CV

The PDF version of my CV can be found here.

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA (Aug. 2020 – Dec. 2025)
M.S. in Software Engineering, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh (Jan. 2018 – June 2019)
B.S. in Software Engineering, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh (Jan. 2014 – Dec. 2017)

My research interests lie in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Large Language Models (LLMs), and Recommender Systems, with a focus on:

Applied Scientist II, Amazon (Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios), Seattle, WA, USA (Jan. 2026 – Present)
- Researching and developing LLM/ML methods for Prime Video personalization, evaluation, and content discovery.
Applied Scientist Intern, Amazon (Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios), Seattle, WA, USA (May 2025 – Aug. 2025)
- Conducted research on multi-agent relevance judgment for content discovery
Applied Scientist Intern, Amazon (Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios), Seattle, WA, USA (May 2024 – Aug. 2024)
- Developed a multi-task knowledge distillation framework for efficient LLM-based content discovery systems
Research Scientist Intern, IBM Research (Almaden Lab), San Jose, CA, USA (May 2023 – Aug. 2023)
- Conducted research on conversational AI and long-form question answering
Researcher (PhD), UIUC × eBay Research Collaboration, Urbana, IL, USA (Sep. 2022 – Dec. 2024)
- Conducted research on recommender systems, focusing on user preference modeling
Software Engineer, Samsung R&D Institute Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh (Nov. 2019 – Aug. 2020)
- Built and maintained applications for Samsung wearable devices (Tizen platform)

Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Aug. 2025 – Dec. 2025)
- Course: CS 411 – Database Systems
Co-Instructor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Jan. 2025 – May 2025)
- Course: CS 598KCC – Understanding and Using LLMs
- Previously co-instructed: Spring 2024, Fall 2024
Graduate Research Assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Aug. 2020 – Dec. 2024)
- Advisor: Prof. Kevin C. Chang
- Collaborations with IBM and industry partners on search and language systems
Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Aug. 2023 – Dec. 2023)
- Course: STAT 107 – Data Science Discovery

IIT Academic Excellence Gold Medal Award (2019)
IEEE Computer Society Bangladesh Chapter Award for Academic & Research Excellence (2019)
Winner, Nurse Care Activity Recognition Challenge (Ubicomp HASCA Workshop, 2019)
IJCAI-AIJ Travel and Accessibility Grant (2019)
Best Presenter Award, ICREST Conference (2019)
ICT Fellowship, ICT Division Bangladesh (2018–2019)

Ph.D. Dissertation: Advancing Semantic Modeling: Addressing Coordination, Interpretability, and Data Scarcity in Domain Representation, UIUC, 2025
Master’s Thesis: An Evidential Inter-node Hellinger Distance based Tree Classifier, University of Dhaka, 2019
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Undergraduate Thesis: Context Sensitive Bengali Spell Checker, University of Dhaka, 2017