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Mar 01, 2026 GuideNav received an Honorable Mention (Systems Track, top 3.6% of accepted papers) at HRI 2026.
Feb 01, 2026 Started mentoring an undergraduate researcher through the UMass Early Research Scholars Program on accessibility-critical object datasets for assistive navigation.
Dec 05, 2025 Our paper GuideNav, a vision-only robotic navigation assistant for blind travelers, was accepted at HRI 2026.
Nov 06, 2025 BAPPA, our benchmark of agents, plans and pipelines for Text-to-SQL generation (with CCDS collaborators), is out on arXiv.
Sep 01, 2025 Started my MS/PhD in Computer Science at UMass Amherst, joining the DARoS Lab with Dr. Donghyun Kim. Honored to receive the Paul Utgoff Memorial Graduate Scholarship from CICS.
Jun 01, 2025 Received the Dean’s Honor Award and the Bachelor’s Merit Scholarship from the University of Dhaka.
Feb 04, 2025 Awarded the National Science and Technology (NST) Fellowship by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Bangladesh for my RL research project (merit rank 11th out of 1260 candidates). Details.
Jan 15, 2025 My undergraduate thesis research on heterogeneous MARL coordination (CoHet) was accepted as an extended abstract at AAMAS 2025.