Portrait of Shovon Niverd Pereira
PhD Candidate · UT Arlington · Arlington, TX

Shovon Niverd
Pereira

I'm a computer science PhD student researching knowledge distillation and tabular machine learning, advised by Dr. Yu Lei. My work on TabKD was accepted at IJCAI 2026. Before my PhD, I was a Senior Software Engineer at Samsung R&D, building the Samsung Account platform used by hundreds of millions of devices worldwide.

Open to ML research internships, applied scientist roles, and research collaborations. Feel free to reach out.

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3
Publications
3.7
GPA / 4.0
2+
Yrs Industry
4
Courses TA'd
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Citations
Publications
2026
Featured
IJCAI 2026 — 35th Int'l Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
TabKD: Tabular Knowledge Distillation through Interaction Diversity of Learned Feature Bins
Shovon Niverd Pereira, Krishna Khadka, Yu Lei
2021
IJCACI 2021 · Springer
Blockchain-based Digital Record-Keeping in Land Administration System
Shovon Niverd Pereira, N. Tasnim, R. S. Rizon, M. N. Islam
2018
IEEE WIE Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering
Multi-channel Approach Towards Digitizing the Land Management System of Bangladesh
Shovon Niverd Pereira, N. Tasnim, M. S. Rahman, S. N. Tumpa, M. M. Karim, R. S. Rizon, N. S. Khan, R. A. Remon
Experience
Now
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Dept. of CSE, UT Arlington — SERC Research Group · Sep 2022 – Present
  • Deliver lectures and prepare course material for bachelor's and master's students.
  • Courses: OO Software Engineering, Distributed Systems, Machine Learning, Assembly Language.
2024
Graduate Research Assistant
Dean's Office, UT Arlington · Summer 2024
  • Conducted institutional research and collaborated on academic development initiatives.
2022
Senior Software Engineer
Samsung R&D Institute · Feb 2020 – Jul 2022
  • Built Samsung Account — the principal account manager for all Samsung devices globally.
  • Led development of Terms & Conditions, Remote Sign-In, and Profile Status modules.
  • Contributed to a research initiative reducing resource usage on low-end devices.
  • Technologies: Android, Kotlin, REST APIs.
Technical Skills
Languages
Python, Java, Kotlin, C++, JavaScript
ML / Data
PyTorch, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, Pandas, NumPy
Engineering
Android, Git, Docker, REST APIs
Tools
Jupyter, VS Code, IntelliJ IDEA, Android Studio
Awards & Leadership
STEM Graduate Fellowship (Federal)
UT Arlington · 2022–Present
Travel Grant — 13th Summer School on Formal Techniques
SRI International · 2024
Dean's Graduate Research Assistant
UT Arlington · 2024
ICPC Asia Dhaka Regional Qualifier
2018
Inter-Department Debate Champion
MIST · 2019
General Secretary — Bangladesh Student Org. at UTA
2025–2026
Joint Sports Secretary — Bangladesh Student Org. at UTA
2023–2024
President — MIST Computer Club
2019
Contact

Open to ML research internships, applied scientist roles, and research collaborations. Feel free to reach out.

Email
niverdpereira@gmail.com
LinkedIn
shovon-niverd-pereira
GitHub
PereiraMavs
Location
Arlington, Texas