ITIntesar Tahmid

Research, industry & education

A timeline, in brief.

Where I have worked, learned, and what I focused on.

01 Research experience

Jun 2025–Present

Research

Researcher, 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

Research

Research 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&D

AI 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 & Research

Product 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

Internship

Software 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

Internship

Software 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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