Najmul Hasan
BS in Computer Science with minors in Mathematics and Physics, Honors Student
University of North Carolina at Pembroke
I am an undergraduate researcher advised by Dr. Prashanth BusiReddyGari at UNC Pembroke. Previously, I worked with Dr. Shaohu Zhang (UNC Pembroke / NC A&T).
My research focuses on Natural Language Processing, specifically on understanding how large language models behave under distribution shifts, adversarial inputs, and real-world deployment constraints. I am interested in building robust NLP systems that can generalize across languages and domains.
Currently, I am working on multi-agent reinforcement learning for decentralized resource coordination, investigating emergent communication patterns and fairness in cooperative AI agents.
I'm always happy to discuss research ideas or potential collaborations. Feel free to reach out!
News
Presented at IEEE CCWC 2026
Presented "Time-Complexity Characterization of the NIST Lightweight Cryptography Finalists" at the IEEE 16th Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference (CCWC) in Las Vegas.
Presented at NeurIPS 2025 LAW Workshop
Presented "Benchmarking Large Language Models for Zero-shot and Few-shot Phishing URL Detection" at the LAW 2025: Bridging Language, Agent, and World Models for Reasoning and Planning Workshop at NeurIPS 2025 in San Diego.
Participated in HackPrinceton Fall 2025
Participated in HackPrinceton Fall 2025 (November 7-9), a 36-hour hackathon at Princeton University hosted by the Princeton Entrepreneurship Club.
Participated in Cal Hacks 12.0
Participated in Cal Hacks 12.0 (October 24-26), the world's largest collegiate hackathon, held at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco.
Participated in HackHarvard 2025
Participated in HackHarvard 2025 (October 3-5), a 36-hour hackathon at Harvard University themed "Compile the Decade".
Re-elected President of Artificial Intelligence @ UNCP
Re-elected as President of AI@UNCP for the 2025-2026 academic year, serving third consecutive term. Continuing to lead monthly programming contests, meetings, events, and organizing HackUNCP to promote AI engagement within the campus community.
Selected Publications
Benchmarking Large Language Models for Zero-shot and Few-shot Phishing URL Detection
Najmul Hasan, Prashanth BusiReddyGari
LAW 2025 Workshop, 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025)
Time-Complexity Characterization of the NIST Lightweight Cryptography Finalists
Najmul Hasan, Prashanth BusiReddyGari
2026 IEEE 16th Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference (CCWC)
Work Experience
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Research Assistant
Research Assistant
Senior Design Project Collaboration (Capstone Project): Synthetic Cyber Knowledge Graphs
SOC Analyst
Programming Intern
Education
University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Minors in Mathematics and Physics
Esther G. Maynor Honors College
Pembroke, NC · Expected May 2026
Awards & Recognition
Awarded Undergraduate Research Fellowship - Summer (URFS)
Received intensive, competitive summer fellowship from the Pembroke Undergraduate Research and Creativity Center to conduct research on multilingual phishing email detection using large language models (LLMs), mentored by Dr. Prashanth BusiReddyGari and Dr. Shaohu Zhang.
Awarded Semester-Long Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
Selected to receive a semester-long research fellowship to advance cross-linguistic speech emotion recognition (SER) and present findings at PURC Symposium 2024, mentored by Dr. Shaohu Zhang.
Awarded Honors Scholar Fellowship (HSF)
Awarded upon admission to the Esther G. Maynor Honors College, UNC Pembroke as part of an academic offer.