🔍 Research Experiences
-
Visiting Researcher
April, 2026 - Present · Remote
MBZUAI
Multimodal LLMsAgentic AICausal Biomedical AI
- My research focuses on two areas: (1) Multimodal LLMs and agentic AI for healthcare and beyond, (2) Extending understanding and reasoning capabilities of LLM/VLMs, and (3) Causal Biomedical AI.
Supervised by: Prof. Imran Razzak.
-
Research Collaboration
August 2025 - Present · Remote
Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI)
Multimodal LLMsHealthcare AIReasoning Evaluation
- My research focuses on two areas: (1) Multi-modal LLMs and agentic AI for healthcare and beyond, and (2) Evaluating and exploring reasoning capabilities of LLM/VLMs.
Supervised by: Md Rizwan Parvez, PhD (Research Scientist, QCRI), co-supervised by Md Eunus Ali, PhD (Associate Professor, Monash U.), and Riashat Islam, PhD, (Senior Research Scientist, Microsoft Research).
-
Research Collaboration
August 2025 - March, 2026 · Remote
Microsoft Research
World ModelsScientific ReasoningClinical Reasoning
- Working on two research directions: (i) designing efficient and robust world-modeling and reasoning systems for scientific reasoning, and (ii) evaluating advanced agentic and clinical reasoning capabilities of LLMs for real-world healthcare settings. Supervised by Riashat Islam, PhD, (Senior Research Scientist, Microsoft Research).
-
August, 2025 - February, 2026 · Remote (Volunteer)
Community Biotechnology Initiative, MIT Media Lab, MIT
Synthetic BiologyLab AutomationTeaching
- Exploring computational bio-design and engineering problems, focusing on LLM/Agent-guided lab automation.
Preparing and improving course materials, assisting in project works and final presentations.
Will be assisting students in their AI-driven bioengineering and synthetic biology projects in HTGAA 2026, as a part of BioClub Tokyo node.
-
Visiting Researcher
October, 2022 - Present · Remote
Data Intelligence Lab, Hanyang University
Graph Neural NetworksMedical AIHuman-Centric LLMs
- I am working on Graph Neural Networks (Theoretical GNNs, Knowledge Graphs and Bangla NLP, Applications in Healthcare domain), Medical AI and Human-centric aspects of LLMs (cultural, linguistic, and ethical).
Also worked on LLM Agents, LLMs and LLM Application in learning and legal domains.
Explored cognitive aspects of LLMs, and explainability.
Supervised by Prof. Dong-Kyu Chae.
Published 11 research papers in CSCW (4), WWW (1), DASFAA (2), ACCV (1), COLING (1), ICLR (1) and CHI-W (1). Some more under review.
-
October 2025 – Present · Remote (Volunteer)
Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society (SRI), University of Toronto
Trustworthy AIAI PolicySocietal Trust
- Selected for SRI’s AI and Trust Working Group to collaboratively explore social, cultural, and technical dimensions of trustworthy AI through a year-long international and interdisciplinary effort on Communities, Well-Being & Societal Trust cluster.
- Contributing to research and policy agenda development on trust in AI systems, with outputs intended for scholars, policymakers, and industry practitioners.
- Supervised by Dr. Beth Coleman (Research Lead, SRI; Professor, Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology, University of Toronto).
-
Visiting Researcher
April 2025 - September, 2025 · Remote
AI4CHEMIA Research Group, King Saud University
Drug DiscoveryAI for ScienceAgentic AI
- My research focuses on two areas: (1) Health informatics and AI for medical tasks, particularly in computational drug discovery, proteins, chemistry, and AI in science, and (2) LLMs, multi-modal models, and agentic AI for healthcare and beyond.
-
Community Researcher
August 2024 - January, 2026 · Remote
Cohere Labs (formerly, Cohere for AI)
Multilingual AIClinical UnderstandingEmbodied Reasoning
- I work on Cohere for AI Community projects with C4AI researchers. Recently, I contributed to
INCLUDE (ICLR'25),
the Aya Expanse release, and
Kaleidoscope (Submitted to ICLR'26).
Currently, I'm leading work on multilingual clinical understanding, and contributing to projects on Med-LLMs, Long CoT, Embodied Reasoning, PRMs, and more.
These projects are mostly supervised by Julia Kreutzer, Marzieh Fadaee and Sara Hooker.
-
June 2025 - August, 2025 · Remote
Pi School
RAGGraphRAGEarth Observation
- Working on the Earth Virtual Expert (EVE) project by the European Space Agency in collaboration with Pi School; developing a RAG-based solution for researchers and the general public to explore scientific data related to Earth Observation. Supervised by Àlex Ramírez Atrio, Antonio Lopez, and Cristiano De Nobili. Tech stack: RAG (Qdrant, Mistral, Hugging Face), GraphRAG (Neo4j), hallucination mitigation, chain of verification, query optimization, metadata augmentation, metadata-based filtering, agentic decision-making and more.
-
Student Research Assistant
May 2024 - March, 2025 · Remote
Mila Quebec AI Institute
Reinforcement LearningStructural BiologyReasoning under Uncertainty
- My research focuses on (1) geometric and sequential computational structural biology, particularly RL-guided alignments and (2) Agentic AI, reasoning under uncertainty, and multi-modal alignment problems. Currently, I am working on reducing uncertainty in AI models using reinforcement learning and exploring the application of LLM reasoning and AI agents in the medical domain.
Co-advised by Riashat Islam, PhD, (Senior Research Scientist, Microsoft Research; RS at SDAIA/NCAI; Ex-RS at DreamFold AI; PhD, McGill and Mila).
-
Founding Researcher
March, 2022 - Present · Part-time | Self Employed
Computational Intelligence and Operations Laboratory - CIOL
Research MentorshipOperations ResearchDigital Twins
- I founded Computational Intelligence and Operations Lab - CIOL for accelerating IPE + ML combinational research through guiding and mentoring aspiring researchers.
Here, I am collaborating with
Prof. AMM Mukaddes (SUST),
Prof. Mahathir M Bappy (Louisiana State Uni.)
and Prof. Manjurul Ahsan (Uni. of Oklahoma)
on GNNs, OR+ML, Digital Twins, Advanced manufacturing and Medical AI applications.
Around 15 students published their first research paper under my mentorship, and I have arranged multiple research and technical training sessions for them.
CIOL is the first research lab in Bangladesh to publish at ICLR, ICML, and NeurIPS, including all three in the same calendar year in 2026.
More than 16 students have published their first research paper under my mentorship, and I have arranged multiple research and technical training sessions for them.
Currently there are 25+ members in CIOL, and we are working on multiple research projects in AI/ML, OR, and their applications in healthcare, manufacturing, and other domains.
-
Research Intern
July 2024 - December, 2024 · Remote
Xu Lab, Carnegie Mellon University
Drug DiscoveryProtein EngineeringGraph Neural Networks
- Worked on drug discovery and protein engineering using GNNs and ChemLMs.
I'm mentored by Mostofa Rafid Uddin (PhD Student, CMU), and advised by Prof. Min Xu.
🧑🎓 Training & Summer Schools
-
February to May, 2025 · Remote
Community Biotechnology Initiative, MIT Media Lab, MIT
BioengineeringProtein DesignSynthetic Biology
- I am exploring about bioengineering, synthetic biology, DNA editing, protein design, bioproduction, microbiome science, lab automation, biodesign, microfluidics, advanced imaging, CRISPR-Cas9, immunogenetics, and global challenges in biotech accessibility.
As a committed global listener, I'll join classes and activities daily, submit weekly homework, and work on both personal and team final projects. For my personal final project, I'll focus on de novo enzyme design using AI for specialized use cases.
My homeworks, project works and course progress can be found on this Notion page.
[Certificate]
-
Brown University Dept. of Physics
AI for PhysicsGraph Neural NetworksGenerative AI
- I've learned about AI's role in advancing physics, Graph Neural Networks in particle physics, operator learning for inverse scattering, unsupervised methods for galaxy identification, Large Language Models and RAG, auto-encoders for dark matter detection, and generative AI applications in industry.
[Certificate]
-
Neuromatch Academy
Computational NeurosciencefMRIBrain Function
-
CCAI Summer School (Research Student)
June - August, 2024 · Remote
Climate Change AI
Climate ChangeAI for Climate
I joined Climate Change AI Summer School 2024 to learn extensively about climate change and how we can use different AI methods to fight it.
🧑💻 Work Experiences
-
Project Executive
March 2022 - October 2023 · Part-time
10 Minute School
Python AutomationProject CoordinationTeam Leadership
- Developed 30+ Automation tools using Python & ML (NLP, CV) Techniques, increasing productivity and quality by 500%-1000%.
- Developed and maintained 180+ interconnected google sheets for multiple projects | Developed 22K+ educational and promotional contents.
- Worked in 50+ different projects | Led/Co-ordinated 35+ project segments | Leading/Coordinating 04 teams with 15+ individuals in different projects.
-
Live-Class Team Resources Executive
September, 2021 - February, 2022 · Part time
Shikho Technologies
Educational MaterialsQuality Assurance
- Prepared 180+ Live-Class materials in 6 projects including PPTX slides, notes, questions and others, regularly consulting with Teachers, SMEs and Executives.
- Quality Assurance of 300+ additional materials.
-
Content Designer
June 2021 - January 2021 · Contract
10 Minute School
Content DesignProject Coordination
- Project Coordinator, Freelance Content Design Team, 10MS Jobs - Admissions.
- Worked in 15+ different projects, Led/Co-ordinated 5+ projects with 5+ types of different stakeholders.
- Designed and developed 8K+ educational and promotional content.
🤝 Organizational Experiences
👩💻 Programming and Machine Learning Related
-
Core Organizer and Steering Committee Member
September, 2023 – Present · Self-Employed · Remote
Muslims in ML Community
Community LeadershipInclusive AIConference Workshops
- Building and maintaining a global network of Muslim ML researchers and professionals, advance work on bias and fairness, support researchers from Muslim-majority regions, and facilitate discussions on ethical and inclusive AI.
- Organized 3 workshops at NeurIPS and ICML, and 5 socials across NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AISTATS, and ACL. Managed 350+ submissions, coordinated logistics for 1.5K+ attendees, and maintained technical infrastructure of MusIML.
- Coordinated proceedings with Springer Nature and secured support from QCRI, Google, and Amazon. Curated invited talks and panels featuring senior AI researchers to strengthen community engagement.
-
Founder and Director
(2022 - Present)
Computational Intelligence and Operations Lab – CIOL
Research LeadershipMachine LearningMentorship
- I founded CIOL to accelerate IPE-AI combinational research at SUST-IPE, filling up the current gap of ML-focused research in the department. Collaborating with our seniors, we ensure that the lab is well-equipped with the necessary resources and expertise; and actively involved in different research projects.
-
Product Tester
(May 2023 - December 2023)
DeepLearning.AI
Course EvaluationStatisticsMachine Learning
-
Pie & Ai Ambassador
(October 2022 - December 2023)
DeepLearning.AI
Community WorkshopsPythonML Training
- Arranged and took several workshop and meetups.
- Trained Python and latest ML Technologies over 300+ individuals from different background.
-
Wing Director, Technical Facilities Enhancement
(Sept. 2021 - Jan. 2022)
Black Brains
Curriculum DevelopmentApp DevelopmentDatabase Management
Executive Officer (Technology, Curriculum, and Research) at Black Brains (Joined November 15, 2020)
- Upgradation of Black Brains Office Assistant App.
- Developing Black Brains Micro-courses (Curriculum, Content Design, Course Assessments Design, App Integration, Database and Overall administration)
- Database design and management. Regular technical research, analysis and development. Website & App maintainance.
-
Information Technology Manager
(Jan 2019 - Oct 2021)
Bangladesh Youngster Social Organisation
IT ManagementAndroid DevelopmentDatabase Design
- Managing Program-related IT Support stuffs and tasks
- BYSO - App Development for android platform with Top #3 ranking in communications app in PlayStore.
Created Central Database, and necessary management tools. Developed IT Structure for the organization and increased productivity.
-
C Programming Mentor
(2016-2017)
IPSC Programming Club
C ProgrammingContest Mentoring
- Trained aspiring programmers of the club for National High School Programming Contest.
-
Co-Founder, Mentor
(2016 - 2018)
5D Programmers
Programming EducationMentorship
- Spreading programming knowledge.
🧑🤝🧑 Social Contributions and Volunteering
-
The Queen's Commonwealth Essay Competition 2021
Essay EvaluationVolunteering
- The QCEC is the world's oldest international writing competition for schools, established in 1883. This year QCEC received about 26,000 submissions from all the commonwealth countries.
-
Team Lead (Human Resources Assistant)
(May 17, 2021 - August 2021)
Science Bee
Team LeadershipScience Outreach
- Leading a team of young science enthusiasts to betterment.
- Helping them explore science, technology and contribute to the community.
-
Content Writer
(March 2017 - January 2021)
Mythology - মিথলজি
Creative WritingContent Writing
- Wrote 3 Series containing multiple stories and contents, 1 joint writing and a story.
-
Online Volunteer
(July 2020 - April 2021)
United Nations Volunteers
Content WritingGraphic DesignTranslation
- Supporting in many roles as Content Writer, Graphics Designer, Translator etc in various projects.
-
Assistant Secretary of Skill Development
(Oct. 2021 - April, 2022)
Graduate Development Network - SUST
Skill DevelopmentIT Support
Organizer (Mar. 2020 - Oct. 2021)
- Managed IT support and tasks, worked to help students develop necessary skills.
Copyright © 2022-2026 Azmine Toushik Wasi. All rights reserved.