Available for research collaboration

Shahariar Rabby

I turn hard ML problems into ships — medical imaging deployed across 21 hospitals, LLMs serving 30,000 users a day.

Research Scientist · UAB / Senior ML Engineer · Apurba Technologies
Google Scholar
45+
Publications
1,000+
Citations
17
h-index
30K
DAU served
0.92
COPDxNet AUC

Research

PhD dissertation: Precise Segmentation of Thin, Elongated, and Underrepresented Structures (UAB, 2026) · CS Outstanding PhD Student Award · Advisor: Dr. Chengcui Zhang

Vision & Document AI
Computer Vision
Thin structure segmentation, medical imaging, infrastructure monitoring, OCR pipelines. Edge deployment at 29.6 FPS on a Raspberry Pi 5.
Applied AI & Analytics
Decision Support
Long-tail learning, model calibration, evaluation in high-stakes domains.
Deployable AI (MLOps)
Systems
Scalable serving, GPU inference optimization, latency-aware deployment.
Responsible AI
High-Stakes Domains
Privacy-aware clinical & enterprise AI, human-in-the-loop validation.

Selected Publications

2025

STRIPE: Directional Feature Extraction for Pulmonary Fissure Segmentation In preparation

Manuscript in preparation

First Author · Dice 0.873 · HD95 0.72mm · AFM + DDA · LCNet-100

2025

THREAD: Efficient Topology-Preserving Network for Thin Structure Segmentation In preparation

Manuscript in preparation

First Author · 48.6% fewer FLOPs · 92 FPS GPU / 29.6 FPS Pi 5

2024

Enhancement of Bengali OCR by Specialized Models and Advanced Techniques

IEEE/CVF WACV Workshops, 2024

First Author

Engineering

Shipped systems that run in production today — government platforms, banking AI, and a RAG pipeline acquired by Promise.

Kagoj.ai
Bangladesh Government AI Platform
Fine-tuned Qwen2.5 VLM via LoRA with FP8 quantization and Flash Attention 2, deployed on vLLM with L40S GPUs. 30,000 daily active users · 1–2K peak RPS.
vLLMVLMLoRAFP8
FinDoc
Enterprise Document Processing
End-to-end AI platform for Bangla+English banking documents. OCR, layout analysis, extraction at 90%+ accuracy. 5 years of continuous development.
OCRDocument AIBanking
Dorsal.fyi Acquired
RAG Pipeline → Promise, Feb 2026
Architected a HIPAA-compliant RAG pipeline for a health-tech startup, acquired by Promise.
ocr.bangla.gov.bd
Bangladesh National OCR Platform
Multi-stage CNN OCR on Triton + ONNX: 18.6× speedup, 10K+ daily requests, 99.5% uptime. Live →
TritonONNXCNN

Grants

NIH/NHLBI R01 HL151421
Research Scientist
"Structural Determinants of Disease Progression in COPD" — PIs: Surya Bhatt, MD & Arie Nakhmani, PhD. Research Scientist since Jun 2026; GRI 2022–2026.
NSF SaTC #2154589 · $397,302
2022–2027
"Collaborative Research: Bubble Aid" — ballot tabulation research. PI: Chengcui Zhang.

Experience

Research Scientist Current
UAB — CLAIR & KDDM Lab
Jun 2026 – Present

NIH R01: Fissure Integrity Score — quantitative pulmonary fissure metric for COPD phenotyping. Lead developer of COPDxNet and STRIPE.

Senior ML Engineer Current
Apurba Technologies
Nov 2025 – Present

Led a 13-engineer team. Qwen2.5 VLM on Kagoj.ai (vLLM, L40S). Event-driven microservices on Kafka. Dorsal.fyi RAG pipeline.

Graduate Research Assistant & Blazer Fellow
UAB — CLAIR & KDDM Lab
Aug 2021 – Apr 2026

PhD: Precise Segmentation of Thin, Elongated, and Underrepresented Structures. COPDxNet, STRIPE, THREAD, dCrack61K. NSF SaTC: ballot tabulation.

ML Engineer → Team Lead
Apurba Technologies
Oct 2019 – Aug 2021

ocr.bangla.gov.bd. Triton + ONNX: 18.6× speedup. Grew the team from 3 to 10+, 10K+ daily requests, 99.5% uptime.

Lecturer (Part-Time)
Daffodil International University
Jan 2019 – Dec 2020

Taught AI and AI Lab. Shifted curriculum to project-based learning.

Awards

CS Outstanding PhD Student AwardUAB · 2026
Barrett R. & Oceana A. Bryant Endowed AwardUAB · 2024
Best PaperIEMIS · 2023
Best Paper — "Ekush"RTIP2R · 2018
Blazer Fellowship · CVPR Travel GrantUAB · 2022
3-Minute Research Pitch — 1st Runner UpSBCL · 2022
Best Student Research AwardDIU · 2018 & 2019
IBM Centre of Excellence MVP2020–2021

Datasets & Artifacts

Ekush ✦ Best Paper
Bangla Handwriting
673K handwritten Bangla character instances across 242 classes. Still a common baseline dataset.
dCrack61K
Crack Segmentation Benchmark
61,943 crack/edge images aggregated from 36 sources for minority-class segmentation.
ISHARA-LIPI
Bangla Sign Language
1,800 images across 36 classes for Bangla Sign Language recognition.

Mentoring & Service

Mentored 13 undergrads
To First-Author Publications
Research Supervisor, DIU NLP & ML Lab since 2019. Multiple mentees now pursuing PhDs. WVLL @ WACV 2024 organizer; WVLL 2026 lead organizer at UNT.
33 peer reviews
Top Venues & Journals
IEEE TDSC (9) · IJMDEM (6) · IEEE TMM (3) · ACM Multimedia (6) · WACV (4) · ICMLA (3) · AAAI (1) · CVPR (1). Webmaster, UAB Graduate Student Government 2024–25.

Let's build something
worth deploying.

Research collaboration, AI systems work, or just a conversation.

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