Kazi Hasan
Ibn Arif

Machine learning and systems researcher  /  PhD student, Virginia Tech

I'm a PhD student in Machine Learning and Systems at Virginia Tech SNAIL Lab, advised by Dr. Bo Ji.

My research centers around optimizing machine learning workloads for systems, exploring techniques like efficient self-attention, token dropping, quantization, and many more to make AI more accessible for edge and commodity devices. Prior to starting my PhD, I worked as an ML Engineer at IQVIA where I worked on building and deploying their AI-driven recommendation systems for pharmaceutical companies. Beyond research, I actively contribute to the academic community. I served as Secretary for the Virginia Tech CS Graduate Council in 2024–25. Additionally, I served as a reviewer for workshops at ICLR, CVPR and volunteered at AAAI.

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Kazi Hasan Ibn Arif
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News

Oct 2025
Joining ByteDance AI Infra in Seattle as a PhD Researcher Intern, starting June 2026.
May 2025
Received a $1,000 travel grant for MLSys 2025. See you in Santa Clara.
May 2025
Summer as an AI Researcher Intern at Kaliber Labs in San Mateo, May to Aug 2025.
Apr 2025
Featured in NSF Chameleon's monthly blog.
Apr 2025
Presented HiRED and PAINT at the CCI Symposium 2025 in Richmond, Virginia.
Apr 2025
First-author paper accepted at a CVPR 2025 workshop.

Research and publications

Peer-reviewed

AAAI 2025Philadelphia, PA

HiRED: Attention-Guided Token Dropping for Efficient Inference of High-Resolution Vision-Language Models

Kazi Hasan Ibn Arif, JinYi Yoon, Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos, Hans Vandierendonck, Deepu John, Bo Ji

CVPR 2025 workshopTMM-OWI, Nashville, TN

PAINT: Paying Attention to INformed Tokens to Mitigate Hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models

Kazi Hasan Ibn Arif, Sajib Acharjee Dip, Khizar Hussain, Lang Zhang, Chris Thomas

AAAI 2024 workshopMI4EGH, Arlington, VA

Equitable Skin Disease Prediction Using Transfer Learning and Domain Adaptation

Sajib Acharjee Dip, Kazi Hasan Ibn Arif, Uddip Acharjee Shuvo, Ishtiaque Ahmed Khan, Na Meng

INCET 2021Belagavi, India

Local and Global Feature Based Hybrid Deep Learning Model for Bangla Parts of Speech Tagging

Muntasir Hoq, Kazi Hasan Ibn Arif, Mohammed Nazim Uddin

Preprints

In submission

Intent-Aware Caching for Efficient LLM Serving

Kazi Hasan Ibn Arif, JinYi Yoon, Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos, Hans Vandierendonck, Deepu John, Bo Ji

In submission

GazeVLM: Gaze-Guided Vision-Language Models for Efficient and Robust Inference

JinYi Yoon, Kazi Hasan Ibn Arif, Bo Ji

Undergraduate thesis

2022

Generate 3D Bone from DICOM using Deep CNN

Kazi Hasan Ibn Arif, Jainta Paul, Dr. Mahmuda Naznin

Get in touch

Email

hasanarif [at] vt [dot] edu
+1 540 449 6919
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Office

Gilbert Place, Room 4215
220 Gilbert Street
Blacksburg, VA 24060

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