Recent News
| Sep 6, 2026 | 🚀 New preprint - OracleZoom: recursive image super-resolution that keeps zooming to 256× with ground truth only at 4×. A VLM judge prefers it over Chain-of-Zoom in 78% of decided comparisons at 256×. Try the demo. |
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| Aug 22, 2026 | 🎉 Four papers accepted at EMNLP 2026 - PA3: Policy-Aware Agent Alignment through Chain-of-Thought to the main conference, plus †DAGGER, Many Dialects, Many Languages, One Cultural Lens, and Register Shifts Break LLM Safety to Findings. |
| Jun 16, 2026 | 🎉 Awarded a $20,000 Google Cloud research grant through the Gemini Academic Program to support my LLM agentic research at UMBC. Featured by UMBC and on LinkedIn. |
| Jun 1, 2026 | 🎉 Joined Amazon Science (Alexa AI) for my second summer - researching self-distillation with RL to push LLM reasoning on agentic tasks. |
| May 27, 2026 | 🚀 New preprint - DecomposeRL: a 7B claim-verifier that matches GPT-4.1-mini across 11 benchmarks - with fully inspectable reasoning traces. |
| May 26, 2026 | 🥳 AgentCollabBench accepted at the FAGEN workshop @ ICML 2026 - 900 tasks that catch when a multi-agent LLM team’s final answer is right but the reasoning quietly broke. |
| May 20, 2026 | 🥳 5 papers accepted at MeLLM workshop @ ACL 2026 (Multilinguality in the Era of LLMs) - spanning text-to-gloss, math reasoning, sentiment auditing, VLM dialect benchmarks, and pretraining corpora. |
| May 14, 2026 | 🥳 OMD-Bench got accepted at 3 CVPR 2026 workshops (Any2Any MLLM, CVinWild, KnowledgeMR). |
| May 7, 2026 | 🥳 1 of my ACL papers (VC Inspector) also got accepted to MAGMaR 2026. |
| Apr 7, 2026 | Successfully defended my PhD Proposal. Now I am officially ABD (All But Dissertation). Slides of the proposal can be found here. |
| Apr 6, 2026 | 🥳 3 of my papers got accepted to ACL 2026 - first-author VC-Inspector (Main) and GanitLLM (Findings), plus co-authored Survey on Multimodal Unlearning (Findings). |
| Jan 28, 2026 | 🥳 2 of my mentored papers got accepted at LoResLM Workshop at EACL 2026 [ 1, 2 ] |
| Dec 3, 2025 | ✈️ Heading to San Diego for NeurIPS 2025. Email me to schedule a chat! |
| Nov 21, 2025 | 🥳 3 of my mentored papers got accepted at BLP Workshop at AACL 2025 [ 1, 2, 3 ] |
| Nov 7, 2025 | 👨🏻💻 Participated in the Synthetic Data AI Agents & OpenEnv Challenge (Certificate of Completion) |
| Nov 5, 2025 | 👨🏻🏫 Joined as mentor in the Bangla Artificial Intelligence Research Lab (BARTA). |
| Oct 25, 2025 | 🥳 Q2E got accepted at AACL 2025 (main) (Project Page) |
| Oct 17, 2025 | 🥳 Mentored paper on tool-integrated reasoning got accepted at MathAI @ NeurIPS 2025. |
| Sep 27, 2025 | 🥳 FedMentor got accepted at GenAI4Health @ NeurIPS 2025. |
| Sep 23, 2025 | 🥳 New preprint - VC-Inspector: reference-free factuality evaluation for video captions. |
| Sep 5, 2025 | 🥳 De-Presuppose got accepted at *SEM 2025 (Project Page) |
| Sep 4, 2025 | 🥳 New preprint - FedMentor: domain-aware differential privacy for federated LLMs in mental-health applications. |
| Jun 14, 2025 | 🥳 New preprint - Q2E: zero-shot multilingual text-to-video retrieval via temporal event decomposition. |
| May 19, 2025 | Started as an Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon (Alexa Conversational AI). |
| May 16, 2025 | Served as a judge for the National Round of the Bangladesh AI Olympiad 2025. You can solve the problem here. |
| Jan 23, 2025 | My Scale.AI summer-internship project on RLHF-tuned text2SQL was featured on the Scale.AI engineering blog. |
| Dec 20, 2024 | Accepted a position as an Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon Science. Excited to join the team and work on cutting-edge research in NLP and ML. |
| Nov 16, 2024 | Attended EMNLP-2024 in Miami, Florida. Excited to meet researchers from all over the world. |
| Aug 16, 2024 | Finished my summer internship at Scale.AI as an MLR Intern. I have worked on text2SQL, RLHF, AutoEval, Many-Shot text2SQL, RAG. For more details, please read my linkedin post. |
| May 28, 2024 | Started my summer internship at Scale.AI (San Francisco, CA) as a Machine Learning Research Intern. I will be working on the text2SQL team. |
| Mar 19, 2024 | Our paper “HU at SemEval-2024 Task 8A: Can Contrastive Learning Learn Embeddings to Detect Machine-Generated Text?” got published in SemEval 2024 (co-located with NAACL 2024). The code is available here. |
| Mar 19, 2024 | Our paper “UMBCLU at SemEval-2024 Task 1A and 1C: Semantic Textual Relatedness with and without machine translation” got published in SemEval 2024 (co-located with NAACL 2024). The code is available here. |
| Feb 29, 2024 | Published an (awesome) list for academic ML competitions, AKA, Shared Task, Challenge. Contributions are welcome!! |
| Feb 17, 2024 | Published a chat-bot with GPT4Vision using OPENAI API for our language understanding lab. As vision support is still not available in the official playground, this demo will help our lab members explore the vision capability of GPT4. Anyone can use the code to deploy their own vision enabled chat-bot by changing the API key. |
| Jan 4, 2024 | Contributed code to PyTorch Lightning (PR #19224) - a deep-learning framework used by tens of thousands of researchers. |
| Dec 18, 2023 | Our paper named “SeeBel: Seeing is Believing” is now available in arXiv. This is a joint work with Sourajit Saha. |
| Jul 9, 2023 | Our paper “Semantically-informed Hierarchical Event Modeling” got published in *SEM, ACL 2023. |
| Apr 24, 2023 | Graduated from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) with a MSc in Computer Science. Awarded with Phi Kappa Phi Honor for being in the top 10% of the graduating class (CGPA 4.00/4.00). |
| Apr 1, 2021 | Started my job at UMBC as a Research Assistant in the Natural Language Understanding Lab. |
| Jan 21, 2021 | Started Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). |
| Sep 25, 2020 | A paper I first-authored, titled “SEMal: Accurate Protein Malonylation Site Predictor Using Structural and Evolutionary Information”, was published in Elsevier. |
| Sep 15, 2020 | Secured Top 6% (Rank 70) on Cornell Birdcall Identification (Bronze Medal 🥉) on Kaggle. |
| Aug 27, 2020 | A paper I co-authored, titled “Accurately Predicting Glutarylation Sites Using Sequential Bi-Peptide-Based Evolutionary Features”, was published in Genes. |
| May 23, 2020 | An app got published in the playstore for a Bangladeshi foundation named Obhizatrik. |
| Apr 28, 2020 | Featured on an international blog for the first time. |
| Apr 22, 2020 | A paper I co-authored, titled “Mal-Light: Enhancing Lysine Malonylation Sites Prediction Problem Using Evolutionary-based Features”, was published in IEEE Access. |
| Dec 10, 2019 | Appeared in GRE and secured 170 in Quant and 154 in Verbal, 324 in total. Wrote a cool blog about it. |
| Oct 22, 2018 | Secured 8th position in the 2018 ICPC Asia Dhaka Regional Contest (UIU_Renegades) |