Bushra Ferdousi

Degree Institution: Purdue University
Degree: Ph.D. in Technology

Dr. Bushra Ferdousi is a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Machine Learning at UNC Charlotte’s College of Computing and Informatics. She earned her Ph.D. in Technology with a specialization in Computer Graphics Technology from Purdue University. Her academic and research interests include computer graphics, visualization, pattern formation, nature-inspired computing, and machine learning. Her research explores computational approaches to generating and understanding complex patterns, with a particular interest in nature-inspired computational models. She is also interested in exploring how machine learning techniques can be applied to computational pattern formation and visual computing.

Dr. Ferdousi has teaching experience in database systems, Python programming, data visualization, and software development. She is also involved in undergraduate research mentoring, guiding students in research methodology, computational modeling, machine learning, experimentation, visualization, and research communication.

Beyond academia, Dr. Ferdousi is also a comic artist and illustrator, with several of her comics published in Bangladesh. Her creative interests include comics, caricature, cartooning, and visual storytelling, complementing her academic interests in computer graphics and visualization.