Graduate Research Assistant August 2023 - Present

Complex System Lab, Oklahoma State University

• Investigate modality imbalance in multimodal learning across real-world applications and benchmark datasets to ensure equitable representation of all modalities during model training.
• Refine knowledge distillation techniques to enhance cross-modal learning.
• Develop a multimodal framework integrating smartphone/edge-device captured crop/soil patch images with tabular meteorological data for improved soil moisture estimation and precision agriculture.

Graduate Teaching Assistant August 2023 - Present

Department of Computer Science, Oklahoma State University

• Assist in developing and grading course materials and manage the Canvas platform.
• Provide one-on-one mentorship, maintain course websites, and participate in curriculum development meetings.
• Courses include:
  • Design & Implementation of Operating Systems I (Fall 2023)
  • Intro to Object-Oriented Programming (Spring 2024)

Data Scientist & ML Engineer September 2022 – July 2023

NeovoTech Ltd., Dhaka, Bangladesh

• Create crawlers to scrape news articles from various websites and store them in an AWS S3 bucket.
• Develop, maintain, and deploy text translation and summarization pipelines.

Machine Learning Intern June 2022 – August 2022

NeovoTech Ltd., Dhaka, Bangladesh

• Collaborate with colleagues to prepare a web crawler that crawls Swedish news text.
• Contribute to improving the Neural Machine Translation (NMT) pipeline from Swedish to English text.

Research Assistant September 2021 – September 2022

Apurba-NSU R&D Lab, Dhaka, Bangladesh

• Collaborate with fellow RAs to train, fine-tune, and deploy deep learning models for image classification, OCR, ASR, sentence similarity, masked language modeling, QA, and NER.
• Conduct research on model compression techniques (pruning, quantization, and knowledge distillation) and present weekly reports.