Asif Azad

I am an AI Research Engineer at the AI Innovation Hub, Ministry of Defence Health Services , Saudi Arabia, where, under the research supervision of Professor Ehsan Hoque , I work on multimodal AI systems for healthcare in collaboration with major medical cities and hospitals across the country. I have also collaborated with Dr. Md Rizwan Parvez at QCRI on the reliability of state-of-the-art vision-language models; our work was published at Findings of EACL 2026 .

More broadly, I am interested in building reliable and responsible multimodal intelligent systems that can reason, interact, collaborate with people, and operate safely in consequential real-world environments, particularly high-stakes domains such as healthcare. I earned my BSc in Computer Science & Engineering from BUET in March 2025. My undergraduate thesis on reliable diagnostic machine learning was supervised by Professor M Saifur Rahman , with mentorship from Md Saiful Islam at Google. The resulting paper, Beyond Accuracy , was nominated for the AIiH 2025 Best Paper Award. I was also named to the Dean's List for three consecutive years and received the IEEE Richard E. Merwin Student Scholarship as its sole Fall 2023 recipient from Bangladesh.