Hi! I am Sadman. I am a second-year PhD student in the Center for Resilient Autonomous Systems (RISE) at UCI, advised by Professor Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque. I got my Masters from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2024. My research focuses developing autonomous robots for real-world applications. In my recent projects, I have worked on 3D navigation in unknown environments, wrist-design for dexterous hands and identifying task primitives in human demonstrations. I am currently working on dexterous manipulation for domain-specific tasks. My work combines classical control algorithms with learning-based approaches for autonomous operation.

Before starting my PhD, I worked briefly at Meta focusing on networking for AI training/inferenece. I also had the opporunity to intern at HPE in Summer 2023 and at Meta in Summer 2024, working on AI/HPC systems. Before coming to UW-Madison, I obtained my undergraduate major in Computer Science from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and my undergraduate thesis was on Interpretable CNN .

For UCI students: If you are a Master's, or undergraduate student at UCI, and interested in working with me, please reach out. Our lab is equipped with humanoid, quadruped, manipulator arms and drones, and good computing resources. Feel free to email me if you want to learn more about my current research projects.

Interests

  • Robot Autonomy
  • Dexterous Manipulation
  • Navigation and Exploration

Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Engineering (2025 - 2029)

    University of California, Irvine

  • Masters of Science in Computer Sciences (2022 - 2024)

    University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (2017 - 2022)

    Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology




Projects

 
 
 
 
 

Taxonomy of Construction Task Activities

IROS 2026 Future of Construction Workshop

July 2026 - Sep 2026

Developed a taxonomy of construction task activities by analyzing O*NET data and instructional construction task videos. The taxonomy identifies primitive actions for a robot worker to perform construction tasks. The primitives can be composed into skills and in different combinations to facilitate complex construction tasks. [Arxiv] [PDF] [Data] [Demo]

 
 
 
 
 

Wrist Design for Tendon-Driven Hands

IROS 2026 Sensors and Actuators for Dexterous Manipulation Workshop

Jun 2026 - Sep 2026

We designed a 2-DoF wrist extension for a tendon-driven hand (CRAFT hand) that does not require any modifications to the existing hand structure. Our concentric design allows for a compact wrist with minimal axial depth. [Arxiv] [PDF] [Website]

 
 
 
 
 

Near-ground Target Search with UAV

In Review

Oct 2025 - Sep 2026

Proposed a balanced exploration-exploitation strategy in both horizontal and vertical directions for a UAV to search for a target near the ground. The UAV follows a set route and opportunistically explores when it gets stuck to find flight corridors avoiding large and wide obstacles.




Courseworks

Course Title Instructor Year Keywords Projects
Deep Generative Models Stephan Mandt 2025 Generative Models, Autoregressive Models, Variational Autoencoders, GAN, Deep Sequential Models, Diffusion Probabilistic Models, Structured VAEs
Computer Vision Yin Li 2024 CNN, Image Classification, Object Detection, Semantic Segmentation, Image Generation, Human Pose Detection, Video Understanding, 3D Scene Understanding, Medical Image Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Semantic Segmentation
Natural Language Processing Junjie Hu 2024 Language Modeling, RNN, Transformers, Pre-training, Sequence Labeling, Document Modeling, RAG, Knowledge Graph, Dialogue System Hybrid Model Architecture for Language Tasks
Foundation Models Fred Sala 2024 Transformers, SSM, In-context Learning, Chain-of-Thought, Specialization, Alignment, Data and Benchmarks, Multimodal, Scaling Laws Mitigating Hallucination in Vision-Language Models
Advanced Big Data Systems Shivaram Venkataraman 2024 Big Data Stacks, Scheduling, Resource Management, ML Systems, Batch and Stream Analytics, Graph Processing Memory Efficient Low-Rank Systems for Large Foundation Models
Theoretical Foundations of Large-Scale ML Dimitris Papailiopoulos 2024 Generalization, Stochastic Methods, Transformers, System Tradeoffs, Distributed Optimization, Federated Learning, Model Compression Grokking - What/When/Why?
Cloud-native Database Xiangyao Yu 2023 Storage Disaggregation, Analytical and Transaction Processing, Serverless, Auto-Scaling, GPU DB, Memory Disaggregation, RDMA, NIC-assisted DB Evaluation of Wasm for Computation Pushdown in Cloud Database
Introduction to Big Data Systems Tyler Caraza-Harter 2023 Distributed Filesystem, Distributed Database, Distributed ML, Partitioning, Fault Tolerance, Availability, Streaming Distributed Data Processing with Hadoop, Spark and Cassandra
High-Performance Computing Dan Negrut 2023 GPU Architecture, GPU Memory, GPU Scheduling, ILP, Compiler Optimization, CUDA, Multi-core Programming, Supercomputer Parallel Computing with CUDA, OpenMP and MPI
SmartNIC Systems Ming Liu 2023 FPGA NIC, SoC NIC, Application Offloading, Caching, Job Scheduling, Load Balancing Flexible Block Storage Offload for Datacenters
Advanced Computer Networks Ming Liu 2023 Datacenter Architecture, Flow Scheduling, Routing, Load Balancing, Congestion Control, SDN, Endhost Network DPDK Evaluation, Datacenter Congestion Control, Disaggregated Storage Profiling
Operating Systems Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau 2022 Process Management, Process Scheduling, Virtual Memory, Threads, Locking, File Systems, Logging, Storage XV6, Parallel Sort, Distributed File System
Introduction to Computer Architecture Swamit Tannu 2022 Processor, Pipelining, Superscalar, MIPS ISA, SIMD, Cache, Memory Hierarchy 5-stage Pipelined Processor for MIPS-like ISA



Experience

Production Engineering Intern

Meta
May, 2024 - Aug, 2024. Menlo Park, CA, USA.

Worked on InfiniBand fabric for AI/HPC clusters

Platform Engineering Intern

Hewlett Packard Enterprise
May, 2023 - Aug, 2023. Bloomington, MN, USA.

Contributed to Linux kernel drivers for HPE Slingshot networking devices. Designed and implemented kernel-module API across multiple drivers.

Graduate Researcher

University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jan, 2024 - Sep, 2024. Madison, WI, USA.

Implemented a distributed hash join algorithm with linear-probing indexing utilizing remote shared memory. Evaluated the implementation on TPC-H benchmark and achieved performance close to Arrow’s native hashjoin.

Undergraduate Researcher

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
Mar, 2021 - May, 2022. Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Designed an array of interpretable CNN models to analyze sequence motifs of DNA bendability. Developed efficient algorithms for processing large-scale data.

Lead Developer

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jan, 2020 - Feb, 2022. Remote.

Collaborated with Prof. Matthew Caesar and UIUC students to develop a virtual IoT platform for deployment and monitoring of IoT network. Participated in both development and leadership roles.

Undergraduate Researcher

Feb, 2020 - Oct, 2021. Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Designed network architecture for authentication and application mobility solutions in federated edge computing. Developed 3GPP-compliant mobility and roaming protocols for 4G/5G networks.




Papers

Samin Rahman Khan, Sadman Sakib, M. Sohel Rahman, Md. Abul Hassan Samee DeepBend: An Interpretable Model of DNA Bendability (2023). In Cell iScience.
Asad Ali, Tushin Mallick, Sadman Sakib, Md. Shohrab Hossain and Ying-Dar Lin Provisioning Fog Services to 3GPP Subscribers: Authentication and Application Mobility (2022). In IEEE International Conference on Communications 2022.
Asad Ali, Samin Rahman Khan, Sadman Sakib, Md. Shohrab Hossain and Ying-Dar Lin Federated 3GPP Mobile Edge Computing Systems: A Transparent Proxy for 3rd-Party Authentication with Application Mobility Support (2022). In IEEE Access.



Awards

  • Head TA, Jan 2024 - Dec 2024
  • Dean's List Scholarship (BUET), 2018-2022
  • University Merit Scholarship (BUET), 2017-2022
  • Winner in National Undergraduate Mathematics Olympiad, 2018
  • Honorable Mention in Notre Dame College, 2016
  • National Winner in Bangladesh Mathematical Olympiad, 2014-16



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