Hi, I'm Paresha Farastu

Software Developer & Technical Product Manager

With a Master's in Computer Science and extensive experience in product management, designing recommender systems with fairness and full-stack software development, I have transformed product visions into actionable roadmaps.

Projects

Check out some of my projects

MyGP Gamification

UX, Product Design, SaaS

Intersectional Fairness

Data Manipulation, Fairness Metrics, Tensorflow

Image Classification of Transmission Lines

CNN, Python, Tensorflow, Satellite Data

MyGP Referral

Business Case & Pricing, Brand Identity, ReactJS

Easynet

AWS, UX, Secops, Stakeholder Management

TikTok Recommender System

Machine Learning, Python, Gurobi

GP Star Loyalty Program

Partnerships, Microservices, A/B Testing

Digital Partnerships

SEO & ASO, Marketing, Firebase

Polar Bear

EO/IR, Requirements Allocation,Trade Study

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Research

Check out some of my papers

Who Pays? Personalization, Bossiness and the Cost of Fairness

Paresha Farastu, Nicholas Mattei, Robin Burke

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Dynamic fairness-aware recommendation through multi-agent social choice

Amanda Aird, Paresha Farastu, Joshua Sun, Amy Voida, Nicholas Mattei, Robin Burke

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Is Speech Emotion Recognition Language-Independent? Analysis of English and Bangla Languages using Language-Independent Vocal

Fardin Saad, Hasan Mahmud, Md Alamin Shaheen, Md Kamrul Hasan, Paresha Farastu, Mohammad Ridwan Kabir

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Others

Check out some of my other works

Teaching

Teaching Assistant for Natural Hazards & Risk Analysis, and Environment Systems: Climate & Vegetation

Course Manager for Discrete Structures

Volunteer

Graduate and Professional Student Government Senator - University of Colorado Boulder

Graduate Mentor - University of Colorado Boulder

SOAR with Dell Mentee

Vice President of Math Circle - BRAC University

Awards

Grameenphone’s Divisional Excellence Award - 2020, 2021

Grameenphone’s Collaboration Award - 2020

VC's List and Dean's List - BRAC University, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017

The Daily Star Award for highest achievement in O and A levels - 2011 & 2013

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