Amirul Islam

Amirul Islam

Toronto, May 2020

I am a machine learning researcher with primary interests in generative AI, large language models (LLMs), multi-modal learning, and human-centric AI (e.g., explainability, interpretability, generalization, and bias). Previously, I was a senior machine learning scientist at SES AI and a senior researcher at Huawei Noah's Ark Lab in Toronto. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Ryerson University in 2022, advised by Neil Bruce and Kosta Derpanis. Prior to that, I completed my M.Sc. in Computer Science at the University of Manitoba, advised by Yang Wang and Neil Bruce. I am also a recipient of the Governor General's Gold Medal for outstanding Ph.D. thesis and the Vector Institute Postgraduate Affiliate award.

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Publications & Preprints

OmniScience: A Domain-Specialized LLM for Scientific Reasoning and Discovery
Vignesh Prabhakar*, Md Amirul Islam*, Adam Atanas*, Yao-Ting Wang, Joah Han, Aastha Jhunjhunwala, Rucha Apte, Robert Clark, Kang Xu, Zihan Wang, Kai Liu
arXiv 2025 [PDF]
Visually Guided Audio Source Separation with Meta Consistency Learning
Md Amirul Islam, Shahab Nabavi, Irina Kezele, Yang Wang, Yuanhao Yu and Jin Tang
WACV 2024 Oral [PDF]
Quantifying and Learning Static vs. Dynamic Information in Deep Spatiotemporal Networks
Matthew Kowal, Mennatullah Siam, Md Amirul Islam, Neil Bruce, Richard P. Wildes, Konstantinos G. Derpanis
TPAMI 2024 [PDF] [Project page] [Code]
Position, Padding and Predictions: A Deeper Look at Position Information in CNNs
Md Amirul Islam, Matthew Kowal, Sen Jia, Konstantinos G. Derpanis, Neil Bruce
IJCV 2024 [PDF]
SegMix: Co-occurrence Driven Mixup for Semantic Segmentation and Adversarial Robustness
Md Amirul Islam, Matthew Kowal, Konstantinos G. Derpanis, Neil D. B. Bruce
IJCV 2023 [PDF]
Maximizing Mutual Shape Information
Md Amirul Islam, Matthew Kowal, Patrick Esser, Björn Ommer, Konstantinos G. Derpanis, Neil Bruce
BMVC 2022 [PDF]
A Deeper Dive Into What Deep Spatiotemporal Networks Encode: Quantifying Static vs. Dynamic Information
Matthew Kowal, Mennatullah Siam, Md Amirul Islam, Neil Bruce, Richard P. Wildes, Konstantinos G. Derpanis
CVPR 2022 [PDF] [Project page] [Code]
Global Pooling, More than Meets the Eye: Position Information is Encoded Channel-Wise in CNNs
Md Amirul Islam, Matthew Kowal, Sen Jia, Konstantinos G. Derpanis, Neil Bruce
ICCV 2021 [PDF] [Code]
Simpler Does It: Generating Semantic Labels with Objectness Guidance
Md Amirul Islam, Matthew Kowal, Sen Jia, Konstantinos G. Derpanis, Neil D. B. Bruce
BMVC 2021 [PDF]
Shape or Texture: Understanding Discriminative Features in CNNs
Md Amirul Islam, Matthew Kowal, Patrick Esser, Sen Jia, Björn Ommer, Konstantinos G. Derpanis, Neil Bruce
ICLR 2021 [PDF] [Project Page] [Code]
Bidirectional Attention Network for Monocular Depth Estimation
Shubhra Aich, Jean Vianney, Md Amirul Islam, Mannat Kaur, Bingbing Liu
ICRA 2021 [PDF]
Fibro-CoSANet: Pulmonary Fibrosis Prognosis Prediction using a Convolutional Self Attention Network
Zabir Al Nazi, Fazla Rabbi Mashrur, Md Amirul Islam, Shumit Saha
Physics in Medicine and Biology, 2021 [PDF] [Code]
Feature Binding with Category-Dependant MixUp for Semantic Segmentation and Adversarial Robustness
Md Amirul Islam, Matthew Kowal, Konstantinos G. Derpanis, Neil Bruce
BMVC 2020 Oral [PDF]
How much Position Information Do Convolutional Neural Networks Encode?
Md Amirul Islam, Sen Jia, Neil Bruce
ICLR 2020 Spotlight [PDF] [Code]
Distributed Iterative Gating Networks for Semantic Segmentation
Rezaul Karim, Md Amirul Islam, Neil Bruce
WACV 2020 [PDF]
Relative Saliency and Ranking: Models, Metrics, Data and Benchmarks
Mahmoud Kalash*, Md Amirul Islam*, Neil Bruce
TPAMI 2019 [PDF]
Recurrent Iterative Gating Networks for Semantic Segmentation
Rezaul Karim, Md Amirul Islam, Neil Bruce
WACV 2019 [PDF]
Revisiting Salient Object Detection: Simultaneous Detection, Ranking, and Subitizing of Multiple Salient Objects
Md Amirul Islam, Mahmoud Kalash, Neil Bruce
CVPR 2018 Oral [Project] [Paper] [Code] [Video] [Poster]
Semantics Meet Saliency: Exploring Domain Affinity and Models for Dual-Task Prediction
Md Amirul Islam, Mahmoud Kalash, Neil Bruce
BMVC 2018 [Paper]
Gated Feedback Refinement Network for Coarse-to-Fine Dense Semantic Image Labeling
Md Amirul Islam, M Rochan, S Naha, Neil Bruce, Yang Wang
arXiv 2018 [PDF]
Gated Feedback Refinement Network for Dense Image Labeling
Md Amirul Islam, M Rochan, Neil Bruce, Yang Wang
CVPR 2017 [Project] [Paper] [Code]
On the Robustness of Deep Learning Models to Universal Adversarial Attack
Rezaul Karim*, Md Amirul Islam*, Noman Mohammed, Neil Bruce
CRV 2018 Oral [Paper]
Salient Object Detection using a Context-Aware Refinement Network
Md Amirul Islam, M Kalash, M Rochan, Neil Bruce, Yang Wang
BMVC 2017 [Project] [Paper]
Label Refinement Network for Coarse-to-Fine Semantic Segmentation
Md Amirul Islam, S Naha, M Rochan, Neil Bruce, Yang Wang
arXiv 2017 [pdf]
Dense Image Labeling Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
Md Amirul Islam, Neil Bruce, Yang Wang
CRV 2016 Oral [pdf]