01 Academic profile / 2026
Niloy Farhan
Lecturer
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
BRAC University
I work on NLP, multimodal learning, vision-language models, and LLM evaluation, with broader interests in multilingual AI, trustworthy AI, and efficient learning.
Research · Teaching · SupervisionDhaka / BD
Research interests
Four connected lines of inquiry
Vision-Language Models & Large Language Models
Multimodal Learning
LLM Evaluation
02Featured work
Selected
[01]Accepted
When Does Knowledge Distillation Hurt? Reliability-Aware Distillation for Low-Resource Language Summarization
AACL-IJCNLP 2026 · 2026
Research on reliability-gated multi-teacher distillation for low-resource abstractive summarization.
Low-Resource NLPMultilingual NLPKnowledge Distillation
[02]MSc Thesis
Evaluating the Effect of Synthetic Images on Low-Resource Visual Question Answering with Low-Parameter Vision-Language Models
BRAC University · Planned submission to ACL ARR, October 2026 (NAACL 2027) · 2026
MSc research evaluating synthetic images in low-resource visual question answering with low-parameter vision-language models.
Vision-Language ModelsLow-Resource VQAMultimodal Learning
[03]Under Review
MedPRESS: A Multi-turn Benchmark for Patient-Pressure-Induced Medical Sycophancy in LLMs
ACL Rolling Review · August 2026 cycle · 2026
[04]Under Review
Rank Radii Transfer as Quantiles: Taxonomic Placement and Sub-Taxonomy Construction for Unseen Species
WACV 2027 · 2026
Research on taxonomic placement and sub-taxonomy construction for unseen species.
Computer VisionMultimodal AI
03Education
Degrees
September 2024 — August 2026
Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering
CGPA 4.00 out of 4.00Highest Distinction
Thesis
Evaluating the Effect of Synthetic Images on Low-Resource VQA with Low-Parameter Vision-Language Models
Supervisor: Dr. Md. Golam Rabiul AlamJanuary 2020 — September 2023
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
CGPA 3.94 out of 4.00Highest Distinction
Thesis
Research on the latest trends in Bangla Named Entity Recognition
Supervisor: Dr. Farig Yousuf Sadeque04 /
Research supervision and mentoring
Undergraduate thesis & research supervision · BRAC University · 2024–Present
groups supervised or co-supervised
≈students involved
successfully defended theses
/primary / co-supervisor groups
Supervision across low-resource NLP, multimodal AI, model evaluation, medical AI, computer vision, and related areas.
View research supervision05ASelected honors
Recognition
Highest Distinction in MSc in Computer Science and Engineering
BRAC University
Merit Scholarship Based on Academic Results - Postgraduate
BRAC University
100% tuition waiverExcellence in Teaching Award
BRAC University
05BTeaching
Current courses
CSE440
Natural Language Processing
Lecturer · BRAC University
C–02
Machine Learning
Lecturer · BRAC University
CSE260
Digital Logic Design
Lecturer · BRAC University