Aroma Hoque

Ph.D. Student, Computer Science
University of Massachusetts Boston

I am currently a PhD student at UMass Boston, advised by Prof. Tarikul Islam Papon in the Computing Hardware & Large Data Lab (CHiLL). My research focuses on database systems and storage management. I completed my B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET).

Aroma Hoque

News

Research

2026 –
Present
BufBench: A Benchmarking Framework for deeper Buffer Pool Analysis in DBMS
Accepted at TPCTC 2026 · with Prof. Tarikul Islam Papon · [Paper]

Developing BufBench to give deeper analysis of bufferpool and background interference for different workloads, page replacement policies - having the support of multiple DBMS.

Interference Analyzer Buffer Management
2025 –
2026
SIEVE-DB: Buffer Cache Eviction for PostgreSQL
Accepted at EDBT 2027 · with Prof. Tarikul Islam Papon

Designed and implemented SIEVE-DB alongside multiple baseline algorithms (CLOCK, LRU, CFLRU, LRUWSR, CLOCK2BIT).

PostgreSQL Buffer analysis Page Replacement Policy
2023 –
2024
Overlapping Community Detection in Protein–Protein Interaction Networks
Undergraduate Thesis · BUET · Advised by Prof. Sadia Sharmin & Prof. Saidur Rahman

Developed a novel Edge Graph Convolution Network (EGCN) that integrates node and edge attributes with attention mechanisms for accurate community detection. Evaluated using Overlapping Normalized Mutual Information (ONMI), with applications in bioinformatics and disease-related pathways.

Graph Neural Networks Bioinformatics Community Detection

Education

2026 – Present
PhD, Computer Science — UMass Boston
Advisor: Prof. Tarikul Islam Papon · Focus: Database & Storage Systems
2019 – 2024
BSc, Computer Science & Engineering — BUET
Dean's List, Merit & Technical Scholarships (2019–2022)

Contact

✉ aroma.hoque001@umb.edu ✉ aroma.hoque@gmail.com ⌥ github.com/aroma058 ⌂ Lab: McCormack Hall, 3rd Floor, M03-0163. Department of Computer Science, UMass Boston