2026
Evaluating Large Vision Language Models on Bangla Medical Visual Question Answering
Ahmed*, Tahmid*, Hossain, Tomal, Jawad, Uddin, Fahim, Bhuiyan · Findings of ACL, 2026
ACL FindingsVision-LanguageMedical NLPAI Engineer & Researcher
Making large models worth trusting.
I research how multimodal and multilingual models are evaluated, how efficiently they can be adapted, and how well they hold up under adversarial pressure. Applying for PhD & funded MS programs, Fall 2027.
Dhaka, BD
he/him
Research focus
Visual question answering, parameter-efficient adaptation, and faithful evaluation of vision-language models.
Currently
AI Engineer at Penta Global Ltd., shipping agentic LLM pipelines for telecom workflows.
Looking for
PhD & funded MS in NLP, ML, computer vision, or LLM & network security, starting Fall 2027.
Recent publications
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2026
AD-SFL: Activation-Space Anomaly Detection and Reinforcement Learning-Based Defense Against Data Poisoning in SplitFed Learning
Tomal*, Tahmid*, Roy, Hasan, Razzaque · Under review, Computer Networks (Elsevier)
SplitFed learningData poisoningSecurity2026
How Good LLMs Are at Answering Bangla Medical Visual Questions? Dataset and Benchmarking
Ahmed*, Tahmid*, Hossain, Tomal, Fahim, Bhuiyan · AAAI Bridge Program, 2026
VQAMedical NLPBangla2025
LP-FT-LoRA: A Three-Stage PEFT Framework for Efficient Domain Adaptation in Bangla NLP Tasks
Tomal*, Uddin*, Tahmid, Hossain, Fahim, Bhuiyan · BLP Workshop (IJCNLP), 2025
PEFTLoRABangla NLP2025
PentaML at BLP-2025 Task 1: Linear Probing of Pre-trained Transformer-based Models for Bangla Hate Speech Detection
Tahmid*, Ahmed*, Jawad, Uddin, Fahim, Bhuiyan · BLP Workshop (IJCNLP), 2025
Hate speechLinear probingBangla*Equal contribution.
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Mentors & affiliations
Research mentor
Md Fahim
Penta-ML Research Group
Faculty advisor
Dr. Md. Abdur Razzaque
Green Networking Research Group
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