Taminul Islam (he/him)
Hello, This is Taminul Islam. I am currently serving as a Research Assistant at the BASE: Bridging AI, Systems, and Environment Research lab. I am also pursuing my Ph.D. in Computer Science at School of Computing, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, IL, United States. My research interest lies in the Computer Vision and Deep Learning approaches in agriculture focusing on semantic segmentation, object detection and tracking. I am actively seeking internships as a machine learning or deep learning engineer, data science engineer, where I can contribute to cutting-edge research and development projects that solve computer vision and AI problems.
Biography
Taminul Islam received his Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) with first-class honors in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) from Daffodil International University, Bangladesh. During his undergraduate studies, he served as a Research Assistant at the university. After graduation, he began his professional career as a Research and Development Assistant. His academic excellence earned him a Full Free Scholarship throughout his B.Sc. program at Daffodil International University.
His research interests focus on Computer Vision and Deep Learning applications in healthcare and agriculture. He has published several notable research papers in natural language processing, cybersecurity, healthcare, and agriculture domains through prestigious publishers including IEEE, Springer, Taylor & Francis, and Elsevier. He has contributed as a Researcher at two research labs: STEMResearch.AI and AI-Explain You Science (AI-EYS). His academic service includes reviewing over 25 articles for various journals and conferences. As a mentor, he has guided approximately 80 students in various research projects, with six of his mentees now pursuing Ph.D. degrees in the United States. He actively collaborates on several research projects in computer science and maintains professional membership with ACM.
Recent Publications
- Islam, Taminul, Toqi Tahamid Sarker, Khaled R. Ahmed, Cristiana Bernardi Rankrape, and Karla Gage. "WeedSwin hierarchical vision transformer with SAM-2 for multi-stage weed detection and classification." In Scientific Reports 15, no. 1 (2025): 23274.
- Islam, Taminul, Toqi Tahamid Sarker, Mohamed G Embaby, Khaled R Ahmed, and Amer AbuGhazaleh. "CarboNeXT and CarboFormer: Dual Semantic Segmentation Architectures for Detecting and Quantifying Carbon Dioxide Emissions Using Optical Gas Imaging." arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.05360 (2025).
- Syed Mhamudul Hasan, Islam, Taminul, Munshi Saifuzzaman, Khaled R. Ahmed, Chun-Hsi Huang, and Abdur R. Shahid. "Carbon Emission Quantification of Machine Learning: A Review." In IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing (2025): 1-19.
- Islam, Taminul, Toqi Tahamid Sarker, Khaled R. Ahmed, Cristiana Bernardi Rankrape, and Karla Gage. "WeedVision: Multi-Stage Growth and Classification of Weeds using DETR and RetinaNet for Precision Agriculture." In 2024 ICMLA, 2024: 1374-1381.
Education
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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Computer Science, Spring 2024 - Present
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA -
BSc in Computer Science and Engineering, Spring 2018 - Fall 2022
Daffodil International University, Bangladesh
News
| July 2025 | Our article "WeedSwin hierarchical vision transformer with SAM-2 for multi-stage weed detection and classification" has been published in Nature Scientific Reports. Full Text |
| June 2025 | Our collaborative work "Carbon Emission Quantification of Machine Learning: A Review" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing. Full Text |
| June 2025 | New preprint "CarboNeXT and CarboFormer: Dual Semantic Segmentation Architectures for Detecting and Quantifying Carbon Dioxide Emissions Using Optical Gas Imaging" available on arXiv. arXiv |
| June 2025 | Served as an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Medicine (Q1 journal) on a machine learning manuscript for carotid intima-media thickness progression prediction. LinkedIn Reference |
| May 2025 | Secured two CHAMPION trophies for Bangladesh in Cricket and Badminton at the International Spring Games 2025 at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Named Most Valuable Player (MVP) in the Badminton event. LinkedIn Reference |
| May 2025 | Presented collaborative research to the Department of Animal Science, SIUC with Toqi Tahamid Sarker and Mohamed Embaby, PhD. Research published in CVPR 2024 and IET Image Processing, bridging School of Computing and School of Agricultural Science. LinkedIn Reference |
| April 2025 | Served as General Secretary of the Bangladesh Student Association (BSA) during 2024-2025 session. BSA received the 'Best RSO Recognition Award' among 17 international RSOs at SIUC for achievements in sports, cultural programs, and food festivals. LinkedIn Reference |