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Curriculum Vitae

Kinga Tshering — Research Intern at the University of Arizona and B.Sc. Computer Science and Engineering graduate of North South University. Working on language model evaluation, efficient deep learning, and interpretability.

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Education

B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh · 2022–2026

CGPA 3.90 / 4.00 Summa Cum Laude His Majesty's Scholarship
Research interests

Evaluation and reliability of large language models. Efficient and resource-aware deep learning, including network pruning and model compression. Interpretability of learned representations.

Research experience

Research Intern — University of Arizona, College of Information Science · 2026–present Advisor: Prof. Haw-Shiuan Chang

Undergraduate Researcher — North South University, Dept. of ECE · 2024–2026 Advisor: Prof. Shafin Rahman

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Teaching

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant — North South University, Dept. of ECE · 2024–2025

CSE 215 — Programming Language II (Java) CSE 332 — Computer Architecture

Publications and preprints

Own name in bold. * denotes equal contribution.

ICML 2026 · Accepted

TimeSpot: Benchmarking Geo-Temporal Understanding in Vision–Language Models in Real-World Settings
A. T. Wasi, S. Z. Ridoy, K. A. Tonmoy, K. Tshering, S. M. M. Hasan, W. Faisal, T. Mohiuddin, M. R. Parvez

EMNLP 2026 Findings · Accepted

From Language Specifications to Executable Turing Machines: Evaluating LLMs as Computational Machine Designers
S. Z. Ridoy, S. M. M. Hasan, A. T. Wasi, K. Tshering, K. A. Tonmoy, M. M. Khan

Zorig Melong, Vol. 9 No. 1 · Published

The Screen-Time Trap: An Explainable Machine Learning Framework for Pediatric Screen-Time Overuse Prediction
K. Tshering, M. H. Piya, A. Sharif, M. Islam

TMLR · Under review

Black Box to Survivor Bands: Decoding Sparse Subnetworks in Hyperspectral Image Classification
O. Sadat*, S. Kamal*, K. Tshering*, P. Sarkar*, S. Rahman

Systems and Soft Computing · Under review

H-DAFON: Hierarchical Dynamic Attribute-Guided Network for Few-Shot Open-Set Skin Lesion Recognition
K. Tshering, O. Nadeem, S. M. S. Islam, T. Elahi, R. Khan

NeurIPS 2026 MusIML Workshop · Accepted

Compliance–Correctness Decomposition for Post-Training Evaluation of Small Language Models
K. Tshering, S. Das, S. Z. Ridoy, M. S. Alim, A. T. Wasi, D.-K. Chae, M. A. Moni

ACL Rolling Review, Oct 2026 · Under review

Beyond Benchmark Scores: A Paired Audit of Acceptance and Correctness After Fine-Tuning Small Language Models
K. Tshering, S. Das, S. Z. Ridoy, M. S. Alim, A. T. Wasi, D.-K. Chae, M. A. Moni

References

Dr. Shafin Rahman
Associate Professor · North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

shafin.rahman@northsouth.edu

Dr. Rajesh Palit
Professor · North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

rajesh.palit@northsouth.edu

Dr. Shams Forruque Ahmed
Professor · Sunway University, Selangor, Malaysia

shamsa@sunway.edu.my