About Me

I recently graduated with an MS in CS from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where I was a member of the LARA Lab.

Previously, I was a Research Assistant at the Nanotechnology, IoT and Applied Machine Learning Group at Brac University, working with Dr. Abu Mohsin. I’ve also worked as a Machine Learning Engineer at several SaaS startups on projects involving English and Swedish translation and text-to-speech, generative models and recommender systems for fashion, and product categorization using both LLMs and classical ML approaches.

Generally, I’m interested in interdisciplinary research on using deep learning and solve accessibility problems. I’m also interested in ensuring applications of deep learning remain fair across races, genders and social groups. I believe more ‘AI’ research should focus on the Human-AI collaboration aspect rather than endlessly grinding benchmarks. My assorted research interests include the following:

• ▸ Accessibility, mainly aids for people with visual, hearing, and/or communication disabilities.
• ▸ Multimodal & Generative Models, including Audio-Language and Audiovisual-Language Models.
• ▸ Explainability, especially in a human-centric manner that actually accounts for people with disabilities.

For fun, you’ll find me playing RTS and RPG games as well as Magic; Reading Fantasy and Sci-Fi (my Book Recommendations); Writing the same, both fanfiction (SV | AO3) and original. Rounding out, I enjoy book clubs, hiking, Dungeons and Dragons, and indoor climbing.

I’m deaf and use a cochlear implant. I can’t sign, but learning ASL is on the to-do list.

Education

University of Maryland, Baltimore County Fall 2023 - Spring 2025

MS in Computer Science

North South University Fall 2016 - Fall 2020

BS in Computer Science and Engineering

Work

Graduate Teaching Assistant Aug 2023 — May 2025

University of Maryland, Baltimore County Maryland, United States

Research Assistant Sept 2021 — Aug 2023

Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Brac University Dhaka, Bangladesh

Python Developer Feb 2022 — July 2023

Dviz Technologies Dhaka, Bangladesh (Remote)

Data Scientist and Machine Learning Engineer Feb 2022 — Feb 2023

Neovotech | Eucaps AB Dhaka, Bangladesh | Stockholm, Sweden (Remote)