smj — index
iv
research

published
findings.

work at the intersection of autonomous systems, reinforcement learning, and the slow craft of making safety-critical software legible.

4 papers & preprints
3 first-author publications
2 venues reviewed
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publications
  • 2026

    absurd world: a simple yet powerful method to absurdify the real-world for probing llm reasoning capabilities

    ryan albright, golam md muktadir, zarif ikram, s. m. jubaer, mehrab hossain, dianbo liu

    preprint arXiv / under review

    preprint

  • 2025

    udae: adaptive uncertainty-driven reinforcement learning for safe and efficient autonomous driving

    s. m. jubaer, et al.

    ieee international conference on machine learning applications (icmla)

    published

  • 2025

    scene2sim: lightweight annotation-driven simulation for safety-critical autonomous driving evaluation

    s. m. jubaer, et al.

    15th workshop on planning, perception and navigation for intelligent vehicles, ieee/rsj iros

    spotlight — top 5%

  • 2025

    pedestrian archetypes: the must-have pedestrian models for autonomous vehicle safety testing

    co-authors, s. m. jubaer, et al.

    ieee intelligent vehicles symposium (iv)

    published

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positions

  • augmented design laboratory, uc santa cruz

    2023 — present

    researcher & co-mentor — science internship program

    • · $4,000 research stipend awarded for three consecutive years (2023, 2024, 2025).
    • · identified pedestrian archetypes and built custom annotation tools for behaviour datasets.
    • · developed 'pedanalyze' annotation tool for av safety testing.
    • · led the research that became the ieee iv 2025 publication.

  • stanford shtem summer internship program

    summer 2024

    research intern & project lead

    • · rigorous research on emotional detection using natural language processing.
    • · novel approaches to improve childhood social and emotional literacy.

  • bengali.ai

    2024 — present

    researcher & co-lead

    • · curated high-quality data for the local speech-to-text project for bengali.
    • · ensured dataset quality using nisqa metrics.
    • · created a comprehensive subsection on 'chak', a low-resource dialect.
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academic service
  • reviewer

    neurips 2025

    assessed methodological soundness, reproducibility, and contribution to the field.

  • reviewer

    ieee intelligent vehicles symposium (iv) 2025

    reviewed work on autonomous vehicles, perception systems, and intelligent transportation.

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honours & awards

international

  • amazon ai/ml scholarshipyoungest and first high school recipient
  • global finalist & special innovation awardeeconrad innovation challenge 2023–24, top 2% internationally
  • special mention awardalgoverse ai research student proposal awards 2025 — $1,000, 10th internationally
  • conrad innovatorconrad challenge, three consecutive years (2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24)
  • gold honourinternational astronomy and astrophysics competition 2022
  • gold honourinternational youth math challenge 2022
  • gold honourphystech international physics competition 2021

national

  • silver medalist & national camperbangladesh olympiad in informatics 2023, 2024 — top 1%
  • national championbangladesh junior science olympiad 2022 — 1st of 30,000+
  • national championbangladesh junior science olympiad 2023
  • 3rd place & national camperbangladesh physics olympiad 2023
  • national merit talent pool scholarshipssc 2023 — top 1%
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selective programs

eastern european machine learning summer school (eeml 2026) — youngest ever participant with full-funding & poster presentation·stanford shtem (2024)·science internship program, uc santa cruz (2023–25)·cern solvay summer camp (2023)·university of waterloo summer program for quantum computing (2023) — 1 of 30 worldwide·mit beaver works summer institute·stanford code in place (2024)·wyse grainger engineering summer camp, uiuc·georgetown university summer program in stem·eastern european machine learning summer school (2022)·mit iquhack — 2022, 2023, 2024