Shourov Joarder

Incoming PhD Student @ UT Austin

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Bangladesh

Reinforcement Learning, VLMs, Mulimodal Learning

I am an incoming ECE Ph.D. student at the University of Texas at Austin. I received my Bachelor’s degree from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), where I worked with Prof. Kamrul Hasan. In my thesis, I developed a novel multi-stage unsupervised deep learning framework for optical-flow estimation.

My current research focuses on unsupervised RL, Reasoning in multimodal foundation models, and mulit-agentic RL. I am also exploring multimodal semantic understanding of World Models.

Best way to reach me is email or LinkedIn.
BRAC University
Adjunct Lecturer, CSE
2025 - Present
ACI Ltd.
Machine Learning Engineer
2025 - Present
BUET
B.Sc. in EEE
2020 - 2025

news

Sep 27, 2026 Our paper “Two is better than one: A Collapse-free Multi-Reward RLIF Training Framework” was accepted as a poster at NeurIPS 2026, Sydney, Australia. Catch us at the poster session on Dec 10, 2026 (10:00 AM – 1:00 PM AEDT, Hall 1-4).
May 06, 2026 Started ongoing research on unsupervised reinforcement learning for LLM reasoning (submitted to NeurIPS’26).
Jun 01, 2025 Joined BRAC University as Adjunct Lecturer in the CSE department.
Apr 01, 2025 Joined ACI Ltd. as a part-time Machine Learning Engineer.

selected publications

2026

  1. Two is better than one: A Collapse-free Multi-Reward RLIF Training Framework
    Shourov Joarder, Diganta Sikdar, Ahsan Habib Akash, and 2 more authors
    In Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Sydney, Australia, 2026
    Poster

2025

  1. Preprint
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    Multi-Stage Residual-Aware Unsupervised Deep Learning Framework for Consistent Ultrasound Strain Elastography
    Shourov Joarder, Tushar Talukder Showrav, and Md Kamrul Hasan
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.15640, 2025
  2. ECCE 2025
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    Development of a Multilingual Voice-Controlled Smart Wheelchair with Advanced Features
    Sadad Hasan, Shourov Joarder, Al Nayem, and 2 more authors
    In 2025 International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Communication Engineering (ECCE), 2025
  3. ECCE 2025
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    Skin Cancer Semantic Segmentation
    Anindha Dhar, Diganta Sikdar, Yasir Arafat Prodhan, and 1 more author
    In 2025 International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Communication Engineering (ECCE), 2025