function identification by 31.3%.
  • Co-authored two peer-reviewed papers (ICSE-SEET '26, EASE '26) and a workshop paper at LLanMER, co-located with FSE '25.
Research Assistant

Data Mining and Information Retrieval Systems Lab

Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Nov, 2023 – Jul, 2024

Supervisor: Dr. Md. Musfique Anwar

  • Engineered a Graph-Enhanced Transformer (SEAGET) integrating seasonal and operational time data for Point-of-Interest recommendation.
  • Outperformed state-of-the-art baseline algorithms with a 13.7% improvement in Acc@1.
  • Co-authored a Q1 journal article published in Array (IF: 4.5, CiteScore: 10.3).

Academic Experience

Graduate Teaching Assistant

CSDS 393/493: Software Engineering

Case Western Reserve University

Jan, 2026 – May, 2026 (Spring 2026)

  • Mentored student teams of 75 through live project architectures and the full software development lifecycle, providing weekly debugging support.
Graduate Teaching Assistant

CSDS 325/425: Computer Networks

Case Western Reserve University

Aug, 2025 – Dec, 2025 (Fall 2025)

  • Directed network simulation projects and mentored 65 undergraduate and graduate students on core networking and routing concepts.
Teaching Assistant

Data Structures and Algorithms

Computer Science and Engineering

Jahangirnagar University

Dec, 2021 – Apr, 2024

  • Led algorithmic training for 50 students and coached competitive programming teams for national-level contests.
Competitive Programming Mentor

Data Structures and Algorithms

Computer Science and Engineering

Netrokona University

Aug, 2023 – Dec, 2023

  • Designed a weekly ICPC/IUPC-focused algorithmic curriculum and delivered code reviews for 30 students.