Research Highlights

Trustworthy and Agentic Reasoning for Health AI

NeurIPS 2026 @Med-Reasoner

Measure What Matters: Active Evidence Acquisition for Reliable Physiological Reasoning
Shadman Sakib, Nirmalya Roy
NeurIPS 2026 Workshop on Medical Reasoning with Vision Language Foundation Models (Med-Reasoner)

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NeurIPS 2026 @Med-Reasoner

Can VLMs Keep Time? Probing Quantitative Temporal Reasoning in Physiological Videos
Shadman Sakib, Nirmalya Roy
NeurIPS 2026 Workshop on Medical Reasoning with Vision Language Foundation Models (Med-Reasoner)

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AAAI FSS 2026 @TAS

Does the Agent Follow the Evidence? Counterfactual Auditing for Trustworthy Multimodal Health Agents
Shadman Sakib, Nirmalya Roy
AAAI 2026 Fall Symposium on Trustworthy Agentic Systems (TAS 2026)

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MICCAI 2026 @SAFER

EviCal-RR: Evidence-Calibrated Reasoning for Contactless Respiratory Monitoring
Shadman Sakib, Nirmalya Roy
MICCAI 2026 Workshop on Stable Adaptation and Faithful Evaluation of Reasoning in Medical Foundation Models (SAFER)

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CHASE 2026

Decoupling Perception and Reasoning for Contactless Respiratory Rate with Vision Language and Small Language Models
Shadman Sakib, Gaurav Shinde, Nirmalya Roy
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE 2026)

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CVPR 2026 @GRAIL-V

CALIBRA: Calibration-Aware Multi-Agent Verification for Contactless Physiological Monitoring
Shadman Sakib, Gaurav Shinde, Nirmalya Roy
CVPR 2026 Workshop on Grounded Retrieval and Agentic Intelligence for Vision-Language (GRAIL-V)

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Contactless Physiological Sensing

CIKM 2026

Reliability-Guided Video Token Learning for Contactless Vital Sign Estimation
Shadman Sakib, Haley Patel, Nirmalya Roy
35th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2026)

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ICML 2026 @SD4H

ViTaL-Diff: Video-Token Latent Diffusion for Contactless Respiratory Monitoring
Shadman Sakib, Nirmalya Roy
ICML 2026 Workshop on Structured Data for Health (SD4H)

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ICMLA 2025

RespFormer: A Motion-Guided Temporal-Frequency Multimodal Fusion Transformer for Contactless Respiratory Monitoring
Shadman Sakib, Gaurav Shinde, Snehalraj Chugh, Mohammad Saeid Anwar, Nirmalya Roy
IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA 2025)

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SmartComp 2025

E2RespUNet: End-to-End Respiratory Signal Reconstruction and Rate Prediction Using a Unified Attention-Enhanced U-Net
Shadman Sakib, Gaurav Shinde, Emon Dey, Nirmalya Roy
IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SmartComp 2025)

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Selected Publications Google Scholar

1,200+ citations 16 h-index 23 i10-index Google Scholar, October 2026

Journal Articles

WIREs 2025 A State-Of-The-Art Survey of Remote Photoplethysmography for Contactless Health Parameters Sensing
Shadman Sakib, Zahid Hasan, Nirmalya Roy
WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Volume 15, Issue 3, 2025
WIREs 2025 A Survey on Efficient Vision–Language Models
Gaurav Shinde, Anuradha Ravi, Emon Dey, Shadman Sakib, Milind Rampure, Nirmalya Roy
WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 2025 · arXiv · GitHub
IEEE Access 2024 Multi-Model Attentional Fusion Ensemble for Accurate Skin Cancer Classification
Iftekhar Ahmed, Biggo Bushon Routh, Md. Saidur Rahman Kohinoor, Shadman Sakib, Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, Farag Azzedin
IEEE Access, Volume 12, pp. 181009–181024, 2024
IEEE TCSS 2023 Depression Detection From Social Networks Data Based on Machine Learning and Deep Learning Techniques: An Interrogative Survey
Khan Md Hasib, Md Rafiqul Islam, Shadman Sakib, Md Ali Akbar, Mohammad Shafiul Alam, Imran Razzak
IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, Volume 10, Issue 4, pp. 1568–1586, 2023

Conference and Workshop Papers

NeurIPS 2026 Measure What Matters: Active Evidence Acquisition for Reliable Physiological Reasoning
Shadman Sakib, Nirmalya Roy
NeurIPS 2026 Workshop on Medical Reasoning with Vision Language Foundation Models (Med-Reasoner)
NeurIPS 2026 Can VLMs Keep Time? Probing Quantitative Temporal Reasoning in Physiological Videos
Shadman Sakib, Nirmalya Roy
NeurIPS 2026 Workshop on Medical Reasoning with Vision Language Foundation Models (Med-Reasoner)
AAAI FSS 2026 Do LLM Agents Follow Therapeutic Boundaries? Evaluating Cross-System Drug Substitution Hallucination
Aftar Ahmad Sami, Shakib Absar, Shadman Sakib, Iftekhar Ahmed, Zahid Hassan Tushar
AAAI 2026 Fall Symposium on Agentic and Trustworthy AI for Health and the Global AI-Ready Nursing Workforce
AAAI FSS 2026 Does the Agent Follow the Evidence? Counterfactual Auditing for Trustworthy Multimodal Health Agents
Shadman Sakib, Nirmalya Roy
AAAI 2026 Fall Symposium on Trustworthy Agentic Systems (TAS 2026)
CIKM 2026 Reliability-Guided Video Token Learning for Contactless Vital Sign Estimation
Shadman Sakib, Haley Patel, Nirmalya Roy
35th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2026)
MICCAI 2026 EviCal-RR: Evidence-Calibrated Reasoning for Contactless Respiratory Monitoring
Shadman Sakib, Nirmalya Roy
MICCAI 2026 Workshop on Stable Adaptation and Faithful Evaluation of Reasoning in Medical Foundation Models (SAFER)
CHASE 2026 Decoupling Perception and Reasoning for Contactless Respiratory Rate with Vision Language and Small Language Models
Shadman Sakib, Gaurav Shinde, Nirmalya Roy
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE 2026)
CHASE SCH 2026 A Quality-Aware Framework for Contactless Respiratory Monitoring Under Variable Sensing Conditions
Shadman Sakib, Milind Rampure, Nirmalya Roy
2nd Workshop on Sensing and Computing for Smart and Connected Health (SCH), co-located with IEEE/ACM CHASE 2026
ICML 2026 ViTaL-Diff: Video-Token Latent Diffusion for Contactless Respiratory Monitoring
Shadman Sakib, Nirmalya Roy
ICML 2026 Workshop on Structured Data for Health (SD4H)
DCOSS-IoT 2026 Contactless Respiratory Monitoring on Heterogeneous Mobile Robots: A Multimodal Edge-Computing Framework
Milind Rampure*, Shadman Sakib*, Haley Patel, Zahid Hasan, Nirmalya Roy
8th International Workshop on IoT Applications and Industry 5.0, co-located with IEEE DCOSS-IoT 2026
*Equal contribution
CVPR 2026 CALIBRA: Calibration-Aware Multi-Agent Verification for Contactless Physiological Monitoring
Shadman Sakib, Gaurav Shinde, Nirmalya Roy
CVPR 2026 Workshop on Grounded Retrieval and Agentic Intelligence for Vision-Language (GRAIL-V)
ICMLA 2025 RespFormer: A Motion-Guided Temporal-Frequency Multimodal Fusion Transformer for Contactless Respiratory Monitoring
Shadman Sakib, Gaurav Shinde, Snehalraj Chugh, Mohammad Saeid Anwar, Nirmalya Roy
IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA 2025)
SmartComp 2025 E2RespUNet: End-to-End Respiratory Signal Reconstruction and Rate Prediction Using a Unified Attention-Enhanced U-Net
Shadman Sakib, Gaurav Shinde, Emon Dey, Nirmalya Roy
IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SmartComp 2025)
CHASE 2025 RRPIPS: Respiratory Waveform Reconstruction using Persistent Independent Particles Tracking from Video
Zahid Hasan, Masud Ahmed, Shadman Sakib, Snehalraj Chugh, Md Azim Khan, Abu Zaher Md Faridee, Nirmalya Roy
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE 2025) · Project
ICMI 2025 Deep Learning-Based Sentiment Analysis of Social Media and E-Commerce Reviews
Shadman Sakib, Md. Jalal Uddin Chowdhury, Md. Mahdi Hossain Hira, Tajwar Elahi Choudhury, Somapika Das
IEEE 4th International Conference on Computing and Machine Intelligence (ICMI 2025)
IEMCON 2021 A Data-Driven Hybrid Optimization Based Deep Network Model for Short-Term Residential Load Forecasting
Shadman Sakib, Khan Md Hasib, Ihtyaz Kader Tasawar, Abyaz Kader Tanzeem, Md Fahim Arefin, Saharul Islam, Mohammad Shafiul Alam
12th IEEE Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (IEMCON 2021), Vancouver, Canada
Best Paper Award, Signal Processing Track
R10 HTC 2021 Performance Analysis of Machine Learning Approaches in Diabetes Prediction
Shadman Sakib, Nowrin Yasmin, Ihtyaz Kader Tasawar, Anas Aziz, Md. Abu Bakr Siddique, Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman Khan
IEEE 9th Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC 2021), Bangalore, India
Best Paper Award, Biomedical Engineering Track

Under Review

UNDER REVIEW PhyResp: Robust Contactless Respiratory Sensing with Physics-Constrained Predictive State Modeling
Shadman Sakib, Nirmalya Roy
UNDER REVIEW Pixels-to-Phase: Reliability-Aware Latent State-Space Modeling for Contactless Respiratory Estimation
Shadman Sakib, Nirmalya Roy
UNDER REVIEW SAGE-RR: Selective Auditing with Grounded Evidence for Robust Contactless Respiratory Rate Estimation
Shadman Sakib, Nirmalya Roy
UNDER REVIEW Vision-Language Models in Healthcare: A Comprehensive Review from Data to Diagnosis
Aftar Ahmad Sami, Md. Jalal Uddin Chowdhury, Shakib Absar, Iftekhar Ahmed, Shadman Sakib, Md Rafiqul Islam, Sami Azam, Nirmalya Roy

More Publications

WoWMoM 2026 CAViAR: Quality-Aware Vision-and-Radio Fusion for Relative Range Estimation Among Collaborative Autonomous Agents
Gaurav Shinde, Anuradha Ravi, Jared Lewis, Andre Harrison, Henry Gardiner, Mohammad Saeid Anwar, Shadman Sakib, Jade Freeman, Nirmalya Roy
27th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2026)
ICML 2026 Reliable Dental Radiograph Diagnosis via Calibrated Hybrid Representation Learning
Sayem Ahmed Shayeed, Md. Jalal Uddin Chowdhury, Shadman Sakib
ICML 2026 Workshop (MusIML)
WACV 2026 TFFM: Topology-Aware Feature Fusion Module via Latent Graph Reasoning for Retinal Vessel Segmentation
Iftekhar Ahmed, Shakib Absar, Aftar Ahmad Sami, Shadman Sakib, Debojyoti Biswas, Seraj Al Mahmud Mostafa
IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops, 2026
BECITHCON 2025 Multi-Strategy Optimization of U-Net Variants for Orthopantomogram Segmentation
2025 IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Computer and Information Technology for Health (BECITHCON)
arXiv 2024 A Novel Ensemble-Based Deep Learning Model with Explainable AI for Accurate Kidney Disease Diagnosis
Md. Arifuzzaman, Iftekhar Ahmed, Md. Jalal Uddin Chowdhury, Shadman Sakib, Mohammad Shoaib Rahman, Md. Ebrahim Hossain, Shakib Absar
arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.09472, 2024
COMPAS 2024 PAKE–PoS Tagger Augmented Keyword Extraction
Md. Saidur Rahman Kohinoor, Ayesha Loylus Miah, Shah Fayez Ali, Md. Sabir Hossain, Md. Hasan Imam Bijoy, Shadman Sakib
2024 IEEE International Conference on Computing, Applications and Systems (COMPAS 2024)
ICoDSA 2024 Optimizing Facial Recognition: An Analytical Comparison of Traditional and Deep Learning Approaches
Shadman Sakib, Md. Nurul Absar Siddiky, Md. Arifuzzaman, Md. Jalal Uddin Chowdhury
2024 IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Its Applications (ICoDSA)
AIIoT 2022 COVID-19 Prediction based on Infected Cases and Deaths of Bangladesh using Deep Transfer Learning
Khan Md Hasib, Shadman Sakib, Jubayer Al Mahmud, Kamruzzaman Mithu, Md. Saifur Rahman
IEEE World AI IoT Congress (AIIoT 2022), Seattle, United States
CCWC 2022 Performance Analysis of Convolutional Neural Network Architectures for the Identification of COVID-19 from Chest X-ray Images
2022 IEEE 12th Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference (CCWC)
IEMCON 2022 Performance Analysis of Machine Learning Algorithms in Chronic Kidney Disease Prediction
Iftekhar Ahmed, Nafisa Tasmiya, Tanzil Ebad Chowdhury, Shadman Sakib, Biggo Bushon Routh, Adil Ahmed Chowdhury
2022 IEEE 13th Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (IEMCON)
IEMCON 2021 Blood Cancer Recognition Based on Discriminant Gene Expressions: A Comparative Analysis of Optimized Machine Learning Algorithms
Shadman Sakib, Abyaz Kader Tanzeem, Ihtyaz Kader Tasawar, Fatema Shorna, Md. Abu Bakr Siddique, Saadia Binte Alam
12th IEEE Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (IEMCON 2021), Vancouver, Canada
ICCCES 2021 Breast Cancer Detection and Classification: A Comparative Analysis Using Machine Learning Algorithms
Shadman Sakib, Nowrin Yasmin, Abyaz Kader Tanzeem, Fatema Shorna, Khan Md Hasib, Saadia Binte Alam
3rd International Conference on Communication, Computing and Electronics Systems (ICCCES 2021), Springer
R10 HTC 2021 De Novo Drug Property Prediction using Graph Convolutional Neural Networks
Fairuz Shadmani Shishir, Khan Md Hasib, Shadman Sakib, Shithi Maitra, Farzana M. Shah
IEEE 9th Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC 2021), Bangalore, India
ICOSEC 2021 Transfer Learning Based Method for Automatic COVID-19 Cases Detection in Chest X-Ray Images
Shadman Sakib, Md. Abu Bakr Siddique, Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman Khan, Nowrin Yasmin, Anas Aziz, Madiha Chowdhury, Ihtyaz Kader Tasawar
2nd International Conference on Smart Electronics and Communication (ICOSEC 2021), Trichy, India
R10 HTC 2021 Impact of Pedal Powered Vehicles on Average Traffic Speed in Dhaka City: A Cross-sectional Study Based on Road Class and Timestamp
IEEE 9th Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC 2021)
SCIS–ISIS 2020 Hand Frame Extraction in Surgical Video Images Using Convolutional Neural Network
Shadman Sakib, Belayat Hossain, Takafumi Hiranaka, Syoji Kobashi
Joint 11th International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems and 21st International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems (SCIS–ISIS 2020)
TENSYMP 2020 Performance Evaluation of t-SNE and MDS Dimensionality Reduction Techniques with KNN, ENN and SVM Classifiers
Shadman Sakib, Md. Abu Bakr Siddique, Md. Abdur Rahman
IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP 2020), Dhaka, Bangladesh
I-SMAC 2020 Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Model-based Brain Tumor Detection in Brain MRI Images
Md. Abu Bakr Siddique, Shadman Sakib, Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman Khan, Abyaz Kader Tanzeem, Madiha Chowdhury, Nowrin Yasmin
Fourth International Conference on I-SMAC (IoT in Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud) (I-SMAC 2020)
R10 HTC 2020 Automatic Detection of COVID-19 Disease in Chest X-Ray Images using Deep Neural Networks
Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman Khan, Shadman Sakib, Md. Abu Bakr Siddique, Madiha Chowdhury, Ziad Hossain, Anas Aziz, Nowrin Yasmin
IEEE 8th Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC 2020)
I-SMAC 2020 Electrocardiogram Heartbeat Classification Using Convolutional Neural Networks for the Detection of Cardiac Arrhythmia
Fourth International Conference on I-SMAC (IoT in Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud) (I-SMAC 2020)
ISMSIT 2020 Prediction of Temperature and Rainfall in Bangladesh Using Long Short Term Memory Recurrent Neural Networks
IEEE 4th International Symposium on Multidisciplinary Studies and Innovative Technologies (ISMSIT 2020)
medRxiv 2020 Detection of COVID-19 Disease from Chest X-ray Images: A Deep Transfer Learning Framework
medRxiv preprint 2020.11.08.20227819, 2020
ICIET 2019 Performance Analysis of Deep Autoencoder and NCA Dimensionality Reduction Techniques with KNN, ENN and SVM Classifiers
Md. Abu Bakr Siddique, Shadman Sakib, Md. Abdur Rahman
2nd International Conference on Innovation in Engineering and Technology (ICIET 2019), Dhaka, Bangladesh
ICAEE 2019 Recognition of Handwritten Digit using Convolutional Neural Network in Python with Tensorflow and Comparison of Performance for Various Hidden Layers
Fathma Siddique, Shadman Sakib, Md. Abu Bakr Siddique
5th International Conference on Advances in Electrical Engineering (ICAEE 2019), Dhaka, Bangladesh
ICIET 2019 Non-Intrusive Electrical Appliances Monitoring and Classification using K-Nearest Neighbors
2nd International Conference on Innovation in Engineering and Technology (ICIET 2019), Dhaka, Bangladesh
ICAEE 2019 Modeling and Simulation of Solar Photovoltaic Cell for the Generation of Electricity in UAE
5th International Conference on Advances in Electrical Engineering (ICAEE 2019), Dhaka, Bangladesh
arXiv 2019 Implementation of Fruits Recognition Classifier using Convolutional Neural Network Algorithm for Observation of Accuracies for Various Hidden Layers
arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.00783, 2019
arXiv 2019 Unsupervised Segmentation Algorithms' Implementation in ITK for Tissue Classification via Human Head MRI Scans
arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.11131, 2019
IUBAT 2019 Digital Image Restoration and Image Classification Using Deep Learning
International University of Business Agriculture and Technology (IUBAT), 2019
IJNC 2018 A Review of Communications Satellite by Focusing on ‘Bangabandhu Satellite-1’, the First GEO Communications Satellite of Bangladesh
International Journal of Networks and Communications, 8(5), 123–128, 2018
IJSER 2018 Smart City Architecture and Applications Based on IoT: A Theoretical Overview
International Journal of Scientific and Engineering Research, 10, 1815–1820, 2018
MSSE 2018 Analysis of a Novel Single Phase AC-DC CUK Converter with Low Input Current, THD to Improve the Overall Power Quality Using PFC
Microelectronics and Solid State Electronics, 6(1), 11–16, 2018
ICIET 2018 Digital Image Restoration in Matlab: A Case Study on Inverse and Wiener Filtering
Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman Khan, Shadman Sakib, Rezoana Bente Arif, Md. Abu Bakr Siddique
International Conference on Innovation in Engineering and Technology (ICIET 2018), Dhaka, Bangladesh
Preprints 2018 An Overview of Convolutional Neural Network: Its Architecture and Applications
Preprints.org, 2018