Hi, I'm Sazan

I loved the serenity at the top of the Smoky Mountains! 🌄

Research Interest:

Generative AI, Multimodal Foundation Models, Geometric DL, Computational Biology, AI for Science

Updates:

[October '23] 🔖 Served as a reviewer for two NeurIPS '23 workshops: Deep Inverse and GenBio.
[October '23] 📄 First-authored paper Multimodal-NeuS accepted at NeurIPS '23 Deep Inverse Workshop.
[October '23] 📄 Co-authored paper Pair-EGRET accepted at NeurIPS '23 MLSB Workshop.
[August '23] 🎓 Graduated from UMD with an MS in CS.
[February '23] 📄 Co-authored paper SAINT-Angle accepted in the journal Bioinformatics Advances
[February '23] 🎉 Got Ph.D. admission offer from the prestigious CMU School of Computer Science in the CPCB program!
[November '22] 🔗 My publications have recently reached 50 citations!
[November '22] 📄 Journal version of our RECOMB '22 paper published in Journal of Computational Biology
[April '22] 📄 First-authored paper QT-GILD appeared at RECOMB '22 conference
[June '22] 🔗 First-authored paper EGRET got featured as one of the state-of-the-art protein ML models by 310.ai
[January '22] 📄 First-authored paper EGRET published in the journal Briefings in Bioinformatics (GS area ranking #2)
[January '22] 📄 First-authored paper HirePreter published in ACIIW '21
[December '21] 📄 Co-authored paper received best paper award at NSysS '21 (acceptance rate: 16.67%)
[November '21] 📄 Co-authored paper Review4Repair published in the journal Information and Software Technology (GS area ranking #4)
[February '21] 🎓 Graduated from BUET with a BS in CSE.
[May '20] 📄 First-authored Paper SAINT published in the journal Bioinformatics (GS area ranking #1)

I'm a Ph.D. student at CMU SAILING Lab in the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science, advised by Prof. Eric P. Xing. I am also supervised and mentored by Prof. Le Song (MBZUAI), Prof. Pengtao Xie (UCSD), Prof. Ben Lengerich (UW–Madison), and Caleb N. Ellington (CMU).

I completed my Masters in Computer Science at the University of Maryland at College Park (UMD), with a major in AI/ML (Computer Vision and Machine Perception). Here I was advised by Prof. Christopher Metzler and worked in the UMD Intelligent Sensing lab.

I graduated with a B.Sc. (Engineering) in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). I completed my undergrad thesis with a major in AI/ML, under the supervision of Prof. M. Saifur Rahman and Prof. Md. Shamsuzzoha Bayzid.

Please visit my Google Scholar profile to see the list of my completed works.