Portrait of Sheikh Rahat Mahmud

Sheikh Rahat Mahmud

B.Sc. in Computer Science & Engineering, BUET (2026)
Deep learning · AI/ML systems · software engineering

I am a computer science graduate of the Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET), where I wrote my thesis on transformer-based segmentation of full femur bone from 3D QCT image under Dr. Mahmuda Naznin. My research interests span deep learning, AI/ML systems, and software engineering: segmenting rare, spatially structured targets in large volumetric data, making models efficient enough to deploy (knowledge distillation), quantifying the uncertainty of what they find, and building reliable, reproducible ML systems.

I am currently a research intern in the UIUC++ Summer Research School (SRSE 2026), working with Prof. Darko Marinov (UIUC) and Prof. Wenxi Wang (UVA) on AI and software engineering research. Alongside research, I work part-time as a software engineer at CalcHVAC (New York, remote), building LLM-agent tooling and 3D building-energy simulation features — so I care about models that survive contact with production.

I am interested in AI/ML — particularly at the intersection of deep learning and the sciences (geoscience, software Engineering, HCI ). Get in touch.

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Research

Automated Bilateral Full-Femur Segmentation and Morphometric Analysis from Multi-Resolution Clinical QCT Using Transfer Learning and a Transformer Network

manuscript in preparation · B.Sc. thesis, BUET · supervised by Dr. Mahmuda Naznin · defended Jun 2026

Trained and compared four architectures (3D-UNet, UNet, Swin-UNet, UNETR) for 3D femur segmentation on 22 GB+ of clinical DICOM volumes, reaching 97%+ accuracy; designed volumetric preprocessing, a Dice + cross-entropy objective for severe class imbalance, and morphological postprocessing for memory-constrained, privacy-sensitive medical data.

Lightweight Knowledge Distillation of DNABERT-2 for Biological Sequence Classification

preprint · Machine Learning Project · Jan–Apr 2026

Compressed DNABERT-2 (117M parameters) into a 26M-parameter student retaining 93.3% accuracy against the 96.7% teacher, with a 4.5× inference speedup.

Shot-Boundary Detection for the IEEE Video & Image Processing Cup

competition · IEEE VIP Cup · Jul 2025

Evaluated YOLOv8/v11 and TransNetV2 on a 2 GB+ video dataset, improving shot-boundary detection from an 85% baseline to over 90% accuracy.

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