Tareq Mahmood
Hi, Tareq here. I am a first-year PhD student
in the Department of Computer Sciences
at the University of Wisconsin—Madison.
I am fortunate to be advised by Professor Shivaram Venkataraman.
My research interests lie at the intersection of ML, data and systems.
My current research focuses on integrating LLMs to data systems, agentic system optimization, and large-scale LLM training.
GitHub | Scholar
Experience
Graduate Assistant at CS, UW-Madison (2023 - Present)
Research Intern at Microsoft Gray Systems Lab (Summer 2026)
Faculty Member at CSE, BUET (2019 - 2023)
Research Assistant at DataLab@BUET (2018 - 2019)
Education
- PhD in CS, University of Wisconsin—Madison (2023 - Present)
- MS in CS, University of Wisconsin—Madison (2026)
- MSc in CSE, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (2022)
Thesis: Deep Learning-based Approaches for Intelligent Trip Planning Using Public Transport - BSc in CSE, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (2018)
Thesis: Learning Indoor Layouts from Simple Point-Clouds
Papers
- Demo of SemWeave: Semantic Common Expressions for LLM-powered Query Processing [Paper]
Md. Tareq Mahmood, Venkatesh Emani, Hangdong Zhao, Shivaram Venkataraman
SIGMOD 2026 Demo - PathOracle - A Deep Learning Based Trip Planner for Daily Commuters [Paper]
Md. Tareq Mahmood, Mohammed Eunus Ali, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Syed Md. Mukit Rashid, and Timos Sellis
ECML 2022 - Tesserae: Scalable Placement Policies for Deep Learning Workloads [Preprint]
Song Bian, Saurabh Agarwal, Md. Tareq Mahmood, Shivaram Venkataraman - Learning Indoor Layouts from Simple Point-Clouds [Preprint]
Md. Tareq Mahmood and Mohammed Eunus Ali
Teaching
UW-Madison
- Teaching Assistant - Big Data Systems (Spring 25)
- Teaching Assistant - Introduction to Big Data Systems (Fall 24 as Head TA, Spring 24, Fall 23)
BUET
- Instructor - Computer Graphics (Jan 23)
- Instructor - Mathematical Analysis for Computer Science (Jul 21)
- Instructor - Microprocessors, Microcontrollers, and Embedded Systems (Jul 22, Jan 22, Jan 21, Jan 19)
Services
- Organizer madSystems Seminar
- Member Research to Impact at UW-Madison
Productive Procrastinations
- Sys Deadlines - Tracker for (some) systems conference deadlines.
- Clue - Shell tips tool for CS undergrads.
- Delta - The path to least error.