Vision and Immersive Realities Lab CS@UTSA

Email:
faisal.ahmed@utsa.edu

Office:
NPB, 1 UTSA Circle, San Antonio, TX 78249

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About Me

I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), advised by Dr. John Quarles and Dr. Kevin Desai. Previously, I worked as an A&S Engineer at Huawei in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

My research focuses on vision-language models and egocentric spatial reasoning. I study how well these models can track where things are as a first-person viewer moves through a scene, and whether they truly use visual evidence or rely on shortcuts from the described actions alone.

Research Interests

  • Vision-Language Models
  • Egocentric Vision
  • Spatial Reasoning
  • Computer Vision

Work Experience

  • Graduate Research Assistant, UTSA (Aug 2024 - Present)
  • A&S Engineer, Huawei (Apr 2021 - Apr 2025)

Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, UT San Antonio (Fall 2024 - Expected graduate: 2029)
  • BSc in Computer Science and Engineering, Khulna University of Engineering & Technology, 2020

Recent Publications

EgoShift: Bounding the Action-Only Shortcut in Egocentric Spatial Updating for Vision-Language Models
EgoShift: Bounding the Action-Only Shortcut in Egocentric Spatial Updating for Vision-Language Models
Faisal Ahmed, John Quarles, Kevin Desai
WACV 2027  ·  06 Jan 2027  ·  DOI: [No DOI info]
AMGF3D: Adaptive Multi-scale Gated Fusion for Robust Indoor RGB-D 3D Object Detection
AMGF3D: Adaptive Multi-scale Gated Fusion for Robust Indoor RGB-D 3D Object Detection
Faisal Ahmed, John Quarles, Kevin Desai
BMVC 2026  ·  07 Aug 2026  ·  DOI: [No DOI info]
Acceptance Rate: 28.04% H-5 Index (Median): 57 (96)