CV

Basics

Name Rafid Ahmed
Designation Ph.D Student || AI Engineer
Email ahmedrafid023@gmail.com

Education

  • Ph.D
    University of Central Florida · Orlando, Florida, USA
    2026 – Present

    Computer Science

  • B.Sc
    University of Dhaka · Dhaka, Bangladesh
    2019 – 2024

    Computer Science & Engineering

Work

  • Research Assistant
    Center for Research in Computer Vision (CRCV), UCF
    Aug 2026 – Present

    Conducting research in computer vision and multimodal learning under the supervision of Dr. Mubarak Shah.

  • AI Engineer
    Penta Global Limited
    Mar 2025 – Jul 2025

    Developing scalable data manipulation pipelines and intelligent AI agents. Currently engaged in research on LLMs in production, medical imaging, and low-resource language processing.

    • Cloud & Automation: Developing scalable data pipelines using AWS services (Lambda, S3, Glue, EC2 & SageMaker).
    • Generative AI: Designed and developed intelligent AI agents and copilots powered by state-of-the-art Large Language Models.

Awards

  • ORCGS Doctoral Fellowship
    University of Central Florida
    2026

    Center for Research in Computer Vision (CRCV), 2026–2030.

  • Best Paper Award
    BLP Workshop, IJCNLP 2025
    2025

    For "Benchmarking Large Language Models on Bangla Dialect Translation and Dialectal Sentiment Analysis".

  • Finalist, Robi Datathon 3.0
    Robi Axiata Limited
    2024

    Top 20 teams among 3,500+ participants.

  • Finalist, Robi Datathon 2.0
    Robi Axiata Limited
    2022

    Top 20 teams among 384+ teams.

Skills

  • Programming Languages: Python, C, C++, JavaScript, Java, Kotlin, PHP
  • Deep Learning Tools: PyTorch, Hugging Face, TensorFlow, TIMM
  • Large Language Models: RAG, GraphRAG, Multimodal RAG, LLM Agents, Web Agents
  • LLM Tools: LangChain, LlamaIndex, Chroma, vLLM, Ollama, FAISS
  • Other Tools: Scikit-Learn, NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, NLTK, Plotly

Languages

Bangla
Native speaker
English
Fluent

Interests

Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, and Natural Language Processing
Natural Language Processing Large Language Models Vision Language Models Low Resource Language Multimodal Adapters Visual Question Answering

References

Md Farhad Alam Bhuiyan
Head of R&D at Penta Global Limited.
Assistant Professor
Green University of Bangladesh
Co-director, Center for Computational & Data Sciences, IUB
Email : farhad.alam@pentabd.com
Md. Mahmudur Rahman
Assistant Professor at Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Dhaka
Email : mahmudur@cse.du.ac.bd