Tanzim Hossain Romel
I'm a software engineer at IQVIA and a software engineering researcher. I work on AI/ML security, LLM systems, empirical software engineering, and production backend systems.
I completed my B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering at BUET. I will start an M.Sc. in Computing Science at the University of Alberta in September 2026.
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News
Feb 2026: Paper submitted to TOSEM 2026. Resubmitted 'An Empirical Study on Remote Code Execution in ML Model Hosting Ecosystems' to ACM Transactions on Softw...
Oct 2025: Paper submitted to MSR 2026. Submitted 'An Empirical Study on Remote Code Execution in ML Model Hosting Ecosystems' to the Mining Software Reposit...
May 2025: Received IQVIA Impact Program Silver Award. Honored with the IQVIA Impact Program Silver Award for outstanding performance and contributions to the KPI Library t...
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Research & Publications
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TOSEM 2026 submission / ML model hosting security
Large-scale study of roughly 45,000 repositories across major ML model hosting ecosystems, measuring unsafe deserialization, eval injection, malware signals, and recurring developer security misconceptions.
In progress / LLM agents and aligned backdoors
Endpoint-black-box auditing framework for aligned backdoors in LLM agents using counterfactual environments and discrete-choice estimation.
Database schema generation / multi-agent verification
Multi-agent framework for generating relational database schemas and ER diagrams from requirements, with auto-repair and formal verification.
Undergraduate thesis / blockchain healthcare
Patient-centric blockchain framework for electronic health records using encrypted off-chain IPFS storage and Ethereum-based access control.
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Education
M.Sc in Computing Science · Starting September 2026 · Incoming
Starting the M.Sc in Computing Science program in September 2026, with interests in software engineering research, trustworthy AI, distributed systems, and LLM systems. I will be joining the U-A-Goose software engineering group at the...
B.Sc in Computer Science and Engineering · April 2018 - May 2023
Dean's List Award - Level 2 (outstanding academic performance) Notable Courses: Machine Learning, High Performance Database Systems, Fault Tolerant Systems, Data Structure and Algorithms, Operating Systems, Computer Security
Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) · 2015 - 2017
Placed 15th in Rajshahi Board, received Talentpool Scholarship, A+ in all subjects with 96.5% marks in Physics, Chemistry, and Higher Mathematics
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Work
Software Development Engineer 1, IQVIA
June 2023 - June 2026
Backend engineer on the KPI Library team, building microservices-based healthcare applications that handle millions of patient records using .NET Core and C#. IQVIA (NYSE: IQV) provides analytics, technology solutions, and clinical research services to the life sciences industry, with 74,000+ employees across 100+ countries.
Full Stack Engineer, Mindshare Bangladesh (Part-time)
Apr 2021 - Nov 2021
Built an e-commerce aggregator platform that let brands promote products by pulling listings from multiple e-commerce sites across Bangladesh.
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Projects
Finalist in Blockchain Olympiad Bangladesh (BCOLBD) 2021 with team "Recursively Enumerable". Designed NFT-based ticketing system using ERC-1155 standard. Implemented smart contracts for anti-scalping, dynamic QR codes, and decentralized identity management with zero-knowledge proofs.
Implemented Show, Attend and Tell architecture with ResNet-101 encoder and LSTM decoder. Achieved BLEU-4: 0.335, CIDEr: 0.92 on MS-COCO dataset. Enhanced with beam search and multi-head attention achieving 11-point BLEU-4 improvement. Conducted comprehensive ablation studies and attention visualizations.
Designed microservices-based event management system. Led back-end architecture implementing newsfeed, payment, authentication, and event management services.
Built complete compiler for subset of C language using Flex (lexical analysis) and Bison (parsing). Implemented symbol table management with scope handling and comprehensive error reporting. Added semantic analysis for type checking and function validation.
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Skills
Backend & Systems: C#/.NET Core, Go, C++, EF Core
AI & Agents: Python, LangGraph, RAG, PyTorch, CUDA
Databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, SQL Server, DynamoDB
Cloud & DevOps: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions