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Basics

Name Md Shakhrul Iman Siam
Label Phd Student
Email siam.5@osu.edu
Url https://shakhrulsiam268.github.io/

Work

Education

  • 2023.08 - 2028.07

    Ohio, USA

    PhD
    The Ohio State University
    Computer Science and Engineering
  • 2016.02 - 2021.02

    Dhaka, Bangladesh

    BSc
    Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)
    Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Projects

  • 2025.02 - present
    LLM-based Medical Question-Answering Assistant using Retrieval-Augmented Generation
    • Developed a Question-Answering Assistant capable of Medical Domain QA tasks.
    • Integrate various RAG techniques like Naive RAG, Graph RAG, and Light RAG.
    • Designed a knowledge graph and implemented Vector Database using FAISS index and Pinecone.
    • Implement various pre-retrieval optimizations for efficient similarity searching.
  • 2024.10 - 2025.05
    Multimodal Foundation Model for Respiratory Health Diagnosis
    • Developed a Multimodal foundation model that will capture sounds from a smartphone microphone and perform several downstream tasks like disease (Covid-19, TB, COPD) detection, generating health reports, and Question-answering.
    • Utilize LLaMA-3 with PEFT and LoRA techniques to fine-tune multimodal models from cough sounds and self-reported patient text metadata..
  • 2024.05 - 2025.03
    Reading Recognition in the Wild
    • Collected a large-scale multi-modal reading dataset of 100 hours of egocentric videos using Meta Aria Glass.
    • Developed a transformer-based model that detects whether and when a user is reading using different input modalities (egocentric video, eye gaze, IMU).