Who am I?
I'm an award-winning entrepreneur for AI innovation and a social science researcher working where social science, ethics, and AI meet, to solve social problems through AI. My Ph.D. research at Texas Tech University examined how ethnic and local newsrooms adopt generative AI, and it led me to build Bangla AI for the Bangladeshi diaspora. Today I lead LLM Vertex, an AI workforce-development company, and teach at Stony Brook University.
My AI Ventures
Founder · 2025 –
LLM Vertex
AI solutions, workforce training, and career-readiness programs for organizations, students, and graduates. Official worksite partner for NYC's Summer Youth Employment Program 2026.
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Founder & Team Lead · 2023 –
Bangla AI
Multilingual document and language intelligence for Bengali ethnic media, used by nearly 200 professionals. Winner of the NYU Tandon AI & Local News Challenge.
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Work
- 2025 –
- Founder, LLM VertexNew York, NY
- 2025 –
- LecturerSchool of Communication and Journalism, Stony Brook University
- 2023 –
- Founder & Team Lead, Bangla AINew York
- 2023
- Consultant, Project NitiGoogle's Responsible AI in Indic Languages
- 2021 – 25
- Research AssistantInnovation Diffusion Lab & College of Media and Communication, Texas Tech
- 2017 – 25
- Lecturer, then Assistant ProfessorMass Communication & Journalism, Bangladesh University of Professionals
- 2017
- Business ReporterDaily Samakal
Education
- 2025
- Ph.D., Media & CommunicationTexas Tech University. Dissertation: Localizing Innovation
- 2025
- Graduate Certificate, Business AnalyticsRawls College of Business, Texas Tech University
- 2016
- M.S.S., Social ScienceUniversity of Dhaka
- 2015
- B.S.S., Social ScienceUniversity of Dhaka
Publications
30+ journal articles, conference papers, and a book chapter on AI, media, and society, including ACM Computing Surveys and IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems.
Professional Development
- 2026
- Harvard Business School Foundry BootcampHarvard University. Startup project selected for the program.
- 2024
- NNCI Winter School on Emerging TechnologiesArizona State University. Increasing the real-world impact of scholarly work.
- 2023
- AI & Local News Challenge Training ProgramNYU Tandon School of Engineering, April – June 2023.
- 2022 – 25
- NSF Grant Management & ReportingInnovation Diffusion Lab, Texas Tech University. Includes several NSF travel awards.
Let's make AI
for everyone.
My Teaching
Nine years in the classroom, with lectures of up to 150 students.
Stony Brook University
- Introduction to Communication
- Intercultural Communication
- Mass Media
Bangladesh University of Professionals
- Journalism
- Reporting
- Communication Technology
In Media
Recognized by Texas Tech for winning the NYU AI & Local News Challenge, and invited to speak on AI and journalism at Media Party and the Association for Women in Communications. Trained working journalists on generative AI at CUNY's Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, in English and Bangla.
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For research collaborations, speaking, AI training, and new opportunities.