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

Azmine Toushik Wasi

My core research focuses on exploring Biomedical AI and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), with an emphasis on structural biology, neuro, therapeutic, and molecular ML domains. In addition to that, my other research interests include interdisciplinary research in Human-Centered AI (HCI, HAI) with NLP (Bias and Fairness) and AI in Industrial Engineering. I am looking forward to pursue a PhD in Fall 2025 to continue my research.

I working with Prof. Dong-Kyu Chae (HYU) as a visiting researcher on GNNs, MedAI, and NLP-HCI. I'm also collaborating with Riashat Islam (PhD, McGill and Mila) at Mila Quebec on molecular ML (Drugs and Proteins) and generative AI. In parallel, I collaborate with Prof. Min Xu (CMU) on biomolecules. I'm an active contributor in Cohere for AI Community. I founded CIOL to mentor young researchers, collaborating with Prof. Ahsan (OU) and Prof. Bappy (LSU) on using GNNs and digital twins for industrial and medical applications.

My research has been published in prestigious venues such as ICLR, COLING, ACCV, CSCW, and workshops of NeurIPS, AAAI, ACL, EMNLP, ICML and CHI, with ongoing reviews in ICLR, TCBB, COLING, IJPR among others. I regularly serve as reviewer for top ML conferences (ICLR, ACL, EMNP, CSCW, CHI) and as program chair/committee for workshops in top conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ACL, MICCAI). 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


  • October-November, 2024: I'll be reviewing in ICLR'25, CHI'25 & 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 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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