Shahriyar Zaman Ridoy

AI Researcher · Reasoning & Reliability in Foundational Models

B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering

Jul 2020 – Jun 2024 · Dhaka, Bangladesh

North South University

Summa Cum LaudeTop 2% of class75% Merit Scholarship
CGPA
3.88 / 4.00
Specialization GPA
4.00 / 4.00
Average marks
97%
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Specialization: Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning.

  • Thesis: Context-Aware Data Cleaning Pipeline for Clinical Text and Low-Resource Language Bangla.
  • Received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Systems (IS) 2024, Varna, Bulgaria, for the clinical-text pipeline. Certificate
  • Thesis work published at IEEE IS 2024 and, in extended form, in SN Computer Science (Springer Nature, 2025).

Relevant Coursework

All listed courses were completed with grade A, the highest grade (93% and above).

CourseCodeGrade
Natural Language Processing (Special Topic)CSE 495BA
Machine LearningCSE 445A
Design and Analysis of AlgorithmsCSE 373A
Data Structures and AlgorithmsCSE 225A
Theory of ComputationCSE 273A
Concepts of Programming LanguagesCSE 425A
Database Management SystemsCSE 311A
Computer Organization and ArchitectureCSE 332A
Probability and StatisticsMAT 361A
Linear AlgebraMAT 125A

Additional Training

Open Science Community ML Summer School
Cohere Labs · Summer 2025

Lectures and mentorship from researchers at Meta, DeepMind, INRIA, and Cohere Labs on distributed training, transformers, retrieval-augmented generation, and prompt evaluation.

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Supervised Machine Learning: Regression and Classification
Coursera, Andrew Ng's Machine Learning Specialization · Mar 2024

Linear and logistic regression, gradient descent, regularization, bias-variance trade-offs, and evaluation metrics, with Python mini-projects on feature engineering and hyperparameter tuning.

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The Short Course on Data Science
Prof. Jennifer Widom (Stanford), Instructional Odyssey at NSU · Mar 2024

Data modeling and SQL, data cleaning and integration, exploratory analysis, and communicating results, with guided exercises on reproducible analysis pipelines.

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ICPC Asia Dhaka Regional Online Preliminary
ICPC · Oct 2023

Honorable Mention as a contestant with NSU Problem Solvers.

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