Education
B.Sc in Software Engineering, Department of CSE
June 2021 to September 2025 at Islamic University of Technology - CGPA: 3.80/4.00
Work Experience
Software Engineer L-1
October 2025 to Present at Vivasoft Limited, Banani, Dhaka
- Built and trained a custom Bangla Text-to-Speech (TTS) model with an in-house curated dataset.
- Reduced training time of the in-house model by optimizing performance with CUDA programming.
Associate Software Engineer
June 2024 to September 2024 at Vivasoft Limited, Banani, Dhaka
- Developed and replaced GPT 4o based AI Image Search module with Vision Transformer based self-hosted model of an Indonesian e-commerce.
- Built a Shopify plugin chat-bot for product recommendation using GPT-3.5, Langchain, FastAPI, Pinecone Vector DB.
Software Developer Intern
April 2024 to May 2024 at Itransition Group, Remote
- Developed and deployed five applications using Ruby on Rails framework with secure authentication.
- Designed responsive and user-friendly frontend interfaces using Bootstrap framework.
Software Developer Intern
June 2023 to August 2023 at OpenGenus Foundation, Remote
Research Experience
Research Intern
March 2025 to Present at Advanced Machine Intelligence Research Lab, Remote
- Implemented federated learning and applied model pruning and quantization to improve efficiency and privacy in distributed training.
- Developed a lightweight classification model using depthwise convolutional networks, maintaining high accuracy for complex classification tasks.
- Enhanced skin cancer classification performance using ensemble techniques.
Bachelor's Thesis
October 2024 to Present at Islamic University of Technology
Title: Squeeze-Aware YOLO: An improved YOLO for Traffic Sign Detection
- Developed a lightweight novel object detection model based on YOLOv10, surpassing state-of-the-art models for traffic sign detection.
- Implemented and fine-tuned detection architectures for efficient real-time deployment.
- Enhanced and expanded an existing dataset of Bangladeshi traffic signs to improve model robustness and accuracy.
Publications
- “It Looked Right to Me”: How the Artifact, Not the Practitioner, Sets the Limits of Verifying AI-Generated Work
Under review at CHI 2027 - Squeeze-Aware-YOLO: Early Channel Recalibration and Multi-Scale Fusion for Real-Time Traffic Sign Detection
28th International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA 2026). (Accepted) - BanglaKontho: Closing the Long-Form Gap in Bangla Text-to-Speech
29th International Conference of Oriental COCOSDA. (Accepted)
arXiv - BanglaTurn: A Benchmark and Whisper-Based Model for End-of-Turn Detection in Bangla Speech
29th International Conference of Oriental COCOSDA. (Accepted)
arXiv - Structure Before Sampling: Community-Aware Core-Set Selection for Data-Efficient Text-to-Speech
arXiv preprint, 2026. Under review at the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA 2026).
arXiv - Maximizing ChatGPT for Education: Strategies for Enhanced Learning Experiences
2026 2nd International Conference on Human-AI Interaction and Experience
Google Scholar - PruneFedAD: Federated Learning with Structured Pruning for Low-Resource Alzheimer's Disease Detection
2025 International Conference on Decision Aid Sciences and Applications (DASA'25)
Google Scholar - LeafLiteNet: A Computationally Frugal Interpretable Neural Architecture Under Controlled and Uncontrolled Environmental Conditions
Neural Computing and Applications (Springer), 2025. (Under Review) - A Survey to Understand the experience of ChatGPT Usage among Engineering University Students in Bangladesh
Technium: Romanian Journal of Applied Sciences and Technology (ISSN: 2668-778X), 2023
DOI
Achievements
- 2nd Runner Up: Streamstech presents IUT ICT Fest 2024 Code Catalyst: Refactoring Contest
- Awarded AWS AI & ML Scholarship out of thousands of applicants across the world.
- Winner at ML Olympiad: Tensorflow User Group Bangladesh by Google.
- Placed one of top 5 teams in CodeRush 1.0 Hackathon.
- Secured a place in top 50 of the Huawei Seeds For The Future 2024, Bangladesh.
Extracurricular Activities
Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors
- Hosted and organized educational workshops focused on web development and delivered engaging presentations particularly on HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Git, GitHub, Django, Azure, and Python.
Talks and sessions
AI Adda at Vivasoft Limited
- Conducted a knowledge-sharing session for software engineers on integrating AI into software applications, covering key concepts such as Transformer architectures, LSTMs, and Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF).
Get started with web development using Visual Studio Code and GitHub Pages
- Delivered an engaging session on web development using Visual Studio Code and GitHub Pages, guiding participants through the full-stack development workflow, including IDE usage, version control, and deployment practices.
Technical Skills
Languages: Go, Python, Java, C++, JavaScript
Backend: FastAPI, Django, Node.js, Express.js
Frontend: React, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap
Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle DB, MongoDB, Pinecone, Redis
ML Technologies: Numpy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn, PyTorch, Tensorflow, Amazon SageMaker
Developer Tools: Postman, VS Code, Git and GitHub, Selenium, JMeter, AWS, Docker