background
education, research experience, honors, and projects.
This is a summary — see my CV for the full version.
Education
MS/PhD in Computer Science, September 2025 – present
University of Massachusetts Amherst · Advisor: Dr. Shlomo Zilberstein (RBR Lab) · Co-advisor: Dr. Donghyun Kim (DARoS Lab)
Research focus: resource-efficient embodied AI, multi-agent collaboration, VLA and world models.
University of Massachusetts Amherst · Advisor: Dr. Shlomo Zilberstein (RBR Lab) · Co-advisor: Dr. Donghyun Kim (DARoS Lab)
Research focus: resource-efficient embodied AI, multi-agent collaboration, VLA and world models.
B.Sc. (Hons) in Computer Science and Engineering, January 2019 – December 2023
University of Dhaka, Bangladesh · CGPA 3.93/4.00 · Class rank 1/72 · Coursework
Thesis: multi-agent cooperation under sparse rewards via intrinsic rewards.
University of Dhaka, Bangladesh · CGPA 3.93/4.00 · Class rank 1/72 · Coursework
Thesis: multi-agent cooperation under sparse rewards via intrinsic rewards.
Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC), Science, 2016 – 2018
Dhaka College, Bangladesh
Dhaka College, Bangladesh
Secondary School Certificate (SSC), Science, 2009 – 2016
Government Laboratory High School Dhaka, Bangladesh
Government Laboratory High School Dhaka, Bangladesh
Research Experience
Graduate Research Assistant, DARoS Lab, UMass Amherst — September 2025 – present
- Designed RL/VLA-based navigation for quadruped guide robots and a large-scale segmentation dataset with a synthetic data pipeline for blind and low-vision people, benchmarked on foundation models (e.g. SAM 3); worked on VLA-based manipulation for a custom 7-DoF arm.
- Built IsaacSim environments to evaluate VLA memory strategies for long-horizon navigation, in a joint project with the Resource-Bounded Reasoning Lab on resource-efficient communication among small VLAs.
Research Assistant, CCDS, Independent University Bangladesh — February 2024 – June 2025
- VLM-based agent-controllable representations via multi-step inverse models for principled offline RL with rich exogenous information — advised by Dr. Riashat Islam (Mila, McGill University & Microsoft Research).
- Multimodal reasoning and LLM-based multi-agent collaboration under Dr. Amin Ahsan Ali and Dr. AKM Mahbubur Rahman, in collaboration with Muntasir Wahed (UIUC).
Undergraduate Research Assistant, CAILab, University of Dhaka — January 2023 – January 2024
- Multi-agent RL policies in sparse-reward environments with heterogeneous agents under Dr. Md Mosaddek Khan; organised seminars and workshops on RL and LLMs.
Honors & Awards
| Honorable Mention (Systems Track), HRI — top 3.6% of accepted papers | 2026 |
| Paul Utgoff Memorial Graduate Scholarship, CICS, UMass Amherst | 2025 |
| Dean's Honor Award, University of Dhaka | 2025 |
| University of Dhaka Bachelor's Merit Scholarship | 2025 |
| National Science and Technology Fellowship, Bangladesh — 11th of 1,260 applicants | 2025 |
| Hult Prize Impact Summits — Campus Champion & South Asia Regional Finalist | 2021 |
Open-source Releases
- NavAble dataset and synthetic data generation pipeline (HuggingFace)
- GuideData interview and observation corpus (Kaggle, CC0)
- CoHet implementation (GitHub)
- Dhaka Walkability dataset (Kaggle)
Academic Service
- Peer review: HRI (2027), AAMAS Journal Track (2025), ICIP, ICPR (2024)
- Workshops: CSEDU, CCDS (2024) — see activities
Application Development Projects
- DUStudyLink (2023) — Web application for collaborative study materials · GitHub
- Salvare (2022) — Android application for online resource management · GitHub
- Apellai (2021) — Online music streaming application for Android · GitHub
- !Typo (2019) — Interactive journal application for Windows · GitHub
More projects are on my GitHub profile.