Doctoral Completion Fellow

University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Aug 2026 – May 2027

• Selected for a competitive university fellowship supporting final-year doctoral research and dissertation completion.

• Continuing research on generative AI, reward-guided learning, and agentic AI for scientific and materials design.

Graduate Research Assistant

University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Jun 2023 – Present

Research Focus: Generative AI and machine learning for constraint-aware thermoset shape-memory polymer design and scientific discovery.

• Developed constraint-aware generative AI frameworks using conditional variational autoencoders and large language models for targeted polymer generation.

• Developed supervised machine learning and deep learning models to predict polymer properties, including glass transition temperature (Tg) and rubbery modulus (Er), from molecular representations.

• Designed multi-objective reward and evaluation pipelines incorporating property alignment, chemical validity, functional-group compatibility, and structural novelty.

• Currently developing reward-guided reinforcement learning and tool-augmented agentic AI workflows that integrate generation, evaluation, and iterative refinement for polymer design.

• Conducting ongoing research on reaction-aware generative design and structure-conditioned learning in sparsely sampled reactive polymer systems.

Graduate Teaching Assistant

University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Aug 2022 – May 2023

• Supported approximately 30 students per semester in Advanced C# Programming and Networking in Java through labs, office hours, grading, and guided problem solving.

• Delivered selected guest lectures as part of my teaching-assistant responsibilities.

• Helped students troubleshoot code, understand programming and networking concepts, and develop independent problem-solving skills.

Senior Software Engineer

Bangladesh Japan Information Technology (BJIT), Dhaka, Bangladesh
Oct 2018 – Jul 2022

• Contributed to the development, review, and testing of Pocketalk, a multilingual real-time translation application, within a large mobile engineering organization working across Android and iOS platforms.

• Worked across multiple Android development teams before transitioning to a dedicated iOS team.

• Contributed to mobile applications integrating translation technologies from Google, Toshiba, Baidu, and Microsoft.

• Participated in code review, implementation, testing, and cross-team software-development workflows.

Software Engineer

Bangladesh Japan Information Technology (BJIT), Dhaka, Bangladesh
Feb 2014 – Sep 2016

• Developed and shipped Android applications including SuperBattery, SuperSpeed, and SuperTools for the Japanese consumer market.

• Worked on mobile software for device-performance optimization and everyday utility applications.

• Collaborated within software-development teams to implement, test, and maintain production mobile applications.