Work Experience
Academic
Current
Research Fellow
SPAR AI (Supervised Program for Alignment Research) , Berkeley, CASep 2026 - Present
- Research: A dynamic Bayesian protocol to rank which multi-agent risks the safety field should prioritize.
Academic
Current
Research Assistant
University of Toronto, CA (under Dr. Ishtiaque Ahmed)Aug 2026 - Present
- Research on sociotechnical AI, focusing on annotation subjectivity, LLM factuality, and AI safety
- Research Project: AI Safety and Specification Drift in Long-Horizon Multilingual Agents
- 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 research papers 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.
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.
- 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
- 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 interactive chatbot 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