Engineering work

From production APIs to industrial research. Each case connects my contribution to its evidence.

Manuscript

First author and system researcher

AuditGuard: verifying industrial energy reports

96.2% mutant-level exact-match

Designed the report-validation workflow and evaluated deterministic and model-assisted checking.

  • Programmatic verification
  • Energy auditing
  • Evaluation
Manuscript

Co-author and retrieval researcher

Local multimodal drawing retrieval

65.8% Precision@1

Co-authored evaluation of local retrieval representations and fusion for construction drawing sets.

  • Multimodal retrieval
  • Local models
  • Construction drawings
Manuscript

First author and doctoral researcher

Measuring excavator operator behavior

94.5% mean balanced accuracy

Analyzed joystick-mounted inertial measurements and separate gaze measures to study experience-related behavior.

  • Wearable sensing
  • Behavioral analysis
  • Skill classification
Manuscript

Co-author and benchmark researcher

ConstructionQA: reading supplied drawing context

Co-authored evaluation of information extraction, sheet references, and cross-discipline coordination.

  • Multimodal evaluation
  • Construction drawings
  • Question answering
Accepted

Co-author and multimodal research contributor

Zero-shot locomotion prediction from vision and speech

87.87% weighted F1, zero-shot GPT-4o

Co-authored a comparison of zero-shot and fine-tuned models for construction locomotion prediction.

  • Multimodal learning
  • Zero-shot evaluation
  • Exoskeletons
Prototype

First author and prototype researcher

Context-aware locomotion prediction

94.3% reported classification accuracy

Integrated local scene captioning, voice input, recent locomotion history, and human clarification.

  • Context-aware reasoning
  • Human clarification
  • Exoskeletons
Production

Prompt Engineer (Project-based), July 2023 to January 2024

Combokid child-healthcare chatbot

Built and integrated multi-agent workflows, image-based features, and retrieval-augmented generation.

  • Multimodal systems
  • Retrieval
  • Conversational AI
Production

AI/NLP Engineer, Headless Technologies, December 2022 to January 2024

DC Office Complaint Classifier

Collected and annotated data, trained and tuned the classifier, and built backend services and APIs.

  • Text classification
  • Bengali NLP
  • APIs
Supporting work

Personal project developer

Early GAN image generation

Developed image-generation projects using generative adversarial networks.

  • Generative models
  • GAN
  • Computer vision
Production

AI/NLP Engineer, Headless Technologies, December 2022 to January 2024

engaze.ai customer-support chatbots

Developed and deployed Rasa and Dialogflow chatbots, natural-language understanding, dialogue management, backend services, and APIs.

  • Conversational AI
  • NLP
  • APIs
Planned study

Doctoral researcher, proposed trainer evaluation

Evidence-grounded session-end coaching

Design a session-end workflow for behavioral analysis, reference retrieval, feedback drafting, and verification.

  • Evidence-grounded feedback
  • Human evaluation
  • Learning assessment
Manuscript

First author and literature-review researcher

How language models fit industrial energy auditing

Synthesized application areas and architectural gaps, emphasizing retrieval, calculations, and human review.

  • Literature synthesis
  • Energy auditing
  • Evidence governance
Production

Energy Assessment Team Leader & Researcher, September 2024 to present

Industrial energy assessments at LSU ITAC

Lead assessments, analyze utility bills and on-site measurements, perform energy balances, and author client technical reports.

  • Energy assessment
  • Industrial systems
  • Field measurements
Production

AI/NLP Engineer, Headless Technologies, December 2022 to January 2024

Mujib Jigyasa heritage chatbot

Curated and validated data, fine-tuned NLP models, and built backend services and APIs.

  • Bengali NLP
  • Data curation
  • Conversational AI
Supporting work

Doctoral researcher and pipeline contributor

Multimodal research data infrastructure

Organize simulator, video, gaze, digital joystick, and inertial streams for inspectable research analysis.

  • Research infrastructure
  • Multimodal data
  • Synchronization
Prototype

Prompt Engineer (Remote, Project-based), March to May 2023

Remote Kitchen language-model prototype

Defined a project roadmap, analyzed requirements, designed the system, and built an initial demonstration.

  • System design
  • Prompt engineering
  • Prototyping
Open source

Personal project developer

Retrieval-MPNet-BN

Developed a contextual retrieval model that ranks supplied passages for a question.

  • Dense retrieval
  • Bengali NLP
  • MPNet
Manuscript

Co-author and assessment researcher

Temporal assessment of excavator proficiency

Contributed to temporal behavior analysis and evidence-linked operator assessment reports.

  • Multi-agent systems
  • Temporal analysis
  • Simulator assessment
Manuscript

First author and system researcher

Utility bills to reviewed structured data

Developed a utility-bill extraction and review workflow for energy assessments.

  • Document extraction
  • Human review
  • Energy data
Planned study

Doctoral researcher, planned study

Validate multimodal interpretation of operator behavior

Design an evaluation of phase identification, behavioral interpretation, and propagation of upstream errors.

  • Multimodal interpretation
  • Human annotation
  • Grouped evaluation

LSU Industrial Training & Assessment Center · September 2024 to present

Energy Assessment Team Leader & Researcher

I lead industrial energy assessments: utility-bill analysis, on-site measurement, energy-balance calculations, and client technical reports. Totals are team assessment outcomes.

Recommended annual electricity savings

8,208,899 kWh/year

16 assessments with recommendations

Implemented annual electricity savings

5,950,754 kWh/year

11 assessments with implementation reports