Mir Sazzat Hossain
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Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering
Dhaka, BangladeshMinor in Engineering Mathematics
CS & Math GPA: 3.81/4.0 (Overall CGPA: 3.64/4.0)
Research Experience
Center for Computational & Data Sciences, Independent University, Bangladesh
Dhaka, Bangladesh- •Research Interests: Vision–language models, domain adaptation, federated learning, and medical imaging. Working on and co-supervising undergraduate theses and center-led projects in these areas.
- •Teaching Support: Introduction to Programming, Data Structures, AI, ML, and Image Processing.
- •Publications: Q1 Journals ×2, ACL (A*), WACV (A), ICIP ×3 (B), AACL (B), IJCNN (B), and multiple workshop papers, including one in AAAI.
Publications
Rafid Ahmed, Intesar Tahmid, Mir Sazzat Hossain, Tasnimul Hossain Tomal, Md Mahir Jawad, Anam Borhan Uddin, Md Fahim, Md Farhad Alam Bhuiyan. “Evaluating Large Vision Language Models on Bangla Medical Visual Question Answering” In Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2026. [CORE Rank: A*] Paper
Md Fahim, Md Farhan Ishmam, Mir Sazzat Hossain, Md. Ashraful Amin, Amin Ahsan Ali, A K M Mahbubur Rahman. “R-MMA: Enhancing Vision-Language Models with Recurrent Adapters for Few-Shot and Cross-Domain Generalization” in Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2026, pp. 6496-6506. [CORE Rank: A] Paper Code
Mir Sazzat Hossain, AKM Mahbubur Rahman, Md. Ashraful Amin, Amin Ahsan Ali. “Lightweight Recurrent Neural Network for Image Super-Resolution” 2024 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 2024, pp. 1567–1573, DOI: 10.1109/ICIP51287.2024.10647844. [CORE Rank: B] Paper
Rakibul Hasan Rajib, Md Akil Raihan Iftee, Mir Sazzat Hossain, A K M Mahbubur Rahman, Sajib Mistry, Md. Ashraful Amin, Amin Ahsan Ali. “FedCTTA: A Collaborative Approach to Continual Test-Time Adaptation in Federated Learning” 2025 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Rome, Italy, 2025, pp. 1-8, DOI: 10.1109/IJCNN64981.2025.11228519. [CORE Rank: B] Paper
Mir Sazzat Hossain, Ovi Paul, Md Akil Raihan Iftee, Rakibul Hasan Rajib, Abu Bakar Siddik Nayem, Anis Sarker, Md. Ashraful Amin, Amin Ahsan Ali, A K M Mahbubur Rahman. “BD Open LULC Map: High-Resolution Land Use Land Cover Mapping & Benchmarking for Urban Development in Dhaka, Bangladesh” 2025 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Anchorage, Alaska, USA, 2025, pp. 2808–2813, DOI: 10.1109/ICIP55913.2025.11084396. [CORE Rank: B] Paper
Newaz Ben Alam, Akm Moshiur Rahman Mazumder, Mir Sazzat Hossain, Mysha Samiha, Md Alvi Noor Hossain, Md Fahim, Amin Ahsan Ali, Ashraful Islam, M Ashraful Amin, Akmmahbubur Rahman. “CMBan: Cartoon-Driven Meme Contextual Classification Dataset for Bangla.” In Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 4th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 2178–2194, Mumbai, India. [CORE Rank: B] Paper
Mir Sazzat Hossain, K M B Asad, Payaswini Saikia, Adrita Khan, Md Akil Raihan Iftee, Rakibul Hasan Rajib, A K M Mahbubur Rahman, Arshad Momen, Jewel Kumar Ghosh, Amin Ahsan Ali, Md. Ashraful Amin. “RGC-Bent: A Novel Dataset for Bent Radio Galaxy Classification” 2025 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Anchorage, Alaska, USA, 2025, pp. 2868–2873, DOI: 10.1109/ICIP55913.2025.11084387. [CORE Rank: B] Paper Code
Fahim Mahafuz Ruhad, Md Fahim, Mir Sazzat Hossain, Md Fahad Monir, Md. Ashraful Amin, Ashraful Islam. “Beyond Classification: Benchmarking Object Detection Models for Efficient Tomato Leaf Disease Identification on a Real-World Dataset” in Elsevier Smart Agricultural Technology, vol. 12, pp. 101336, 2025, DOI: 10.1016/j.atech.2025.101336. [Q1 Journal] Paper
Team BD Lensing. “Investigating the Relation Between Environment and Internal Structure of Massive Elliptical Galaxies Using Strong Lensing” in Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A), vol. 699, pp. A259, 2025, DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202453239. [Q1 Journal] Paper
Rafid Ahmed, Intesar Tahmid, Mir Sazzat Hossain, Tasnimul Hossain Tomal, Md Fahim, Md Farhad Alam. “How Good LLMs Are at Answering Bangla Medical Visual Questions? Dataset and Benchmarking” Proceedings of The Second AAAI Bridge Program on AI for Medicine and Healthcare, PMLR 317:1-14, 2026. Paper
Md Mahir Jawad, Rafid Ahmed, Ishita Sur Apan, Tasnimul Hossain Tomal, Fabiha Haider, Mir Sazzat Hossain, Md Farhad Alam Bhuiyan. “Benchmarking Large Language Models on Bangla Dialect Translation and Dialectal Sentiment Analysis” In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Bangla Language Processing (BLP-2025), pages 322–337, Mumbai, India. Association for Computational Linguistics. [Best Long Paper Award] Paper Award
Tasnimul Hossain Tomal, Anam Borhan Uddin, Intesar Tahmid, Mir Sazzat Hossain, Md Fahim, Md Farhad Alam Bhuiyan. “LP-FT-LoRA: A Three-Stage PEFT Framework for Efficient Domain Adaptation in Bangla NLP Tasks” In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Bangla Language Processing (BLP-2025), pages 212–222, Mumbai, India. Association for Computational Linguistics. Paper
Mir Sazzat Hossain, Sugandha Roy, K M B Asad, Arshad Momen, Amin Ahsan Ali, Md. Ashraful Amin, AKM Mahbubur Rahman. “Morphological Classification of Radio Galaxies Using Semi-Supervised Group Equivariant CNNs” in Procedia Computer Science, vol. 222, pp. 601–612, 2023, ISSN: 1877-0509, DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2023.08.198. Paper
Under-review Papers
Md Akil Raihan Iftee, Mir Sazzat Hossain, Rakibul Hasan Rajib, A K M Mahbubur Rahman, Tariq Iqbal, Md Mofijul Islam, Md. Ashraful Amin, Amin Ahsan Ali. “SloMo-Fast: Slow-Momentum and Fast-Adaptive Teachers for Source-Free Continual Test-Time Adaptation” submitted to the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2026). [CORE Rank: A*] Paper
Tasnimul Hossain Tomal, Md Fahim, Mir Sazzat Hossain, Md Farhad Alam Bhuiyan. “CEKALA: CKA-Guided Layer Selection for Efficient Vision–Language Adaptation” submitted to the 3rd Conference on Language Modeling (COLM 2026). Paper
Ezharuddin Jubaer, Sumaiya Karim Katha, Mir Sazzat Hossain, Fahim Shahriar, Amin Ahsan Ali, AKM Mahbubur Rahman. “TRoPE-TUL: Trajectory-User Linking via Spatio-Temporal Rotary Position Embedding” submitted to Information Science. [Q1 Journal]
Md Akil Raihan Iftee, Syed Md. Ahnaf Hasan, Mir Sazzat Hossain, Rakibul Hasan Rajib, Amin Ahsan Ali, AKM Mahbubur Rahman, Sajib Mistry, Monowar Bhuyan. “pFedBBN: Personalized Federated Test-Time Adaptation with Balanced Batch Normalization for Class-Imbalanced Data” submitted to IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence. [Q1 Journal] Paper
Mir Sazzat Hossain, Md Shahadat Hossain Shahal, K M B Asad, Payaswini Saikia, Adrita Khan, Fatema Akter, Amin Ahsan Ali, Md. Ashraful Amin, Arshad Momen, A K M Mahbubur Rahman. “RGC: A Radio AGN Classifier Based on Deep Learning: I. A Semi-Supervised Model for the VLA Images of Bent Radio AGNs” submitted to Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A). [Q1 Journal] Paper
Md Raqibul Islam, Adrita Khan, Mir Sazzat Hossain, Choudhury Ben Yamin Siddiqui, Md. Zakir Hossan, Tanjib Khan, M. Arshad Momen, Amin Ahsan Ali, AKM Mahbubur Rahman. “E-PCN: Jet Tagging with Explainable Particle Chebyshev Networks Using Kinematic Features.” submitted to the Journal of High Energy Physics. [Q1 Journal] Paper
Teaching Experience
Independent University, Bangladesh, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
Dhaka, Bangladesh- •Prepared the lab materials, provided programming support, and addressed student queries during lab sessions for Neural Networks and Data Mining course.
Independent University, Bangladesh, Department of Physical Sciences
Dhaka, Bangladesh- •Offered one-on-one tutoring to struggling students from various disciplines at Math Tutorial Center.
- •Worked with other tutors to manage the center and make sure students got the support they needed.
Selected Projects
- •Worked on an automated web vulnerability scanner for autonomous reconnaissance, scanning, and vulnerability detection. Integrated a browser agent to simulate attacks (e.g., SQL injection, DDoS).
- •Built a tool to forecast the number of orders a restaurant would receive the next day based on the last 7 days of order data, using a unified spatio-temporal graph convolutional network.
- •Created a Python package for preprocessing radio signals received from radio telescopes to produce clean, noise-free images and classify them using established machine learning models.
Awards, Honors & Achievements
- •Received the Best Long Paper Award - BLP Workshop @ IJCNLP–AACL 2025. Credentials
- •Received the IEEE Signal Processing Society Travel Grant of US $1,000 for joining the 2024 IEEE ICIP in Abu Dhabi, UAE (October 27-30). Credentials
- •IUB academic honors: VC's List (3×), Dean's Merit List, and Dean's List. Credentials
- •Winner: Intra IUB Tech Fest Programming Contest (Summer 2019) and ACM Week Code Debugging Contest (2019). Tech Fest ACM Week
- •Represented IUB in the ICPC Asia Dhaka Regional 2019 and participated in various workshops, programming contests, and Olympiads. ICPC
Relevant Coursework
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Image Processing, Numerical Methods, Linear Algebra and Differential Equation, Multivariable Calculus, Ordinary Differential Equation, Boundary Value Problem
Standardized Tests
- •IELTS: Overall 7.0 (Reading - 8.0, Listening - 7.5, Speaking - 7.0, Writing - 6.0)
Technical Skills
- •Languages: Python, C++, C, JavaScript
- •Libraries: PyTorch, PyTorch-Lightning, LLaMA-Factory, Hugging Face, Flower, Scikit-learn
- •Web Frameworks: NextJs, React, Django, Laravel
- •Miscellaneous: Git, Docker, Apptainer, HTCondor, Slurm, MATLAB, LaTeX
References
AKM Mahbubur Rahman, PhD
Head of the Department
Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering
Independent University, Bangladesh
Email: akmmrahman@iub.edu.bd
Website: iub.ac.bd/faculties/akmmrahman
Amin Ahsan Ali, PhD
Professor
Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering
Independent University, Bangladesh
Email: aminali@iub.edu.bd
Website: iub.ac.bd/faculties/aminali