I’m a final-year CS Ph.D. researcher at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), advised by Dr. Frank Ferraro, with research internships at Amazon Science (Alexa AI; Summer 2025 + 2026) and Scale AI (Summer 2024). I make models expose the structure behind an answer, events, questions, policies, graphs, then train and score against that structure with GRPO or OPD. My work on agentic LLMs earned a $20K Google Cloud Gemini Academic Program Award (2026).
Graduating Spring 2027 · No visa sponsorship needed · actively seeking Research Scientist roles in NLP / Multimodal AI. Please reach out if you have an opening.
🌍 New preprint - CulturalRiddles: human-written riddles from 62 cultures and 51 languages. The best models reach only 22% in some cultures. News coverage by Fast Company and Cohere Labs (X, LinkedIn).
🚀 New preprint - OracleZoom: recursive super-resolution to 256× with ground truth only at 4×. A VLM judge prefers it over Chain-of-Zoom 78% of the time. Demo.
I’ve competed internationally in algorithms and robotics, ranking 8th out of 300+ teams at the 2018 ACM ICPC Asia Dhaka Regional with multiple regional and national placements, reaching the top 70 on Kaggle 🥉 in the Birdcall Identification competition, and placing 9th at the University Rover Challenge 2015 (Utah, USA) and 22nd at the European Rover Challenge 2016 (Poland). Full list of awards →
Before the PhD, I also founded UniShopr (2019-2021), a cross-border e-commerce platform serving consumers in Bangladesh.
OracleZoom: On-Policy Self-Distillation Inspired Reference-Constrained Recursive Image Super ResolutionUnder review* Equal contribution
DecomposeRL: Learning to Ask Useful, Informative, and Diverse Questions for Semi-Supervised, Traceable Claim VerificationUnder review
Cornerstones or Stumbling Blocks? Deciphering the Rock Tokens in On-Policy DistillationNeurIPS 2026* Equal contribution
TRIAGE: Evaluating Prospective Metacognitive Control in LLMs under Resource ConstraintsNeurIPS 2026
PA3: Policy-Aware Agent Alignment through Chain-of-ThoughtEMNLP 2026Work done during internship at Amazon Alexa AI
Learning How to Use Tools, Not Just When: Pattern-Aware Tool-Integrated ReasoningMathAI @NeurIPS 2025
