Mohaiminul Islam

Mohaiminul Islam

PhD Student UNC Chapel Hill Research Scientist Intern Meta AI

Biography

I'm on the job market, looking for industry Research Scientist position! Feel free to connect with me via email (mmiemon [at] cs [dot] unc [dot] edu).

I am a final-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at UNC Chapel Hill, advised by Professor Gedas Bertasius. My research focuses on computer vision, video understanding, and multimodal deep learning, with a particular emphasis on efficient vision-language models, multimodal large language models (MLLMs), and long-range video analysis. My work has been published in top-tier conferences, including ECCV 2022, CVPR 2023, ECCV 2024, EMNLP 2024, and CVPR 2025.

I have completed two research internships at FAIR, Meta AI and one at Comcast AI, where I worked on multimodal large language models, video agents, and efficient models for long-range video understanding. Prior to my Ph.D., I gained valuable industry experience as a Software Engineer at Samsung R&D Institute.

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Interests
  • Computer Vision
  • Video Understanding
  • Vision-Language Modeling
  • Large Language Models
  • Long-Range Video Models
Education

  • PhD in Computer Science, 2021-Present

    UNC Chapel Hill

  • MSc in Computer Science, 2021-2023

    UNC Chapel Hill

  • BSc in Computer Science and Engineering, 2014-2018

    Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

Awards and Honors

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
FAIR, Meta AI
Research Scientist Intern
FAIR, Meta AI
May 2024 – Aug 2024 New York
Advisor - Lorenzo Torresani, Tushar Nagarajan, Huiyu Wang
Topic - Multimodal Large Language Models, Efficient Long Video Understanding
Publication - BIMBA (CVPR 2025)
 
 
 
 
 
FAIR, Meta AI
Research Scientist Intern
FAIR, Meta AI
May 2023 – Aug 2023 Menlo Park, California
Advisor - Xitong Yang, Tushar Nagarajan, Huiyu Wang, Kris Kitani
Topic - Video Agents, Procedural Learning
Publication - VidAssist (ECCV 2024, Oral)
 
 
 
 
 
Comcast AI
Machine Learning Intern
Comcast AI
May 2022 – Aug 2022 Virtual
Advisor - Mahmudul Hasan, Tony Braskich
Topic - Scene Detection, Efficient Long-Range Video Models
Publication - TranS4mer (CVPR 2023)
 
 
 
 
 
Lecturer
University of Asia Pacific
Apr 2019 – Dec 2020 Bangladesh
 
 
 
 
 
Software Engineer
Samsung R&D Institute
Nov 2018 – Mar 2019 Bangladesh

Featured Publications

Mohaiminul Islam, Tushar Nagarajan, Huiyu Wang, Gedas Bertasius, Lorenzo Torresani
March, 2025 In CVPR 2025
BIMBA: Selective-Scan Compression for Long-Range Video Question Answering
BIMBA: Selective-Scan Compression for Long-Range Video Question Answering
Cite ArXiv Website Code HuggingFace Demo

Recent Publications

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Mohaiminul Islam, Tushar Nagarajan, Huiyu Wang, Gedas Bertasius, Lorenzo Torresani (2025). BIMBA: Selective-Scan Compression for Long-Range Video Question Answering. In CVPR 2025.

Cite ArXiv Website Code HuggingFace Demo

Tanveer Hannan, Mohaiminul Islam, Jindong Gu, Thomas Seidl, Gedas Bertasius (2025). ReVisionLLM: Recursive Vision-Language Model for Temporal Grounding in Hour-Long Videos. In CVPR 2025.

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Mohaiminul Islam, Ngan Ho, Xitong Yang, Tushar Nagarajan, Lorenzo Torresani, Gedas Bertasius (2024). Video ReCap: Recursive Captioning of Hour-Long Videos. In CVPR 2024.

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Kristen Grauman, Mohaiminul Islam, et al (2024). Ego-Exo4D: Understanding Skilled Human Activity from First- and Third-Person Perspectives. In CVPR 2024.

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Mohaiminul Islam, Tushar Nagarajan, Huiyu Wang, Fu-Jen Chu, Kris Kitani, Gedas Bertasius, Xitong Yang (2024). Propose, Assess, Search: Harnessing LLMs for Goal-Oriented Planning in Instructional Videos. In ECCV 2024 (Oral).

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Tanveer Hannan, Mohaiminul Islam, Thomas Seidl, Gedas Bertasius (2024). RGNet: A Unified Clip Retrieval and Grounding Network for Long Videos. In ECCV 2024.

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Ce Zhang, Taixi Lu, Mohaiminul Islam, Ziyang Wang, Shoubin Yu, Mohit Bansal, Gedas Bertasius (2024). A Simple LLM Framework for Long-Range Video Question-Answering. In EMNLP 2024.

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Mohaiminul Islam, Mahmudul Hasan, Kishan Shamsundar Athrey, Tony Braskich, Gedas Bertasius (2023). Efficient Movie Scene Detection using State-Space Transformers. In CVPR 2023.

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Mohaiminul Islam, Gedas Bertasius (2022). Long Movie Clip Classification with State-Space Video Models. In ECCV 2022.

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Mohaiminul Islam, Gedas Bertasius (2022). Object State Change Classification in Egocentric Videos using the Divided Space-Time Attention Mechanism. In Ego4D Workshop, CVPR 2022.

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Mohaiminul Islam, Tanveer Hannan, Laboni Sarker, Zakaria Ahmed (2022). COVID-DenseNet: A Deep Learning Architecture to Detect COVID-19 from Chest Radiology Images. In ICDSA 2022.

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Contact

  • mmiemon [at] cs [dot] unc [dot] edu
  • Raleigh, North Carolina