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General Information
| Full Name | Shahriyar Zaman Ridoy |
| shahriyar.zaman01@gmail.com | |
| Website | shahriyar-zaman.github.io |
| Google Scholar | Tj7LsaQAAAAJ |
| GitHub | shahriyar-zaman |
| shahriyar-zaman | |
| Languages | English, Bangla |
| Location | Dhaka, Bangladesh |
Education
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2020–2024 B.Sc. in Computer Science & Engineering (Summa Cum Laude, Top 2%)
North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh - CGPA 3.88/4.00; Major GPA 3.92/4.00; 75% merit scholarship; Avg ≈97%.
- Focus: Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition.
- Thesis / Highlights
- Thesis: Context-Aware Data Cleaning Pipeline for Clinical Text and Low-Resource Bangla.
- Best Paper Award — IEEE IS 2024 (Varna, Bulgaria).
- Journal follow-up — SN Computer Science (Springer Nature), 2025.
Experience
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Feb 2025 – Present Lab Instructor — CSE225L (Data Structures & Algorithms Lab), CSE115L
Department of ECE, North South University - Delivered coding-focused labs, debugging clinics, and assessments.
- Lab Instructor Coordinator (CSE225L): updated manuals, optimized problem sets, standardized workflows.
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Jun 2025 – Present Research Collaborator — Multimodal LLM Agents & Geo-Temporal VLMs
Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) — Remote - Developed evaluation protocols; two VLM evaluation submissions to ICLR 2026.
- Supervised by Md Rizwan Parvez (Scientist, QCRI).
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Sep 2024 – Jul 2025 Research Intern — LLM/VLM Robustness, Diffusion Models
Artificial Intelligence Institute, University of South Carolina (AIISC) — Remote - Hallucination detection for text-to-image/VLMs (Qwen-VL, LLaVA); COCO + synthetic T2I evaluations.
- Explored speculative-decoding defenses for diffusion robustness.
- Collaborated with Prof. Amitava Das (BITS Pilani; ex-AIISC), Aman Chadha (AWS), Vinija Jain (Meta AI).
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Feb 2023 – Jan 2025 Teaching Assistant — CSE225 (Data Structures & Algorithms), CSE215 (OOP)
North South University - Mentored 160+ students/semester; tutorials; grading; detailed feedback.
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Dec 2023 – Feb 2024 Research Assistant — NLP
North South University - Built a context-aware Bangla text-cleaning pipeline for transformer models; up to +4% accuracy; journal follow-up in SN Computer Science.
Honors & Awards
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2024 - Best Paper Award — IEEE IS, Varna, Bulgaria.
- Summa Cum Laude — North South University.
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2020–2024 - 75% Merit Scholarship — Academic Excellence.
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2025 - SN Computer Science — journal follow-up to IEEE IS work.
Teaching Experience
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Feb 2025 – Present Lab Instructor
Department of ECE, North South University - CSE225L Data Structures & Algorithms Lab; CSE115L Programming Language I Lab.
- Coordinator for CSE225L labs: manual updates, problem-set design, workflow standardization.
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Feb 2023 – Jan 2025 Teaching Assistant
Department of ECE, North South University - CSE225 Data Structures & Algorithms; CSE215 Programming Language II (OOP).
- Mentored 160+ students/semester; tutorials, grading, feedback.
Reviewing Services
- Reviewer — ACL 2025 Student Research Workshop (SRW); reviewed 2 papers.
Competitive Programming
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Jun 2021 – Feb 2023 Programming Contestant — NSU Problem Solvers
- Participated in ICPC, Codeforces, AtCoder, Meta Hacker Cup, Vjudge.
- ICPC Asia Dhaka Online Preliminary — Honorable Mention.
- Solved ~1000 problems across platforms; mentored DSA.
Certifications
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Summer 2025 Cohere Labs Open Science Community for ML Summer School
Cohere Labs (sessions by experts from Meta, DeepMind, INRIA) -
Mar 2024 -
Mar 2024 The Short Course on Data Science
Prof. Jennifer Widom (Stanford) — Instructional Odyssey @ NSU -
Oct 2023
Technical Skills
- Python, C++, C, Java, SQL
- PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, scikit-learn, Transformers
- Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib
- Git, Docker, AutoCAD
Academic Interests
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Trustworthy & Multimodal AI
- Geo-temporal/spatial reasoning in VLMs
- Hallucination detection and robustness (T2I/VLM)
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Ethics, Safety & Alignment
- Multilingual/multicultural evaluation
- Calibration (ECE) and risk–coverage analysis
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Code Intelligence
- Vulnerability detection with LLMs/graphs