Md. Abdur Rahman Shibly

PhD Student, Computer & Information Science & Engineering, University of Florida

About

I am a PhD student in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering at the University of Florida, advised by Prof. Sumit Kumar Jha.

My research asks how the reasoning of a large language model can be checked rather than trusted: whether a model's stated chain of reasoning is really the computation that produced its answer, and whether the intermediate steps can be made small and legible enough for a person to read. I treat faithfulness and explainability as properties to be measured, not asserted.

Before starting my PhD I spent several years building applied large language model and retrieval-augmented generation systems in industry.

Research Interests

Education

University of Florida

August 2026 – Present

Doctor of Philosophy, Computer & Information Science & Engineering

Advisor: Prof. Sumit Kumar Jha

Research area: Verifiable and explainable reasoning in large language models

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)

March 2018 – May 2023

Bachelor of Science

Thesis: Building a Semantic Search Engine using an Ontology — A Case Study on Social Media Influencers

Experience

Graduate Teaching Assistant

August 2026 – Present

University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Teaching assistant in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering alongside doctoral research.

Software Engineer

March 2025 – July 2026

Bengal Mobile QA Solutions, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Built AI-powered systems, including a dynamic parser for structuring raw call detail records, chatbots and personalised assistants using large language models, and an invoice data-extraction system.

Assistant Software Engineer

July 2023 – February 2025

Computer Network Systems, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Co-led the machine learning work on a government insurance project, and contributed model development and data analysis to several AI products.

Consultant

December 2023 – July 2024

Bengal Mobile QA Solutions, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Developed a conversational AI assistant for the hotel industry using large language models.

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