Toqi Tahamid Sarker

I'm a PhD candidate in computer science at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, advised by Dr. Khaled R. Ahmed in the BASE Lab.

My research focuses on multimodal learning and vision-language models, efficient vision architectures, and dense prediction tasks such as semantic segmentation and object detection. I design models end to end, from building and annotating datasets to designing architectures and evaluating them against strong published baselines.

My work has appeared at CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, and WACV and in journals including Scientific Reports and IET Image Processing. Before my PhD, I worked on deep learning for solar event tracking at Georgia State University and co-founded a software company, where I built and shipped production systems.