Experience
Research positions, industry and teaching roles, selected projects, and awards. A printable version is in my CV.
Research
Research Assistant
Cortex AI Lab, University of Dhaka
- Conduct research on agentic AI and collaborative multi-agent systems, focusing on coordinated reasoning, task decomposition, and autonomous decision-making in complex environments.
- Investigate safety and alignment of multi-agent systems: behavior of LLM agents under competitive and survival pressures, adversarial robustness and prompt-injection attack surfaces, and investigation and context-discovery behavior in autonomous web agents.
- Develop vision-language systems for plant-pathology reasoning, building intent-driven visual question answering benchmarks and chain-of-inquiry evaluation pipelines.
- Design and evaluate multimodal VQA pipelines for robustness, interpretability, and trustworthy decision support.
- First-authored papers accepted at NeurIPS 2026, Findings of ACL 2026, and two NeurIPS 2026 workshops, and a dataset paper in Scientific Data.
Research Intern
Data and Design Lab (CARS), University of Dhaka
- Led large-scale analysis of power quality and reliability across multiple power distribution regions in Bangladesh.
- Processed and modeled heterogeneous data sources, including power quality meter data, load and consumption profiles, and industrial and consumer billing records.
- Developed machine learning pipelines for failure prediction, anomaly detection, early fault identification, and load/demand forecasting.
- Built automated data engineering and model deployment workflows for scalable monitoring of power system health.
- Contributed to an electricity-domain conversational assistant that lets users query billing issues, outages, and power quality concerns in natural language.
Industry and Teaching
Trainer
- Designed and implemented IoT-based robotic systems integrating microcontrollers, wireless communication, and real-time monitoring.
- Conducted structured training on robotics fundamentals, embedded systems, and algorithmic problem solving for competitive and research-oriented robotics.
R&D Engineer
- Developed embedded robotic systems using Arduino and ESP32 platforms.
- Designed industrial IoT solutions for monitoring, control, and automation.
- Implemented hardware-software integration for real-time sensing, actuation, and edge-level decision making.
Selected Projects
Long-Horizon Mobile Manipulation and Robust Skill Composition
Independent research · ManiSkill / MS-HAB, PyTorch
- Reproduced and evaluated a long-horizon TidyHouse pipeline using 21 pretrained Pick, Place, and Navigate policies, with strict success, reachability, and failure-stage diagnostics.
- Designed controlled handoff experiments showing that robot-state mismatch, rather than object-state mismatch, dominated chained Pick-to-Place degradation.
- Improved full-chain success from 0.7% to 2.2% by tuning global base damping and force limits, validated over three seeds with confidence intervals.
Mobile Differential Drive Robot
- Full Gazebo simulation and ROS 2 control stack covering robot modeling, differential-drive control, sensor integration, and autonomous exploration.
Hexapod Robot
- Implemented inverse-kinematics-based leg control, coordinated gait generation, and motion planning for a six-legged robotic platform.
EDAPipeline
Open-source Python package
- Automated exploratory-data-analysis package with visualization, outlier detection, and correlation analysis.
Honors and Awards
- Global Nominee, NASA Space Apps Challenge2024
- Runner-up, DU AI Challenge2025
- Runner-up, KUET Datathon2025
- Runner-up, Technocrats V2 IUBAT Hackathon2024
- Regional Champion, National High School Programming Contest2019
- Kaggle Expert, Multiple podium finishes in ML competitionsOngoing