About

I am an ML/NLP researcher focused on building reliable, safe, and human centered AI systems, with healthcare as my primary application domain. My research explores how foundation models reason and why they fail, how machine learning can advance our understanding of biological systems and clinical outcomes, and how people understand, trust, and use AI in practice. 

I approach ML/AI from three complementary perspectives: 

  • the model and systems side, developing and evaluating foundation models and agentic systems for evidence grounded reasoning, structured retrieval, claim verification, factual reliability, uncertainty estimation, adaptive decision making, alignment, and mechanistic interpretability; 
  • the biomedical-clinical side, developing machine learning methods using molecular, biological, and clinical data to study diseases, treatments, and patient outcomes; and 
  • the human side, investigating how people interact with AI systems and how to improve their safety, transparency, reliability, and fairness across languages, cultures, and healthcare settings.

I collaborated with researchers at MBZUAI (UAE), QCRI (Qatar), Microsoft Research (USA), MIT Media Lab (USA), SRI (Canada), KSU (Saudi Arabia), Pi School (Italy), Mila (Canada), Cohere Labs (Canada), CIOL (Bangladesh), CMU (USA), and Hanyang University (South Korea). My research has appeared in leading venues including ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS, ACL, WWW, EMNLP, and ACM FAccT, alongside associated workshops. Coming from a non CS undergraduate background, I published first or last author papers at ICLR, ICML, and NeurIPS in 2026, completing the three major ML conferences before beginning graduate study. I regularly review for leading AI and ML conferences and journals, including NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, UAI, AISTATS, TMLR, AAAI, and ACL ARR, and received ICML Gold Reviewer recognition in 2026. I am also a Kaggle Grandmaster, with an Erdős number and Dijkstra number of 4.

University roles and responsibilities

  • PGR Student, People-Centred AI

    My qualifications

    2025
    BSc (Engg.), Industrial and Production Engineering, in Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh
    Overall CGPA: 3.74/4.00; Final year: 3.94/4.00
    Industrial and Production Engineering

    Research

    Research interests

    Research projects

    Teaching

    Sustainable development goals

    My research interests are related to the following:

    Publications

    📰 Conference Papers

    1. SpatiaLab: Can Vision–Language Models Perform Spatial Reasoning in the Wild?
      Azmine Toushik Wasi, Wahid Faisal, Abdur Rahman, Mahfuz Anik, Munem Shahriar, Mohsin Topu, Sadia Tasnim Meem, Rahatun Nesa Priti, Sabrina Afroz Mitu, Md. Iqramul Hoque, Shahriyar Zaman Ridoy, Mohammed Eunus Ali, Majd Hawasly, Mohammad Raza, Md Rizwan Parvez
      ICLR 2026 (A*)
    2. Position: AI Governance Needs ISO-like Interoperability Protocols, Not Just Laws
      Azmine Toushik Wasi, Mst Rafia Islam, Mahfuz Ahmed Anik, Md Manjurul Ahsan, TH Rafi, Dong-Kyu Chae
      ICML 2026: Position Papers (Spotlight, Top 5%) (A*) SPOTLIGHT
    3. TimeSpot: Benchmarking Geo-Temporal Understanding in Vision–Language Models in Real-World Settings
      Azmine Toushik Wasi*, Shahriyar Zaman Ridoy*, Koushik Tonmoy, Kinga Tshering, S. M. M. Hasan, Wahid Faisal, T. Mohiuddin, Md Rizwan Parvez
      ICML 2026 (A*)
    4. SEISMOS: A Statistical Signal Detection Framework for Semantic Chunking
      Ishtiak Mahmud Saad, Mominul Islam, Shahriyar Zaman Ridoy, Md Manjurul Ahsan, Azmine Toushik Wasi$
      NeurIPS 2026: Main Technical Track (A*)
    5. From Language Specifications to Executable Turing Machines: Evaluating LLMs as Computational Machine Designers
      Shahriyar Zaman Ridoy, S. M. Muhtasimul Hasan, Azmine Toushik Wasi, Kinga Tshering, Koushik Ahamed Tonmoy, Md Mosaddek Khan
      EMNLP 2026 (Findings, Top 30%) (A*)
    6. Reward Engineering for Software Tasks: A Survey of Reinforcement Learning Approaches
      Md Rayhanul Masud, Azmine Toushik Wasi, Salman Rahman, Md Rizwan Parvez
      EMNLP 2026 (Findings, Top 30%) (A*)
    7. PD-scWorld: Pathway-Guided Disentanglement for Single-Cell Perturbation World Models
      Azmine Toushik Wasi
      MLCB 2026 | ACM BCB 2026 (Top 20%, Oral) ORAL
    8. Frugal Medical AI as an Equity Imperative: Rethinking Algorithm Design for Resource-Constrained Healthcare
      Azmine Toushik Wasi, Mohsin Mahmud Topu, Mahfuz Ahmed Anik, Md Manjurul Ahsan
      ACM EAAMO 2026 (Top 22.5%, Oral) ORAL
    9. Position: Time-Series Foundation Models Require Explicit Domain-Level Benchmarks
      Md Asif Bin Syed, Md Younus Ahamed, Azmine Toushik Wasi$
      ICML 2026: Position Papers (A*)
    10. Mina: A Multilingual LLM-Powered Legal Assistant Agent for Bangladesh for Empowering Access to Justice
      Azmine Toushik Wasi, Wahid Faisal, Mst Rafia Islam, Md Rizwan Parvez
      ACL 2026 (A*) Findings
    11. CommonLID: Re-evaluating State-of-the-Art Language Identification Performance on Web Data
      Pedro Ortiz Suarez, Laurie Burchell, ..., Azmine Toushik Wasi, ..., Kenton Murray, Sarah K. K. Luger
      ACL 2026 (A*) Main
    12. Human-AI Interaction in Low-Tech, Low-Resource Healthcare Systems
      Azmine Toushik Wasi, Mahdiya Rahman Sukanya
      ACM Interactive Health 2026
    13. Clinician Perspectives on Generative AI Integration in Bangladesh's Healthcare Workflows: A Brief Study
      Azmine Toushik Wasi, Mahir Absar Khan, Rahatun Nesa Priti, Abdur Rahman, Mst Rafia Islam, Miskat Tahmin Ali
      ACM Interactive Health 2026
    14. Kaleidoscope: In-language Exams for Massively Multilingual Vision Evaluation
      Israfel Salazar, Manuel Fernández Burda, Shayekh Bin Islam, ..., Azmine Toushik Wasi, ..., Sara Hooker, and Marzieh Fadaee
      ICLR 2026 (A*)
    15. Can an AI Teach Children to Recognize Medical Emergencies? A Game-Based Human-AI Learning Approach
      Azmine Toushik Wasi, Mst Rafia Islam, Wahid Faisal, Abdur Rahman
      AIED 2026 (A) Late Breaking Results (LBR: Posters)
    16. EmphAI: An VLM-Based System for Feedback on Non-Verbal Communication in Clinical Training
      Azmine Toushik Wasi, Wahid Faisal, Mst Rafia Islam
      AIED 2026 (A) Late Breaking Results (LBR: Posters)
    17. Spatial Reasoning in Multimodal Foundation Models: A Survey of Spatial Understanding in LLMs and VLMs
      Azmine Toushik Wasi, Md. Masudur Rahman, Abdur Rahman, Mohsin Mahmud Topu, Mohammed Eunus Ali, Riashat Islam, Md Rizwan Parvez
      AACL-IJCNLP 2026: Main (B)
    18. Geo-spatial and Geo-temporal Reasoning in Vision-Language and Large Language Models: A Review
      Shahriyar Zaman Ridoy, Azmine Toushik Wasi, Koushik Ahamed Tonmoy, Md Rizwan Parvez
      AACL-IJCNLP 2026: Main (B)
    19. Large Language and Vision-Language Models as World Models: A Survey
      Azmine Toushik Wasi, Sadia Tasnim Meem, Riashat Islam, Md Rizwan Parvez
      AACL-IJCNLP 2026: Findings (B)
    20. Is There a Dr. House in the Machine? A Survey of Clinical and Diagnostic Reasoning in LLM-based Medical Agents
      Azmine Toushik Wasi, Abdur Rahman, Riashat Islam, Md Rizwan Parvez
      AACL-IJCNLP 2026: Findings (B)
    21. Position: Real-World Clinical NLP Robustness Requires Messy, Multimodal, Longitudinal, Privacy-Preserving Corpora
      Azmine Toushik Wasi, Shahriyar Zaman Ridoy
      AACL-IJCNLP 2026: Findings (B)
    22. A Review of Human-Centric Evaluation of Cultural Biases in Indic Languages in LLMs: Rethinking Research Directions
      Azmine Toushik Wasi, Omid Reza Heidari*, MD Mohaymen Ul Anam*, Abdur Rahman*, Amit Agarwal, Hitesh Laxmichand Patel, Bhargava Kumar, TH Rafi, Dong-Kyu Chae
      PAKDD 2026: DSFA (B)
    23. Generative Artificial Intelligence for Project Management: A Review of Architectures, Applications, and Governance
      Mahfuz Ahmed Anik*, Azmine Toushik Wasi*, Mohsin Mahmud Topu, TH Rafi, Dong-Kyu Chae
      PAKDD 2026: DSFA (B)
    24. BengaliMoralBench: A Benchmark for Auditing Moral Reasoning in Large Language Models within Bengali Language and Culture
      Shahriyar Zaman Ridoy*, Azmine Toushik Wasi*, Koushik Ahamed Tonmoy, TH Rafi, Dong-Kyu Chae
      ACM FAccT 2026
    25. Multimodal Vision-Language Models for Automated and Explainable Postoperative Complication Risk Stratification
      Azmine Toushik Wasi, Mahfuz Ahmed Anik, Md Shafikul Islam, Md Manjurul Ahsan
      IISE 2026 (Health Systems Track > Best Track Paper : Second Place)
    26. VLM-Based Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection and Root-Cause Interpretation in Complex Industrial Assemblies
      Mahfuz Ahmed Anik, Azmine Toushik Wasi, Md Shafikul Islam, Md Manjurul Ahsan
      IISE 2026
    27. Exploring Bengali Creative Storytelling Capabilities of Large Language Models Across Cultural Variations
      Azmine Toushik Wasi, Raima Islam*, Mst Rafia Islam*, Farig Sadeque, TH Rafi, Dong-Kyu Chae
      CSCW 2025 Posters (A)
    28. LegalMind: An Intelligent Solution for Legal Document Analysis with User-Centric UI and AI-Driven Capabilities in Mobile Devices
      Azmine Toushik Wasi, Mst Rafia Islam, Abdur Rahman, Tawfia Yeasmin, Amit Agarwal, Hitesh Laxmichand Patel, TH Rafi, Dong-Kyu Chae
      CSCW 2025 Posters (A)
    29. Knowledge Explorer: An Agentic AI Framework for Interactive, Personalized and Multilingual Learning Experience
      Wahid Faisal*, Azmine Toushik Wasi*, Drishti Sharma*, Mahfuz Ahmed Anik, TH Rafi, Dong-Kyu Chae
      CSCW 2025 Posters (A)
    30. Dialectal Bias in Bengali: An Evaluation of Multilingual Large Language Models Across Cultural Variations
      Azmine Toushik Wasi, Raima Islam, Mst Rafia Islam, Farig Sadeque, TH Rafi, Dong-Kyu Chae
      WWW 2025 (TheWebConf) (A*) (Short Paper)
    31. INCLUDE: Evaluating Multilingual Language Understanding with Regional Knowledge
      Angelika Romanou, Negar Foroutan, Anna Sotnikova,... , Azmine Toushik Wasi, ... , Marzieh Fadaee, Sara Hooker, Antoine Bosselut
      ICLR 2025 (Spotlight, Top 5.1%) (A*) SPOTLIGHT
    32. Gaussian Regularization in Neural Graph Learning
      Azmine Toushik Wasi, TH Rafi, Dong-Kyu Chae
      DASFAA 2025 (Full Paper, Short Oral, Top 10%) (B) SPOTLIGHT
    33. Mitigating Linguistic Bias Between Malay and Indonesian Languages Using Masked Language Models
      Ferdinand Lenchau Bit, Iman Khaleda binti Zamri, Azmine Toushik Wasi$, TH Rafi, Dong-Kyu Chae
      DASFAA 2025 (Short Paper Paper, Poster) (B)
    34. Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Clinical Time-Series Forecasting with Clinical Utility
      Azmine Toushik Wasi, Mahfuz Ahmed Anik, Abdur Rahman, Md Iqramul Hoque, Wahid Faisal, and A. M. M. Mukaddes
      ICCIT 2025
    35. Sleep Quality Using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index: A Machine Learning Approach
      Abdur Rahman, Mahfuz Ahmed Anik, Shahoriar Muttaki Utshaw, Azmine Toushik Wasi$, and A. M. M. Mukaddes
      ICCIT 2025
    36. GReFEL: Geometry-Aware Reliable Facial Expression Learning under Bias and Imbalanced Data Distribution
      Azmine Toushik Wasi*, TH Rafi*, Raima Islam, Karlo Šerbetar, Dong-Kyu Chae
      ACCV 2024 (B)
    37. BanglaAutoKG: Automatic Bangla Knowledge Graph Construction with Semantic Neural Graph Filtering
      Azmine Toushik Wasi, TH Rafi, Raima Islam, Dong-Kyu Chae
      COLING 2024 (B)
    38. Neural Control System for Continuous Glucose Monitoring and Maintenance
      Azmine Toushik Wasi
      ICLR 2024 (A*) Tiny Papers
    39. When SMILES have Language: Drug Classification using Text Classification Methods on Drug SMILES Strings
      Azmine Toushik Wasi, Karlo Serbetar, Raima Islam, TH Rafi, Dong-Kyu Chae
      ICLR 2024 (A*) Tiny Papers
    40. DiaFrame: A Framework for Understanding Bengali Dialects in Human-AI Collaborative Creative Writing Spaces
      Azmine Toushik Wasi, TH Rafi, Dong-Kyu Chae
      CSCW 2024 Posters (A)

       

    📰 Journal Papers

    1. CADGL: Context-Aware Deep Graph Learning for Predicting Drug-Drug Interactions
      Azmine Toushik Wasi, TH Rafi, Raima Islam, Serbetar Karlo, Dong-Kyu Chae
      IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB) (Q1/Q2, IF: 4.5, CiteScore: 9.7)
    2. A Computational Community Blind Challenge on Pan-Coronavirus Drug Discovery Data
      Hugo MacDermott-Opeskin, Cas Wognum, ..., Azmine Toushik Wasi, ..., James Fraser, John D. Chodera
      Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling (JCIM) (Q1, IF 5.3)
    3. GRAPHINE: Enhancing Spatiotemporal Supply Chain Forecasting Using Virtual Node-Augmented Graph Diffusion for Improved Fuel Efficiency
      A. S. A.*, Azmine Toushik Wasi*, Mahfuz Ahmed Anik, MD Shafikul Islam, and Mohamed Kamel Hadj-Kali
      International Journal of Production Research (IJPR) (Q1)
    4. AI Collaboration and the Decentering of Human Creativity
      Azmine Toushik Wasi, Sadia Tasneem Meem
      ACM AI Letters
    5. ST-ResGAT: Explainable Spatio-Temporal Graph Neural Network for Road Condition Prediction and Priority-Driven Maintenance
      Mohsin Mahmud Topu#, Azmine Toushik Wasi#, Mahfuz Ahmed Anik, MD Manjurul Ahsan
      Intelligent Transportation Infrastructure (Q1)
    6. Digital Twin Enabled Additive Manufacturing: A Comprehensive Review of Architectures, Integration Layers, and Operational Maturity
      Mahfuz Ahmed Anik, Abdur Rahman, MD Shafikul Islam, Md Isfar Khan, Md Manjurul Ahsan, Azmine Toushik Wasi$#
      Digital Twins and Applications
    7. Beyond Local Receptive Fields: Vision Transformers for Real-Time Surface Defect Detection in FDM
      MD Shafikul Islam, Mahathir Mohammad Bappy, Saifur Rahman Tushar, Christian Zamiela, Azmine Toushik Wasi
      International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology (Q1)
    8. A multilayer perceptron (MLP)-based bi-directional model to predict parameters of fused deposition modeling
      Syeda Kumrun Nahar, Mohammad Muhshin Aziz Khan, Pritidipto Paul Chowdhury, Azmine Toushik Wasi, M. Morad Ali & M. Rifat Rahman
      International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology (Q1)
    9. Fracture Finder: Computer-Aided Real-Time Diagnosis of Vertebral Fractures in Thoracic Spine X-Rays Using YOLOv8 with Weighted Box Fusion and Augmentation Strategies
      MD Shafikul Islam, Mahfuz Ahmed Anik, Azmine Toushik Wasi, Mahathir Mohammad Bappy
      IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering (Q2)

       

    📃 Pre-prints / Works in Review

    1. Retrieval Geometry Shapes Cache-Based Clip Adaptation
      Mahir Shahriar Tamim*, Md. Samiul Alim*, Azmine Toushik Wasi, Shahriyar Zaman Ridoy, Meharun Nesa, M. Abu Yousuf, Alex Lamb, M. Ali Moni
    2. InvariantBench: Can Large Language Models Exhibit Inherent Reasoning Consistently Across Equivalent Transformations?
      Azmine Toushik Wasi, Mahir Absar Khan, Abdur Rahman, Wahid Faisal, Sukanta Saha, Saimon Bhuiyan, Mahdiya Rahman Sukanya, Rahatun Nesa Priti, Md. Iqramul Hoque, Munem Shahriar, Raima Islam, Sanatan Sushil, Shahriyar Zaman Ridoy, Kazi Rajwan Sultan, Md Tanzib Hosain, MD Shafikul Islam, Dong-Kyu Chae, Md Manjurul Ahsan, Md Rizwan Parvez
    3. Characterizing Errors in Small Medical Language Models: Geometry, Prediction, and Causal Sensitivity
      Azmine Toushik Wasi, Adinath Madhavrao Dukre, Md Manjurul Ahsan, Muhammad Awais, Sara Atito
    4. Why Do Finetuned ECG Foundation Models Fail at New Hospitals? Separating What Finetuning Finds from What It Adds
      Srikar Vardhan, Adinath Madhavrao Dukre, Azmine Toushik Wasi, Imran Razzak
    5. Think Before You Locate: Clinical Chain-of-Thought Supervision for Sequential Medical Image Grounding
      Adinath Madhavrao Dukre, Govinda Kolli, Yifan Lu, Ziyun Zou, Azmine Toushik Wasi, Sara Atito, Behzad Bozorgtabar, Dwarikanath Mahapatra, Muhammad Awais, Imran Razzak
    6. FrontierSpatial: Holistic Evaluation of Spatial Reasoning in Large Multimodal Models
      Wahid Faisal*, Azmine Toushik Wasi*, Mohammed Eunus Ali, Md Rizwan Parvez
    7. DeepVisualMath: Comprehensive Evaluation of Visual Mathematical Reasoning in Large Multimodal Models
      Azmine Toushik Wasi*, Wahid Faisal, Mohammed Eunus Ali*, Md Rizwan Parvez
    8. VISTA: Combating Visual Token Drift in Long-Form Video Language Generation via Saliency-Gated Attention Refresh
      Azmine Toushik Wasi, Ankan Deria, Adinath Madhavrao Dukre, Sara Atito, Muhammad Awais, Imran Razzak
    9. When Do Subgroup Specific Acceptance Policies Help in Medical Evidence Verification?
      Azmine Toushik Wasi, Md Tanzib Hosain, Adinath Madhavrao Dukre, Md Manjurul Ahsan, Muhammad Awais, Sara Atito, Imran Razzak
    10. Last Translation Benchmark
      Vilém Zouhar, Niyati Bafna, Mukund Choudhary, Maike Züfle, ... , Azmine Toushik Wasi, ... (and 255 others)
    11. Safe Decision Making with Distribution-Free Per-Group Utility Guarantees by Risk-Averse Calibration
      Azmine Toushik Wasi, Md Manjurul Ahsan
    12. Vision-Grounded Kernel Semantic Entropy for Spatial Hallucination Detection in Medical Visual Question Answering
      Adinath Madhavrao Dukre, Yifan Lu, Govinda Kolli, Ziyun Zou, Youssef Mohamed, Azmine Toushik Wasi, Yutong Xie, Shoaib Jameel, Imran Razzak
    13. BanglaHealthMyth: Evaluating LLM Resilience to Health-related Misinformation in Bangladesh
      Noor Mairukh Khan Arnob*, Azmine Toushik Wasi*, Md Noushad Jahan Ramim, Wahid Faisal, Labiba Akram Pritha, Saiyara Mahmud, Md Rizwan Parvez
    14. Graph Neural Networks in Supply Chain Analytics and Optimization: Concepts, Perspectives, Dataset and Benchmarks
      Azmine Toushik Wasi, MD Shafikul Islam Sohan, Adipto Raihan Akib, Mahathik Muhammad Bappy

     

    💼 Academic Services

    • Conference or Journal Reviewer
      • AI/ML: ICML (GOLD Reviewer, '26), ICLR, NeurIPS, UAI, AISTATS, AAAI.
      • NLP: ACL ARR 2024-Present (ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, EACL, COLING), [View in official list]; COLING, and Industry Tracks.
      • CV: WACV.
      • Bio/Medical/Health Infomatics: MICCAI, MLCB, IEEE EMBS BHI.
      • HCI/HAI: CHI, CSCW, UbiComp, TEI, ICM, IDC, ACM EAAMO.
    • Journal Reviewer
      • Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI) (IF 18.6)
      • Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)
      • IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (TAFFC) (IF 9.8)
      • Complex & Intelligent Systems (Springer Nature) (IF 5.6)
      • ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS) (IF 3.8)
    • Organizer
      • Four workshops at NeurIPS 2024, ICML 2024, and NeurIPS 2025, ICML 2026 and six socials across NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AISTATS, and ACL, as a Muslims in ML Affinity Workshop Steering Committee Member and Core Organizer.