Toqi Tahamid Sarker

I study computer vision — with a focus on deep learning for precision agriculture, environmental monitoring, and food safety. Most of my work uses transformer-based architectures and multi-task learning on large-scale imagery, spanning livestock methane emissions, rumen health, crop phenotyping, weed management, and non-destructive food inspection. More recently, I've been working on vision-language models for open-vocabulary segmentation.

I'm a PhD candidate at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, advised by Dr. Khaled Ahmed at the BASE Lab. Before SIUC, I was a Graduate Research Assistant at Georgia State University's Panacea Lab, where I worked on solar event tracking, and a Software Engineer at Penguin Ecommerce in Dhaka. I'm on the 2026–27 academic and industry job market.