Bailey

I have recently defended my Ph.D. (November 2025) in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at University of Houston where I'm advised by Dr. David Mayerich. My research focuses on creating GPU-accelerated algorithms, computational methods for modeling, analyzing and visualizing gigavoxel-scale data. I have also developed computational methods for sparse volumetric microvasculature in OpenVDB optimized with TBB multithreading parallelism. My work includes implementing and evaluating SOTA architectures, including U-Net, nnU-Net, and StarDist for vessel segmentation and nucleus-type detection. I developed a fully parallel 3D thinning algorithm for giga-voxel scale microvasculature using OpenVDB. My work is supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. I received a B.Sc in Electrical and Electronics Enginnering at Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh, where my research focus was on Photonic Crystal Fiber.

Publications


SEGMENTATION OF MICROVASCULAR NETWORKS EMBEDDED IN GIGAVOXEL 3D IMAGES USING RSF LEVEL SETS WITH OPENVDB
Meher Niger, W Moree, M Bluhm, J Eriksen, G Chen, D Mayerich
2025 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2025)
A SCALABLE AND MODULAR PIPELINE FOR SYNTHESIZING AND RECONSTRUCTING BIOLOGICAL NETWORKS
Meher Niger, A Ashitkov, A Pillai, JD Wythe, G Chen, D Mayerich
2026 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2026)-under review
GPU-Accelerated RSF Level Set Evolution for Large-Scale Microvascular Segmentation
Meher Niger, H Goharbavang, A Pillai, JD Wythe, G Chen, D Mayerich
Frontiers in Bioinformatics
Strengthening Weak Deterministic Classifiers with Physically-Based Active Contours
Meher Niger, E Zirkle, A Pillai, JD Wythe, G Chen, D Mayerich
2026 IEEE International Symposium on Image Processing (ICIP)-under review
Modified Dodecagonal PCF Sensor with High Sensitivity for Detecting Harmful Chemical Compounds used in Poultry Feed
Meher Niger, Mohammad Istiaque Reja, Jobaida Akhtar, Nishat Jahan, Rubaya Absar, Saleha Fatema
2019 5th International Conference on Advances in Electrical Engineering (ICAEE)
Detection of harmful chemical compounds in plastics with highly sensitive photonic crystal fiber with higher nonlinear coefficient
Meher Niger, Tazkia Fairuz Hasin
2019 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Information, Communication & Systems (SPICSCON)
Three modified structures of photonic crystal fiber for estimation of sulfuric acid concentration with low confinement Loss and negative dispersion
Meher Niger, Tazkia Fairuz Hasin, Mohammed Abu Faiz Nizami, Muhammad Alam Rafee
2019 4th International Conference on Electrical Information and Communication Technology (EICT)

Ongoing Projects


Teaching


Numerical Methods for Electrical and Computer Engineers
Teaching Assistant
UH, ECE, Spring 2024
Antenna Engineering
Teaching Assistant
UH, ECE, Spring 2021
Intro to Robotics
Teaching Assistant
UH, ECE, Fall 2020
Advanced Telecommunication
Teaching Assistant
UH, ECE, Fall 2020

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