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Muhammad Rafsan Kabir

MSc.

Pronouns: he/him

Affiliations

MSc Student

University of Calgary

Graduate Assistant (Research)

University of Calgary

Graduate Assistant (Teaching)

University of Calgary

Contact information

Email

rafsan.kabir@ucalgary.ca

Web presence

Portfolio website

Location

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Background

Rafsan's Resume

Research

Areas of Research

Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, AI & Society, Trustworthy AI

Courses

Course number	Course title	Semester
CPSC 219	Introduction to Computer Science for Multidisciplinary Studies II	Winter 2026
CPSC 217	Introduction to Computer Science for Multidisciplinary Studies I	Spring 2026
CPSC 383	Explorations in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning	Spring 2026
CPSC 231	Introduction to Computer Science for Computer Science Majors I	Fall 2026

Awards

Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship (AGES), University of Calgary. 2026
Faculty of Graduate Studies International - Master’s Scholarship, University of Calgary. 2026
2021

Publications

Journal articles

A triple pronged approach for ulcerative colitis severity classification using multimodal, meta, and transformer based learning. Scientific Reports (Nature). (2025)
Federated learning for human activity recognition: Balancing privacy, efficiency, and accuracy through innovative aggregation techniques. Array (Elsevier). (2025)

Conference proceedings

Beyond Real Weights: Hypercomplex Representations for Stable Quantization. IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV). (2026)
Bidirectional Reasoning Supervision for Multilingual Financial Decision Making. Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). (2025)
AutoDSPy: Automating Modular Prompt Design with Reinforcement Learning for Small and Large Language Models. Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). (2025)
Beyond Labels: Aligning Large Language Models with Human-Like Reasoning. International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR). (2024)