S.M. Tawhid
Physics & Bio-Inspired Intelligent Robotics · Autonomous Multi-Agent Systems · Avian Collision Avoidance · Collective Behaviour
smtawhid.777@gmail.com | tawhid@neuroflightlab.org
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Dhaka, Bangladesh
About
Researcher in Physics and Bio-Inspired Intelligent Systems, with a central focus on autonomous multi-agent systems and avian collision-avoidance behavior analysis. Founder & CEO of NeuroFlight Lab, leading multidisciplinary research teams in bio-inspired robotics and AI. Current work bridges stereo vision, 3D trajectory reconstruction, and behavioral modeling to uncover the kinematic principles birds use to navigate dense flocks — and to translate those principles into bio-inspired swarm MAV control strategies. Broader expertise spans reinforcement learning, explainable AI, federated learning for medical imaging, and computer vision (YOLO & OpenCV). Passionate about applying machine learning to build intelligent, scalable, and real-world autonomous systems grounded in biological insight.
Key Achievements
- 16+ Research Publications (5 Published, 11 Under Review) in top-tier Q1/Q2/Q3 journals including Elsevier, IOP Publishing, Wiley, and Springer Nature
- Research Leadership – Founded and leading NeuroFlight Lab as CEO, mentoring 10+ multidisciplinary research teams
- Academic Excellence – CGPA 90% in B.Sc. Computer Science and Engineering with consistent performance throughout education
- Best Poster Award – Thesis Day (Summer 2024–2025) – awarded for best thesis among 100+ undergraduate groups
- International Collaboration – Organized seminars featuring global industry leaders and academic experts
Research Interests
Experience
- Directed organizational strategy, research initiatives, and institutional growth of NeuroFlight Lab.
- Supervised software development operations, including the AIUB Journal of Science and Engineering (AJSE, Q3) platform and several AI-driven software solutions.
- Organized international seminars featuring global industry leaders and academic experts, enhancing international collaboration and research visibility.
- Conduct teaching and support student learning in BUS 112 and MAT 116.
- Assist students with course concepts, problem-solving, and academic activities to facilitate effective learning.
- Support course-related instructional activities, including class preparation, student guidance, and academic assessment.
- Conduct research at the intersection of fluid dynamics and collective behaviour, investigating mathematical and computational models of coordinated biological motion and emergent collective dynamics.
- Study collective motion, interaction dynamics, and flow-mediated behaviour using mathematical modelling, computational methods, and data-driven analysis.
- Contribute to research activities involving fluid–structure interactions, dynamical systems, and collective biological behaviour, with applications to bio-inspired and autonomous systems.
- Led and mentored 10+ multidisciplinary research teams, contributing to multiple submissions in Scopus-indexed journals.
- Advanced autonomous flight systems research through reinforcement learning and real-time adaptive UAV control for stability and navigation.
- Supported editorial operations and security management for the AIUB Journal of Science and Engineering (AJSE, Q3).
- Contributed to the development of IoT-based automation systems, including smart chair technologies.
- Conducted bird flight research using computer vision, motion tracking, and trajectory analysis methodologies.
- Developed a personalized stress detection framework by integrating facial micro-expression dynamics with physiological signals, including ECG, EDA, and respiration data.
- Implemented an interpretable multimodal deep learning architecture combining LSTM and dense neural networks for robust stress classification.
- Collected, processed, and analyzed data from the WESAD dataset and custom webcam recordings of healthcare professionals to enhance real-world applicability.
- Participated in technical workshops, professional seminars, and collaborative initiatives focused on engineering skill development, leadership, and professional networking.
- Participated in technical workshops, professional seminars, and collaborative initiatives focused on engineering skill development, leadership, and professional networking.
- Contributed to community-driven engineering programs, knowledge-sharing sessions, and project exhibitions promoting innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence.
Research & Publications
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A stereo dataset of annotated budgerigar flight trajectories for multi-agent collision avoidance studies
Q1Published
Data in Brief — Elsevier • DOI
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Multi-agent collision avoidance kinematics in budgerigars: toward bioinspired swarm MAV control
Q1Published
Bioinspiration & Biomimetics — IOP Publishing
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A Physics-Regularized Recurrent Framework for Biomimetic Multi-Agent Bird Flight Forecasting
Q1Published
Results in Engineering — Elsevier
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Xception-Based Brain Tumor Classification with GAN Augmentation and Multi-Technique Explainable AI
Q3Published
AIUB Journal of Science and Engineering (AJSE) — AIUB • DOI
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Explainable Hybrid CNN-Transformer Framework for Papaya Leaf Disease Classification with Layer-Wise Grad-CAM Analysis
Q3Published
AIUB Journal of Science and Engineering (AJSE) — AIUB • DOI
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Same reaction time, different manoeuvres: group-size scaling of 3D collision avoidance in Budgerigar flight
Q1Under Review
Journal of Avian Biology — Wiley
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Barriers to reversal: effective stability landscapes of fish schools with potential implications for swarm robotics
Q1Under Review
Royal Society Open Science — Royal Society
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Do birds in larger flocks turn less but turn together? Group-size-dependent trade-offs between individual manoeuvring and collective turning in budgerigars
Q1Under Review
Ecology and Evolution — Wiley
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Data-driven estimation of anisotropic safety fields from budgerigar flight trajectories: a computational framework for collective avoidance behaviour
Q1Under Review
Ecological Modeling — Elsevier
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Approximating Context-Dependent Interaction Laws in Collective Behavior via Sparse Equation Discovery
Q1Under Review
Ecological Informatics — Elsevier
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Scale-dependent behavioral heterogeneity: pairwise asymmetry predicts faster resolution without a group-level diversity advantage
Q1Under Review
Animal Behaviour — Elsevier
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Deep Learning for Plant Disease Analysis: Current Trends, Challenges and Future Prospects
Q1Under Review
Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture — Elsevier
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A Multi-Metric Framework for Measuring Representational Divergence Under Counterfactual Perturbation in Large Language Models
Q1Under Review
Information Processing & Management — Elsevier
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Anticipatory Collision Avoidance in Budgerigars Scales with Group Size: Time-to-Collision Thresholds and the Failure of Pairwise Potential Models
Q2Under Review
Journal of Ethology — Springer Nature
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TumorRes-UNet: An Explainable Residual U-shaped Network for Brain Tumor Segmentation in Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Q2Under Review
Healthcare Technology Letters — Wiley
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Multi-Class Infectious Skin Disease Classification Using Transfer Learning and Explainable Artificial Intelligence
Q3Under Review
International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics — Elsevier
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Video-based Flight Pattern Mining of Birds in Controlled Tunnel Environments Using YOLOv8 and Data Analytics
Accepted
ICCA 2026
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Explainable Machine Learning for Academic Risk Prediction Using Leakage-Aware Grade Trajectory Features
Accepted
ICCA 2026
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Personalized Stress Detection Based on Facial Micro-Expression Dynamics with Integrated Physiological Signals
Presented
INTI, Malaysia 2025
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Topological Flight Signatures: Individual Bird Identification from Flight Trajectories via Persistent Homology
Submitted
ICCIT 2026
Education
- M.Sc., Applied Mathematics and Computational Science (AMCS)
North South University, Dhaka
2026 – 2027 - B.Sc. (Eng.), Computer Science and Engineering
American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB), Dhaka
2021 – 2026
Major: Information System (Data Science) • Minor: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition - Higher Secondary School Certificate (Science)
Engineering University School and College, BUET Campus, Dhaka
2018 – 2020 - Secondary School Certificate (Science)
Akkelpur F.U. Govt. Pilot School, Joypurhat
2016 – 2018
Teaching & Mentoring
- Research Mentorship – NeuroFlight Lab (Jan 2025 – Present)
Mentored 10+ multidisciplinary research teams in bio-inspired robotics, computer vision, and machine learning. Guided students through research methodology, paper writing, and submission processes for Scopus-indexed journals. - Technical Training – AIUB (2024 – 2025)
Conducted workshops and training sessions on Python programming, deep learning frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch), and computer vision techniques for undergraduate students. - Research Supervision – Research Projects (2024 – Present)
Supervised multiple undergraduate thesis projects in medical imaging, bird flight analysis, and AI applications, providing guidance on research design, implementation, and documentation.
Projects
Developed a real-time face detection system using OpenCV and Haar cascade classifiers for live webcam-based recognition.
GitHub LinkApplied LDA-based topic modeling to extract latent themes from unstructured news data and analyze topic distributions.
GitHub LinkBuilt a full-featured café management system with role-based authentication (Admin/User/Guest), modern UI, and database integration.
GitHub LinkDeveloped a web-based platform for event scheduling, user registration, and administrative control.
GitHub LinkDesigned and developed the official project website with structured content and research presentation.
GitHub LinkDeveloped a system for managing meal plans, user subscriptions, and tracking.
GitHub LinkBuilt an e-commerce platform with product management, user authentication, and order handling features.
GitHub LinkSkills
Coding Skills
Research & Development
Tools & Typesetting
Languages
Achievements
- Best Poster Award – Thesis Day (Summer 2024–2025) — awarded for the best thesis among 100+ undergraduate groups
- Government Scholarship (JSC) – Junior School Certificate awarded for outstanding academic performance
- Government Scholarship (PSC) – Primary School Certificate awarded for outstanding academic performance
References
- Dr. Debajyoti Karmaker
Senior Lecturer, School of Computing Technologies
RMIT University, Australia
debajyoti.karmaker@rmit.edu.au - Prof. Dr. Dip Nandi
Professor & Dean, Faculty of Science and Technology
American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB)
dip.nandi@aiub.edu