Product Manager
Afroza Nowshin
PhD Student · CSE (University of Toledo)
Afroza Nowshin is Product Manager at HaorGrix, working at the intersection of software engineering and research in Human-Computer Interaction, data science, and machine learning. She is a PhD student in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at The University of Toledo and holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science & Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). Her published research includes "Physics-Informed Data Denoising for Enhanced IoT-based Water Quality Monitoring" at IEEE COMPSAC 2025. She has held software engineering roles at BacBon Ltd., ADN Diginet Ltd., and mPower Social Enterprises, building full-stack web applications and data-driven products.
Experience
Senior Software Engineer
Dec 2023 – Jul 2024BacBon Ltd.
- —Built and maintained software products as a senior engineer
Software Engineer
Nov 2022 – Nov 2023ADN Diginet Ltd.
- —Developed and delivered web application features
Volunteer Data Scientist
2023 – 2024Omdena
- —Co-led model development for a mental health solution using an LLM-based DPO approach (Hyderabad chapter)
- —Contributed to Python-based data preprocessing on the Port Harcourt chapter project
Software Engineer (Contract)
Mar 2022 – Oct 2022HOLO Tech Ltd.
- —Front-end developer for an emerging ride-sharing app; built the website in React JS
- —Developed admin and BRTA dashboards with JWT authentication and real-time map tracking via React-Leaflet
Software Engineer
Feb 2020 – Jun 2020mPower Social Enterprises Ltd.
- —Contributed to social-impact software engineering projects
Software Engineer
Mar 2019 – Dec 2019Misfit Technologies
- —Delivered web application features across client products
Publications & Research
- ◦Physics-Informed Data Denoising for Enhanced IoT-based Water Quality Monitoring — IEEE COMPSAC 2025
- ◦Understanding the Perceptions and Practices of the Machine Learning Professionals in Bangladesh — CSCW 2024 (Poster)
- ◦What is H.P. Lovecraft's Cat's Name: Syntactic Censoring in LLM Applications — CHI 2024 Conversational User Interface Workshop
- ◦Return of the Headless King: Panopticon, Surveillance, and Machine Intelligence — CHI 2024 Conversational User Interface Workshop