Work Experience

- Led projects and worked in collaboration with WHO, Stony Brook Medicine, McGill University, University of Geneva, University of Tokyo and other institutions (from around 35 countries)
- Engineered Knowledge Graphs integrating worldwide data on Digital Health and Technology Usage to enable semantic analysis and cross-country insights.
- Developed coding schemes and agentic LLMs to evaluate educational games on the Google Play Store.
- Co-authored 6 researches on digital well-being, education and technology usage.

- Teaching: Covers collaborative and content-based recommendation systems, including similarity metrics, feature engineering, hybrid methods, matrix factorization, and deep learning approaches for personalized recommendations.

- Building large scale LLM and AI solutions for field support and engineering solutions

Government-Affiliated
WPA Software Engineer Intern
United States Department of Justice - ICITAPJul 2024 - Dec 2024
- Designed a mobile-first, crowdsourced wildlife crime reporting platform tailored for rural and low-connectivity environments in the Sundarbans.
- Handled sparse and noisy community reports by developing custom NLP pipelines and geospatial models optimized for low-resource inputs
- Leveraged machine learning to analyze spatial crime data and forecast environmental degradation hotspots
- Designed and developed a gaming application to educate Bangladeshi and International Youth about wildlife and biodiversity conservation and emphasize long-term stewardship ethics

Academic
Current
Undergrad Researcher
Bangla Artificial Intelligence Research, Tools and Application (BARTA)Oct 2024 - Present
- Co-authored the first paper on Chakma-language Knowledge transfer using MLM. Developing dataset and techniques for indigenous language (like Chakma) models.
- Designed and directed Small-language-model building course as an instructor of BARTA
- Developed Educational Resource Allocation AI-Agent for the Government of Bangladesh.
- The first News Aggregation AI agent for Bangla news with the plan of future expansion to other low-resource languages
- Has research-backed multi-axis bias-analysis to empower citizens to make informed decisions
- Built in news-summarizer agent and interactivechatbot to know about news in detail
- Shows local and international news trends in real-time

- BanglaLLM introduced many of the first open-source bangla language models