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Essays and op-eds on AI strategy, reasoning, and policy, published in Dhaka Tribune, Counterpoint, and elsewhere. No hype, no buzzword tours.

Featured · AI Policy - Counterpoint BD

Sovereign Gold: What Bangladesh Can Actually Own

With Sadman Rahman. The country doesn't need to own its AI stack; the economics rule that out. It needs people who can keep it running on its own terms. Sovereignty is not what you own; it is what still works when someone else changes their mind.

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AI & Infrastructure - Counterpoint BD

The Water Was Never the Question

We don't have to trade away fresh water to build an AI data center. The real constraint is how we choose to build, not the building itself.

Engineering - AI in Plain English

Long Live the Software Engineer. Anybody Home?

Twenty-five years of writing software, and the job is being redefined underneath us. What survives when the typing gets automated away.

AI & Language - AI in Plain English

We Keep Renaming It Because We Don't Know What It Is

Every few years the field renames the same idea. The naming fights are really arguments about what intelligence even is.

AI Policy - Counterpoint BD

Two Weeks to Sharpen Bangladesh's AI Budget

Tie connectivity targets to affordability, so rural and low-income citizens can actually use what's being built. Concrete fixes, not aspirations.

AI & Reasoning - Medium

The Loop Might Close On Its Own

AGI never left. It just got a new name and a research budget. On why the reasoning debate keeps circling back, and what it would actually take for the loop to close.

Future of Engineering - AI in Plain English

Software Development Is Dead. Long Live Software Engineering.

AI won't replace engineers, but it will expose who was actually one all along. A forty-year programmer's case for why the death of coding is the best thing to happen to the discipline.

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Academic record

Peer-reviewed research & patents.

Before consulting, there was research. 24 peer-reviewed publications across AAAI, ACL, IEEE, and leading journals, and three US patents including foundational work in cross-document NLP at IBM.

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Figure 1 of US Patent 6,438,543: the cross-document coreference system architecture, showing how a Name Extractor, Cross-document Aggregator, Context Comparator, and Search Engine work together to disambiguate person names across a document collection.
Fig. 1 · US Patent 6,438,543 · Cross-Document Coreference · IBM T.J. Watson Research, 2002

Patent - US 6,438,543

System and Method for Cross-Document Coreference

IBM T.J. Watson Research - 2002

Patent - US 8,463,750

System and Method for Assembling Records

2013

Conference - ACL 1999

Is Hillary Rodham Clinton the President? Disambiguating Names across Documents

With Yael Ravin - IBM Research

Conference - AAAI 1996

Multimodal HCI for Robot Control: Towards an Intelligent Robotic Assistant for People with Disabilities

University of Delaware

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