Mahir Shahriar Tamim

AI Researcher · Explainable & Responsible AI · Vision, Language & Agentic Systems

Current Positions

Research Intern — Vision, Language & Agentic Systems May 2026 – Present
Anomaly LocalisationLLM EvaluationAgentic AI
  • Supervised by Dr. Dong-Kyu Chae (Assistant Professor, Hanyang University), working across computer vision, natural language processing, and agentic systems: training-free visual anomaly localisation, LLM evaluation on politically sensitive text, and the design of reliable tool-using agents.
  • Lead author on SphereAD, a hyperspherical self-reference method for training-free anomaly localisation that transfers across domains without per-domain fitting. In preparation.
  • Co-first author on Harness Recession, studying when scaffolding around a small language model helps and when the model outgrows it. Accepted at SLM-Agents, the 1st NeurIPS Workshop on SLMs for Agentic Systems.
Software Engineer (Backend) Oct 2026 – Present
bKash · Dhaka, Bangladesh
Java MicroservicesApache KafkaKYC
  • Backend team at bKash, the leading mobile financial service (MFS) provider in Bangladesh, working on the KYC (Know Your Customer) and notification services.
  • Build Java microservices in an event-driven architecture, using Apache Kafka for asynchronous messaging between services.
  • Work on high-throughput, fault-tolerant distributed systems: REST APIs, asynchronous event processing, and service-to-service integration.

Past Research Experience

Research Assistant — AI for Healthcare & Neuroimaging Dec 2025 – May 2026
Charles Sturt University · Remote
Medical AIKnowledge DistillationLLM Evaluation
  • Research in AI for healthcare and neuroimaging, supervised by Dr. Mohammad Ali Moni in collaboration with Dr. Mohammad Abu Yousuf.
  • Co-authored work on multi-teacher knowledge distillation for brain-tumor classification with explainable-AI overlays for resource-constrained deployment, published in Knowledge-Based Systems (Q1, IF 8.0).
  • Co-first author on the AACL 2026 crisis-sentiment study, evaluating large language models on Bangla and code-mixed social media text during a fast-moving political crisis.
  • Contributed to early-stage exploration of image reconstruction from human brain activity via cross-modal generative models, pairing hierarchical encoders with conditional diffusion.
Research Assistant — Computer Vision / AI-ML Engineer Mar 2025 – Nov 2025
Real-Time AvatarsLip SyncWebRTC
  • Supervised by Dr. Nabeel Mohammed and Dr. Shafin Rahman; carried research prototypes through to deployable real-time vision systems, working across sites with teams in Luxembourg and a robotics lab in Hong Kong.
  • Built the perception pipeline end to end, spanning facial morphing, gesture rendering, diffusion-based lip synchronisation, and 3D Gaussian representations.
  • Drove down end-to-end latency with GPU-parallelised inference and WebRTC streaming, holding throughput steady enough for live interaction.
  • Interim technical demo →

Past Industry Experience

Backend Engineer Aug 2026 – Oct 2026
SysModeler.ai · USA (Remote)
SysML v2MicroservicesPostgreSQL
  • Built the backend for an AI platform that turns documents and plain-language prompts into editable SysML v2 models.
  • Designed the microservices and asynchronous pipelines that kept long-running model generation responsive under load.
  • Owned the PostgreSQL and MongoDB schemas behind collaborative, versioned system models, and tuned the queries that read them.
  • Shipped Python, Go, and Java under close review, with Docker and CI/CD across both cloud and on-premise deployments.
Product Engineer Jan 2026 – Jul 2026
Obby LLC · USA (Remote)
Multi-Agent SystemsVoice AIMCP
  • Built production multi-agent workflows with tool orchestration, MCP-powered automation, and closed decision loops.
  • Shipped AI voice agents and Agentic Council frameworks serving multi-tenant SaaS customers.
  • Led cross-functional work across engineering, operations, and product, delivering B2B review automation and AI-powered communications.
  • Blog: Multi-Tenant Architecture for AI Voice Agents →
Software Engineering Intern Aug 2024 – Jun 2025
AGT Software Partners · Remote (Dhaka & USA)
Next.jsTypeScriptLLM Features
  • Built a secure standups, project, and time-tracking app with Next.js, TypeScript, Socket.IO, and Tailwind.
  • Integrated NLP autofill, LLM-powered summaries, and smart ticket categorisation.
  • Built dashboards with trend detection, anomaly alerts, and PDF/CSV exports, plus email notifications, token revocation, rate limiting, and session management.
  • Co-developed a foster-care platform as part of AGT's social initiatives.

Teaching & Leadership

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant — CSE 373: Design and Analysis of Algorithms Jan 2024 – Dec 2025
North South University
AlgorithmsTeaching
  • Prepared lecture and tutorial notes; conducted tutorial sessions outside class hours.
  • Proctored exams and graded homework, programming assignments, and assessments.
  • Mentored 600+ students through office hours, tutorials, and exam preparation.
Instructor & Problem Setter — Competitive Programming 2024 – 2025
NSU Problem Solvers Bootcamp & Intra-NSU Contests
Competitive Programming
  • Taught algorithms and contest strategies at the NSU Problem Solvers Bootcamp.
  • Authored problems, constraints, test cases, and editorials for Intra-NSU programming contests.

Technical Skills