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Md. Ahanaf Arif Khan

Rajshahi, Bangladesh

Overview

Aspiring researcher with a strong and evolving foundation in deep learning, computer vision, and model efficiency, built through hands-on experience with fine-grained classification, vision transformers, and contrastive learning. Demonstrated ability to design and implement reproducible, end-to-end research pipelines and build state-of-the-art architectures from scratch. Passionate about driving innovation in biomedical image analysis, signal processing, and computer vision through focused empirical research and impactful open-source collaboration.

Projects

VisionDesk

Real-time employee monitoring using YOLOv8, FastAPI, and manual annotations. [Code]

Vision Transformer (ViT)

ViT from scratch with patch embedding, attention visualization. [Code]

Swin Transformer

Implemented window-based attention with shift and benchmarked classification gains.

CutMix & MixUp

Data augmentation via mixing inputs/labels in PyTorch. [Code]

Knowledge Distillation

ResNet50 → MobileNetV3 on STL-10 using tuned soft-label training. [Code]

SimCLR

Self-supervised contrastive learning with projection heads. [Code]

U-Net Segmentation

Segmentation with U-Net/ResNet encoders, modular design. [Code]

Conditional GAN

MNIST digit generation using label-conditional GAN in Keras. [Code]

Flower Classification

CNNs and transfer learning on flower species dataset. [Code]

Flood Segmentation

Segmented satellite flood imagery using U-Net. [Code]

Education

Skills

Publications

[J.1] Sangeeta Biswas, Md. Ahanaf Arif Khan, Md. Hasnain Ali, Johan Rohdin, Subrata Pramanik, Md. Iqbal Aziz Khan, Sanjoy Kumar Chakravarty, Bimal Kumar Pramanik (2025). "Interpreting Deep Neural Networks in Diabetic Retinopathy Grading: A Comparison with Human Decision Criteria". Life, 15(9), 1473. DOI

[C.1] Md. Ahanaf Arif Khan, Md. Hasnain Ali, Nirjor Saha, Md. Sadman Shakib Shoumik, Sangeeta Biswas (2023). "Competency Comparison of Deep Neural Networks for Identifying Gender in Color Fundus Photographs". In 26th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), IEEE. DOI

Awards & Achievements

UGC Stipend 2025: Highest academic distinction in Faculty of Engineering

AI Hackathon Champion (2025): VisionDesk developed during manufacturing track

Robi Datathon Finalist (2024): Top 7 out of 1000 teams in ML business challenge

Dean's Award (2023): Twice recognized for academic performance

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