Abu Awal Md Shoeb received his doctoral degree from Rutgers University. Before coming to Rutgers, he earned M.Sc. from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and B.Sc. Engineering from Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST). He was born in the village of Sunamganj and grew up in Sylhet, a beautiful city in eastern Bangladesh, on the Surma River. He is currently working at 3M Corporate Research Lab as a Machine Learning Research Scientist.