Md Rashad Al Hasan Rony   

Hi there ๐Ÿ‘‹, I'm Rashad ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฉ ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช

  • ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ป Employed at Deutsche Telekom as Senior Generative AI Scientist in Berlin, Germany ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช.
  • ๐Ÿ’ก Working on Large Language Model (LLM) development/fine-tuning, Knowledge Graph based dialogue systems and their evaluation.
  • ๐ŸŽฏ Currently diving deep into LLM inference and Reinforcement Learning (RL).
  • ๐Ÿ“œ Program Committee / Reviewer of ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, AAAI, Neurocomputing and many more.
  • ๐Ÿค Interested in LLMs, Conversational AI, Reinforcement Learning and Knowledge Graphs.
  • โšก Fun facts: I love collecting old coins & notes ๐Ÿ’ฐ.

๐Ÿ“œ News and Updates

  • [12 February 2026]: ๐Ÿ˜Ž Became a community researcher at Cohere Labs
  • [03 October 2025]: ๐Ÿค Contibuted to Modals GPU Glossary article: Memory Coalescing (Credit as a Contributor).
  • [19 June 2025]: ๐Ÿ“† Workshop co-organizer: BLP Workshop at IJCNLP-AACL 2025.
  • [26 April 2025]: ๐Ÿ“œ Passed Certification: AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate ๐ŸŽ‰ .
  • [12 May 2024]: ๐Ÿ“œ Passed Certification: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner ๐ŸŽ‰ .
  • [01 February 2024]: ๐Ÿ˜Ž Started a new position at Deutsche Telekom as Senior Generative AI Scientist.
  • [15 December 2023]: ๐ŸŽ‰ Paper accepted at ECIR 2024 "Incorporating Query Recommendation for Improving In-car Conversational Search".
  • [10 October 2023]: ๐ŸŽ‰ Paper accepted at EMNLP 2023 "CarExpert: Leveraging Large Language Models for In-Car Conversational Question Answering".
  • [28 April 2023]: ๐Ÿ‹๏ธ Completed training on DevOps Engineering on AWS ๐Ÿ’ช.
  • [30 March 2023]: ๐Ÿ‹๏ธ Completed training on Developing on AWS ๐Ÿ’ช.
  • [01 August 2022]: ๐Ÿ˜Ž Started a new position at BMW Group as a AI Expert - NLP & Conversational AI.
  • [27 July 2022]: ๐Ÿ˜ƒ Attended and presented the Climate Change bot paper at IJCAI 2022.
  • [24 July 2022]: ๐Ÿ’ฏ Published the Climate Change MRC dataset in Huggingface ๐Ÿค—.
  • [10 July 2022]: ๐Ÿคฉ Attended NAACL 2022 virtually.
  • [05 July 2022]: ๐ŸŽ‰ Paper accepted at IEEE Access โ€œLanguage Model Guided Knowledge Graph Embeddingsโ€.
  • [03 July 2022]: ๐ŸŽ‰ Paper accepted at IEEE Access โ€œSGPT: A Generative Approach for SPARQL Query Generation from Natural Language Questionsโ€.
  • [28 April 2022]: ๐ŸŽ‰ Paper accepted at IEEE Access โ€œTree-KGQA: An Unsupervised Approach for Question Answering Over Knowledge Graphsโ€.
  • [24 April 2022]: ๐ŸŽ‰ Paper accepted at IJCAI-ECAI (system demo - AI for Good), โ€œClimate Bot: A Machine Reading Comprehension System for Climate Change Question Answeringโ€.
  • [07 April 2022]: ๐ŸŽ‰ Paper accepted at Findings of NAACL 2022 โ€œDialoKG: Knowledge-Structure Aware Task-Oriented Dialogue Generationโ€.
  • [24 February 2022]: ๐ŸŽ‰ Paper accepted at ACL 2022 โ€œRoMe: A Robust Metric for Evaluating Natural Language Generationโ€.
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Md Rashad Al Hasan Rony

Education

University of Bonn
Bonn, Germany

Doctor of Philosophy

Computer Science

Title: Advancing Knowledge-Enhanced Conversational Systems Leveraging Language Models [PDF]

The University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Master of Science (online & part-time - currently paused)

High Performance Computing (HPC)

University of Bonn
Bonn, Germany

Master of Science

Computer Science

Focus: Intelligent systems

Experience

Feb 2024 - Current
Deutsche Telekom
Berlin, Germany

Lead Generative AI Scientist

Department: AI and Data Science (AI Competence Center)

  • Tech Lead: Architect and implement AI Agent for Fiber related use cases.
  • Currently Engineering Learning and Memory in AI Agents.
  • Core Team Member: Agent Protocols.
  • Implementing and incorporating LLM as an evaluator for chatbot evaluation.
  • Prompt Engineering.
Aug 2022 - Jan 2024
BMW Group
Munich, Germany

Senior Generative AI Specialist

Department: AI-based Vehicle Functions and Network AI

  • Architecture design, code integration and deployment of GPT-based dialogue system (50% time).
  • Technical project management (50% time).
  • Conducting state-of-the-art research for industry use cases.
  • Helping stakeholders with LLM-based technical solutions.
Aug 2020 - Jul 2022
Fraunhofer IAIS
Dresden, Germany

Machine Learning Scientist

Department: Conversational AI and Knowledge Graph

  • Led the generative dialogue team and worked on the initial version of prompt-guided natural sounding and safe generative dialogue system.
  • Implemented a Machine Reading Comprehension pipeline on financial domain.
  • Implemented the initial version of the German MRC pipeline.
  • Implemented and extended the CDQA-based data annotation tool.
  • Published research paper into top scientific conferences.
May 2020 - Jul 2020
InfAI
Dresden, Germany

Visiting Research Scholar

  • Conducted research on knowledge grounded dialogue systems.
Aug 2018 - Apr 2020
Fraunhofer IAIS
Sankt Augustin, Germany

Student Research Assistant

Department: Enterprise Information Systems (EIS)

  • Trained the Tacotron model for text to speech generation.
  • Implemented the initial version of the MRC system.
  • Published research paper into top scientific conferences.

Technical Skills

Python

95%

PyTorch

90%

HuggingFace

90%

Agentic AI

90%

Git

90%

Docker

85%

Pandas

80%

Scikit-learn

80%

AWS

70%


Research Experties

Dialogue and Question Answering Systems

95%

Large Language Models

90%

Information Retrieval

90%

Prompt Engineering

90%


Communication

English

90%

Bengali (native)

100%

German

50%

Photography

SoundCloud Audio

Munich

Germany
Media Project 2

Amalfi Coast

Italy
Vimeo Video 1

Salzburg

Austria
Media Project 1

Barcelona

Spain
Mockup Design 1

Paris

France
YouTube Video 1

Madrid

Spain

Paper Reading

2025

โฆพ EmbeddingGemma: Powerful and Lightweight Text Representations ๐Ÿ”— [Embedding]

โฆพ A Survey of AI Agent Protocols ๐Ÿ”— [AI Agent]


2023

โฆพ Efficient Memory Management for Large Language Model Serving with PagedAttention ๐Ÿ”— [LLM Inference]

โฆพ Accelerating Large Language Model Decoding with Speculative Sampling ๐Ÿ”— [Decoding]


2020

โฆพ GPT-3: Language Models are Few-Shot Learners ๐Ÿ”— [LLM]


2017

โฆพ Attention Is All You Need ๐Ÿ”— [LLM]

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