Greetings,
I am Md Kaykobad Reza, an Applied Scientist at Amazon. I recently completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, Riverside, under the supervision of Professor M. Salman Asif. I earned my B.Sc. from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and my M.Sc. from University of California, Riverside. I am deeply grateful to Dr. M. Sohel Rahman, whose mentorship introduced me to the world of research and provided the foundational knowledge that has shaped my academic journey.
My research lies at the intersection of multimodal machine learning, computer vision, multimodal large language models, and data mining. I am particularly focused on enhancing the robustness of multimodal models, ensuring they remain computationally efficient, even with large-scale data; effectively learn from noisy, occluded, or low-quality data; and adapt seamlessly to missing, unaligned, or incomplete modalities in real-world scenarios. Through my work, I aim to develop more reliable, adaptable, explainable, and cost-effective multimodal solutions with real-world applications.
I have had the privilege of gaining valuable professional experience at Amazon Lab126, bKash Limited, and Samsung R&D Institute Bangladesh. These roles enriched my technical expertise and deepened my understanding of the application of machine learning to real-world problems.
News
- Sep. 2026One paper on MSP: Modality Self-Play for Training Multimodal LLMs Without Paired Cross-Modal Data is accepted at NeurIPS 2026.
- Jun. 2026Joined Amazon as an Applied Scientist 🎉.
- Jun. 2026Graduated from UC Riverside 🎉.
- May 2026Defended my Ph.D. thesis at UC Riverside 🎉.
- Mar. 2026One preprint available on Training-Free Multimodal Model Merging.
- Mar. 2026One paper on Multimodal Martian Landslide Segmentation is accepted at 22nd IEEE PBVS Workshop @ CVPR 2026.
- Mar. 2026Achieved 3rd place at PBVS Mars Landslide Segmentation Challenge @ CVPR 2026.
- Jan. 2026One paper on Abstractive Summarization of Bengali Academic Videos Based on Audio Subtitles is accepted at Findings of EACL 2026.
- Oct. 2025One paper on Robust Multimodal Learning via Cross-Modal Proxy Tokens is accepted by TMLR.
- Oct. 2025One paper on MMP: Towards Robust Multimodal Learning with Masked Modality Projection is accepted at IEEE Big Data 2025.
- Sep. 2025Presented a tutorial on Foundations of Robust Multimodal Learning at IEEE ICIP 2025.
- Sep. 2025Presented my paper on Multimodal Semantic and Material Segmentation at ICIP 2025.
- Jul. 2025One paper on Multimodal Learning with Proxy Tokens is accepted at Asilomar 2025.
- Jul. 2025Tutorial on Foundations of Robust Multimodal Learning is accepted at IEEE ICIP 2025.
- Jun. 2025Completed internship at Amazon Lab126.
- Jun. 2025One paper on Basin-wide Groundwater Level Forecasting via Transfer Learning is accepted by Hydrological Sciences Journal.
- Jan. 2025One preprint available on Robust Multimodal Learning via Cross-Modal Proxy Tokens.
- Jan. 2025Started internship at Amazon Lab126.
- Dec. 2024Completed M.Sc. in CSE from UC Riverside.
- Dec. 2024One paper on Social Network Analysis is accepted at ICCIT 2024.
- Nov. 2024Passed the Ph.D. qualifying examination and advanced to candidacy at UC Riverside.
- Oct. 2024One paper on Robust Multimodal Learning with Missing Modalities is accepted by IEEE TPAMI.
- Oct. 2024One preprint available on Robust Multimodal Learning with Masked Modality Projection.
- Apr. 2024One paper on Multimodal Semantic & Material Segmentation is accepted by IEEE OJSP.
- Mar. 2024One preprint available on Social Network Analysis.
- Oct. 2023One preprint available on Robust Multimodal Learning with Missing Modalities.
- Sep. 2023One preprint available on Multimodal Semantic and Material Segmentation.
- Sep. 2022Started Ph.D. at UC Riverside.
- Aug. 2022Left bKash Limited.
- May 2020One paper on Automatic Summarization is accepted at IJCCI 2019.
- Jul. 2019Joined bKash Limited.
- Jul. 2019Left Samsung R&D Institute Bangladesh.
- May 2019Joined Samsung R&D Institute Bangladesh.
- Apr. 2019Completed B.Sc. in CSE from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology.
Last Updated: September 29, 2026