2026
Evaluating Large Vision Language Models on Bangla Medical Visual Question Answering
Ahmed, Tahmid, Hossain, Tomal, Fahim, Alam · ACL Findings, 2026
ACL FindingsVision-LanguageMedical NLPResearcher · NLP · LLMs
Building language models that work for everyone.
I research parameter-efficient adaptation of transformers for low-resource languages — with a focus on Bangla. Applying for PhD & funded MS programs, Fall 2027.
Dhaka, BD
he/him
Research focus
Linear probing, LoRA, and faithful evaluation of multilingual LLMs — especially for Bangla.
Currently
AI Engineer at Penta Global Ltd., shipping agentic LLM pipelines for telecom workflows.
Looking for
PhD & funded MS in NLP / ML, starting Fall 2027. Open to RA and pre-doc.
01 Recent publications
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2025
Decoupling Representation for Fine-tuning with Linear Probing and LoRA on Robust Downstream Adaptation
Tomal, Tahmid, Ahmed, Hossain, Fahim, Alam · Under review, 2025
LoRALinear probingRepresentation2025
LP-FT-LORA: A Three-Stage PEFT Framework for Efficient Domain Adaptation in Bangla NLP Tasks
Tomal, Uddin, Tahmid, Hossain, Fahim, Alam · BLP Workshop (IJCNLP), 2025
PEFTLoRABangla NLP2025
PentaML @BLP Shared 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 probingBangla2025
How Good LLMs Are at Answering Bangla Medical Visual Questions? Dataset and Benchmarking
Ahmed, Tahmid, Hossain, Tomal, Fahim, Alam · AAAI Bridge Program, 2025
VQAMedical NLPBanglaSee all publications and statement of interest →
02 Mentors & affiliations
Research mentor
Md Fahim
Penta-ML Research Group
Faculty advisor
Dr. Md. Abdur Razzaque
Green Networking Research Group, University of Dhaka
Last revised — November 2025 · Set in EB Garamond & Inter