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Naimul Haque
PhD Student & Researcher

Naimul Haque

Entrepreneur · Computer Vision · LLMs · Trustworthy AI
PhD Student & Graduate Research Assistant
School of EECS · Louisiana State University (LSU), Baton Rouge, LA
Founder @ Gradmate.ai
naimul@gradmate.ai · nhaque4@lsu.edu +1 (607) 454-1231 Baton Rouge, LA 70803

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01 About

PhD student at LSU working at the intersection of computer vision, LLMs, and Trustworthy AI. Doctoral research focuses on privacy-preserving face-swapping — transferring facial identity while formally protecting sensitive biometric attributes from inference attacks.

Founder of Gradmate.ai, an LLM-powered platform for graduate applicants featuring semantic program matching, multi-agent SOP generation, and IELTS practice. Previously GRA at Alfred University, winning 1st place (tied) in the Advizex AI Innovation Challenge.

Publications across IEEE, ICPR, and arXiv in facial captioning, sign-language recognition, license plate OCR, and toxic content classification. Open datasets and models on HuggingFace actively used by the community.

6+
Publications
4.0
MSc GPA
5+
Yrs Teaching
1st
Advizex Prize
02 Research Interests
Trustworthy AI Privacy-Preserving AI Computer Vision Face Analysis & Synthesis Large Language Models Catastrophic Forgetting Agentic AI & Multi-Agent Systems Representation Learning Multimodal Systems GAN & Diffusion Models NLP / Transformers Continual Learning Reinforcement Learning AI for Finance & Banking AI for Energy Systems Image Captioning
03 Selected Projects
PhD Research · Trustworthy AI · Current
Privacy-Preserving Face-Swapping Pipeline

Face-swapping system transferring identity while formally protecting sensitive biometric attributes from inference attacks, using identity disentanglement in generative models for controlled synthesis with privacy guarantees.

Current Trustworthy AIPrivacy Face SwappingBiometrics
W-Space Face Swapping
Computer Vision · Generative AI
Facial Identity Disentanglement via W-Space StyleGAN

Disentangles identity from expression in StyleGAN's W-space using DeepFace neutral-emotion filtering and InsightFace gender validation. W-Space Refined blending achieves cosine similarity 0.359 vs. 0.232, using convex-hull masks (106 landmarks) and Poisson blending.

StyleGANDeepFace InsightFaceW-Space
FaceGemma
Computer Vision · ICPR 2024
FaceGemma: Attribute-Aware Portrait Captioning

Gemma VLM with a facial attribute encoder trained on multilingual FaceAttDB. Conditions generation on age, gender, emotion, and facial geometry, improving BLEU and CIDEr over general captioners.

Gemma VLMFaceAttDB ICPR 2024
LLM · Continual Learning · ACL ARR
Catastrophic Forgetting in LLMs

Empirical study of LLM degradation after sequential fine-tuning across GLUE tasks on sub-10B models (Orca, Qwen). Evaluated EWC, LoRA merging, and replay as mitigations. Under review at ACL ARR 2024.

GLUELoRA EWCOrca · Qwen
Entrepreneurship · LLM Systems
Gradmate.ai — AI Copilot for Grad Applications

LLM platform featuring dense-retrieval program discovery, multi-agent SOP/LOR generation via LangGraph, and IELTS adaptive practice. Stack: LangChain · Groq · DeepSeek · Next.js.

LangGraphRAG Multi-AgentEdTech
Agentic AI · Kaggle
Multi-Agent LLM System (Gemma / Kaggle)

Three-agent Gemma pipeline: prompt generation → context retrieval → suggestion synthesis. Built with TF/PyTorch/JAX. Also features a reflection-based Llama 3.1 prompting technique for the LLM 20 Questions competition.

GemmaMulti-Agent JAXPrompt Engineering
PhD Thesis · LLM × Energy Systems
AI Copilot for GE Vernova GridOS

Multi-agent LLM system for real-time power grid decision support: fault diagnosis, load-balancing, and operator alert summarisation via LangChain tool-calling over GE's ADMS/AEMS APIs.

LangChainADMS Power SystemsGE Vernova
NSF Research · Physics-Informed ML
AI-Driven Battery Material Discovery

NSF-funded project using physics-informed neural networks to predict battery performance (energy density, fast-charging rates), accelerating next-generation material discovery.

Physics-Informed NNNSF Material Science
VLM · Infrastructure Safety
Power Line Fault Detection via VLM

Phi-3 Vision analyses thermal and RGB power line images, detecting rust, hot spots, and flashover damage for critical energy infrastructure inspection.

Phi-3 VisionThermal Imaging Infrastructure
Bangla License Plate
OCR · IEEE STI 2022
Bangla License Plate Recognition for Low-Resolution Imagery

Two-stage pipeline: YOLO-based plate detector + CNN-LSTM character recogniser. SOTA accuracy on a custom surveillance dataset for Bangla script.

YOLOv8CNN-LSTM OCR
HCI · ICRIC 2023
BdSpell: Real-Time Bangla Finger-Spelling

YOLOv8 model for Bangla Sign Language finger-spelling at 30+ FPS. 36-class dataset under varied conditions; 94.3% mAP.

YOLOv8Sign Language Real-Time
Portrait Colorization
Generative CV · IEEE ICCIT 2019
Grayscale Portrait Colorization via CNN + VGG-Face

Identity-aware colorization using VGG-Face features to condition a CNN decoder. Produces consistent skin-tone and hair-colour outputs across images of the same subject.

CNNVGG-Face Colorization
04 Publications
2024Review
Catastrophic Forgetting in LLMs: A Comparative Analysis Across Language Tasks
Naimul Haque
ACL ARR 2024
2024ICPR
FaceGemma: Enhancing Image Captioning with Facial Attributes for Portrait Images
Naimul Haque, Iffat Labiba, Sadia Akter
International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2024)
2023ICRIC
BdSpell: A YOLO-based Real-time Finger Spelling System for Bangla Sign Language
Naimul Haque, Meraj Serker, Tariq Bin Bashar
ICRIC 2023
2022IEEE
Bangla Toxic Comment Classification and Severity Measure Using Deep Learning
Naimul Haque, Md. Bodrul, Abdullah, Towfiq, Mehorab
ICRPSET 2022 (IEEE)
2022IEEE
Automatic Bangla License Plate Recognition System for Low-Resolution Images
Naimul Haque, Samira Islam, Rabeiya Afrose, Mohammad Shorif Uddin
IEEE STI 2022
2019IEEE
Grayscale Portrait Colorization using CNNs and Pretrained VGG-Face Descriptor
Naimul Haque, Samin Shahriar Tokey
IEEE ICCIT 2019
Datasets & Models
2022Zenodo
Bangla License Plate Dataset 2.5k
Naimul Haque et al.
Zenodo, 2022
2023Zenodo
FaceAttDB: A Multilingual Dataset for Facial Attribute Captioning
Naimul Haque, Abida Sultana
Zenodo, June 2023
2023HF
Bangla Toxic Comments Database
Naimul Haque, Badrul
HuggingFace Datasets, 2023
2024HF
GlueOrca & GlueQwen: Fine-tuned Models for GLUE Benchmark Tasks
Naimul Haque
HuggingFace Model Repository
05 Experience
Jan 2026 – Present
Graduate Research Assistant & PhD Student
Louisiana State University (LSU)
Privacy-preserving face analysis, identity disentanglement in generative models, and LLM copilot for GE Vernova GridOS (thesis).
Nov 2024 – Present
Founder & CTO
Gradmate Inc. / Gradmate.ai
Built LangChain/LangGraph multi-agent platform, RAG program discovery, and SOP pipelines. Overseeing architecture, deployment, and growth.
Summer 2025
Battery ML Researcher (NSF)
Alfred University
Physics-informed NNs for battery material discovery — predicting energy density and fast-charging rates.
Summer 2025
Summer Research Director & Internship Fellow
Alfred University
Directed interdisciplinary undergrad research; developed AI-driven educational programs at the Institute for Experiential Entrepreneurship.
Jan 2024 – Sep 2025
Graduate Assistant
Alfred University — Inamori School of Engineering
Labs and instruction for Microprocessor, Mechatronics, Engineering Design, and Python for Power Electronics.
Aug – Dec 2023
Assistant Professor
Uttara University
Discrete Mathematics, Data Structures, and Structured Programming.
Apr 2019 – Jul 2023
Senior Lecturer / Lecturer
Manarat International University & Cognition.AI Lab
AI, Computer Vision & Robotics, Neural Networks, Pattern Recognition. Supervised capstone projects in face recognition and object detection.
06 Education
2026 – Present
Ph.D. — Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Louisiana State University (LSU), Baton Rouge, LA
Jan 2024 – Dec 2025
M.Sc. — Electrical Engineering
Alfred University, Alfred, NY
GPA 4.0 / 4.0
2019 – 2022
M.Sc. — Computer Science
Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh
GPA 3.53 / 4.0
2014 – 2018
B.Sc. — Computer Science & Engineering
Ahsanullah University of Science & Technology (AUST), Bangladesh
GPA 3.71 / 4.0
07 Technical Skills
Languages
Python (Expert) · R · C/C++ · MATLAB · JavaScript · Linux/Unix
CV Frameworks
OpenCV · YOLOv8 · Detectron2 · DLIB · SAM · Landmark Detection
Generative / Face
StyleGAN · DeepFace · InsightFace · Diffusers · GANs
ML / DL
PyTorch · TensorFlow · Keras · JAX · Scikit-learn
NLP / LLM
HuggingFace · LangChain · LangGraph · Transformers · LoRA · RAG
Inference
Groq · DeepSeek · Ollama · vLLM · Multi-Agent
MLOps / Tools
Docker · Git · Google Cloud · Weights & Biases · Unity · LaTeX
Power Systems
GE ADMS · AEMS · GridOS · Power Analytics
08 Awards & Recognition
1st Place (Tied) — Advizex AI Innovation Challenge · 2024
AI sales bot (Llama + LangChain), projected +25% ROI. Alfred University Press Release ↗
EPRI Certification — Machine Vision in the Electric Industry with Deep Learning · Aug 2024
22 PDHs in Power Industry AI.
1st Position — Inter-University ADEX Engenius 2017 Software Development
Team Telapoka.
2nd Position — Techfiesta 17 Software Development Competition
Team Telapoka.
1st Position — Intra-AUST Project Show, CSE Software Development
Team Z Warriors.
09 References
Reference 1
Dr. Xingwu Wang
Professor of Electrical Engineering, Alfred University
fwangx@alfred.edu · (607) 871-2548
Reference 2
Dr. Kun Wang
Assoc. Professor, Material Science & Eng., Alfred University
wang@alfred.edu · (607) 871-2729
Reference 3
Dr. Kazi A. Kalpoma
Professor, CSE, AUST, Bangladesh
kalpoma@aust.edu
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