Summary
Mashrur Rashik is a research scientist on Meta’s Developer AI team with nine years of experience building conversational agents and applied ML systems. He earned a PhD in Computer Science from UMass Amherst, where his work focused on designing multi-agent and journaling chatbots to elicit richer user input and mapping the design space of chatbot avatars. Previously he applied retrieval-reader QA, multilingual model fine-tuning, and Rasa-based chatbots in industry, bringing research ideas into production at TigerIT Bangladesh. Based in Bellevue, WA, he blends deep academic rigor with practical engineering, shipping systems that improve engagement for chronic illness journaling and educational chat interfaces. Notably, his background spans both creating new agent architectures and adapting multilingual models (e.g., M2M100) to low-resource English-Bengali settings. He combines a researcher’s curiosity with hands-on ML engineering to move conversational research toward deployable developer tools.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School Science, High School Science at Notre Dame College
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science and Engineering at University of Dhaka
Secondary Science, Secondary Science at Rajuk Uttara Model College
English