Curriculum Vitae

B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering, Summa Cum Laude

North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

• CGPA 3.88 / 4.00 (top 2%); specialization GPA 4.00 / 4.00; 75% merit scholarship.
• Specialization: Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning.
• Thesis
  • Context-Aware Data Cleaning Pipeline for Clinical Text and Low-Resource Bangla.
  • Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Systems (IS) 2024.
  • Journal extension published in SN Computer Science (Springer Nature), 2025.

Research Intern

Vanderbilt University (Remote)

Research Assistant

Cognitive Agents and Interaction Lab, University of Dhaka (Remote)

• Supervisor: Dr. Md Mosaddek Khan.
• Symbolic and formal reasoning in LLMs: executable grammars, pushdown automata, and Turing machines.
• Two papers accepted to Findings of EMNLP 2026 (one as first author); one paper under review at ACL Rolling Review.

Research Collaborator

Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) (Remote)

• Supervisor: Dr. Md Rizwan Parvez.
• Evaluation protocols for geo-temporal and spatial reasoning in vision-language models.
• Co-first author of TimeSpot (ICML 2026); co-author of SpatiaLab (ICLR 2026); lead author of a geo-reasoning survey accepted to AACL-IJCNLP 2026.

Research Collaborator

Apurba-NSU R&D Lab, North South University

• Supervisors: Dr. Nabeel Mohammed and Dr. Shafin Rahman.
• Model compression (knowledge distillation) for LLMs and efficient vision-language reasoning.
• Joint first author of CAPSTONE, accepted to the EMNLP 2025 Industry Track.

Research Intern

Artificial Intelligence Institute, University of South Carolina (AIISC) (Remote)

• Collaborators: Prof. Amitava Das (BITS Pilani, formerly AIISC), Aman Chadha (AWS), Vinija Jain (Meta AI).
• Hallucination detection for text-to-image generation with Qwen-VL and LLaVA on MS-COCO and synthetic T2I benchmarks.
• Speculative-decoding defenses against adversarial attacks on diffusion models.

Research Assistant (NLP)

North South University

• Supervisor: Dr. Rashedur M. Rahman.
• Context-aware Bengali text-cleaning pipeline for transformer models: up to +4% accuracy on three benchmarks (SN Computer Science).
• Efficient clinical-text preprocessing pipeline: up to 17% faster training (Best Paper Award, IEEE IS 2024).

Lab Instructor

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North South University

• CSE 225L Data Structures and Algorithms Lab; CSE 115L Programming Language I Lab.
• Lab Instructor Coordinator for CSE 225L: manual updates, problem-set design, standardized lab operations.

Teaching Assistant

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North South University

• CSE 225 Data Structures and Algorithms; CSE 215 Programming Language II (OOP).
• Mentored 160+ students per semester; tutorials, grading, and detailed feedback.

• Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Systems (IS), Varna, Bulgaria.
• Summa Cum Laude, B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering, North South University (top 2%).

• Honorable Mention, ICPC Asia Dhaka Regional Online Preliminary.

• 75% Merit Scholarship for academic excellence, North South University.

ICML 2026, Seoul, South Korea

• Presented TimeSpot (main track) and workshop papers at AI for Math and Muslims in ML.

Programming Contestant, NSU Problem Solvers

• ICPC, Codeforces, AtCoder, Meta Hacker Cup, Vjudge.
• ICPC Asia Dhaka Online Preliminary: Honorable Mention.
• Solved roughly 1,000 problems across platforms; mentored peers in data structures and algorithms.

Cohere Labs Open Science Community ML Summer School

Cohere Labs, with sessions from researchers at Meta, DeepMind, and INRIA

• Credential

Supervised Machine Learning: Regression and Classification

Coursera (Andrew Ng's Machine Learning Specialization)

• Certificate

The Short Course on Data Science

Prof. Jennifer Widom (Stanford), Instructional Odyssey at NSU

• Certificate

ICPC Asia Dhaka Regional Site Online Preliminary Contest

ICPC

• ICPC profile