Md Shariful Islam — Researcher Assistant

Location: Chattagram, Bangladesh
Email: shariful.cse43@gmail.com
Profiles: Google Scholar — LinkedIn — X — ResearchGate — Portfolio

Technical Skills

Python, R, C/C++, MATLAB, SQL, Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, scikit-learn, TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, spaCy, NLTK, OpenCV, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Plotly, Jupyter/Colab, RStudio, Git, VS Code, PyCharm, HTML/CSS/JavaScript, fastAPi, LaTeX/Overleaf

Education

• B.Sc. in Computer Science and Telecommunication Engineering | Noakhali Science and Technology University (NSTU), Chattagram, Bangladesh (CGPA: 3.25/4) (Jan 2018 – May 2023)
  Relevant Coursework: OOP (C++, Java), Data Structures, Algorithms, Theory of Computation, Numerical Analysis, Discrete Mathematics, DBMS, Operating Systems, Computer Architecture, Software Engineering, AI & Neural Networks, HPC, Data Mining & Warehousing, Digital Image Processing, Multimedia Communications, Statistics & Probability, Matrices/Vector Analysis, Complex Variables.

Work Experience

Research Assistant @ BUBT Research Graduate School, Bangladesh University of Business and Technology (BUBT) (Apr 2025 – Present | Dhaka, Bangladesh)

• Research in ML, DL, and NLP; design and implementation of models
• Built a reproducible end-to-end ML pipeline (ingestion → preprocessing → training → evaluation) with configurable baseline/deep models and experiment configurations

Research Collaborator (Remote) @ Automated Systems and Soft Computing Lab (ASCL), Prince Sultan University (Jun 2023 – Present | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia — Remote)

• Contribute to ML/DL/NLP projects including model design, multimodal pipelines, and reproducible training/evaluation codebases

Teaching Assistant @ Department of Statistics, NSTU (May 2023 – Apr 2024 | Chattogram, Bangladesh)

• Assisted in labs/tutorials for STAT 1111 (Fundamentals of Computer), STAT 1211 (Intro to Computer with Task-Oriented Software), STAT 2111 (Computer Programming)

STEM Mentor (O-Level Physics & Additional Mathematics) @ Private/One-to-one Tutoring (2022 – 2023 | Chattogram, Bangladesh)

• Mentored O-Level students in Physics and Additional Mathematics

Publications

Overview: Published 14 journal articles (7 as 1st author) and 5 conference/workshop papers, with ongoing and under-review work in ML, multimodal learning, and assistive robotics.

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Journal Articles (by year)

2026

1. M. S. Islam, M. J. U. Chowdhury, M. M. U. Tareq, T. Ahmed, M. Aktarujjaman, M. S. Uddin.
   SarcasmSense: A Novel Multitask Learning Framework for Vlog-Based Political Sarcasm and Irony Detection. IEEE Access, 14:52118–52138, 2026.
   DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2026.3674402

2025

1. M. S. Islam, M. A. T. Rony, M. M. H. Sarker, M. K. B. Bhuiyan, M. Saib, M. Aktarujjaman, M. S. Uddin, A. D. Algarni, A. T. Azar, W. El-Shafai.
   MRAN-VQA: Multimodal Recursive Attention Network for Visual Question Answering. Engineering Science and Technology, an International Journal, 72:102232, 2025.
   DOI: 10.1016/j.jestch.2024.102232

2. M. S. Islam, M. A. T. Rony, M. R. Hossain, S. Alshathri, W. El-Shafai.
   Zero-BertXGB: An Empirical Technique for Abstract Classification in Systematic Reviews. IEEE Access, 13:18418–18440, 2025.
   DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3531778

3. T. Sultan, M. A. T. Rony, M. S. Islam, S. Alshathri, W. El-Shafai.
   SumGPT: A Novel Multimodal Framework for Radiology Report Summarization to Improve Clinical Performance. IEEE Access, 13:15929–15945, 2025.
   DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3528335

2024

1. M. S. Islam, M. A. T. Rony, T. Sultan.
   GastroVRG: Enhancing Early Screening in Gastrointestinal Health via Advanced Transfer Features. Intelligent Systems with Applications, 23:200399, 2024.
   DOI: 10.1016/j.iswa.2024.200399

2. M. S. Islam, M. A. T. Rony.
   CDK: A high-performance transfer feature technique for early detection of osteoarthritis. Journal of Pathology Informatics, 15:100382, 2024.
   DOI: 10.1016/j.jpi.2024.100382

3. M. S. Islam, M. A. T. Rony, S. Alfarhood, D. Che.
   Elevating driver behavior understanding with RKND. IEEE Access, 12:65780–65798, 2024.
   DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3397725

4. M. S. Islam, M. A. T. Rony.
   Navigating the global stock market: correlation, prediction, and external factors. Iran Journal of Computer Science, 7(3):397–422, 2024.
   DOI: 10.1007/s42044-024-00177-w

5. M. A. T. Rony, M. S. Islam, T. Sultan, S. Alshathri, W. El-Shafai.
   MediGPT: Exploring Potentials of Conventional and Large Language Models on Medical Data. IEEE Access, 12:103473–103487, 2024.
   DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3428918

6. M. S. Sayed, M. A. T. Rony, M. S. Islam, et al.
   A Novel Deep Learning Approach for Forecasting Myocardial Infarction Occurrences with Time Series Patient Data. Journal of Medical Systems, 48:53, 2024.
   DOI: 10.1007/s10916-024-02076-w

7. J. O. Bappi, M. A. T. Rony, M. S. Islam, S. Alshathri, W. El-Shafai.
   A Novel Deep Learning Approach for Accurate Cancer Type and Subtype Identification. IEEE Access, 12:94116–94134, 2024.
   DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3422313

8. T. Sultan, M. A. T. Rony, M. S. Islam, S. Aldosary, W. El-Shafai.
   MemesViTa: A Novel Multimodal Fusion Technique for Troll Memes Identification. IEEE Access, 12:177811–177828, 2024.
   DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3505614

9. J. O. Bappi, M. A. T. Rony, M. S. Islam.
   BNVGLENET: Hypercomplex Bangla handwriting character recognition with hierarchical class expansion using convolutional neural networks. Natural Language Processing Journal, 7:100068, 2024.
   DOI: 10.1016/j.nlp.2024.100068

2023

1. N. Thalji, A. Raza, M. S. Islam, N. A. Samee, M. M. Jamjoom.
   AE-Net: Novel Autoencoder-Based Deep Features for SQL Injection Attack Detection. IEEE Access, 11:135507–135516, 2023.
   DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3337645

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Conference / Workshop Papers (by year)

2025

1. A. S. Ipa, M. A. T. Rony, M. S. Islam.
   TraSe: Architecture for Enhanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation in Bangla. LM4UC 2025 (ACL Workshop), 2025, pp. 8–15.
   DOI: 10.18653/v1/2025.lm4uc-1.2 | ACL Anthology

2. T. Sultan, H. A. Akbarpour, W. El-Shafai, M. Saib, M. K. B. Bhuiyan, M. S. Islam, A. T. Azar, C. B. Njima.
   MemeFusionNet: A Cross-Linguistic Multimodal Model for Identifying Troll Memes. ICCAD 2025, pp. 1–6, 2025.
   DOI: 10.1109/ICCAD64771.2025.11099160

2024

1. M. S. Islam, M. A. T. Rony.
   BanVATLLM and BanTSS: A Multimodal Framework and a Dataset for Detecting Toxic Speech in Bangla and Bangla-English Videos. WiNLP 2024 (Phase II), 2024 (online).
   OpenReview PDF

2. M. A. T. Rony, M. S. Islam.
   Evaluating Large Language Models for Summarizing Bangla Texts. WiNLP 2024 (Phase II), 2024.
   OpenReview PDF

2023

1. M. S. Islam, M. A. T. Rony, P. Saha, M. Ahammad, S. M. N. Alam, M. S. Rahman.
   Beyond Words: Unraveling Text Complexity with a Novel Dataset and a Classifier Application. ICCIT 2023.
   DOI: 10.1109/ICCIT60459.2023.10441159

Certifications

• Data Science Capstone — Certificate
• Natural Language Processing Specialization — Certificate
• Deep Learning Specialization — Certificate
• Machine Learning for Materials Boot Camp (NUMBR) — University of Wisconsin–Madison

English Proficiency

• IELTS Academic (Computer-delivered): 6.5 overall (Test Date: 2025-11-18)
  Listening 6.5 | Reading 6.5 | Writing 6.0 | Speaking 6.0

References

• Dr. Walid El-Shafai — welshafai@psu.edu.sa
• Md. Rasel Hossain — rasel.stat@nstu.edu.bd
• A Q M Sala Uddin Pathan — salauddin.cste@nstu.edu.bd

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