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Education
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2023-Now
William & Mary – Ph.D. in Computer Science.
- GPA: 3.92 (4.0 scale).
- Advisor: Dr. Antonio Mastropaolo.
- Research focus on AI in Software Engineering.
- Key Courses: Software Maintenance/Evolution, Deep Learning, Autonomous Driving & Connected Mobility, Deep Transfer Learning, Data Mining & Decision Making, Human Centered Computing, AI for Software Engineering, Systems for Neural Networks.
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2016-21
Sylhet Engineering College – B.S. in Computer Science & Engineering.
- GPA: 3.46 (4.0 scale).
- Key Courses: Structured Programming, Data Structures & Algorithms, Object-Oriented Programming, Database Systems, Operating Systems, Machine Learning.
Professional Experience
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2022
Software Engineer (Machine Learning) at Graaho.
- Developed a financial machine learning application on credit risk by cleaning datasets, testing with pytest, and baseline modeling.
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2021-22
Research Engineer (Machine Learning) at Mayalogy.
- Developed MayaNERC: A pipeline to biomedical NER from patient label text that can identify 17 entities and validate 111 diseases across five major health categories.
- Developed Auto Tag, Group Referrer, and Pakistani Spam Filter with Macro F1 scores of 85%, 89%, and 88% respectively.
- Led an AI annotation team of 20 engineers and 15 psychologists for developing deep learning datasets.
Skills Summary
- Languages: Python, C++, C, SQL, CUDA
- Framework: TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, Pandas, Scikit-learn
- Tools: Slack, Microsoft Teams & Office365, Notion, Airtable
Publications
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2025
A Systematic Literature Review of Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Large Code Models
- Saima Afrin*, Md. Zahidul Haque*, Antonio Mastropaolo
- *Equal contribution
- TOSEM, Oct 2025
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2023
B-NER: A Novel Bangla Named Entity Recognition Dataset with Largest Entities and Its Baseline Evaluation
- Md. Zahidul Haque, Sakib Zaman, Jillur Rahman Saurav, Summit Haque, Md. Saiful Islam, Ruhul Amin
- IEEE Access, April 2023
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2022
CID: Cow Images Dataset for Regression and Classification
- Mobasshir Bhuiya Shagor, Md. Zahidul Haque Alvi, Khandaker Tabin Hasan
- ICCA '22: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computing Advancements
Teaching Experience
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2023-Now
Teaching Assistant at William & Mary
- Fall 2025: CSCI 100 (Prompt Engineering) - Grading | Dr. Antonio Mastropaolo
- Spring 2025: CSCI 312 (Principles of Programming Languages) - Grading | Dr. Martin White
- Fall 2024: CSCI 141-03 (Introduction to Programming) - Grading and Lab Instruction (Labs 3 & 13) | Dr. Matthew Chapman
- Spring 2024: CSCI 312 (Principles of Programming Languages) - Grading | Dr. Robert Michael Lewis
- Fall 2023: CSCI 312 (Principles of Programming Languages) - Grading | Dr. Tim Davis
Certifications
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2020-23
Cisco Certified Network Associate
Participation
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2022
DL Sprint - BUET CSE Fest 2022
- Bengali Automatic Speech Recognition Competition
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2022
Robi Datathon - 2.0
- Pre-Assessment on tabular data
Extra Curriculars
- Hobbyist traveler, love to trek