NLH

Niloy Farhan

Lecturer

niloy.farhan@bracu.ac.bd

Websites

niloyfarhan.com

Address

CSE Department
4th floor, Room No # 4M123,
Brac University,
Kha 224 Bir Uttam Rafiqul Islam Avenue,
Merul Badda, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Niloy Farhan is a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at BRAC University, Bangladesh. He completed his MSc in Computer Science and Engineering from BRAC University in 2026 with a CGPA of 4.00/4.00 and Highest Distinction, following his BSc in Computer Science from the same university with a CGPA of 3.94/4.00. Before joining BRAC University as a full-time faculty member, he served in adjunct teaching roles and began his academic career as a Student Tutor at BRAC University.

 

His research interests include Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models, Vision-Language Models, Multimodal Learning, Multilingual and Low-Resource AI, and LLM Evaluation. His recent research focuses on synthetic multimodal data for low-resource visual question answering, reliable knowledge distillation, medical LLM safety and sycophancy, and responsible evaluation of language and multimodal models. He is also actively involved in supervising undergraduate research across NLP, multimodal AI, computer vision and LLM evaluation.

Currently Teaching:

  • CSE260 - Digital Logic Design
  • CSE440 - Natural Language Processing II
  • CSE427 - Machine Learning Lab


Previously Taught:

  • CSE220 - Data Structure Lab
  • CSE221 - Algorithms
  • CSE330 - Numerical Methods

Scholar Account:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-Z9T0fkAAAAJ&hl=en

  • Lecturer, Dept. of CSE

BRAC University, Bangladesh

Duration: June 2025 - Present

 

  • Adjunct Lecturer, Dept. of CSE

BRAC University, Bangladesh

Duration: January 2024 - May 2025

 

  • Adjunct Lecturer,

Dhaka International University, Bangladesh

Duration: September 2023 - March 2024

 

  • Undergraduate Teaching Assistant (ST), Dept. of CSE

BRAC University, Bangladesh

Duration: Fall 2022 - Summer 2023

  • Graduated with “Highest Distinction”
  • Awarded Vice Chancellor’s Honor List 7 times (out of 11) as recognition of decent performance in BSc in CS
  • Awarded Dean’s Honor List as recognition of decent performance in BSc in CS
  • Achieved Merit Scholarship based on Academic Result for 8 semesters (out of 11)
  • Secured 6th in BRACU Intra Programming Contest 2021
  • Secured 2nd In BRACU Quarantine Contest for First-Year Students 2020
  • Awarded HSC General Scholarship

Thesis

Accepting


As:

Co-supervisor

Level:

Undergraduate

Type:

  • Thesis
  • Project

Research Interest

Natural Language Processing:

  • Low-Resource Natural Language Processing
  • Multilingual AI for Underrepresented Languages
  • Medical NLP and AI Safety
  • Large Language Model Evaluation
  • Benchmark and Dataset Development for Low-Resource Languages

Computer Vision and Multimodal AI:

  • Vision-Language Models
  • Visual Question Answering
  • Bangla and South Asian Language-Based VQA
  • Synthetic Data Generation
  • Smart Data Augmentation for Low-Resource AI Systems

Artificial Intelligence:

  • Explainable AI
  • Responsible AI
  • Robustness and Reliability Evaluation of AI Systems

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