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about

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dhaka, bangladesh — smjubaer.0.00@gmail.com

i'm a high-school researcher working at the seam between machine learning and the things that move through the world- autonomous vehicles, pedestrians, and the small uncertainties that decide whether a system is safe. my published work studies adaptive uncertainty in reinforcement learning, lightweight simulation for safety-critical evaluation, and the pedestrian archetypes that ought to live inside any honest av test suite.

lately i spend most of my hours a layer above that - on llm reasoning (how models think across long chains, where they confabulate, where they actually plan), llm memory (retrieval, episodic stores, the slow problem of remembering what mattered), and diffusion models as a generative substrate for perception, simulation, and world models.

alongside all of that, i help curate low-resource speech datasets at bengali.ai, lead research at notre dame college's largest student club, and try, where possible, to keep the mathematics honest and the prose short.

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currently thinking about
  • llm reasoningchain-of-thought · planning · self-verification
  • llm memoryretrieval · episodic stores · long context
  • diffusion modelsgenerative perception · world models · simulation
  • safe autonomous drivinguncertainty · pedestrian archetypes
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education
2023–25

notre dame college, dhaka

higher secondary school certificate. national merit talent pool scholarship recipient (top 1%) for hsc 2025.

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milestones
  • 2026

    cohere labs open science community

    accepted to join the global community of researchers, engineers, linguists, social scientists, and lifelong learners; exploring model evaluation, agent behavior, interpretability, and ML understanding.

  • 2026

    eeml summer school 2026

    excited to attend Eastern European Machine Learning Summer School 2026, being the youngest ever participant with full-funding, and selected for a poster presentation of my work.

  • 2025

    icmla, iros & ieee iv

    three first-author papers on safe autonomous driving, simulation, and pedestrian modelling — including a top-5% spotlight at iros.

  • 2025

    reviewer, neurips & ieee iv

    served as a reviewer for one of the world's premier ml conferences and the ieee intelligent vehicles symposium.

  • 2024

    stanford shtem internship

    research intern and project lead, working on emotional detection in natural language and childhood social literacy.

  • 2023–25

    augmented design lab, uc santa cruz

    researcher and co-mentor in the science internship program for three consecutive years; led work on pedgrid, custom annotation tools, and pedestrian archetypes.

  • 2024

    bengali.ai

    researcher and co-lead on local speech-to-text, with a curated subsection for chak — a low-resource bengali dialect.

  • 2023

    waterloo qc summer program

    one of 30 students selected worldwide; volunteer developer at ibm quantum, and selected participant at the cern solvay summer camp.

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leadership
  • president (research) — notre dame i.t. club

    lead a 300+ member club, the largest at school. organised bangladesh's largest inter-school technology festival with 25,000+ participants.

  • product manager — the scibridge initiative

    made science accessible to 1,000+ rural students through hands-on stem kits and workshops. raised $5,000+ in funding; featured on national television for community impact.

  • founder & advisor — sirajganj govt. b.l. high school science club

    founded the first science club in the city; grew it to 150+ active members and launched its first city science festival.

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tools

python·c·c++·java·javascript·git·pytorch·tensorflow·scikit-learn·pandas·numpy·reinforcement learning·nlp·computer vision·qiskit·latex·linux

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languages
  • bengalinative
  • englishfluent
  • frenchintermediate