MALIHA SANJANA
COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH
// COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH & AI ENGINEERING

MALIHA SANJANA

Explainable ML systems for imaging, health, and product teams.

AI/ML Engineer with a strong foundation in computer vision and Python, delivering end-to-end pipelines for medical imaging, applied ML, and full-stack builds that translate research into real-world impact.

Portrait of Maliha Sanjana
📍 DHAKA, BANGLADESH
// AI/ML ENGINEER · COMPUTER VISION

MALIHA SANJANA

Explainable ML systems for imaging, health, and product teams.

AI/ML Engineer delivering end-to-end pipelines for medical imaging, applied ML, and full-stack builds.

Portrait of Maliha Sanjana
📍 DHAKA, BANGLADESH
01 // OVERVIEW

About Me

"Delivering end-to-end computer vision and explainable ML pipelines clinicians and product teams can trust."

I combine computer vision, Python development, and cross-functional ML rigor to build SegUNet, MedSAM, and dual U-Net pipelines clinicians can explain, while also shipping ML-backed products spanning agritech, GenAI simulations, and security dashboards.

Location Dhaka, Bangladesh
Open To Research collaborations · Applied ML · Healthcare AI
02 // FOCUS AREAS

Research Interests

Core investigative vectors combining interpretability, domain fusion, and robust ML deployment.

01 //

Responsible Healthcare AI

[ SELECT ]
Designing interpretable SegUNet and MedSAM pipelines that illuminate dental and liver imaging decisions with Grad-CAM, bias checks, and transparent reporting.
02 //

Multimodal Diagnostics

[ SELECT ]
Blending panoramic radiographs, CT volumes, agronomic leaf scans, and structured health data to surface clinician-ready, cross-domain insights.
03 //

Applied ML Systems

[ SELECT ]
Shipping resilient pipelines for agritech disease detection, cybersecurity automation, and GenAI consulting simulations to prove readiness beyond the lab.
03 // HANDS-ON

Experience

AUG 2025 – PRESENT

Neurootix | AI/ML Engineer

  • Designed, tested, and evaluated computer-vision models spanning diverse imaging datasets for production pilots.
  • Ran applied experimentation to steer model selection, pipeline refinement, and research-grade reporting for ongoing AI engagements.
  • Directed Python and image-processing workshops with hands-on coding modules that bridge theory and deployment readiness.
VIRTUAL EXPERIENCE PROGRAMS
MAY 2025

British Airways | Data Science Job Simulation

  • Analyzed customer review data to extract themes linked to satisfaction and buying behavior.
  • Built a predictive model to identify the key drivers of purchase decisions.
MAY 2025

BCG | GenAI Job Simulation

  • Built a rule-based chatbot prototype to interpret financial data from 10-K and 10-Q reports.
  • Processed structured financial datasets and generated user-friendly GenAI outputs.
04 // CASE STUDIES

AI Projects

Production-grade computer vision models, tumor segmentations, and clinical diagnostics pipelines.

02 // MEDICAL CV MICCAI FLARE22

MedSAM FLARE22 Tumor Segmentation

Validation Dice ≈ 0.84 · Accuracy ≈ 0.98
  • Fine-tuned MedSAM ViT-B on MICCAI FLARE22 CT scans using MONAI dataloaders and automated slice caching.
  • Generated reusable evaluation artifacts to benchmark focal liver segmentation performance.
CT_SLICE_SCANNER // MONAI
03 // CLINICAL ML GRADIENT BOOSTING

Heart Disease Prediction

Accuracy 0.8804 · Precision 0.87 · Recall 0.92
  • Built a full ML pipeline covering cleaning, imputation, encoding, feature engineering, and experiment tracking.
  • Benchmarked classical models on clinical risk factors and deployed Gradient Boosting.
ECG_SIGNAL_STREAM // RISK_EVAL
04 // OPHTHALMIC CV DUAL U-NETS

Diabetic Retinopathy Dual U-Nets

Validation Accuracy 99.9% · DenseNet121 Dice 0.31
  • Implemented dual U-Net architectures with EfficientNet-B4 and DenseNet121 encoders via segmentation_models_pytorch.
  • Trained with BCEWithLogits + Dice loss, mixed precision, cosine LR schedules, and Adam for IDRiD lesion masks.
  • Preprocessed 384×384 inputs with Albumentations, merged lesion masks, and tracked validation gains.
RETINAL_MASK // IDRiD_LESION
05 // CIVIC TECH · VOICE AI VOICE AI · GPS · EMERGENCY ROUTING

CivicFlow AI

GEMINI · FIREBASE · NODE.JS

Bangla/English Voice-First Civic Safety Assistant for Bangladesh (Collaborative Project)

  • Processes Bangla, English, and mixed Banglish voice requests using Gemini audio analysis.
  • Distinguishes civic reports, direct helpline requests, and high-risk emergencies.
  • Supports GPS capture, emergency auto-submission, and emergency live-location tracking.
  • Integrates Firebase authentication, Firestore citizen profiles, a Node.js backend, and a protected authority dashboard.
  • Provides location-aware Bangladesh helpline matching and a risk-zone safety monitoring foundation.
SYSTEM_ROUTING // GEMINI_VOICE
05 // PRODUCT & SYSTEMS

Web Builds

// E-COMMERCE

BookNook

Responsive e-commerce UI with catalog search, filterable dashboards, and secure checkout flows, designed to keep book discovery, selection, and purchase frictionless.

// CYBERSECURITY UI

NightWatch: Link Guard

Browser-based phishing detection dashboard that scores URLs locally using heuristics, dataset-tuned thresholds, and optional reputation checks inside a SOC-style interface.

// PORTAL UI

NUB Central Social Welfare Club

Organization hub featuring event galleries and member resources, designed as a responsive portal to strengthen community engagement and accessibility.

06 // ACADEMIC

Publication

27TH ICCIT 2024 · JUN 2025

Enhanced Pediatric Dental Segmentation Using a Custom SegUNet with VGG19 Backbone on Panoramic Radiographs

Co-authored research on interpretable dental imaging, delivering a custom SegUNet pipeline for pediatric panoramic radiographs.

Read via IEEE ↗
IEEE BECITHCON 2026 · ACCEPTED PAPER

Multi-Class Hepatitis C Classification Using a Leakage-Aware Machine Learning Pipeline and SHAP Analysis

Researched on developing a leakage-aware and interpretable machine learning framework for multi-class Hepatitis C classification using clinical biomarker data.

IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Computer and Information Technology for Health 2026 (BECITHCON 2026)
07 // FOUNDATIONS

Education & Honors

JUNE 2026 – PRESENT

M.Sc Computer Science and Engineering

BRAC University

JUN 2021 – NOV 2025

B.Sc. Computer Science and Engineering

Northern University Bangladesh · CGPA 3.669/4.0

2018 – 2019

HSC Science

Jatir Janak Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Government College · GPA 5.00/5.00

2016 – 2017

SSC Science

Dakhin Khan Adarsha Girls' High School · GPA 4.61/5.00

HONORS & AWARDS

Honors

  • 2nd Place · NUBCC Programming Contest Season 2 (2023)
  • 1st Place · NUBCC Programming Contest Season 1 (2022)
  • Champion · NUB Indoor Badminton (Female) 2022
08 // TOOLKIT

Skills & Certifications

Programming Languages

Python Java C C++

Machine Learning & CV

PyTorch TensorFlow Keras OpenCV scikit-learn Grad-CAM NumPy Pandas Matplotlib Plotly

Software & Tools

VS Code Google Colab LaTeX CodeBlocks Logisim NetBeans Microsoft Office

Database & BI

PostgreSQL Power BI

Core Competencies

Data structures & algorithms Data analysis & preprocessing Medical imaging Computer vision AI agent fundamentals

Google Cybersecurity Professional Certificate

Credly Badge ↗

Biomedical Image Analysis in Python

DataCamp Certificate ↗

AI Agent Fundamentals

DataCamp Certificate ↗

Image Processing in Python

DataCamp Certificate ↗
09 // WRITING

Latest Blog Posts

WORKFLOW · KAGGLE · COLAB

Using Kaggle Datasets Directly in Google Colab

A practical playbook for pairing Kaggle API keys with Colab so large competitions stream in directly—no manual zips, just reproducible notebooks and mounted storage.

Read on Hashnode ↗
ANALYSIS · GEOPOLITICS

Code, Chips, and Control

Examining how silicon dependencies, export controls, and software ecosystems turned technology into the primary theater for geopolitical leverage.

Read on Neurootix Blog ↗
ESSAY · AI ETHICS

Data, Power, and the Quiet Conflict

A meditation on the tension between algorithmic decision systems and human agency, and why the next frontier is contested in datasets, privacy laws, and control.

Read on Neurootix Blog ↗
10 // COMMUNITY

Leadership & Activities

MAR 2024 – JUN 2025

Vice President | NUB Computer Club

  • Chief Editor of the “Bullet vs Intellect” e-magazine.
  • Successfully organized and led CSE Day 2024 at Northern University Bangladesh.
  • Invigilated the NUBCC Programming Contest 2024 to ensure smooth contest operations.
11 // MENTORS

References

Rumman Ahmed Prodhan

Lecturer, Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
Northern University Bangladesh

rumman.nub@gmail.com
(+880) 1521-429847

Simon Bin Akter

Lecturer, Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
Northern University Bangladesh

simon.akter@nub.ac.bd
(+880) 1622-030245

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