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Ahmed Faizul Haque Dhrubo is a Graduate Research Assistant at the Systems on Embodied AI Lab (SEAL) in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, North South University, Dhaka. He builds efficient, explainable, and deployable AI systems that work under the real-world constraints of edge devices and climate-vulnerable environments. His research spans deep learning architectures for computer vision and NLP, multimodal sensor fusion for embedded systems, and IoT-enabled climate resilience.

He is particularly interested in compressing heavyweight vision models without sacrificing accuracy. This led to HybiNet, a block-level fusion ensemble that injects intermediate features from EfficientNet, DenseNet, and Xception into customized SqueezeNet Fire Modules — reaching 95.44% validation accuracy with 2.83M parameters, a 62.6% parameter reduction versus DenseNet121. He extended this to object detection in HybiNet v2, presented at MIT URTC 2025.

Beyond model efficiency, he has first-author work on IoT systems for extreme-weather resilience (MMAR 2024), a MOF-based sustainable cooling architecture for Bangladesh's urban-heat crisis (ICESA 2024), and a Kolmogorov–Arnold Network approach to legal document classification (ACL 2026, under review). His team received a Best Session Paper Award at IEEE IPAS 2025 for satellite-image segmentation analyzing environmental degradation in Bangladesh.

He coordinates Senior Design and Embedded Systems at NSU, where he has mentored over 200 student projects in AI, IoT, and robotics since 2023. He is currently targeting CVPR 2027 with a unified foundation model for multi-class tracking, detection, and segmentation.

Status: Open to PhD positions · Fall 2026.

News

Apr. 2026
First-author paper on legal document classification with a Kolmogorov–Arnold Network block submitted to ACL 2026 (under review).
Apr. 2026
PlantaNet — efficient multi-crop disease classification via transformer benchmarking and custom lightweight CNNs — published in PLOS ONE.
Jan. 2026
CerevianNet — parameter-efficient multi-class brain tumor classification — published in Frontiers in Medicine.
Oct. 2025
HybiNet accepted as a first-author paper at the IEEE MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference (URTC) 2025.
Jul. 2025
Received Best Session Paper Award at IEEE IPAS 2025 (Lyon, France) for multi-model satellite-image segmentation of Bangladesh.
Mar. 2025
PVTv2-based lung-cancer detection paper presented at ICAIIC 2025 in Fukuoka, Japan.
Feb. 2025
Finalist, AI Poster at the BEAR Summit and National Semiconductor Symposium Bangladesh.
Dec. 2024
Graduated B.Sc. in Computer Science & Engineering (Major: Robotics & AI; Minor: Theory of Computation) from North South University.

Key Publications: Efficient & Explainable AI

Peer-reviewed work at international conferences and journals. First-author and lead-contributor papers are surfaced here; additional publications follow below.

Chest X-ray · Feature Fusion IEEE MIT URTC 2025

IEEEIEEE MIT URTC 2025Full Paper · 1st author

HybiNet: Multi-Model Feature Fusion with Deep Explainability for Chest X-ray Diagnosis

A. F. H. Dhrubo, M. A. Rusho, M. K. Jahan, M. A. Qayum

A block-level fusion ensemble that injects intermediate features from EfficientNetB0, DenseNet121, and Xception into customized SqueezeNet Fire Modules — reaching heavyweight accuracy with far fewer parameters: 95.44% validation accuracy at 2.83M parameters, a 62.6% reduction versus DenseNet121, with strong interpretability. HybiNet v2 extends the design to object detection...

Satellite Segmentation IEEE IPAS 2025

IEEEIEEE IPAS 2025Full Paper · contributor

🏵️ Best Session Paper Award

Multi-Model AI-Driven Satellite Image Segmentation for Comprehensive Urbanization and Environmental Degradation Analysis in Bangladesh

M. Rezwan-ul-alam, A. F. H. Dhrubo, et al.

A large-scale annotated dataset and temporal-analysis framework covering buildings, trees, water bodies, tin shades, and farmlands across a decade of satellite imagery — quantifying land-use transformation and environmental degradation in Bangladesh. I built the annotation workflow and the temporal analysis pipeline...

PVTv2 · Medical Imaging ICAIIC 2025

IEEEICAIIC 2025Full Paper · 2nd author

Early Detection of Lung Cancer Using Pyramid Vision Transformer (PVTv2): A Comparative Analysis of Deep Learning Models

M. K. Jahan, A. F. H. Dhrubo, M. A. Rusho, A. R. Chowdhury, F. Sharmin, M. A. Qayum

Systematic benchmarking of transformer-based vision architectures with ablation studies, identifying PVTv2 as the strongest performer for lung-cancer detection. The paper grew out of broader work on which Vision Transformer variants generalize best in resource-constrained medical imaging...

MOF Cooling · Climate ICESA 2024

ICESA 2024Full Paper · 1st author

Harnessing Technology for Climate Resilience: A New Paradigm in Urban Cooling through Eco-friendly Cooler

A. F. H. Dhrubo, M. A. Qayum, et al.

A sustainable alternative to conventional air conditioning for Bangladesh's urban-heat crisis. I contributed an AI-driven control algorithm based on ASHRAE 55 (PMV/PPD) comfort modeling and helped design a hybrid architecture combining MOF-based desiccant dehumidification with evaporative cooling. The prototype delivers cooling comparable to a 1-ton AC while consuming 67–75% less energy at roughly one-third the cost...

IoT · Sensor Fusion MMAR 2024

IEEEMMAR 2024Full Paper · 1st author

IoT Towers of Resilience: A Revolutionary Approach to Weathering Climate Extremes and Enhancing Sustainability in Vulnerable Ecosystems

A. F. H. Dhrubo, S. Siddique, M. A. Qayum

A priority-based sensor-fusion mechanism using flame, temperature, and humidity inputs to classify fire severity and trigger appropriate responses. The system includes AtmoBalancer, an urban-heat mitigation module via automated mist deployment, and a three-tower distributed network of solar-powered nodes connected to a Raspberry Pi Pico hub for real-time Firebase aggregation and predictive climate modeling...

KAN · Legal NLP ACL 2026 · Under review

ACLACL 2026Under review · 1st author

A. F. H. Dhrubo, et al.

A deep-learning approach to legal document classification and summarization built to tackle domain-specific language, long-term dependencies, and class imbalance. A KAN block is added to the model to better process complex legal texts; extensive experiments on a Bangladesh legal dataset demonstrate substantial improvements over standard ML baselines such as SVM and logistic regression...

Additional Publications

Lightweight CNN Front. Med. 2026

FrontiersFrontiers in Medicine 2026Journal Article

CerevianNet: Parameter Efficient Multi-Class Brain Tumor Classification Using Custom Lightweight CNN

M. K. Jahan, A. A. Shafi, M. A. Rusho, M. S. Hussain, A. F. H. Dhrubo

Crop Disease · XAI PLOS ONE 2026

PLOSPLOS ONE 2026Journal Article

PlantaNet and PlantaNet-Lite: Efficient and Explainable Multi-Crop Plant Disease Classification via Transformer Benchmarking and Custom Lightweight CNNs

M. S. H. Zidan, A. Imran, M. K. Mia, M. Hussain, A. F. H. Dhrubo, M. A. Qayum

Multimodal Captioning IEEE IPAS 2025
Blockchain · AI Survey ACM CSUR · Under review

ACMACM Computing SurveysUnder review · 1st author

A. F. H. Dhrubo, et al.

CNN · ViT · Hybrid Elsevier · Under review

ElsevierKnowledge-Based Systems (Elsevier)Under review · contributor

S. Samin, A. F. H. Dhrubo, et al.

Current Research

Three active threads in progress alongside ongoing collaborations.

15+ Datasets · Unified Model Targeting CVPR 2027

CVFTargeting CVPR 2027

A single architecture trained jointly across more than 15 large-scale datasets — including Objects365, COCO, and Cityscapes — for multi-class perception under shared representations.

KAN · Civil Justice AI In progress

In progressCivil Justice AI

Re-engineering KAN blocks for transformer language models to improve efficiency and reduce algorithmic bias in Bangladesh's civil judiciary — extending the legal-document classification line from my undergraduate thesis (Themis) toward ACL-grade evaluation.

Edge AI · Raspberry Pi 5 Embodied AI

Edge AIEmbodied

A framework combining imitation learning, reinforcement learning, and vision-language grounding to enable high-level robotic intelligence without cloud inference — built around the Raspberry Pi 5 as a deployment target for resource-constrained settings.

Teaching & Mentoring

Course Coordinator & Lab Mentor in the Department of ECE, North South University, since March 2023.

200+
Projects mentored
50+
Capstone students / semester
100+
Directed research students

I coordinate Senior Design I & II, Directed Research, and Embedded Systems at NSU — guiding capstone projects across AI, IoT, and robotics, and supporting lab instructors transitioning the embedded curriculum from 8051-based platforms to ARM-based STM32.

Many students I have mentored have gone on to co-author IEEE and ACM conference papers. To support that transition, I authored an open educational resource on STM32 architecture, communication protocols, and IoT sensor integration, published on arXiv.

I also developed standardized experimentation and evaluation pipelines so research across student projects is reproducible — sharing model selection, hyperparameter tuning, and debugging practices for overfitting and convergence issues.

Awards & Recognition

Academic Service

Get in Touch

I am actively applying for PhD positions starting Fall 2026. I am most excited by groups working on efficient and explainable deep learning, edge AI for embodied systems, multimodal perception, and AI for low-resource and climate-vulnerable settings. If your group works on any of these, I would love to hear from you.

The best way to reach me is by email: ahmed.dhrubo@northsouth.edu. References available on request.