Md Fokhrul Islam
PhD Student & RA · School of Data Science, UVA
UVA SDS / UVA CDT / fokhrul.rmedu@gmail.com
I am a first-year Data Science PhD student at the University of Virginia, advised by Professor Heman Shakeri. My research is at the intersection of multi-modal learning, geometric representation learning, and interpretable machine learning, with applications in healthcare, robotics, and social good.
Broadly, I am interested in three directions:
- Representation learning on geometry — learning from graphs, skeletons, and point clouds with limited supervision.
- Multimodal & low-resource learning — bridging vision, language, and knowledge graphs for zero-shot recognition.
- AI for health — building automated assessment and rehabilitation systems using deep learning.
Before UVA I completed my MSc and BSc in Robotics & Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Dhaka, where I worked with Dr. Sejuti Rahman.
news
Aug 2025Started PhD at University of Virginia.
Apr 2025Paper accepted at Neurocomputing — ReKon3D: Contrastive GAN for Zero-Shot 3D Recognition.
Apr 2024Paper accepted at Image and Vision Computing — VAE-GAN3D: 3D Zero-Shot via Image Semantics.
Jan 2024Joined ACI Limited as Machine Learning Engineer.
Jul 2023Successfully defended MSc thesis.
May 2023Paper accepted at IEEE Access — Data-Augmentation for Bangla-English Code-Mixed SA.
Nov 2022Review paper accepted at IEEE TNSRE — AI-driven Stroke Rehabilitation.
Oct 2022IHABOT placed 2nd at DU Research-Publication Fair.
Aug 2022Attended OxML Summer School 2022.
Jun 2022Undergrad thesis selected for poster at CVPR WiCV 2022.
Feb 2022First paper accepted at IEEE TNSRE — GCN for Physical Rehab Assessment.
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Neurocomputing 2025
IEEE Access 2023