Hi, I'm Farhad

I am Md. Farhadul Islam, commonly known as Farhad or by my nickname, Fuad. I completed my Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with the Highest Distinction (Summa Cum Laude) from Brac University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Currently, I serve as a Research Assistant in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at United International University (UIU), under the supervision of Dr. Jannatun Noor Mukta. Alongside, I am also remotely contributing as a Research Assistant at the Research and Innovation Centre (RIC), Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), working under Dr. A. B. M. Alim Al Islam and Dr. Jannatun Noor Mukta. 

My research interests lie in Deep Learning, Medical Image Analysis with AI, Multimodal AI, resource-efficient deep learning approaches, sustainable AI applications, and Computer Vision for Social Good. I have published peer-reviewed articles in prominent venues such as Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Computers in Biology and Medicine, Scientific Reports, and in the proceedings of ICCV Workshops (ICCVw), WACV Workshops (WACVw), ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE), IEEE SoutheastCon, S+SSPR, ACM COMPASS, and ICMV, among others. In addition, I actively contribute to the research community as a peer reviewer for several prestigious journals and conferences, including AAAI, Scientific Reports, ICCVw, WACVw, IJCNN, and CSCW.

• Program Committee Member/Reviewer at AAAI 2026. - Aug 6, 2025

• "BAMPolyp: Bi-Axial Mamba Bottleneck for Gastrointestinal Polyp Segmentation" accepted to CVAMD @ ICCV 2025 🌺 !!! - July 13, 2025.

• 100 Citations on Google Scholar - June 6, 2025

• Received "Quality Journal Publication Award" from Brac University. - Apr 24, 2025

• Paper Accepted at Elsevier's Computers in Biology and Medicine [Q1, Impact Factor: 7.0, Acceptance Rate: 9%] !!!  - Apr 7, 2025

• Our research article "Uncovering local aggregated air quality index with smartphone captured images leveraging efficient deep convolutional neural network" received 3,663 article downloads in 2024, placing it as one of the Top 100 downloaded Sustainability papers published in Scientific Reports in 2024. Link of the list.

• Joined Research & Innovation Center (RIC), Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) as a Part-time Research Assistant. Supervisors: PI: Dr. A. B. M. Alim Al Islam & Co-PI: Dr. Jannatun Noor Mukta. (Worked full-time from May to June 2026).

• Will be joining United International University (UIU) as an RA in January 2025!! Again, under the supervision of Dr. Jannatun Noor, now Associate Professor and Director of the Data Science Program at UIU.

• Paper Accepted at 11th NSysS 2024 - Nov 5, 2024

• Paper Accepted at Elsevier Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence [Q1, Impact Factor: 7.5] - October 11, 2024

• Preprint of "Med-IC: Fusing a Single Layer Involution with Convolutions for Enhanced Medical Image Classification and Segmentation" live - Sept 27, 2024

• 50 Citations on Google Scholar - Aug 13, 2024

• Preprint of "Spatially Optimized Compact Deep Metric Learning Model for Similarity Search" live - Apr 09, 2024 

• Paper Accepted at Nature Scientific Reports [Q1, Impact Factor: 3.8] - Dec 30, 2023

• Paper Accepted at WVLL@WACV2023 - Nov 15, 2023

• Got Appointed as a full-time Full-time Research Assistant at CSE, Brac University - Aug 01, 2023

• Officially Graduated with Highest Distinction from Brac University - June 26, 2023

• Travel & Accommodation Grant at Elkana Symposium on Reimagining Teaching and Learning - May 19, 2023

• BRACU x NINMAS - Feb 15, 2023