S M Jishanul Islam

AI Engineer & Software Developer

Building scalable AI systems and multimodal applications. Currently optimizing LLMs and inference pipelines at pipikwan pêhtâkwan.

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Active Work

AI Engineer

Current
pipikwan pêhtâkwan | Edmonton, Canada | 09/2025 - Present
  • Building LLMs tailored for Indigenous Communities
  • Building high-performance inference pipelines
  • Integrating AI pipelines with sub-products for Indigenous Peoples

Software Engineer

Apurba Technologies Ltd | Dhaka, Bangladesh | 12/2024 - 09/2025
  • Core ML team for national Bengali OCR
  • Optimizing RESTful APIs and achieving >95% accuracy on word-level OCR models

Selected Projects

NurtureAid

Real-time AI-based caretaking mobile app. Led the app's backend and frontend development as a full-stack engineer.

Tech Stack: React Native, Node.js, Flask, MongoDB, Firebase, LLaMA-Index.

HAVEN

BCI-powered mental health speech-to-speech conversational agent. Led the app's backend, frontend, and AI development as a full-stack engineer.

Tech Stack: Python, OpenAI, Emotiv, Firebase, Streamlit.

IPBlocks

Web3 dApp for Intellectual Property protection. Led the app's backend, frontend, and blockchain development as a full-stack engineer.

Tech Stack: HTML, CSS, JS, Supabase, Metamask, Solidity, Hyperledger Fabric.

Quest Aid

AI-driven web application to manage ECAs. Led the app's backend, frontend, and AI development as a full-stack engineer.

Tech Stack: React.js, Spring Boot, Flask, MySQL, Langchain.

iamspecial.com

Web app for accessibility and guidance for people with special needs. Led the app's backend and frontend development as a full-stack engineer.

Tech Stack: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL.

ECMS-Desktop

ECA Management System desktop application. Led the app's backend and frontend development as a full-stack engineer.

Tech Stack: Java, JavaFX, MySQL.

Professional Skills

Languages

C C++ Java Python PHP

Development

HTML5 CSS3 JavaScript React Node.js Spring FastAPI Solidity

Databases

MySQL PostgreSQL MongoDB

Machine Learning & Research

PyTorch TensorFlow Scikit-learn OpenCV LaTeX 🤗 HuggingFace

DevOps

Bash Git Docker

S M Jishanul Islam

Researcher & Faculty

Exploring Multimodal Deep Learning and AI Safety. Part-Time Faculty Member at United International University and contributor to various high-impact research publications.

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Academic Positions

Part-Time Faculty

Current
United International University | 10/2025 - Present
  • Taking core applied CS courses as a faculty from the industry
  • Focusing on algorithms and software engineering

Lecturer (Contractual)

United International University | 06/2024 - 10/2024
  • Taught CS concepts, OOP Lab, Data Structures, and DBMS
  • Audited marks for BAETE accreditation

Undergraduate Assistant

United International University | 09/2023 - 05/2024
  • Created course materials for Data Science degree
  • Supervised labs

Education

B.Sc in Computer Science & Engineering

United International University | 2020 - 2024

Major: Data Science. Distinction: Cum Laude.
Thesis: AVLoS: Audio-Visual Long Text Scene Summarization.

Publications

(* Equal Contribution)

S M Jishanul Islam, Md. Mehedi Hasan, Masbul Haider Ovi, AKM Shahariar Azad Rabby, and Fuad Rahman. 2026. BornoDrishti: Leveraging Vision Encoders and Domain-Adaptive Learning for Bangla OCR on Diverse Documents. In the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) Industry Track. ACL.

Md. Mehedi Hasan, S M Jishanul Islam, AKM Shahariar Azad Rabby, and Fuad Rahman. 2025. Beyond Characters: Position-Aware Metric and a Lightweight LLM for Low-Resource Bangla Punctuation Restoration. IEEE BigData 2025.

Sadia Ahmmed, S M Jishanul Islam, Sahid Hossain Mustakim, Ridwan Arefin Islam, Subangkar Karmaker Shanto, and Salekul Islam. 2025. IPBlocks: A Blockchain Ecosystem for Secure IP Registration and Decentralized Marketplace. IEEE TENCON 2025.

Sahid Hossain Mustakim, S M Jishanul Islam, Ummay Maria Muna, Montasir Chowdhury, Mohammed Jawwadul Islam, Sadia Ahmmed, Tashfia Sikder, Syed Tasdid Azam Dhrubo, and Swakkhar Shatabda. 2025. Watch, Listen, Understand, Mislead: Tri-modal Adversarial Attacks on Short Videos for Content Appropriateness Evaluation. Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshops, pp. 2955-2964.

S M Jishanul Islam, Sahid Hossain Mustakim, Musfirat Hossain, Mysun Mashira, Nur Islam Shourav, MD. Rayhan Ahmed, Salekul Islam, Swakkhar Shatabda, and A.K.M. Muzahidul Islam. 2024. An audio video-based multi-modal fusion approach for speech emotion recognition. Under 2nd review at Knowledge-Based Systems (Elsevier).

S M Jishanul Islam, Sahid Hossain Mustakim, Sadia Ahmmed, Md. Faiyaz Abdullah Sayeedi, Swapnil Khandoker, Syed Tasdid Azam Dhrubo, and Nahid Hossain. 2024. MIMIC: Multimodal Islamophobic Meme Identification and Classification. 3rd Muslims in ML Workshop - NeurIPS 2024.

Sadia Ahmmed, Taimur Rahman, S M Jishanul Islam, Al-Momen Reyad, Sonjoy Dey, James Anthony Purification, and Md. Dewan Farid. 2024. E-MedViTR - Enhanced Vision Transformers with Registers for Biomedical Image Classification. 6th International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Information & Communication Technology (ICEEICT 2024).

Notable Research Projects

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AI Engineer, pipikwan pêhtâkwan | Ongoing

Developing AI solutions for indigenous language preservation and revitalization.

Bangla Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Project

Software Engineer, Apurba Technologies Ltd

Worked on a new Vision-Language-based architecture for Bengali OCR and document reconstruction. Fine-tuned VLMs to improve OCR for Bengali, and worked on punctuation and document structure restoration.

Achievements

Best Performing Engineer, Project SD-12 awarded by Apurba Technologies Ltd (Oct 2025)

Winner, Harvard Health Systems Innovation Lab Hackathon 2025 Dhaka Hub (Apr 2025)

Academic Excellence Scholarship (2020-2024)

Champion, Bhashamul: Bengali Regional Text to IPA National NLP Datathon (Mar 2024)

Champion, Hult Prize OnCampus Round (Mar 2024)

Top 15 Finalist, Hult Prize Summit in Boston, USA (Jun 2024)

Finalist, ICT Innovation Grant (for NurtureAid) (Dec 2023)

Gold Award (Champion), International Blockchain Olympiad IBCOL 2023 (Nov 2023)

Champion, Software Engineering Lab (Sep 2023)

Silver Award (1st Runner Up), Bangladesh Blockchain Olympiad BCOLBD 2023 (Jul 2023)

1st Runner Up, Intra-University Deep Learning Sprint (Jan 2023)

Champion, Database Management Systems Lab (May 2022)

Champion, Advanced Object Oriented Programming Lab (Jan 2022)

The Daily Star Award (2017)

Academia High Achievers Award (2017)