Md Farhad Alam Bhuiyan
Research Engineer · Data Scientist · CTO
Sheffield, United Kingdom
Current
- Head of R&D · Penta Global Ltd.
- Data Consultant · International Growth Center
Experience
Consultant, Data Engineer · Shikho Technologies Bangladesh Limited
March 2024 - June 2024
- Structured a Data Lakehouse to future-proof data consistency
- Shifted all the legacy cron jobs to a proper data pipeline
Co-Founder & CTO · krait.io
2024 - 2026
Advanced security platform.
Co-Director · Center for Computational & Data Sciences, IUB
2023 - 2025
Responsible for industrial products which increased collaboration between academia research and industry. Managed industry standard training programs.
Head of Data Team · Praava Health
September 2021 - March 2023
- Designed organization-wide data strategy
- Built a modern Data Lakehouse from scratch
- Advanced data analytics (revenue metrics dashboard, KPI, interactive reports)
- Worked as growth hacker between marketing, engineering, and product teams
- Ensured data governance throughout the organization
Engineering Consultant (Solution Architect) · The Coding Crowd
April 2020 - September 2021
- Led a small agile team serving data-driven solutions for South African clients
- Built a complete solution for NBR's back office
Team Lead · IntelligentMachines
October 2019 - February 2020
- Led a small agile team to design, code, and deploy a mobile app and data-driven dashboard for bKash merchandisers
- Pipeline processed at least 20k daily uploaded images through a CNN model for data-driven analysis and reporting
Lead, Data Science & Engineering Team · Shohoz
May 2019 - April 2020
- Designed a data-driven policy across the business, making decisions based on inferential statistics (e.g. Shohoz Quest and Discount Planning Tool, reducing 4x time and effort)
- Designed and deployed data pipelines on both AWS & Azure for data cleansing, analysis, and reporting (reducing server cost by one-seventh)
- Built a fraud-detection application based on network analysis & inferential statistics (reduced 25% food fraud & 32% ride fraud)
- Designed an end-to-end fraud identification pipeline for detecting and reporting fraud
Assistant Professor (Adjunct Faculty) · Green University
January 2018 - 2020
Researcher & Software Consultant · Beetles
October 2017 - 2021
Worked with a talented cybersecurity group in Bangladesh, with a wide interest in cybersecurity.
Research Assistant · Data & Design Lab
January 2017 - June 2018
Lead, Data Science & Engineering Team · Dohatec New Media
January 2015 - April 2019
- Optimized data ingestion and database queries of eprocure.gov.bd, impacting thousands of tenders and millions of users
- Built a data visualization tool as a product for the Education Ministry's internal usage
Software Engineer · Nascenia IT
October 2013 - September 2014
Responsible for both Android and iOS mobile platforms.
Game and Mobile Application Developer · Evatix
May 2012 - September 2013
Cross-platform game development and cross-platform mobile application development for both Android and iOS platforms.
Skills
- Programming Languages:
- Python, Go, Rust, JavaScript
- Web Development:
- FastAPI, Django, Flask, Firebase, NodeJS, Microservices, Serverless
- DevOps & MLOps:
- Docker, Kubernetes, MLFlow, KubeFlow, AWS, Azure, GCP
- Data Engineering:
- Azure Databricks, Apache Airflow, Apache NiFi, PySpark, ELK Stack, Kafka, Spark Streaming
- Databases:
- PostgreSQL, MySQL, BigQuery, RedShift, MongoDB, Neo4j, Cassandra
- Machine Learning & AI:
- Scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Jupyter, NLP, Computer Vision
- Data Visualization:
- Data Lakehouse, Metabase, Streamlit, Superset, D3.js, Matplotlib
- Mobile Development:
- Android, Flutter, Cross-Platform
Publications (17)
2026
- 5-DIALECTS-BN: Unmasking the Impact of Transliteration on Bangla Dialectal LLMs — EMNLP 2026 Main Conference (Core Rank: A*) (Accepted)
- BanglaProtha: Evaluating Vision Language Models in Underrepresented Long-tail Cultural Contexts — IEEE/CVF WACV 2026 (Core Rank: A) (Published)
- Evaluating Large Vision Language Models on Bangla Medical Visual Question Answering — Findings of the ACL: ACL 2026 (Core Rank: A*) (Published)
- How Good LLMs Are at Answering Bangla Medical Visual Questions? Dataset and Benchmarking — AAAI 2026 Bridge Program on AI for Medicine and Healthcare (PMLR 317) (Published)
- Decoupling Representation for Fine-tuning with Linear Probing and LoRA on Robust Downstream Adaptation — Venue TBD (Under Review)
- CEKALA: CKA-Guided Layer Selection for Efficient Vision–Language Adaptation — Venue TBD (Under Review)
2025
- BanTH: A Multi-label Hate Speech Detection Dataset for Transliterated Bangla — Findings of the ACL: NAACL 2025 (Core Rank: A*/A) (Published)
- ChitroJera: A Regionally Relevant Visual Question Answering Dataset for Bangla — ECML-PKDD 2025 (Core Rank: A) (Published)
- LP-FT-LoRA: A Three-Stage PEFT Framework for Efficient Domain Adaptation in Bangla NLP Tasks — Second Workshop on Bangla Language Processing (BLP-2025) (Published)
- Robustness of LLMs to Transliteration Perturbations in Bangla — Second Workshop on Bangla Language Processing (BLP-2025) (Published)
- Benchmarking Large Language Models on Bangla Dialect Translation and Dialectal Sentiment Analysis — Second Workshop on Bangla Language Processing (BLP-2025) (Published)
- PentaML at BLP-2025 Task 1: Linear Probing of Pre-trained Transformer-based Models for Bangla Hate Speech Detection — Second Workshop on Bangla Language Processing (BLP-2025) (Published)
2024
- BanglaTLit: A Benchmark Dataset for Back-Transliteration of Romanized Bangla — Findings of the ACL: EMNLP 2024 (Core Rank: A*) (Published)
- Penta ML at EXIST 2024: Tagging Sexism in Online Multimodal Content With Attention-enhanced Modal Context — EXIST Lab at CLEF 2024 (Published)
- Penta-nlp at EXIST 2024 Task 1-3: Sexism Identification, Source Intention, Sexism Categorization in Tweets — EXIST Lab at CLEF 2024 (Published)
2022
- Tools and Techniques Adapted for Teaching Software Engineering Topics Remotely during the COVID-19 Pandemic — HICSS 2022 (Published)
2018
- Scrutiny of Electricity Billing and Supply Data as a Probable Proxy for Economic Activities: A Comprehensive Analysis of Power Consumption of Dhaka, Bangladesh — SSRN (Published)
Education
- Bachelor of Science, Computer Science & Engineering · University of Dhaka, Bangladesh2012
Certifications: Deep Learning Specialization · Certified Data Scientist in Python, Dataquest · Certified Data Scientist in R Track, Datacamp · Mastering Product Management, Reforge Fall Cohort 2022 · Data for Product Manager, Reforge Summer 2022 Cohort · Certified Scrum Master