Amit Sarker

I am a 4th-year PhD candidate at the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences, UMass Amherst. My research centers on data privacy and fairness in decision-making, with a focus on how we can protect sensitive information while ensuring equitable outcomes. I am especially interested in designing visual data exploration tools that make Differentially Private data more accessible and in studying the fairness trade-offs that come with Differential Privacy algorithms. I am advised by Prof. Narges Mahyar and Prof. Ali Sarvghad in the HCI-VIS Lab at UMass.

Before starting my PhD, I worked as a research assistant at the Cognitive Agents and Interaction Lab (CAIL). My work there focused on solving real-world challenges in multi-agent coordination, optimization, and planning. In particular, I developed and applied local search and particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithms to solve Continuous Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems (C-DCOPs) in multi-agent systems. I received my bachelor's degree from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Dhaka (Dhaka, Bangladesh) advised by Prof. Md Mosaddek Khan.

My current research interests are:

• Differential Privacy & Fairness
• Data Visualization
• Natural Language Processing
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Multi-Agent Systems