Experience & Education
Research positions, industry experience, and academic background.
Experience
Work history across three countries
Graduate Research Assistant
CurrentStructures & Computational Intelligence Lab, UTRGV
2026 - Present
PhD research at the intersection of AI and real-world infrastructure — foundation models, retrieval-augmented generation, and machine learning for infrastructure sensing and assessment.
Graduate Research Assistant
TransTech Lab, Texas Tech
Built a real-time roadside LiDAR system for a TxDOT pedestrian-safety project — detecting vehicles and pedestrians to trigger flashing-beacon crossing warnings (RRFBs) within a sub-second latency budget.
CTO & Developer
AnthroCircle
2023 - Present
Bilingual academic publishing platform serving 120+ articles and 5,000+ daily readers. Migrated from WordPress to Next.js 15 with PostgreSQL and Prisma.
Software Engineer
One Stop IT Solutions, Dhaka
Summer 2024
ML/DL model training and deployment for 3 enterprise clients. Time-series forecasting and NLP classification with fine-tuned BERT, ONNX, and FastAPI.
Big Data Analyst → Team Lead
Chengdu Suncaper Data, China
2022 - 2023
Led 5-person international team building data pipelines with Apache Spark, Hadoop, and Hive for real-time analytics.
Education
Ph.D. Computer Science
2026 - PresentUniversity of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Structures & Computational Intelligence Lab. Research in AI safety, foundation models, and ML for real-world infrastructure.
M.S. Computer Science
Jan 2025 - Aug 2026Texas Tech University
Research at the TransTech Lab. Graduate coursework in Pattern Recognition, AI & Multi-Agent Systems, and Adversarial ML.
B.S. Computer Science
2019 - 2023Sichuan University, China
Belt and Road Initiative full scholarship. Outstanding Graduate Award.
Behind the Scenes
In the lab
Research work
At the workstation
On campus, Texas Tech
Research in progress
On campus