Azmine Toushik Wasi
Aspiring AI Researcher and Engineering Student


I have published and presented my work at prestigious conferences, including ICLR (A*), WWW (A*), CSCW (A), DASFAA, and COLING (B), as well as workshops at CHI (A*), NeurIPS (A*), ACL (A*), AAAI (A*), ICML (A*), IISE (A), and others.
You can click on the keywords below to explore my research in specific areas.


📰 Conference Papers

  1. INCLUDE: Evaluating Multilingual Language Understanding with Regional Knowledge
    Angelika Romanou, Negar Foroutan, Anna Sotnikova,... , Azmine Toushik Wasi, ... , Marzieh Fadaee, Sara Hooker, Antoine Bosselut
    ICLR'25 (Spotlight, Top 5.1%) ▪ [OpenReview] ▪ ▪ ▪

  2. Toward Context-Sensitive Accountability Reimagining Liability Frameworks for Biomedical AI
    Azmine Toushik Wasi
    IEEE BHI 2025 → Abstracts ▪

  3. Exploring Bengali Creative Storytelling Capabilities of Large Language Models Across Cultural Variations
    Azmine Toushik Wasi, Raima Islam*, Mst Rafia Islam*, Farig Sadeque, Taki Hasan Rafi, Dong-Kyu Chae
    CSCW'25 Posters → ▪

  4. GFlowNets for Learning Better Drug-Drug Interaction Representations
    Azmine Toushik Wasi
    ICANN'25 ▪ [Letter] ▪ ▪

  5. LegalMind: An Intelligent Solution for Legal Document Analysis with User-Centric UI and AI-Driven Capabilities in Mobile Devices
    Azmine Toushik Wasi, Mst Rafia Islam, Abdur Rahman, Tawfia Yeasmin, Amit Agarwal, Hitesh Laxmichand Patel, Taki Hasan Rafi, Dong-Kyu Chae
    CSCW'25 Posters → ▪

  6. Knowledge Explorer: An Agentic AI Framework for Interactive, Personalized and Multilingual Learning Experience
    Wahid Faisal*, Azmine Toushik Wasi*, Drishti Sharma*, Mahfuz Ahmed Anik, Taki Hasan Rafi, Dong-Kyu Chae
    CSCW'25 Posters → ▪

  7. Dialectal Bias in Bengali: An Evaluation of Multilingual Large Language Models Across Cultural Variations
    Azmine Toushik Wasi, Raima Islam, Mst Rafia Islam, Farig Sadeque, Taki Hasan Rafi, Dong-Kyu Chae
    WWW'25 (TheWebConf) (Short Paper) ▪ ▪ ▪

  8. Gaussian Regularization in Neural Graph Learning
    Azmine Toushik Wasi, Taki Hasan Rafi, Dong-Kyu Chae
    DASFAA'25 (Full Paper, Short Oral) ▪

  9. Mitigating Linguistic Bias between Malay and Indonesian Languages using Masked Language Models
    Ferdinand Lenchau Bit, Iman Khaleda binti Zamri, Azmine Toushik Wasi$, Taki Hasan Rafi, Dong-Kyu Chae
    DASFAA'25 (Short Paper Paper, Poster) ▪

  10. GReFEL: Geometry-Aware Reliable Facial Expression Learning under Bias and Imbalanced Data Distribution
    Azmine Toushik Wasi*, Taki Hasan Rafi*, Raima Islam, Karlo Šerbetar, Dong-Kyu Chae
    ACCV'24 ▪ [CVF] ▪ [LNCS] ▪ [arXiv] ▪

  11. BanglaAutoKG: Automatic Bangla Knowledge Graph Construction with Semantic Neural Graph Filtering
    Azmine Toushik Wasi, Taki Hasan Rafi, Raima Islam, Dong-Kyu Chae
    COLING'24 ▪ [ACL Anthology] ▪ [arXiv] ▪ [GitHub] ▪ ▪

  12. Neural Control System for Continuous Glucose Monitoring and Maintenance
    Azmine Toushik Wasi
    ICLR'24 Tiny Papers ▪ [OpenReview] ▪ [arXiv] ▪ [GitHub] ▪ ▪

  13. When SMILES have Language: Drug Classification using Text Classification Methods on Drug SMILES Strings
    Azmine Toushik Wasi, Karlo Serbetar, Raima Islam, Taki Hasan Rafi, Dong-Kyu Chae
    ICLR'24 Tiny Papers ▪ [OpenReview] ▪ [arXiv] ▪ [GitHub] ▪

  14. DiaFrame: A Framework for Understanding Bengali Dialects in Human-AI Collaborative Creative Writing Spaces
    Azmine Toushik Wasi, Taki Hasan Rafi, Dong-Kyu Chae
    CSCW'24 Posters ▪ [ACM DL] ▪ ▪ ▪


📔 Workshop Papers

  1. Differentiable Predictive Control for Precise Oxygen Level Maintenance for Critical Patients
    Azmine Toushik Wasi, Md Manjurul Ahsan
    NeurIPS'25 → AI for Science Workshop (AI4Science) ▪

  2. Position: Without Global Governance, AI-Enabled Biodesign Tools Risk Dangerous Proliferation
    Azmine Toushik Wasi, Mst Rafia Islam, Rahatun Nesa Priti
    NeurIPS'25 → Biosecurity Safeguards for Generative AI Workshop ▪

  3. Position: Adjacent Technologies Are the Key Enablers of Scalable and Safe Clinical MLLM Deployment
    Azmine Toushik Wasi, Md. Iqramul Hoque
    NeurIPS'25 → (i) GenAI for Health, (ii) Multi-modal FMs & LLMs for Life Sciences (FM4LS), (iii) Biosecurity Safeguards for Generative AI Workshop ▪

  4. Perspective: Lessons from Cybersecurity for Biological AI Safety and Regulation
    Azmine Toushik Wasi, Mst Rafia Islam
    NeurIPS'25 → (i) Regulatable ML Workshop, (ii) Biosecurity Safeguards for Generative AI ▪

  5. GFlowNets for Learning Better Drug-Drug Interaction Representations
    Azmine Toushik Wasi
    NeurIPS'25 → Structured Probabilistic Inference & Generative Modeling ▪

  6. Illusion of Control: Exploring the Limits of Human-in-the-Loop Oversight in Generative Finance
    Azmine Toushik Wasi, Enjamamul Haque Eram
    NeurIPS'25 → Workshop on Generative AI in Finance ▪

  7. Deepfakes in Political Manipulation: Evaluating Risks Under the AI Act
    Mst Rafia Islam, Azmine Toushik Wasi
    NeurIPS'25 → Regulatable ML Workshop ▪

  8. Seeing Isn't Believing: Addressing the Societal Impact of Deepfakes in Low-Tech Environments
    Mst Rafia Islam, Azmine Toushik Wasi
    ACM MM'25 → Workshop on Diffusion of Harmful Content on Online Web ▪

  9. The Myth of ‘One Model for All’: Why Biomedical Multimodal AI Demands Specialization, Not Scale
    Azmine Toushik Wasi
    CVPR'25 → Multimodal Foundation Models for Biomedicine ▪

  10. MEDIC-BD: Exploring the Possibilities of Integrating Generative AI into Bangladesh’s Healthcare System to Improve Healthcare Accessibility
    Azmine Toushik Wasi, Mahir Absar Khan, Rahatun Nesa Priti, Abdur Rahman, Mst Rafia Islam, Miskat Tahmin Ali
    IJCAI'25 → Multimodal Foundation Models for Biomedicine ▪

  11. A Proactive Framework for Equitable LLM Deployment in Global Health
    Azmine Toushik Wasi
    IJCAI'25 → Multimodal Foundation Models for Biomedicine ▪

  12. Assessing Gender Bias of Pretrained Bangla Language Models in STEM and SHAPE Fields
    Noor Mairukh Khan Arnob, Saiyara Mahmud, Azmine Toushik Wasi$
    ACL'25 → Gender Bias in NLP ▪

  13. Pathway-Attentive GAN for Interpretable Biomolecular Design
    Azmine Toushik Wasi, Mahfuz Ahmed Anik
    NAACL'25 → ML for Genomics Explorations ▪ ▪ ▪

  14. Risks and Safety Considerations for Foundation Model-based Autonomous Agents' Interaction with the Environment
    Azmine Toushik Wasi, Mahfuz Ahmed Anik, Riashat Islam
    NAACL'25 → Foundation Models in the Wild ▪ ▪

  15. Preserving Cultural Identity with Context-Aware Translation Through Multi-Agent AI Systems
    Mahfuz Ahmed Anik, Abdur Rahman, Azmine Toushik Wasi$#, Md Manjurul Ahsan
    NAACL'25 → LMs for Underserved Communities ▪ ▪

  16. Towards Culturally Inclusive Knowledge Dissemination Using AI Agents
    Mahfuz Ahmed Anik, Abdur Rahman, Azmine Toushik Wasi$#, Md Manjurul Ahsan
    AAAI'25 → Social Impact of AI ▪ ▪

  17. Public Participation in AI Governance: A Meta-Analysis of Citizen Engagement Initiatives
    Mst Rafia Islam, Azmine Toushik Wasi$#
    CHI'25 → Sociotechnical AI Governance ▪

  18. C.A.R.E. for AI Governance: Addressing Regional Challenges in the Global South
    Mst Rafia Islam, Azmine Toushik Wasi$#
    CHI'25 → Sociotechnical AI Governance ▪

  19. AI for Social Good and Public Impact in Marginalized Communities: A Cross-Cultural Framework
    Azmine Toushik Wasi
    AAAI'25 → Social Impact of AI ▪

  20. Deepfakes in Developing Societies: Handling the Societal Impacts and Cross-Disciplinary Vulnerabilities in Tech-Limited Environments
    Rahatun Nesa Priti, Mahir Absar Khan, Abdur Rahman, Azmine Toushik Wasi$#
    AAAI'25 → LLM Misinformation (PDLM) ▪ ▪ ▪

  21. Explainable Identification of Hate Speech towards Islam using Graph Neural Networks
    Azmine Toushik Wasi
    EMNLP'24 → NLP for Positive Impact ▪ NeurIPS'23 → Muslims in ML ▪ [ACL Anthology] ▪ [arXiv] ▪ ▪ ▪

  22. Balancing Power and Ethics: A Framework for Addressing Human Rights Concerns in Military AI
    Mst Rafia Islam*, Azmine Toushik Wasi*$#
    AAAI'25 → Social Impact of AI ▪ HRAIM (Mila - Quebec) ▪ [arXiv] ▪ ▪

  23. HRGraph: Leveraging LLMs for HR Data Knowledge Graphs with Information Propagation-based Job Recommendation
    Azmine Toushik Wasi
    ACL'24 → KaLLM Workshop ▪ [ACL Anthology] ▪ [Youtube] ▪ ▪ ▪

  24. Exploring Large Language Model Systems Design Perspective Using Cognitive Ergonomics
    Azmine Toushik Wasi, Mst Rafia Islam
    EMNLP'24 → NLP for Science ▪ ICML'24 → LLMs & Cognition ▪ [ACL Anthology] ▪ [arXiv] ▪ [Youtube] ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪

  25. Exploring Bengali Religious Dialect Biases in Large Language Models with Evaluation Perspectives
    Azmine Toushik Wasi, Raima Islam, Mst Rafia Islam, Taki Hasan Rafi, Dong-Kyu Chae
    CHI'24 → HEAL Workshop ▪ [arXiv] ▪ ▪ ▪

  26. LLMs as Writing Assistants: Exploring Perspectives on Sense of Ownership and Reasoning
    Azmine Toushik Wasi, Mst Rafia Islam, Raima Islam
    CHI'24 → In2Writing Workshop ▪ [ACM DL] ▪ [arXiv] ▪ ▪ ▪

  27. Ink and Individuality: Crafting a Personalised Narrative in the Age of LLMs
    Azmine Toushik Wasi, Raima Islam, Mst Rafia Islam
    CHI'24 → In2Writing Workshop ▪ [ACM DL] ▪ [arXiv] ▪ ▪ ▪

  28. SupplyGraph: A Benchmark Dataset for Supply Chain Planning using Graph Neural Networks
    Azmine Toushik Wasi, MD Shafikul Islam Sohan, Adipto Raihan Akib
    AAAI'24 → GCLR Worksop ▪ [Paper Site] ▪ [arXiv] ▪ [GitHub] (~25⭐) ▪ ▪

  29. Optimizing Inventory Routing: A Decision-Focused Learning Approach using Neural Networks
    MD Shafikul Islam Sohan, Azmine Toushik Wasi
    NeurIPS'23 → New in ML ▪ [Paper Site] ▪ [arXiv] ▪ ▪


📑 Challenges & Shared Tasks

  1. CIOL at AraGenEval shared task: Authorship Identification and AI Generated Text Detection in Arabic using Pretrained Models
    Sadia Tasnim Meem, Azmine Toushik Wasi
    EMNLP'25 → ArabicNLP 2025

  2. CIOL at SemEval-2025 Task 11: Multilingual Pre-trained Model Fusion for Text-based Emotion Recognition
    Md. Iqramul Hoque, Mahfuz Ahmed Anik, Abdur Rahman, Azmine Toushik Wasi$
    ACL'25 → SemEval-2025

  3. CIOL at CLPsych 2025: Using Large Lanuage Models for Understanding and Summarizing Clinical Texts
    Md. Iqramul Hoque, Mahfuz Ahmed Anik, Azmine Toushik Wasi$
    NAACL'25 → CLPsych

  4. HerWILL@DravidianLangTech 2025: Ensemble Approach for Misogyny Detection in Memes Using Pre-trained Text and Vision Transformers
    Neelima Monjusha Preeti, Trina Chakraborty, Noor Mairukh Khan Arnob, Saiyara Mahmud, Azmine Toushik Wasi$
    NAACL'25 → DravidianLangTech

  5. NLPopsCIOL@DravidianLangTech 2025: Classification of Abusive Tamil and Malayalam Text Targeting Women Using Pre-trained Models
    Abdullah Al Nahian, Mst Rafia Islam, Azmine Toushik Wasi$#, Md Manjurul Ahsan
    NAACL'25 → DravidianLangTech

  6. Eureka-CIOL@DravidianLangTech 2025: Using Customized BERTs for Sentiment Analysis of Tamil Political Comments
    Enjamamul Haque Eram, Anisha Ahmed, Sabrina Afroz Mitu, Azmine Toushik Wasi$#
    NAACL'25 → DravidianLangTech

  7. MysticCIOL@DravidianLangTech 2025: A Hybrid Framework for Sentiment Analysis in Tamil and Tulu Using Fine-Tuned SBERT Embeddings and Custom MLP Architectures
    Minhaz Chowdhury, Arnab Laskar, Taj Ahmad, Azmine Toushik Wasi$#
    NAACL'25 → DravidianLangTech

  8. Akatsuki-CIOL@DravidianLangTech 2025: Ensemble-Based Approach Using Pre-Trained Models for Fake News Detection in Dravidian Languages
    Mahfuz Ahmed Anik, Md. Iqramul Hoque, Wahid Faisal, Azmine Toushik Wasi$#, Md Manjurul Ahsan
    NAACL'25 → DravidianLangTech

  9. IITR-CIOL@NLU of Devanagari Script Languages 2025: Multilingual Hate Speech Detection and Target Identification in Devanagari-Scripted Languages
    Siddhant Gupta*, Siddh Singhal*, Azmine Toushik Wasi*$#
    COLING'25 → NLU of Devanagari Script Languages (CHiPSAL)

  10. RoBERTa Ensemble for Identifying Children’s Medical Disorders in English Tweets
    Azmine Toushik Wasi, Sheikh Ayatur Rahman
    ACL'24 → SMM4H Workshop Task: 5 ▪ [ACL Anthology] ▪ [Youtube]

  11. Analyzing Social Anxiety Effects through Context-Aware Transfer Learning on Reddit Data
    Sheikh Ayatur Rahman, Azmine Toushik Wasi
    ACL'24 → SMM4H Workshop Task: 3 ▪ [ACL Anthology] ▪ [Youtube] ▪

  12. ML Algorithm Synthesizing Domain Knowledge for Fungal Spores Concentration Prediction
    Md Asif Bin Syed, Azmine Toushik Wasi, Imtiaz Ahmed
    IISE'23 → QCRE Data Challenge 2023 ▪ [Site] ▪ [Technical Report] ▪ [Code] ▪ ▪


📃 Pre-prints

  1. SpatiaLab: Can Vision–Language Models Perform Spatial Reasoning in the Wild?
    Azmine Toushik Wasi, Wahid Faisal, Abdur Rahman, Mahfuz Ahmed Anik, Munem Shahriar, Mohsin Mahmud Topu, Sadia Tasnim Meem, Rahatun Nesa Priti, Sabrina Afroz Mitu, Md. Iqramul Hoque, Shahriyar Zaman Ridoy, Mohammed Eunus Ali, Majd Hawasly, Mohammad Raza, Md Rizwan Parvez

  2. TimeSpot: Benchmarking Geo-Temporal Understanding in Vision–Language Models in Real-World Settings
    Azmine Toushik Wasi, Shahriyar Zaman Ridoy, Koushik Ahamed Tonmoy, Kinga Tshering, S. M. Muhtasimul Hasan, Wahid Faisal, Tasnim Mohiuddin, Md Rizwan Parvez

  3. Kaleidoscope: In-language Exams for Massively Multilingual Vision Evaluation
    Israfel Salazar, Manuel Fernández Burda, Shayekh Bin Islam, ..., Azmine Toushik Wasi, ..., Sara Hooker, and Marzieh Fadaee

  4. CADGL: Context-Aware Deep Graph Learning for Predicting Drug-Drug Interactions
    Azmine Toushik Wasi, Taki Hasan Rafi, Raima Islam, Serbetar Karlo, Dong-Kyu Chae
    ▪ ▪

  5. ধরণী (Dhoroni): Exploring Bengali Climate Change and Environmental Views with a Multi-Perspective News Dataset and Natural Language Processing
    Azmine Toushik Wasi*, Wahid Faisal*, Taj Ahmad, Abdur Rahman, Mst Rafia Islam
    ▪ [arXiv] ▪ ▪

  6. Exploring Possibilities of AI-Powered Legal Assistance in Bangladesh through Large Language Modeling
    Azmine Toushik Wasi, Wahid Faisal, Mst Rafia Islam, Mahathir Mohammad Bappy
    ▪ [arXiv] ▪


📜 Works In Review

  1. Multi-lingual Clinical Text Analysis Benchmark

  2. Towards Better Clinical Text Analysis using LLMs with RAG and Multi-lingual LLMs

  4. Machine Learning Approach to Predict Input Parameters in The Fused Deposition Modeling Process

  5. BioTwinMine: Digital Twin-Based Optimization of Biomining for Sustainable Rare Earth Element Production

  6. Graph Neural Networks in Drug Discovery: Evaluating Different Architectures for Binding Affinity Prediction

  7. A Theoretical Framework for Graph-based Digital Twins for Supply Chain Management and Optimization

  8. A Digital Twin-based Multi-Agent Framework for Understanding and Optimizing Smart Building HVAC Systems

  9. A Multi-Model Digital Twin Framework for Enhancing Safety in Underground Mining Using Artificial Intelligence and IoT Devices

  10. Stages of Integrating Digital Twins in Fused Deposition Modeling

  11. Reevaluating Research Focus in Biases within LLMs

  12. Exploring Cognitive Ergonomics Principles to Improve UI Design





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