Research Interests

My research interests span efficient deep learning, agentic AI for security, and trustworthy ML. My work focuses on three key areas:

  1. Efficient and distributed training, optimization, and deployment of large-scale models
  2. LLM agents for cybersecurity and cyber-physical systems
  3. Trustworthy AI for sensitive and high-stakes applications

I aim to design useful and reliable AI systems that address real world problems while supporting people in sensitive and high impact settings.

Research Summary

Total publications7Manuscripts under review9Datasets1Citations57Peer reviews50

Publications

Research Artifacts

2025

SkySeaLand Satellite Object Detection Dataset

Md. Zahid Hasan Riad, Md Sultanul Islam Ovi

DOI: 10.17632/d42n3cp86p.3

Dataset

Manuscripts Under Review

Contrastive Representation Learning in the Foundation Model Era: A Survey of the Design Space and Open Challenges

Md Sultanul Islam Ovi, Nafisa Anjum, Jamal Hossain

Journal

Efficient Multilabel Bangla Cyberbullying Detection: A Deployment-Aware Study of Knowledge Distillation and Structured Pruning

Saif Siddique, Md Sultanul Islam Ovi, Mahbuba Habib, Miraj Uddin Chowdhury, Ann Naser Nabil, Shamazda Islam

Journal

When Smaller Teachers Win: A Distillation-Quantization Pipeline for Efficient Hate Speech Detection in a Low-Resource Language, Bangla

Ann Naser Nabil, Saif Siddique, Rakib Ullah, Md. Abdur Rakib Mollah, Shamazda Islam, Md Sultanul Islam Ovi

Journal

How Reliable and Explainable Are Machine Learning Models for Dementia Detection? A Leakage-Aware Evaluation

Md. Jamil Hasan, Md. Hasibur Rahman, Md. Sajjad Hossain, Md Sultanul Islam Ovi

Journal

SynBanglaSuicide: Benchmarking Transformer Based Detection of Suicidal Intention in Synthetic Bangla Social Media Text

Md Sultanul Islam Ovi, Ann Naser Nabil, Rakib Ullah, Muhsina Tarannum Munfa, Mahbuba Habib, Fariha Ahmed, Miftahul Alam Adib

Journal

Explainable AI Based Depression Severity Screening Among University Students Through Minimal Symptom Assessment

Md Raihan Alam Rahi, Jamal Hossain, Md Sultanul Islam Ovi

Journal

An Explainable AI Framework for Early Stage Chronic Kidney Disease Diagnosis in Clinical Decision Support

Muhsina Tarannum Munfa, Miftahul Alam Adib, Md Sultanul Islam Ovi

Journal

SynBanglaSuicide: A Synthetic Bangla Text Dataset for Suicidal Intention Detection

Md Sultanul Islam Ovi, Ann Naser Nabil, Rakib Ullah, Muhsina Tarannum Munfa, Mahbuba Habib, Fariha Ahmed, Miftahul Alam Adib

Conference

Academic Service

Since 2025, I have served as a reviewer or program committee member for journals, conferences, and workshops, including Informatics for Health and Social Care, MICCAI, IEEE BHI, PEARC, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, AAAI, and IJCAI.

Journals7

Editorial Board MemberJournal of Cybersecurity, Digital Forensics and Jurisprudence

2026

ReviewerMajestic International Journal of AI Innovation

2026

ReviewerMajestic Journal of Information Technology

2026

ReviewerAsian Journal of Advanced Research and Reports

2026

ReviewerHealth Informatics

2026

ReviewerInformatics for Health and Social Care

2026

ReviewerMathematics and Computer Science

2026

Conferences30

Program Committee MemberIEEE ICITACChina

2027

ReviewerAIHCIndia

2027

ReviewerAICTCAustralia

2027

Program Committee MemberNGEN-AIItaly

2026

Program Committee MemberQUANCOMItaly

2026

Program Committee MemberPEARCUSA

2026

ReviewerICDLAIIndia

2026

ReviewerIEEE BHIChina

2026

ReviewerINDICONIndia

2026

ReviewerICECERTurkey

2026

ReviewerIEEE TEMSMETIndia

2026

ReviewerICCABangladesh

2026

ReviewerAIIHUK

2026

ReviewerNURERKazakhstan

2026

ReviewerICECCMEIndonesia

2026

ReviewerMICCAIUAE

2026

ReviewerITNCCNamibia

2026

ReviewerIC3IAIndia

2026

ReviewerIEC2TIndia

2026

ReviewerAICTCIndia

2026

ReviewerICECETItaly

2026

ReviewerETNCCNamibia

2026

ReviewerIEEE SoutheastConUSA

2026

ReviewerCumulus AthensGreece

2026

ReviewerIEEE EDUCONEgypt

2026

ReviewerIEEE i5CPSIndia

2026

ReviewerIEEE IATMSIIndia

2026

ReviewerIEEE BHIUSA

2025

ReviewerEAI BDCCIndia

2025

ReviewerIEEE iConSCEPTIndia

2025

Workshops13

Program Committee MemberACM, Workshop: Artificial Intelligence and SecurityNetherlands

2026

Program Committee MemberCVPR, Workshop: ADFMUSA

2026

ReviewerNeurIPS, Workshop: Multiplicity and Homogenization in AIAustralia

2026

ReviewerIJCAI, Workshop: Logical and Symbolic Reasoning of Large Language ModelsGermany

2026

ReviewerICML, Workshop: AIWILDSouth Korea

2026

ReviewerCVPR, Workshop: MMRAgIUSA

2026

ReviewerICLR, Workshop: ES-ReasoningBrazil

2026

ReviewerICLR, Workshop: LLM ReasoningBrazil

2026

ReviewerAAAI, Workshop: MURESingapore

2026

ReviewerBMVC, Workshop: MPIUK

2025

ReviewerNeurIPS, Workshop: LLM EvaluationUSA

2025

ReviewerNeurIPS, Workshop: Muslims in MLUSA

2025

ReviewerAACL IJCNLP, Workshop: BLPIndia

2025