Portrait of Md Motaleb Hossen Manik
Ph.D. Student · Computer Science · RPI
AI Evaluation · Reliability · Verifiable Systems

Md Motaleb Hossen Manik

I am currently a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where my research focuses on the evaluation and reliability of AI systems, particularly large language models, vision-language models, and agentic AI. I study how AI outputs and actions can be measured, structured, verified, and audited under realistic conditions, including deployment-aware evaluation, structured reliability reporting, semantic consistency, provenance, and safe agent behavior. I investigate these questions across medical and educational AI, scientific knowledge workflows, and autonomous-agent systems. I conduct this work in the Wang-AXIS Lab at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, advised by Prof. Ge Wang, and Assistant Professor on study leave from KUET.

Current profile
Research directions AI evaluation, deployment-aware reliability, structured verification, provenance, safe agentic AI, and multimodal systems
Current institution Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute · Wang-AXIS Lab
Current citation profile 505+ Google Scholar citations · h-index 8
Professional direction Interested in faculty, research scientist, and collaboration opportunities in large language models, multimodal AI, medical imaging, and agentic systems
Research

Research Overview

My research focuses on evaluating and improving the reliability of AI systems across language models, vision-language models, agentic AI, medical and educational workflows, and scientific knowledge systems.

Evaluation, Reliability & Deployment of Language and Vision-Language Models

2024 — Present
Ph.D. research, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

I develop methods for measuring AI reliability beyond task accuracy. In Unified Deployment-Aware Evaluation of Open Reasoning Language Models (TMLR, 2026), I evaluated seven model configurations across four benchmarks and three prompting strategies, covering 84 conditions and 19,992 examples, while jointly analyzing performance, uncertainty, latency, memory, prompt sensitivity, and deployment trade-offs.

I also developed HypothesisMed for structured reliability reporting, MILU for multimodal semantic evaluation, and earlier comparative work on ChatGPT versus DeepSeek for AI-based code generation.

Provenance, Auditability & Secure Knowledge Systems

2020 — Present
M.Sc. foundation at KUET; continuing Ph.D. research at RPI

I develop provenance and integrity mechanisms that make digital and AI-generated knowledge traceable, tamper-evident, reproducible, and securely exchanged. SlideChain provides blockchain-backed semantic provenance for structured VLM outputs over 1,117 lecture slides, with 100% tamper detection and deterministic reproducibility under controlled testing.

Earlier work includes my M.Sc. research on secure multi-party skyline queries and ShaEr, a privacy-preserving medical-data sharing framework.

Safe Agentic AI & Scientific Knowledge Governance

2025 — Present
Ph.D. research, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

I study how autonomous AI systems behave and act under permissions, policies, social interaction, and governance constraints. My workflow-agent research evaluates permission scope, semantic policy gating, and tamper-evident execution records; OpenClaw studies risky instruction propagation and norm enforcement across 14,490 autonomous agents; and ADAPT investigates adaptive governance in AI-mediated scholarly publishing.

The ADAPT work led to U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 63/975,609.

Multimodal AI for Education & Medical Workflows

2025 — Present
Ph.D. research and system development, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

I develop multimodal and interactive AI systems for education and medical knowledge workflows. I helped build MEDI-SLATE, comprising 1,117 slides and 262,182 narration tokens from a 23-lecture medical imaging course; contributed to ALIVE, a fully local interactive lecture system; and co-developed an optically emulated computed tomography scanner for hands-on medical imaging education.

Foundations in Machine Learning & Natural Language Processing

2019 — 2025
Earlier research, Khulna University of Engineering & Technology and RPI

My earlier work established a foundation in machine learning, NLP, and robustness, including Bangla and phonetic-Bangla sentiment analysis, unified sentiment and emotion recognition, adversarially robust text classification, and closed-domain question answering. Related methodological work includes N-ReLU, a stochastic extension of the ReLU activation function.

Academic Profile

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science
Fall 2024 – Present
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Advisor: Prof. Ge Wang, Department of Biomedical Engineering, with affiliation in Computer Science, RPI · Wang-AXIS Lab
M.Sc. Eng. in Computer Science and Engineering
Sep 2020 – Mar 2023
Khulna University of Engineering & Technology
CGPA 4.00 / 4.00 · Thesis on blockchain-based secure multi-party skyline queries
B.Sc. Eng. in Computer Science and Engineering
Nov 2015 – Mar 2020
Khulna University of Engineering & Technology
CGPA 3.93 / 4.00 · Ranked 1st out of 134 graduates
Teaching

Teaching & Academic Positions

Teaching Assistant
Fall 2024 – Spring 2026
Department of Computer Science, RPI
Courses include Principles of Software, Programming Languages, Software Design and Documentation, and RCOS.
Assistant Professor (On Study Leave)
Jun 2024 – Present
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, KUET
On study leave while pursuing doctoral research at RPI.
Lecturer
Feb 2022 – May 2024
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, KUET
Taught microprocessors, robotics lab, mobile computing, technical writing, and digital system design.
Record

Publications

Complete publication record across journals, conferences, preprints, and manuscripts under review.

2026

Unified Deployment-Aware Evaluation of Open Reasoning Language Models

Manik, M. M. H., and Wang, G. Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2026.

Journal
2026

Blockchain-Enabled Secure Land Record Management System with a New Lightweight Cryptosystem Based on a Hybrid Chaotic Map

Habib, M. A., and Manik, M. M. H. Blockchain: Research and Applications, 100531, 2026.

Journal
2026

MEDI-SLATE: Medical Imaging Slide-Lecture Aligned Teaching Ensemble

Manik, M. M. H., Islam, M. Z., and Wang, G. Visual Computing for Industry, Biomedicine, and Art, 9:8, 2026.

Journal
2026

MILU: A Consensus Ensemble Benchmark for Multimodal Medical Imaging Lecture Understanding

Manik, M. M. H., Islam, M. Z., and Wang, G. Journal of Medical Imaging, 13(6):062202.

Journal
2026

Evaluating Risk and Auditability in Workflow Agents for Safety-Critical Domains

Manik, M. M. H., and Wang, G. Journal of Information and Intelligence, in press, 2026.

Journal
2026

Toward AI-Empowered Higher Education: A Workflow-Oriented Review and Perspective

Manik, M. M. H., and Wang, G. EdArXiv, 2026.

Preprint
2026

HypothesisMed: Inference-Time Answer Fusion and Structured Hypothesis-Space Reporting for Biomedical Question Answering

Manik, M. M. H., and Wang, G. arXiv:2606.00971.

Preprint
2026

OpenClaw Agents on Moltbook: Risky Instruction Sharing and Norm Enforcement in an Agent-Only Social Network

Manik, M. M. H., and Wang, G. arXiv:2602.02625.

Preprint
Review

A Secure Framework for User-Centric Multiparty Skyline Queries via Pruned and Prioritized Datasets

Manik, M. M. H., Alam, K. M. R., and Morimoto, Y. Submitted to Blockchain Research and Applications; under review.

Under Review
Review

ADAPT: AI-Driven Decentralized Adaptive Publishing Transformer

Manik, M. M. H., and Wang, G. Under review.

Under Review
Review

Emergent Decentralized Regulation in a Purely Synthetic Society

Manik, M. M. H., and Wang, G. Submitted to Scientific Reports; under review. Preprint available.

Under Review
2026

Development of an Optically Emulated Computed Tomography Scanner for College Education

Manik, M. M. H., Muldowney, W., Islam, M. Z., and Wang, G. Visual Computing for Industry, Biomedicine, and Art, 9:2, 2026.

Journal
2025

Blockchain-aided comparative study of heart disease detection using machine learning-based approaches with an expanded dataset

Ahmed, M. R., Aziz, A., Manik, M. M. H., and Habib, M. A. Computers in Biology and Medicine.

Journal
2025

ShaEr: A Blockchain-Based Framework for Secure Medical Data Sharing and Monetisation

Habib, M. A., and Manik, M. M. H. IET Blockchain.

Journal
2026

NormBench: A Two-Stage Benchmark for Measuring Compliance and Regulatory Behavior in Local LLM Societies

Manik, M. M. H. 38th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), 2026. Accepted.

Conference
2025

Unifying Sentiment Analysis and Emotion Recognition for Bangla Text: A Hybrid Approach

Manik, M. M. H., Sagor, A. H., Mondal, F. A., Touhid, M. M., and Islam, M. Z. ECCE 2025.

Conference
2025

SlideChain: Semantic Provenance for Lecture Understanding via Blockchain Registration

Manik, M. M. H., Islam, M. Z., and Wang, G. arXiv:2512.21684.

Preprint
2025

ALIVE: An Avatar-Lecture Interactive Video Engine with Content-Aware Retrieval for Real-Time Interaction

Islam, M. Z., Manik, M. M. H., and Wang, G. arXiv:2512.20858.

Preprint
2025

N-ReLU: Zero-Mean Stochastic Extension of ReLU

Manik, M. M. H., Islam, M. Z., and Wang, G. arXiv:2511.07559.

Preprint
2025

ChatGPT vs. DeepSeek: A Comparative Study on AI-Based Code Generation

Manik, M. M. H. arXiv:2502.18467.

Preprint
2024

An Android application for healthcare management system with ML-driven solution

Atik, A. I., Rahman, A., Sami, S. A., and Manik, M. M. H. ICCIT 2024.

Conference
2024

Enhancing Hyperledger Fabric: A scalable framework for optimized blockchain performance

Saha, A., Majumder, S., Manik, M. M. H., and Hashem, M. A. ICCIT 2024.

Conference
2024

Decentralized GDPR compliance: A blockchain framework for personal data management

Islam, M. R., Alam, K. M. R., and Manik, M. M. H. ICCIT 2024.

Conference
2024

Analyzing the Dynamics of COVID-19 Lockdown Success: Insights from Regional Data and Public Health Measures

Manik, M. M. H., Habib, M. A., Islam, M. Z., Ahmed, T., and Haque, F. arXiv:2402.18594.

Preprint
2024

Question-Answering System for Bangla: Fine-tuning BERT-Bangla for a Closed Domain

Roy, S. C., and Manik, M. M. H. arXiv:2410.03923.

Preprint
2023

Enhancing Robustness of Machine Learning Algorithms for Bangla Text Classification: A Defensive Approach against Adversarial Attacks

Manik, M. M. H., Mahadi, J., Touhid, M. M., and Alam, K. M. R. EICT 2023.

Conference
2023

Redefining Crime Record Storage: An Advanced Architecture Harnessing the Power of Blockchain Technology

Manik, M. M. H., Sagor, A. H., Habib, M. A., Touhid, M. M., Ahmed, T., Islam, M. Z., and Haque, F. ICCIT 2023.

Conference
2023

A Blockchain Based Scalable Framework for Academic Document Verification

Majumder, S., Zaha, R., Manik, M. M. H., and Alam, K. M. R. ICCIT 2023.

Conference
2023

A Blockchain-based Technique to Prevent Grade Tampering: A University Perspective

Habib, M. A., Manik, M. M. H., and Zaman, S. ECCE 2023.

Conference
2023

A Technique to Avoid Blockchain Denial of Service (BDoS) and Selfish Mining Attack

Habib, M. A., and Manik, M. M. H. BCCA 2023.

Conference
2023

A Novel Approach in Determining Areas to Lockdown During a Pandemic: COVID-19 as a Case Study

Manik, M. M. H. International Journal of Information Engineering and Electronic Business, 15(2), 30.

Journal
2022

A Hybrid Framework for Sentiment Analysis from Bangla Texts

Manik, M. M. H., Haque, F., Hashem, M. M. A., Habib, M. A., Islam, M. Z., and Ahmed, T. ICCIT 2022.

Conference
2022

A Blockchain Based Secure Framework for User-centric Multi-party Skyline Queries

Manik, M. M. H., Alam, K. M. R., and Morimoto, Y. ICCIT 2022.

Conference
2022

Machine Learning Algorithms on COVID-19 Prediction Using CpG Island and AT-CG Feature on Human Genomic Data

Manik, M. M. H., Habib, M. A., and Ahmed, T. International Conference on Machine Intelligence and Emerging Technologies.

Conference
2022

Classification of DNA Sequence Using Machine Learning Techniques

Habib, M. A., Manik, M. M. H., and Khulna, B. EasyChair preprint.

Preprint
2021

Machine learning approaches for tackling novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic

Rahman, M. M., Islam, M., Manik, M. M. H., Islam, M. R., and Al-Rakhami, M. S. SN Computer Science, 2, 1–10.

Journal
2020

An automated system to limit COVID-19 using facial mask detection in smart city network

Rahman, M. M., Manik, M. M. H., Islam, M. M., Mahmud, S., and Kim, J. H. IEMTRONICS 2020.

Conference
2019

Opinion Mining from Bangla and Phonetic Bangla Reviews Using Vectorization Methods

Haque, F., Manik, M. M. H., and Hashem, M. M. A. EICT 2019.

Conference
Recognition

Honors, Funding & Patent

Honors & Awards

  • Best Paper Award, ECCE 2023
  • Dean’s Award for three consecutive years at KUET
  • Merit Scholarship during undergraduate study

Grant Support

  • AI-Integrated Curriculum Development Award (2026). Funded project: AI-Integrated Interactive Classroom Platform (BMED 2300). Award amount: $5,000. Funding period: May 15-August 15, 2026. PI: Prof. Ge Wang (RPI); Role: Graduate Research Collaborator.
  • NVIDIA Academic Grant Program (2025). Hardware grant: 1 × NVIDIA DGX Spark. Project: Iterative Avatar Teaching in the NVIDIA Omniverse. PI: Prof. Ge Wang (RPI); Role: Graduate Research Collaborator.

Patent

Co-inventor on the U.S. provisional patent for ADAPT: AI-Driven Decentralized Adaptive Publishing Transformer.

Service

Professional Service & Mentorship

Journal Reviewer IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, IEEE (2026) · Engineering Reports, Wiley (2026) · Technology in Society, Elsevier (2025) · Journal of Systems and Software, Elsevier (2025)
Conference Reviewer IEEE COMPAS 2025 · EICT 2025 · ICCAconf 2024 · EICT 2023
Mentorship & Supervision Supervised 3 undergraduate B.Sc. thesis groups and 2 undergraduate project groups at KUET across machine learning, blockchain systems, and LLM-related topics.
Invited Talk “All About AI: Avatarized Online Course,” ECSE Best Practices Series, Department of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering, RPI, August 7, 2025.
Presentation Context Invited by Prof. Shayla Sawyer. Presented the ALIVE avatarized lecture system to a cross-departmental faculty audience and received commendation from senior RPI faculty.
Skills

Technical Skills

Machine Learning, LLMs & Multimodal AI

Large Language Models Vision–Language Models Multimodal Learning Transformers Retrieval-Augmented Generation Prompt Engineering Benchmark Design Model Evaluation Medical Imaging AI

Frameworks & Libraries

PyTorch TensorFlow Hugging Face SentenceTransformers Scikit-learn NumPy Pandas Matplotlib FAISS Whisper ASR

Agentic Systems & AI Safety

Synthetic Agent Societies Workflow Agents Norm Enforcement Risk Modeling Auditability Decentralized Governance Trustworthy AI

Blockchain, Security & Provenance

Ethereum Solidity Hyperledger Fabric Hardhat IPFS Smart Contracts Cryptographic Hashing Keccak-256 Blockchain Provenance

Programming & Tools

Python C/C++ Java JavaScript SQL Git LaTeX Jupyter Linux/Bash REST APIs JSON Pipelines
Contact

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Open to academic collaborations, invited talks, research discussions, and future opportunities in multimodal, trustworthy, and safety-critical AI.

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Md Motaleb Hossen Manik
Ph.D. Student, Computer Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA