01The Clock That Replaced the Open Door — America's New Four-Year Limit on Students
For decades, an international student's stay was measured by a degree. Starting this autumn, it is measured by a clock.
A living record · Bangladesh → New Jersey
Ideas for the
long way forward.
Personal field notes on crossing borders, building software, and becoming the person the work requires.
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Start here / 01
The story behind everything else
The archive / 02
Notes from the
work in progress.
Practical essays drawn from lived experience—crossing borders, learning the craft, and turning ambitious ideas into real products.
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02What a Forgetful AI Taught Me About Memory
A movie arrives one frame at a time. The brain keeps eight of them close, and lets the rest go.
03The Icon Is Part of the Interface
A familiar symbol can stay recognizable while gaining motion, material, and a point of view.
04A Quick Note on Memory Embeddings and the Brain
Eight compact memory slots give the current moment a way to retrieve the past without attending to an entire movie.
05Memory-Augmented Brain Encoding — Teaching an fMRI Model to Remember
The core idea: a content-based memory module that retrieves relevant past context and feeds it back into a state-of-the-art brain-encoding model.
06AI Engineering — Building With Models You Didn't Train
The daily reality of AI engineering: a chat window, a model, and a lot of iteration.
07The F-1 Student Journey — Visa to Grace Period
On campus, on status. "Soar higher" — but only while your SEVIS record stays clean.
08From Bangladesh to the USA — The International Student Journey
Carrying home with us — the Bangladesh flag at a campus international event.
09OPT & CPT — The Work-Authorization Playbook
The whole point of CPT and OPT: legally sitting at a desk like this one.
10Seed Funding — How the First Real Money Works
Founder stories (here, the Flickr → Slack pivot) are case studies in what investors actually back.
11Software Engineering — What the Job Actually Is
Most real engineering happens like this — around a table, laptops open, figuring it out together.
The career constellation / 03
Not a ladder.
A living system.
Tap a node to trace the path—from campus leadership to applied AI, independent research, and products used in the real world.
MD RabbiEngineer · researcher · builder
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The foundation
Computer Science at Stockton
Building a technical foundation at Stockton University while learning how leadership, service, and software reinforce one another.
Computer ScienceResearchProblem solving
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Active research
Memory-Augmented Brain Encoding
Extending TRIBE v2 with content-based long-range memory for narrative fMRI encoding. A gated cross-attention module retrieves relevant past context to test where memory improves cortical prediction.
PyTorchfMRICross-attentionTRIBE v2
Open source Life, latelyBeyond the work
About the author / 05
Built between
two worlds.
I'm Rabbi—an engineer, international student, and builder from Bangladesh, now based in New Jersey.
RabbiWIKI is my public notebook: what I've learned about immigration, engineering, AI, startups, and the strange, rewarding space between where you begin and where you're headed. The pages evolve as I do.
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