F&Bos
Asfak leads technology at F&Bos. He architected the core technical stack, including the MarginMind AI engine that works out what each dish on a menu actually earns.
Education
- Ph.D. in Engineering, Jadavpur University (2025). Thesis: a real-time object tracking system for adverse climate conditions
- M.E. in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Jadavpur University (2021)
- B.E. in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Jadavpur University (2019)
Experience
- Guest Faculty, Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Jadavpur University (since 2023)
- Chief Technical Architect, Eyngen.AI, Kolkata (since 2025)
- Research Intern, Cognitive Analytics Research Lab, Ulster University, United Kingdom (2024)
- Application Developer, National Informatics Centre, Ministry of Electronics and IT (2021–2022)
- Teaching Assistant and Research Fellow, Jadavpur University (2019–2025)
Research
His research is in machine learning and computer vision: tracking moving objects, removing haze and rain from video, medical image classification and lightweight models that run on small devices.
- 18 journal articles, in journals including Pattern Recognition, Scientific Reports, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Applied Soft Computing
- 27 conference papers
- Named on 12 Indian patent applications, mostly for low-power embedded and IoT devices
- Reviewer for Springer and Elsevier journals
- Organising team member, ICPR 2024 competition on visual tracking in adverse conditions
- Best Poster Award, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, Kolkata chapter (2024)
What he brings to F&Bos
F&Bos has to keep billing during internet outages, run on low-cost Android tablets and turn a day of orders into dish-level margins. That is the kind of problem Asfak's work on fast, lightweight systems is built for. He works on the product's architecture, its AI features and how it handles data.
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