CV
A PDF version of my CV is available here.
Education
M.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), 2026- GPA: 3.74
- Thesis: Dynamic Resource Allocation for Workloads in Serverless Architecture using Collaborative Filtering, supervised by Prof. Muhammad Abdullah Adnan
- B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), 2019
- GPA: 3.53
- Thesis: Active Learning on Big Data, supervised by Prof. Muhammad Abdullah Adnan
Experience
Research Mentee, Supervised Program for Alignment Research (SPAR). Feb 2026 – May 2026- Mentored by Sriram Balasubramanian (University of Maryland, College Park)
- Project: Automated Circuit Analysis for Real-time Internal Monitoring. Report.
- Building automated agents for analyzing large and complex attribution graphs from neural networks.
- Fully authored the task based on finding spurious correlation for validating the system and detecting failure modes.
- Extending the system over more realistic tasks like secret knowledge elicitation and misreporting tool calls.
Research Intern, UCR NLP Lab. Jan 2025 – Dec 2025- Advised by Prof. Yue Dong
- Understanding LLMs’ response instability over longer context and prompt manipulation.
- Using mech-interp to understand LLMs behavior over subjective domains e.g., socio-political reasoning.
- LLMs’ social epistemology using Bayesian statistics to model belief depth and opinion dynamics in LLMs.
AI Research & Engineering, Celloscope Limited. Sep 2020 – 2026- R&D (Sep 2020 – Jun 2021) → AI SWE (Jul 2021 – Dec 2023) → Lead AI Research Engineer (Jan 2024 – 2026)
- Led a team of six research engineers building production-grade NLP and computer vision systems.
- Directed key projects: Exercise Monitoring System for LG Nova, a RAG-based Resume Shortlister, and a vision-based Drawing Checker for engineering drawings.
NLP and Data Scientist, MedAI Pvt. Limited. Aug 2021 – Nov 2024 (Part Time)- Conversational AI chatbot for Bengali mental health support.
- Synthetic patient generator reflecting local demography.
- Voice-based patient symptom collector and audio data collection portal.
DevOps Engineer, GRP, ICT Division. May 2019 – Aug 2020- Automation scripts for deploying web apps and micro-services in Docker.
- Gateway configuration using NGINX reverse proxy.
Skills
- Machine Learning, Deep Learning, NLP, Large Language Models
- Mechanistic Interpretability, Model Quantization, Computer Vision
- Data Analysis, Data Mining, Big Data, Distributed & Serverless Computing
- DevOps Engineering
- Languages: Python, Java, Scala, C/C++, JavaScript, SQL, Shell, LaTeX
- Frameworks & Libraries: PyTorch, TensorFlow, Transformers, Scikit-learn, LangChain, RASA, Flask, FastAPI, Spark
- Tools: Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, AWS (EC2/Lambda/Cognito), Hugging Face, PostgreSQL, Grafana
Publications
Shariar Kabir, Kevin Esterling, Yue Dong. (2026). "PReSS: A Black-Box Framework for Evaluating Political Stance Stability in LLMs via Argumentative Pressure." PoliticalNLP @ LREC-COLING 2026.
Shariar Kabir, Muhammad Abdullah Adnan. (2026). "AgnoSVD: Dynamic Resource Allocation for Serverless Workloads using Collaborative Filtering." Array, Volume 29.
Nazmun Nahar, Ritesh Harshad Ruparel, Shariar Kabir, Sumaiya Tasnia Khan, Shyamasree Saha, Mamunur Rashid. (2025). "AmarDoctor: An AI-Driven, Multilingual, Voice-Interactive Digital Health Application." arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.24724.
Shariar Kabir, Kevin Esterling, Yue Dong. (2025). "Beyond the Surface: Probing the Ideological Depth of Large Language Models." arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.21448.
Shariar Kabir, Nazmun Nahar, Shyamasree Saha, Mamunur Rashid. (2024). "Automatic Speech Recognition for Biomedical Data in Bengali Language." arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.12931.
Syed Monsur, Shariar Kabir, Sakib Chowdhury. (2023). "SynthNID: Synthetic Data to Improve End-to-end Bangla Document Key Information Extraction." BLP Workshop at EMNLP 2023, pages 117–123, Singapore.
Talks
May 16, 2026
Conference Workshop presentation at PoliticalNLP Workshop, LREC-COLING 2026, Remote - Mallorca, Spain
Awards & Achievements
- 2025 : Industry Coding Assessment (CodeSignal ICA): 510/600 (≈ 722/850 equivalent GCA, top 15%)
- 2024 : Global Health Equity Challenge Award, MIT Solve — AmarDoctor selected as one of six solvers out of 2200+ participants worldwide
