I am currently focused on The Choice Can Be the Attack and VeriSchema. That is where most of my research time is going right now.
Tanzim Hossain Romel
Software Engineer · Software Engineering Researcher
I’m a software engineer and researcher from BUET. Over the past 3 years at IQVIA, I’ve worked across backend engineering and AI engineering, including 1 year focused on AI systems. My research focuses on how AI is changing software engineering, especially developer tools, reliability, and security. In September 2026, I’ll begin an M.Sc in Computing Science at the University of Alberta.
Outside work, I read a lot of history and economics, travel when I can, and usually have a novel in progress. More about me →
AI4SE
SE4AI
Trustworthy AI
Software Security
LLM Security
What I am focused on now
The papers, open source work, and reading that are getting most of my attention right now.
On the open source side, I am mostly focused on RefactoringMiner.
I am reading Designing Data-Intensive Applications, 2nd edition.
An Empirical Study on Remote Code Execution in ML Model Hosting Ecosystems Submitted to TOSEM 2026
June 2025 - Oct 2025First large-scale cross-platform study analyzing ~45,000 repositories across 5 major ML platforms for security vulnerabilities.
The Choice Can Be the Attack: Auditing Aligned Backdoors in LLM Agents In Progress
August 2025 - PresentEndpoint-black-box auditing framework for aligned backdoors in LLM agents using counterfactual environments and discrete-choice estimation.
Multi-Agent Framework for Generating Relational DB Schema & ERD Targeting PVLDB
July 2025 - PresentExtended SchemaAgent with LangGraph StateGraph architecture and 3-tier auto-repair system, reducing redundant LLM calls by 80%.
Sentiment Analysis of Anonymous Crisis Reports in Bangladesh
Sep 2024 - Nov 2024Developed uReporter -- Bangladesh's first anonymous reporting system during 2024 national crisis, analyzing 124 crowd-sourced reports using transformer models.
Patient-Centric Blockchain Framework for EHR Management
June 2022 - May 2023Undergraduate thesis on blockchain framework for EHR management with encrypted off-chain IPFS storage and on-chain Ethereum access control.
Education
University of Alberta
M.Sc in Computing Science 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.
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
B.Sc in Computer Science and Engineering
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
Notable Courses: Machine Learning, High Performance Database Systems, Fault Tolerant Systems, Data Structure and Algorithms, Operating Systems, Computer Security
Work
Software Development Engineer 1
June 2023 - June 2026Backend 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
Apr 2021 - Nov 2021Built an e-commerce aggregator platform that let brands promote products by pulling listings from multiple e-commerce sites across Bangladesh.
Selected Projects
Blockchain-Based Ticketing Platform
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.
Image Captioning with Attention Mechanisms
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.
Eventfly: End-to-end Event Management System
Designed microservices-based event management system. Led back-end architecture implementing newsfeed, payment, authentication, and event management services.
C Compiler Implementation
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.
Currently Learning
Learning
CUDA Programming
GoLang
Technical 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
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