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I am Md. Ismail Hossain, a researcher at the Apurba-NSU R&D Lab, working under the supervision of Dr. Shafin Rahman and Dr. Nabeel Mohammed. I am also honored to be a Fatima Fellow, supported by Hugging Face and Google Colab.
My research focuses on Efficient Deep Learning, specifically leveraging Knowledge Distillation and network pruning to bridge the gap between cognitive principles and algorithmic efficiency. Recently, my work on KD was published in TMLR and earned the prestigious J2C certification, recognizing it among the top 10% of accepted papers for presentation at ICML. Beyond technical optimization, I am deeply interested in AI ethics and the philosophical frameworks that ensure technology serves society equitably.
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News
Invited to Review papers at TMLR! [Nov'25]
Invited to Review papers at ICLR! [Sept'25]
Two papers were accepted to the EMNLP 2025 Industry Track [Sept'25]
One paper was accepted to the TMLR [July'25]
One paper was accepted to Nature Scientific Data [July'25]
One paper was accepted to the IEEE SMC [July'25]
Invited to Review papers at NeurIPS! [July'25]
Invited to Review papers at Pattern Recognition (IF 7.19)[April'25]
Invited to Review papers at LXAI @ ICML 2025 [April'25]
Funded a project by the Research & Innovation Center (RIC), Govt. of Bangladesh. Thanks to RIC! [March'25]
Invited to Review papers at JCNN [Jan'25]
One paper was accepted to the IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (TAI) [Jan'25]
Accepted to the OxML 2025 Oxford Machine Learning Summer School Workshop [Nov'24]
Invited to Review papers at Machine Learning and Compression Workshop @ NeurIPS 2024 [Sep'24]
Recieved Fatima Fellowship [Sep'24]
One paper was accepted to the BMVC, 2024 [Jul'24]
Presented a Lightning Talk on LumiNet at C4AI [Mar'24]
One paper was accepted to the PML4LRS ,ICLR 2024 [Mar'24]
One paper was accepted to the PLOSE ONE (IF 3.752), 2023 [May'23]
Joined Cohere for AI community, 2023 [Feb'8]
One paper was accepted to the IEEE Access (IF 3.557), 2022 [Dec'22]
One paper was accepted to the 12th International Conference on Software and Computer Applications (ICSCA), 2023 [Nov'22]
Invited and presented research work at a conference of Bangladesh Datasciense Society & a2i, ICT Division, Bangladesh Government 2022 [Oct'22]
Second Runner-Up in DL-Sprint (National ASR Contest) ,2022 [Sept'22]
One paper was accepted to the 26th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2022 [June'22]
Started collaborating with the University of Stavanger, Norway, in 2022. [Aug'22]
One paper was accepted to the International Conference on Innovations in Science, Engineering, and Technology (ICISET), 2022 [May'22]