Ahnaf Munir

PhD Student • University of Central Florida

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About

Hi! I am a second-year PhD student under the IAI at the University of Central Florida (UCF), where I am guided by Dr. Mubarak Shah. I also work with Dr. Yu Tian and Dr. Pegah Khosravi.

Previously, I completed my M.Sc. in Games Engineering at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering at the Islamic University of Technology (IUT).

Research

My research focuses on multimodal vision-language models for oncology, integrating radiology, histopathology, and genomic data to support pan-cancer diagnostic and prognostic reasoning. This includes both model development and the design of rigorous benchmarks for evaluating multimodal clinical reasoning.

I am also interested in translating this work into patient-facing AI, such as conversational tools for breast cancer care, with the broader goal of deploying foundation models responsibly in high-stakes, data-scarce medical domains.

News

  • 06/2026: The Telephone Game paper accepted at ECCV 2026
  • 06/2026: How can a single model reason jointly across radiology, pathology, and genomics for pan-cancer diagnosis? Check out OncoTriad-QA.

Selected Publications

Education

  • Master of Science in Games Engineering
    Technical University of Munich (TUM)
  • Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering
    Islamic University of Technology (IUT)

Experience

Fellow
Fatima Fellowship. Worked on openable part detection and motion estimation under the supervision of a current PhD student from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Faculty
Assistant Professor, Islamic University of Technology. Conducted lectures on Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence.
Research
Graduate Research Student, Fraunhofer IIS. Worked on deep learning-based video super-resolution techniques for video encoding.
Student
Student Assistant, Technical University of Munich. Helped develop a business modeling tool in Java under the chair of Information Systems.
Remote
Research Assistant, Algoma University. Worked on mobile sensor networks and RFID networks, leading to one journal paper and one conference paper.
Intern
Software Development Intern, Nilavo Technologies Limited. Contributed to front-end and back-end development for the company's in-house project management tool.