Search · AI-assisted development
Bananagram Solver
StatusActively evolving
An AI-assisted browser experiment that searches for a connected word grid from a rack of letters.
Engineer · Researcher · Maker
Md Imrul Hassan
I explore patterns in software, puzzles, and the things we remember. I’m a software engineer at Google with a background in wireless-network research. Writing in Bangla, singing, and photography are other ways I pay attention.
Selected work
Small tools. Interesting problems.
Independent projects at the meeting point of algorithms, everyday usefulness, and curiosity.
Tiling · Haskell
Calendar Puzzle
StatusCompleted experiment
A Haskell solver and analysis project for a physical calendar puzzle.
Speech · Learning
Phonetiq
StatusActive development
An evolving experiment in English minimal-pair practice and short-utterance recognition.
Notes from the work
What changed when I looked closer.
Occasional technical reflections on software, search, language, and AI-assisted development—without a publishing schedule.
AI-assisted development
Directing an AI-assisted project without pretending I wrote the code
A candid account of product direction, generated implementation and honest attribution in Bananagram Solver.
Read the noteSearch architecture
Three word-grid solvers: Haskell, Kotlin and a browser Worker
How one family of puzzles changed through functional search, a Kotlin/JS interface and a bounded browser architecture.
Read the noteSpeech recognition
Why one spoken word is hard for speech recognition
What Phonetiq revealed about context, recording quality and the limits of transcript-based pronunciation feedback.
Read the note
From research to practice
A researcher’s questions. An engineer’s hands.
Before product software, I studied how wireless networks behave when the messages really matter. My PhD at Swinburne explored IEEE 802.11 and DSRC for vehicle-to-vehicle safety communication.
2013 · Thesis
Effect of retransmission on the performance of the IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol for DSRC
Swinburne University of Technology · PhD thesis Read the thesisMusic · Words · Photography
Other ways of paying attention.
Some ideas take the shape of a song, a poem, or a photograph.
Music
Songs in familiar languages.
My recordings, original compositions, and words brought to life by other voices.
Explore the musicBangla poetry
More than one mood.
All twelve poemsPhotography
Reasons to look a little closer.
Birds, flowers, cities, landscapes, and night skies gathered over time.
Browse FlickrElsewhere
There’s more than one way to say hello.
Code, music, photographs, and the occasional note. Find the part of my world that interests you.