Monaf is a Research Assistant and a MSc student at the AVIS Lab of the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Currently, he is working on long horizon multi task embodied manipulation problems.
Previously, he worked as Research Assistant at the MAIM Lab of the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He worked on a Wellcome Leap - In Utero funded project (Title: Translation of a Wearable Fetal Movement Monitor towards Stillbirth Prevention), under the supervision of Dr. Abhishek Kumar Ghosh and Dr. Niamh Nowlan to develop a wearable device to monitor fetal movements to cut stillbirth rates.
Prior to that, Monaf graduated from the University of Dhaka in Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering, supervised by Dr. Md Mehedi Hasan. His fourth year project thesis was on “Enhancing UAV Based Human Action Recognition: A Deep Learning Approach”.
Research Interest Monaf is interested in Multi-modal Learning, especially at the fusion of Vision + Language for Embodied AI. Overall, his work revolves around multimodal reasoning for embodied AI, multimodal generation, scene understanding, and vision-language integration.
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