Mir Sazzat Hossain

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Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Minor in Engineering Mathematics

CS & Math GPA: 3.81/4.0 (Overall CGPA: 3.64/4.0)

Research Experience

Post-baccalaureate Research AssistantFeb 2022 – Present

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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]

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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

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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

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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

Post-baccalaureate Teaching AssistantMay 2021 – Jan 2022

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.
Undergraduate Teaching AssistantOct 2019 – Apr 2021

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

LLM Based Automated Website Vulnerability ScannerJune 2025
  • 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).
Predicting Restaurant Orders with USTGCNJanuary 2021
  • 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.
RGC - Python PackageNovember 2020
  • 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