Research, industry & education
A timeline, in brief.
Where I have worked, learned, and what I focused on.
01 Research experience
Jun 2025–Present
ResearchResearcher, Penta Global Ltd
Penta Global Data Lab · Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Led RxFact, a benchmark of prescription images testing whether large vision-language models can detect clinically harmful errors; first author (under review, ACL Rolling Review, October 2026).
- Co-led BanglaMedVQA, a physician-validated bilingual medical VQA benchmark, and evaluated open, closed, and medical LVLMs under zero-shot, chain-of-thought, and LoRA fine-tuning (ACL Findings 2026; AAAI Bridge 2026).
- Leading StreamTTRL, a study of continual test-time reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards across languages, domains, and modalities (in preparation for ACL 2027).
- Applied staged PEFT (further pre-training, LP-FT, then LoRA) to low-resource Bangla classification, placing top-15 across all three BLP-2025 Bangla hate speech subtasks.
PyTorch · LoRA / PEFT · LVLM evaluation · Test-time RL · Chain-of-thought prompting · Dataset construction & annotation
Jan 2024–Present
ResearchResearch Member, Green Networking Research Group
A joint group of the University of Dhaka and Green University Bangladesh
Advised by Dr. Md Abdur Razzaque, University of Dhaka
- Co-authored AD-SFL (Computer Networks, Elsevier, under review) on activation-space anomaly detection and reinforcement-learning-based defense against data poisoning in SplitFed Learning.
- Present and critically evaluate ML and network-security research papers in regular reading-group sessions.
- Collaborate on ideation, experimental design, and peer review of ongoing research within the group.
PyTorch · Split Learning · Federated Learning · Reinforcement Learning
02 Industry experience
Jun 2025–Present · Onsite
R&DAI Engineer, Penta Global Ltd
Client: Yaana · Milpitas, CA, USA (remote)
- Architected IRIS, a multi-agent copilot framework on MCP, owning the orchestration layer that lets independent agents plan, call tools, and hand work off across enterprise systems.
- Built its data backbone on AWS Glue, S3, Lambda, and SageMaker, running enterprise-scale extraction and transformation end to end.
- Deployed and evaluated custom models through AWS Bedrock, standing up reproducible, high-throughput inference for systems in production use.
- Engineered retrieval-augmented generation over RedisVL and pgvector and fine-tuned LLMs in PyTorch, the same adaptation stack behind my published work.
- Profiled and rebuilt FastAPI services with agent-to-agent and WebSocket transport, cutting response time 20% against a measured baseline.
Python · PyTorch · FastAPI · MCP · Multi-agent orchestration · AWS Bedrock · SageMaker · Glue · RAG · PostgreSQL · Redis · WebSockets
Apr 2025–May 2025
PM & ResearchProduct Management & Research, Data Elysium Software Inc
- Promoted to a full-time Product Management and Research role to oversee product strategy, feature development, and technical execution.
- Directed a foundational research initiative to create a comprehensive Bangla Speech-to-Text dataset, advancing regional NLP capabilities.
- Led product discovery, feature prioritization, and roadmap planning for AI-driven SaaS products.
Product Strategy · LLMs · OpenAI API · NLP Research
Jan 2025–Mar 2025
InternshipSoftware Development Intern, Data Elysium Software Inc
- Engineered "Affordable AI," a pay-as-you-go chatbot service integrating various LLMs, scaling the platform's user base from 1,000 to 20,000.
- Implemented backend services and API integrations to support multi-model LLM routing.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to deliver features on schedule.
Python · FastAPI · React.js · OpenAI API · LLMs
Feb 2024–Apr 2024 · Remote
InternshipSoftware Engineering Intern, Learnstone LLC
- Developed reusable Vue.js components focused on optimal maintainability and developer experience.
- Built backend services using FastAPI, ensuring clean API contracts and fast response times.
- Leveraged TypeScript for robust type safety, enhancing code maintainability and reducing runtime errors.
Vue.js · TypeScript · FastAPI · Python
03 Education
2020–Mar 2025
B.Sc., Computer Science & Engineering
University of Dhaka
CGPA 3.23/4.00 · Probability & Statistics · Linear Algebra · Theory of Computation · Artificial Intelligence
04 Toolkit
I research and build. My engineering practice covers the full research stack, from data pipelines and model fine-tuning (PyTorch, RAG, LoRA) to production APIs (FastAPI, Docker) and interactive dashboards (Next.js). This lets me turn research ideas directly into working systems without handoff friction.
ML / NLP
PyTorch · PEFT / LoRA · LLMs · Agentic AI · RAG · Pandas · NumPy
Evaluation & Benchmarking
LLM/LVLM benchmarking · LLM-as-judge evaluation · Dataset construction & annotation
Languages
Python · Java · C++ · SQL
Backend & Web
FastAPI · Next.js · React.js · Vue.js
Data & Infrastructure
PostgreSQL (pgvector) · Pinecone · Redis · MongoDB · Docker · AWS · Git
05 Activities & achievements
CSEDU Student's Club, University of Dhaka
Vice-President
Organized departmental tech events, workshops, and a seminar series.
Codeforces · LeetCode · 200+ problems solved
Competitive Programmer
Solved 200+ problems across data structures, dynamic programming, and graph algorithms.
06 Languages & certifications
Languages
- Bangla (native)
- English (fluent; IELTS Academic 8.0, Oct 2026)
Certifications
- Developing AI Systems with the OpenAI API (DataCamp)
- Intermediate Python (DataCamp)
- Intermediate SQL (DataCamp)
Full CV as a PDF ↗. References available on request.
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