Mustaqim Nishat

Computer science student, software engineer, researcher, and occasional writer.

I build software, work on research, and write about things I find interesting.

Writing

Things I'm learning, working on, and thinking about.

The first article is on its way.

Research

Where I have worked on open questions.

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Milestones

Selected work, research, and study.

  1. Aug 2023

    Began B.S. in Computer Science

    University of Southern Mississippi

    Expected graduation May 2027. GPA 3.74/4.0.

  2. 2024 to 2025

    General Secretary

    Bangladeshi Student Association, USM

    Later elected President, a role I hold from Spring 2026.

  3. Jan to May 2026

    Developer, Apple Development Lab

    University of Southern Mississippi

    Led a 3-person team building native iOS apps in Swift and SwiftUI.

  4. Apr 2026

    Presented a poster at the Undergraduate Research Symposium

    University of Southern Mississippi

    Event-triggered acoustic monitoring for TinyML. I led the three-person project.

  5. Spring to Summer 2026

    MDA AI Helpdesk selected at the statewide AI showcase

    Mississippi AI Innovation Hub

    A retrieval-augmented helpdesk prototype built with a team of three. It was a prototype and was not deployed.

  6. Jun to Jul 2026

    CRA UR2PhD research training

    Computing Research Association

    Studied the security and privacy of EEG brain-signal decoding under Dr. Nick Rahimi.

  7. Fall 2026

    Research Assistant, SPEN Lab

    University of Southern Mississippi

    Continuing EEG security research with Dr. Ahmed Sherif.

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Projects

An archive of things I have built.

  • 2026

    TruStory

    A proof of concept for the Mississippi Department of Public Safety that cross-checks recorded interrogation statements for contradictions, with every flag traceable to its source statement, speaker, and timestamp.

    Python · FastAPI · Whisper · pyannote.audio · Docker · AWS
  • 2026

    MDA AI Helpdesk Assistant

    A retrieval-augmented IT helpdesk prototype for the Mississippi Development Authority, built with the Mississippi AI Innovation Hub and selected at the statewide AI showcase. It was a prototype and was not deployed.

    Python · FastAPI · AWS Bedrock · OpenSearch Serverless · Docker
  • 2025 to 2026

    Event-Triggered Acoustic Monitoring

    A simulation framework that compares event-triggered recording policies for acoustic monitoring under embedded memory and power limits. Presented as a poster at the USM Undergraduate Research Symposium.

    Python · scikit-learn · librosa · NumPy · SciPy
  • 2026

    IoT Network Intrusion Detection

    Five machine-learning classifiers trained on CICIoT2023 (508K instances, 34 attack types), with SHAP feature attribution and noise-robustness tests.

    Python · scikit-learn · XGBoost · LightGBM · SHAP
  • 2025

    SynchroBeats

    A cross-platform app that keeps music playback in sync across devices over WebSockets, using timestamp-based drift correction.

    React Native · Expo · Node.js · Socket.io · SQLite
  • 2025

    Book Reader

    A native iOS reading app for EPUB, PDF, and TXT with AI-generated chapter summaries, highlights, bookmarks, collections, and reading stats.

    Swift · SwiftUI · iOS

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