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Abdullah Rubab

Medical AI & Uncertainty Quantification Researcher

Dhaka, Bangladesh • Target Intake: September 2027 (Master's or PhD in Europe)

Research Statement

Pioneering evidential deep learning, knowledge distillation, and uncertainty-governed triage cascades to transform black-box neural networks into trustworthy, explainable diagnostic systems for clinical medicine.

Education

Daffodil International University (DIU)

2023 – Present (Final Year)
B.Sc. in Computer Science & EngineeringCGPA: 3.84 / 4.00

Research Track, Dean's Honor Roll. Team Lead at DIU GPU Infrastructure Platform, Research Associate at NBTC, and Member at HIRL.

B.A.F. Shaheen College Kurmitola

2019 – 2021
Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) — ScienceCGPA: 5.00 / 5.00

Academic Excellence Award; Executive Committee Member of IT Club & Atomic Science Club.

Research & Leadership Experience

Research AssociateNanoBio Technology Center (NBTC), DIU

2025 – Present

Advisor: Dr. Md. Ali Hossain (Associate Professor, Dept. of CSE & Director, NBTC)

  • Architected MSEA-Net, RAM-ViT, and PUMA-MIL research pipelines for brain MRI, blood smear, and gastrointestinal endoscopy datasets.
  • Formulated Dirichlet uncertainty loss functions, resulting in two accepted BECITHCON 2026 papers and two Q1 target journal submissions.
  • Collaborating on translational computational biology and diagnostic vision projects.

MemberHealth Informatics Research Laboratory (HIRL), DIU

2024 – Present
  • Collaborating with faculty researchers and student peers on biomedical informatics datasets and clinical machine learning benchmarks.
  • Participating in research workshops, clinical dataset curation, and literature synthesis seminars under the Dept. of CSE.

Team Lead & AI/ML Backend DeveloperDIU GPU Cluster / Distributed AI Infrastructure Platform

2026 – Present
  • Designed distributed scheduler architecture to aggregate disparate lab workstations into an elastic compute cluster for AI researchers.
  • Implemented automated node health monitoring and intelligent job dispatching algorithms.
  • Authored the technical proposal deck and hardware audit analysis reviewed by DIU senior executive leadership.

Lead AI/ML & Backend DeveloperKeyoon.com

2026 – Present
  • Built production-grade REST APIs and asynchronous processing queues in Django and FastAPI.
  • Deployed scalable machine learning inference pipelines with low-latency model serving and caching.
  • Maintained database schemas, security protocols, and CI/CD automated deployment pipelines.

Publications & Manuscripts (7)

[1]A. Rubab, M. T. Hasan. “Sample-Efficient Fine-Grained Classification of Cactus Species Using Hybrid Vision Transformers and Knowledge Distillation”. 2025 28th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), 2025.

Published

DOI: 10.1109/ICCIT68739.2025.11491549

[2]Abdullah Rubab, Co-Authors. “Explainable Multi-Scale Knowledge Distillation with Uncertainty-Aware Inference for Efficient Brain Tumor MRI Classification”. International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Computer and Information Technology for Health (BECITHCON 2026), 2026.

Accepted

[3]Abdullah Rubab, Co-Authors. “An Efficient Attention-Guided Deep Learning Framework with Explainability for Blood Cell Classification”. International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Computer and Information Technology for Health (BECITHCON 2026), 2026.

Accepted

[4]Abdullah Rubab, NBTC Research Team. “RAM-ViT: Retrieval-Augmented Evidential Vision Transformer for Cross-Modal Glioma Grading”. Target Q1 Medical Image Analysis Journal / DIU-DoR Poster Presentation 2026, 2026.

Under Review (Q1 Target)

[5]Abdullah Rubab, NBTC Research Group. “PUMA-MIL / PUMA-MIL-Lite: Multimodal Multiple Instance Learning for Glioma Detection with Clinical Interpretability”. Target Q1 Medical Informatics / Oncology Journal, 2026.

Under Review (Q1 Target)

[6]Abdullah Rubab, Research Collaborators. “MSEA-Net: Multi-Scale Evidential Attention Network with Uncertainty-Governed Triage for Trustworthy Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Classification”. Target Q1 Biomedical Engineering Journal, 2026.

In Progress / Pre-Submission

[7]Abdullah Rubab, Clinical Collaborators. “HCC-TACE-Seg: Foundation Model Feature Distillation for Transarterial Chemoembolization Response Prediction”. Targeting Liver Oncology / Medical AI Workshop, 2026.

In Progress

Flagship Engineering & Research Systems

HealthSentinel AI

Federated Tri-Modal Diagnostic Platform for Low-Resource Healthcare

A decentralized medical diagnostic platform orchestrating clinical notes, imaging, and tabular vitals under strict differential privacy guarantees.

AI-Powered Brain Tumor MRI Classification

Multi-Scale Ensemble with Clinician-Facing Explainability

Production-ready PyTorch neuro-oncology pipeline with Grad-CAM visual heatmaps, uncertainty bounds, and automated radiological reporting.

AURA-Cluster — [Winner — DIU AI Innovation Hackathon 2026]

Evidential AI for Proactive GPU Failure Prediction — Hackathon Winner

Real-time telemetry forecasting system for distributed deep learning clusters using evidential neural networks. Won 1st Place at DIU AI Innovation Hackathon 2026.

DIU Distributed AI Infrastructure Platform

Campus-Wide GPU Pooling & High-Performance Compute Orchestration

Team Lead & AI/ML Backend Developer for the initiative connecting and pooling DIU's campus GPU resources into an elastic compute cloud.

ResearchForge-AI

Multi-Agent System for High-Impact Q1 Academic Workflows

Autonomous multi-agent orchestration framework for literature synthesis, mathematical formalization verification, and experiment tracking.

Honors, Awards & Competitive Finishes

Champion / 1st Place Winner DIU AI Innovation Hackathon 2026 (Daffodil International University)
2026
Top-Tier Finalist (Rank 48/196, 0.98525 AUC) bKash × NSUCEC National Datathon 2026 (bKash Ltd. & NSU Computer and Engineering Club)
2026
Selected Poster Presenter DIU-DoR Annual Poster Presentation 2026 (DIU Directorate of Research (DoR))
2026
Technical Volunteer & Guest Support Digital Device & Innovation Expo 2026 (DDI Expo 2026) (BICC / BCFCC, Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka)
2026
Executive Member — ACM Wing DIU Computer Programming Club (CPC) (DIU CPC)
2024 – 2025
Technical Volunteer & Proctor Bangladesh National AI Olympiad 2026 (BDAIO) (Bangladesh AI Olympiad Committee)
2026
Contest Finalist (17th Position) Take-Off Programming Contest (DIU CPC)
Spring 2023
Top 50 Finalist Unlock the Algorithm (UTA) Contest (DIU ACM Wing)
Spring 2024
Champion Saifur's Web Design Competition (Saifur's Education Group)
2019

Technical Skills & Spoken Languages

Languages & Core:Python (Expert), C++ (Advanced), Java (Proficient), LaTeX (Expert), SQL (MySQL/Postgres) (Advanced)
Medical AI & Advanced Deep Learning:Evidential Deep Learning (Expert), Uncertainty Quantification (Expert), Few-Shot & Prototype Learning (Advanced), Knowledge Distillation (Expert), Medical Image Segmentation (Advanced), Vision Transformers (ViT) (Advanced)
Explainability & Interpretability:Grad-CAM & Grad-CAM++ (Expert), SHAP (Kernel / Tree) (Advanced), LIME (Advanced), UMAP & t-SNE (Expert)
Distributed & Systems Tooling:PyTorch & TorchVision (Expert), TensorFlow & Keras (Proficient), MONAI (Advanced), Federated Learning (Advanced), Weights & Biases (Advanced), Django & FastAPI (Advanced), Git / GitHub / CI (Expert)
Spoken Languages:Bengali (Expert), English (Expert), Hindi (Proficient)