I am Azmine Toushik Wasi, a 4th year undergrad (only thesis defense remaining) in Industrial and Production Engineering at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh.

Azmine Toushik Wasi

My core research focuses on exploring AI4Science, Biomedical AI, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), AI Agents and Reasoning, with an emphasis on structural biology, therapeutic, clinical, and molecular ML domains. In addition to that, my other research interests include interdisciplinary research in Agentic AI (LLM Agents and more in different domain) and Human-Centered AI (HCI, HAI) with NLP (Multilinguality, Bias and Fairness) and AI in Industrial Engineering. I am looking forward to pursue a PhD in Spring/Fall 2026 to continue my research.

I'm collaborating with Riashat Islam (Microsoft Research) on molecular ML, generative AI, and reasoning, and have worked with Prof. Chae (HYU) on GNNs, Computational Drug Discovery, and NLP-HCI-HAI, as well as Prof. Min Xu (CMU) on biomolecules. I also collaborate with researchers from Cohere for AI and Harvard University. I'm a dedicated participant in HTGAA 2025 (MIT Media Lab), with regular assignments and final projects (protein engineering). As the founder of CIOL, I mentor young researchers and collaborate with Prof. Ahsan (OU) and Prof. Bappy (LSU) on GNNs, AI Agents and digital twins for industrial and medical applications.

My research has been published in prestigious venues such as ICLR, WWW, COLING, DASFAA, ACCV, CSCW, and workshops of NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, AAAI, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL and CHI, with ongoing reviews in several A*/A conferences and Q1 Journals. I regularly serve as reviewer and program chair/committee member for workshops in top AI-ML conferences. I am also a Kaggle Grandmaster (3rd GM in Bangladesh). Additionally, I have 3 years of experience in AI-integrated product/content automation, and product and project management.

I am a quick learner and highly adaptable, capable of leading projects and teams. I enjoy exploring new topics, sharing knowledge, refining existing skills, experimenting with new techniques, and challenging my capabilities.

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Feel free to email me (azminetoushik dot wasi at gmail dot com) if you're interested in collaboration or discussing research. I'm open to new ideas and collaborations.

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πŸ“° News and Updates


  • March 27, 2025: I participated in the ASAP Discovery x OpenADMET Antiviral Drug Discovery Challenge via Polaris. While my overall ranking in the competition wasn't at the very top, I managed to secure strong rankings in some setups. Read my LinkedIn post and GitHub for details!
  • March 27, 2025: My work on Multi-lingual LLM Evaluation in accepted is accepted to CHI'24 HEAL (Human-centric LLM Evaluation and Auditing) workshop!
  • March 05, 2025: My work on Interpretable Biomolecular Design using Genomes has been accepted at the ICLR'25 ML for Genomics Explorations workshop!
  • March 05, 2025: One of my works on Agentic Safety has been accepted at the ICLR'25 Foundational Models in the Wild workshop!
  • February 27, 2025: One of my works on AI Agents Application has been accepted at the NAACL 2025 Workshop on Language Models for Underserved Communities!
  • February 27, 2025: Five out of the six submissions I actively advisedβ€”five from the CIOL Winter ML Bootcamp and one from HerWILLβ€”have been accepted at the NAACL 2025 DravidianLanTech Workshop!
  • February 28, 2025: My work on AI Agents for Social Impact has been accepted at the AAAI 2025 Workshop on Social Impact of AI!
  • February 12, 2025: Joined How to Grow Almost Anything (HTGAA) 2025 by Community Biotechnology Initiative, MIT Media Lab as a Global Committed Listener!
  • February 11, 2025: INCLUDE received spotlight in ICLR'25 (Top 5.1%)!
  • February 8, 2025: My work on AI4DG in in Marginalized Communities has been accepted at the AAAI 2025 Workshop on Social Impact of AI!
  • January 25, 2025: Two papers (Gaussian Graph Regularization and Bias Handling with MLMs) are accepted to DASFAA'25!
  • January 23, 2025: One paper (INCLUDE, Cohere for AI Community Controbution) is accepted to ICLR'25 (A*-tier)!
  • January 20, 2025: One first author paper on LLM Evaluation is accepted to WWW'25 (TheWebConf, A*-tier)!
  • January 12, 2024: One project I mentored is accepted to AAAI 2025 PDLM Workshop!
  • December 26, 2024: Organizing CIOL Winter ML Bootcamp! I'm the lead instructor and coordinator in this program!
  • December, 2024: Received 1000+ Stars on GitHub!
  • November 04, 2024: One shared task paper accepted to CHiPSAL workshop at COLING'25!
  • October 15, 2024: One work is accepted for a oral (only 3 are selected!) presentation in Harms & Risks of AI in the Military workshop at Mila!
  • October 1, 2024: Two works I mentored have been accepted at the DigiTwin 2024 Conference.
  • September 28, 2024: One paper is submitted to ICLR (with Cohere for AI Community)!
  • September 20, 2024: One paper on Geometry-Aware Facial Expression Learning is accepted to ACCV'24!
  • September 19, 2024: One paper is accepted to EMNLP'24 NLP for Science workshop!
  • September 10-20, 2024: Two papers are submitted to COLING'25!
  • September 12, 2024: One paper on GNN-based Explainable Hate Speech Detection is accepted to EMNLP'24 NLP for Positive Impact workshop!
  • August 17, 2024: One paper is submitted to IJPR (GNNs in SCM)!
  • August 10, 2024: Three workshop papers from ACL'24 are published in ACL Anthology > [HRGraph], [SMM4H Task 3], [SMM4H Task 5].
  • JAugust-September, 2024: I'll be reviewing in EMNLP'25, CSCW'25, TEI'25, and more top tir conferences!
  • August, 2024: Joined Cohere for AI - Aya Expedition Projects as open source contributor!
  • 20 July, 2024: One paper is submitted to EMNLP 2024!
  • July 17, 2024: One paper on Human-centric NLP (LLMs) and Human-AI collaborative spaces is accepted to CSCW'24 Posters.
  • July, 2024: Will be joining Computational Neuroscience Summer School by Neuromatch Academy in July 2024.
  • June 17, 2024: One paper is accepted to ICML'24 Workshops (Large Language Models and Cognition)!
  • June, 2024: Will be joining Climate Change AI Summer School by in June-Aug. 2024.
  • May 1, 2024: Awarded 1 Year ACM Membership for my service in IDC 2024, as a reviewer.
  • April 1-20, 2024: Joined the program committee of TextGraphs-17 and ClimateNLP workshops co-located with ACL 2024.
  • April - July, 2024: Will be serving reviewer at several ACL'24 and ICML'24 workshops!
  • March - April, 2024: Received ICLR Travel Award (DEI) as an early student researcher! But, failed to travel due to visa issues :(
  • March 25, 2024: One paper on LLM Auditing and Evaluation is accepted to CHI'24 HEAL (Human-centric LLM Evaluation and Auditing) workshop!
  • March, 2024: Served as a reviewer in ACL ARR (Feb 2024)!
  • March 17, 2024: Two papers on Dark sides of LLM-assisted Writing are accepted to CHI'24 In2Writing workshop!
  • February 20, 2024: One paper on Bangla Knowledge Graph is accepted to COLING'24.
  • February 16, 2024: Two papers are accepted (Invited to Present) to ICLR Tiny Papers Track.
  • January, 2024: One paper is submitted to IEEE T-CBB (Journal, IF 4.5).
  • December, 2023 - January, 2024: Served as a reviewer in ICLR Tiny Papers Track!
  • December, 2023: Served as a reviewer in Complex & Intelligent Systems Journal (IF 5.8)!
  • October, 2023: Two papers are accepted in NeurIPS'23 Workshops!
  • August, 2023: Become a Kaggle Notebook Grandmaster (3rd Kaggle GM in Bangladesh).
  • May, 2023: Selected as a finalist of IISE QCRE Data Challenge 2023.
  • October, 2022: Joined DILab, as a research student.
  • March, 2022: Founded CIOL, bridging IPE and AI through research.

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