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.
MD Rabbi · AI engineer & founder · 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.
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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 MD Rabbi (Naimur Rabbi)—an AI engineer, researcher, and founder of Calorie Mom. I'm from Bangladesh, studying Computer Science at Stockton University 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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