Masudur Rahman

@inproceedings{rahman2026automated,
  title = {Automated Unified Reasoning with Vision-Language Models for Multi-modal Burn Assessment},
  author = {Rahman, Md Masudur and Masry, Mohamed El and Gordillo, Gayle and Wachs, Juan P.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Oral, Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-26), Acceptance rate: 15%},
}

@inproceedings{rahman2025robust,
  title = {Robust Policy Gradient Optimization through Action Parameter Perturbation in Reinforcement Learning},
  author = {Rahman, Md Masudur and Wachs, Juan P. and Xue, Yexiang},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Aligning Reinforcement Learning Experimentalists and Theorists Workshop (ARLET@NeurIPS 2025) at the Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025)},
  year = {2025},
  note = {Peer-reviewed, non-archival workshop paper},
}

@inproceedings{rahman2025intent,
  title = {Intent-Based Reward Inference for Value-Aligned Reinforcement Learning},
  author = {Rahman, Md Masudur and Wachs, Juan P.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Aligning Reinforcement Learning Experimentalists and Theorists Workshop (ARLET@NeurIPS 2025) at the Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025)},
  year = {2025},
  note = {Peer-reviewed, non-archival workshop paper},
}

@inproceedings{rahman2025improvisational,
  title = {Improvisational Reasoning with Vision-Language Models for Grounded Procedural Planning},
  author = {Rahman, Md Masudur and Zhuo, Yupeng and Wachs, Juan P.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems Workshops (NeurIPS 2025): 
                    Multimodal Algorithmic Reasoning Workshop (MAR@NeurIPS 2025), 
                    GenAI for Health: Potential, Trust, and Policy Compliance (GenAI4Health@NeurIPS 2025), 
                    Embodied World Models for Decision Making (EWM@NeurIPS 2025)},
  year = {2025},
  note = {Peer-reviewed, non-archival workshop paper},
}

@inproceedings{rahman2025burn,
  title = {Vision-Language Reasoning for Burn Depth Assessment with Structured Diagnostic Hypotheses},
  author = {Rahman, Md Masudur and El Masry, Mohamed and Nuutila, Kristo and Gordillo, Gayle and Wachs, Juan P.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems Workshops (NeurIPS 2025): 
                    GenAI for Health: Potential, Trust, and Policy Compliance (GenAI4Health@NeurIPS 2025), 
                    Embodied World Models for Decision Making (EWM@NeurIPS 2025)},
  year = {2025},
  note = {Peer-reviewed, non-archival workshop paper},
}

@article{rahman2025burnaid,
  author = {Rahman, Md Masudur and Masry, Mohamed El and Gnyawali, Surya and Xue, Yexiang and Gordillo, Gayle and Wachs, Juan P.},
  title = {AI-Driven Integrated System for Burn Depth Prediction With Electronic Medical Records: Algorithm Development and Validation},
  journal = {JMIR Medical Informatics},
  year = {2025},
  doi = {10.2196/68366},
}

@inproceedings{rahman2025knowledge,
  title = {Knowledge-Driven Hypothesis Generation for Burn Diagnosis from Ultrasound with Vision-
  Language Model},
  author = {Rahman, Md Masudur and Masry, Mohamed El and Gordillo, Gayle and Wachs, Juan P.},
  booktitle = {Annual Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis},
  year = {2025},
}

@inproceedings{rahman2025cot,
  title = {A Chain-of-Thought AI Reasoning Framework for Burn Diagnosis},
  author = {Rahman, Md Masudur and Masry, Mohamed El and Gordillo, Gayle and Wachs, Juan P.},
  booktitle = {Military Health System Research Symposium},
  year = {2025},
}

@inproceedings{rahman2024natural,
  title = {Natural Language-based State Representation in Deep Reinforcement Learning},
  author = {Rahman, Md Masudur and Xue, Yexiang},
  booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2024},
  pages = {1310--1319},
  year = {2024},
}

@inproceedings{rahman2022bootstrap,
  title = {Bootstrap State Representation using Style Transfer for Better Generalization in Deep Reinforcement Learning},
  author = {Rahman, Md Masudur and Xue, Yexiang},
  booktitle = {European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD)},
  year = {2022},
  url = {https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-26412-2_7},
}

@inproceedings{gonzalez2021deserts,
  title = {Deserts: Delay-tolerant semi-autonomous robot teleoperation for surgery},
  author = {Gonzalez, Glebys and Agarwal, Mridul and Balakuntala, Mythra V and Rahman, Md Masudur and Kaur, Upinder and Voyles, Richard M and Aggarwal, Vaneet and Xue, Yexiang and Wachs, Juan},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  year = {2021},
}

@article{rahman2021sartres,
  title = {SARTRES: A semi-autonomous robot teleoperation environment for surgery},
  author = {Rahman*, Md Masudur and Balakuntala*, Mythra V and Gonzalez, Glebys and Agarwal, Mridul and Kaur, Upinder and Venkatesh, Vishnunandan LN and Sanchez-Tamayo, Natalia and Xue, Yexiang and Voyles, Richard M and Aggarwal, Vaneet and Wachs, Juan},
  journal = {Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging \& Visualization},
  volume = {9},
  number = {4},
  pages = {376--383},
  year = {2021},
  publisher = {Taylor \& Francis},
}

@inproceedings{madapana2019desk,
  title = {Desk: A robotic activity dataset for dexterous surgical skills transfer to medical robots},
  author = {Madapana*, Naveen and Rahman*, Md Masudur and Sanchez-Tamayo*, Natalia and Balakuntala, Mythra V and Gonzalez, Glebys and Bindu, Jyothsna Padmakumar and Venkatesh, LN Vishnunandan and Zhang, Xingguang and Noguera, Juan Barragan and Low, Thomas and others},
  booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
  year = {2019},
}

@inproceedings{rahman2019transferring,
  title = {Transferring Dexterous Surgical Skill Knowledge between Robots for Semi-autonomous Teleoperation},
  author = {Rahman*, Md Masudur and Sanchez-Tamayo*, Natalia and Gonzalez, Glebys and Agarwal, Mridul and Aggarwal, Vaneet and Voyles, Richard M and Xue, Yexiang and Wachs, Juan},
  booktitle = {28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)},
  year = {2019},
}